The Scream

juste pour le massacre d'helter skelter. Imagine tu fais une reprise d'une musique incroyable et game changing 10 ans après juste pour chier dessus comme ça 🤮 (en vrai le reste de l'album mérite 2 mais du coup c'est ciao)

Aw, yeah, Siouxsie Sioux! I love this album. It's all angular post-punk and Siouxsie's amazing (in the sort of, look, I know she's not Adele or whatever, but that alto and her crazy fucking range blows my mind!) voice. Metal Postcard and Suburban Relapse are two standouts for me, but the whole album is superb. It all holds together in a kind of chilling, somewhat eerie way that I just love. I'm glad this is on here.

Do not own this one. Another seminal debut album that helps to define an emerging genre? Okay! There was a point at which I was afraid of music like this. I mean, I bought Nirvana's Bleach a year after Nevermind and that combined with the back half of Incesticide was about as dark as I was able to handle as a young teen. Then, my older sister sent me a cassette of Killing Joke - and I realized there were worlds to explore out there beyond the safety of Nirvana. This album by S&theBs introduces noise and chaos without ever asking too much from the listener. Other post-punk and/or proto-shoegaze bands from the late 70s and early 80s can sometimes become too self-indulgent for me - but I don't think there are many misplaced notes here. The drums and bass stand out on tracks like "Switch" in a very effective way - tying the band to New Wave a bit more than punk. I love the echoey, repeating guitar riffs on tracks like "Overground" - each track here sounds distinctive and begs for repeat listens. I've always appreciated the way S&theBs shift tempos mid-song, particularly the gradual acceleration and deceleration present throughout this album. Nothing is "snapped to the grid" or "quantized" and that's such a great thing. 5 Stars.

324. ok

My second Siouxsie album on here, and like the other one, I thought it was ok. Interesting enough to keep me interested, and original enough for me to enjoy. Will probably never listen again, but it was pretty good.

Wrap it tf up

No, I don t smoke!

Pioneering post-punk album.

Et af de albums, hvor jeg virkelig gerne vil høre dem give lidt mere slip og gå lidt mere amok. Det bliver lidt for ensformigt og artigt for mig. Det ville klæde dem at lyde lidt mere, som de ser ud 2.6

ret fedt. Mangler dog lidt for at blive rigtig spændende. Hvis jeg havde tiden, er det et af de album, jeg kunne mistænke ville vinde ved flere gennemlytninger

The Pixies and Sonic Youth listened to the opening track and decided to make albums. Every cover of Helter Skelter feels like it is trading on Charles Manson's insanity and something just feels wrong about that. This feels like mid-80s indie rock five years before that was a thing. A lot of bands that came after them sound an awful lot like them. There's a Talking Heads vibe on some of the songs. Why do all these bands have a really long song to close their albums?

This album and all of this british punk and post punk are exhausting

standout: jigsaw feeling

First listen. I tried and couldn’t get into this album. I’ll try again some other time.

I know Siouxsie and the Banshees, but I am not a fan. I don't like when women singers have affected or strange voices. I'm ok if a male singer does though depending on the voice. I knew Hong Kong Garden.

Przywoite. Takie mocne 3

a rougher, more straightforwardly post-punk take on what Siouxsie and The Banshees would go on to do. if that sounds good, it's gonna be a good time. if that sounds lame, you'll probably find this skippable. if you're like me, you'll go "oh! that was kinda nice" and go back to Juju instead every time. still pretty influential in its own right, and that Beatles cover is pleasantly demented. deserves to be one of the 1001? over Tinderbox? nah for me. they could certainly have two entries though

It’s fine

Anti-melodic. Proto punk maybe just isn’t for me.

Another I know the name but never listened to! Loved this one.

Blended into the background

tja, jeg ved ikke helt hvad jeg synes. Måske det skal lyttes til en ekstra gang. Der er ikke nogen af sangene der var sådan ekstra gode. Men bedre end det der music from pink. Forsangeren lyder lidt som hende der synger 99 luftballons. Hong kong garden er meget nice, lydmæssigt. Man lærer meget af at læse andres anmeldelser. Albummet har åbnbart banede vejen for band som the cure, men jeg synes alligevel albummet er for eksperimenterende til 3 stjerner.

pas mon kiffe

Not as good as the other album

Unpopular opinion in the goth crowd....but I don't think she's very good. Her voice is not pleasant to listen to and the music is pretty dull. She had a great look, and I think that took her a long way.

A punk record that trades most of the anti-establishment energy of the genre for goth theatrics. Does it work? Not really. You can really see the inspiration that later artists like Florence + The Machine would take from a singer like Siouxsie. I think with some better production and some more respect towards Robert Smith this record would be a lot better.

It's not bad. If you replace Siouxsie with a baritone guy, you get Joy Division. Some of songs do kind of drag on a bit. They're going for this slow, repetetive, tribal thing where they want to give the impression of being hypnotic but it just comes across as aimless plodding that never really goes anywhere. I found myself getting near the end of some songs and skipping the rest of it, like, okay I get it you're just going to keep doing this bit, let's wrap it up. The rest is just kind of by the numbers all-treble no-middle 70s punk but with reverb. Each song is the same all the way through, skip to any part and it sounds just like any other part of the song. So yeah, basically Joy Division ripped this off. Which is probably why they're shite.

The original goth girl.

alright

New album for me. Always liked Siouxsie and this shows me that her early work was amazing. Great guitar and rhythm section. Will have to find this for my collection.

I'll never not give credit to pioneers like Siouxsie.

Weird acute rock

Fun album but didn’t really blow me away. I feel like it fits in the same niche as say Blondie or The B-52s but isn’t as fun as either of them. Probably won’t come back to this one any time soon, but it was a worth while listen.

Ohhh I just really found it unlistenable

Started thinking "this isn't so different from that other Souxsie album" but then got hit by so many classics

Good stuff.

Not bad I think I could use more listens with this

1978? Amazing

This is why I’m liking this list. I hadn’t taken the time to listen to this album in, oh, a couple decades, but I’m very glad to revisit it now. A landmark album in 1978, probably one of the first to accurately wear the post punk label. Hong Kong Garden sounds ahead of its time. I forgot about the blistering cover of Helter Skelter. Budgie’s percussion is thundering throughout.

With a few exceptions, early punk and new wave are genres that just kind of . . . are. It's fine. I don't love it or hate it.

It's a good band doing angular, goth-adjacent rock. The subject matter is more down to earth than spirit realm stuff, and I appreciate that. I had zero familiarity with this album so I was happy to hear it. There weren't a ton of massive hooks that made a few tracks stand out, but I liked almost every song on this. It's Halloween time, so I will come back for the haunted vibes, I'm sure.

Good, but I like their more pop-sounding stuff (e.g. Kiss Them For Me) more.

3/5 - Jigsaw Feeling is a standout here. Falls short of a 4 for me, because I'd definitely need to be in the mood for it, but lots of brooding and pulsing guitar, which I like.

It's funny, I've always have heard that Siouxsie and the Banshees were this seminal new wave/post punk band but I never listened to them. I really enjoyed this record and will make me do a deeper dive into Siouxsie Sue.

3.8/5 good early post punk

This was cool! I like their second album more, but this is fun. It’s cool to hear these early roots of punk and post punk.

i liked it, but i didnt love it, y'know?

Agree with a lot of the other reviews that I like so much of what came frpm this but the album itself is a little meh for me.

Favorite songs: Jigsaw Feeling, Overground, Mirage, Nicotine Stain, Suburban Relapse, Switch

That really is screaming... I know it's a legendary band, but I can't pretend I like it.

I struggled with this one. Atonal screeching and shouting into the mic. Frantic and disjointed. Not an enjoyable listen.

Know a couple of their songs. This is interesting, early post punk. can hear how it influenced others. Might lack some stand outs, can see why they added the single to later releases. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? Some Owned: No, 108/428 (25%) Will I get: Maybe

Overall: 8/10 This band just seems so ahead of their time. There's some classic punk stuff going on, but then you have these shades of the way they would elevate their style in later years. Sort of gothic but not quite there yet. The guitar work on this album is just out of this world and Siouxsie has such an incredible voice. Such an underrated band. Hong Kong Garden is a weird ass song though. Fav Song: Switch

Этот альбом мне нравился всегда чуть меньше последующих. Мрак, истерика и панкуха.

I may not return to a listening party but I do respect the game. Unbeatable in women’s goth punk. Straight women punk would be a close call. The Distillers and Interrupters would be up there too. But this served its purpose and I’m not mad about it. Choice cut: carcass

Just not memorable

4/10 - meh

A great debut from a great band. For many, the starting point of Goth Rock.

Siouxsie And The Banshees Is always fun in my book

I get why its included in this conversation but I doubt I'm going to spin this album very often. Definitely something to be said about providing lovers of the macabre some music to dance to before it was socially acceptable to be a goth.

I've heard the name "Siouxsie and the Banshees", but I'm honestly not sure if I've ever heard a song by them. I wonder if I'll recognize anything on this one. After first time through - I definitely like the music better than her voice. Her voice can be pretty grating at times. A good example is their version of Helter Skelter - wow that is really bad vocally. Although I started to notice how artists like the Pretenders and Sinead O'Connor were probably influenced by this - but they have much better voices. Another example is "Metal Postcard" - I really like the music on this - but the vocals and lyrics are not good. A song like "Switch" would be 10 times better if there was no singing - or a different singer. I also did not recognize one song from this album. The first song "Pure" might be the best one since she doesn't sing at all (well, I guess she sort of uses her voice as an instrument). I ended up liking 5 songs: "Pure", "Overground", "Mirage", "Hong Kong Garden", "The Staircase (Mystery)" - meaning I'd be ok if they came up on my automated playlists. Cool that I got to add 5 new songs by an artist I was not familiar with! Liked songs on Spotify: 5/12 Rating: 2/5

It’s an ok album. Nothing really much to say.

I find it fascinating that there was something called "post-punk" in 1978 ... wasn't that when punk was? Anyway, this was fine.

I feel like I was supposed to understand why this was influential when I was listening to this, but I was mostly just sitting here waiting for something interesting to happen. The songs seemed to just swirl around the same sounds and ideas so it was repetitious and kind of meh.

Chaotic, yet structured. The music is organized while the singing is drawn and elongated. There is talent in this group, but I don’t care for the style. IMO, It sounds like Pat Benetar tried to make a Punk album.

Yeah, there’s this … or instead, you could write some good songs. This wasn’t the birth of a style as much as a shrug of apathetic disillusionment. I’ll pass.

Spotify algorithm played a Gang of Four song immediately following the last song of this album and certain elements sounded a bit similar. Initially I thought, huh maybe this really was influential and the critics are right about Siouxie and The Banshees after all. Then I learned they were released a year apart, they were contemporaries. Which brought me back to my initial opinion that this isn't good. Cool band name and decent enough sound, I really want to like this band, but I can't do it. Not good.

Why was she yelling at me so much? Songs all sounded similar and blurred together.

3.6. It’s “fine”. I know they did so much for inspiration of other stuff. This album is fine. I bet live shows were incredible.

I thought I liked this band, but this is just shitty as a Patti Smith album.

Uncontrolled chaos. I was 20 in 1978 when this came out, I didn’t listen to it then and I’m regretful that I listened to it now. There’s not one song on this album I found enjoyable. Devo‘s album Are We Not Men wrote the template for this kind of music. Listen to that.

This is the second Siouxsie album recently and she just doesn't hit the way I want to.

If I was there and in my teens/twenties at the time, I would have been front row. Now that I've heard and enjoyed those that they influenced so much more, I just can't with this one. A friend and colleague I worked with at a record store in college lived for Siouxsie and this album. I respect his taste and he introduced me to so many great artist (Elvis Costello, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Gun Club come to mind), but I could just never get into this.

I cannot believe this is from 1978 - It feels ten years ahead of its time! The version I listened to included Hong Kong Garden (not on the original LP. Of course this is one of the best songs 'on the album'. Their version of Helter Skelter is pretty classic too. Standouts: Hong Kong Garden, Helter Skelter, Overground, The Staircase, Metal Postcard 4/5

Glorious Goth tunes

John McGeoch, Keith Levene and John McKay. Seems being a post punk guitar originator was always a tough gig in different ways. Having listened to the live version of their Helter Skelter cover more I still expect to hear Siouxsie repeat "I stop" after the music stops abruptly. It's nice to see this record gets some of the recognition it deserves these days. I can remember when noses were generally upturned in its and the Banshees' direction in the music press. I can't decide whether it is right that as a band they only exist in their own time or whether they ought to be playing series of massive outdoor summer shows like their old support act The Cure. Probably the former but still....

I’ve never been a big fan of the band. It all sounds the same and her voice annoys me.

It’s a minorly funny name and that’s all they have

Fine, not really anything extraordinary imo. Didn't really sound very good either. Tbh I'm not really sure why this is here or why they're supposed to be so special but what do I know.

Started out interesting, then just lagged & started to sound the same

So intense and claustrophobic. So smooth and rough. This must have been so new when it was first released. This is an album I needed to hear.

2.5/5

Yep. Luxury music.

Fine

Swoops and soars like a seagull on the wind

Bit like English buses-get to over 900 albums in and not a sign of Siouxsie And The Banshees, then two come along in a week. So quick that I can still remember what I wrote. Punk was OK in 1976 but I had moved on by 1978. Unlike all the true punks who still love this stuff right until the present day. Chateau to them but not for me. 2/5 6/9/26

Doesn't sound like an album from the late 70s, very ahead of its time. Very interested in listening to the rest of their catalog which is supposed to vary pretty widely

This feels sneakily influential. Sounds very proto punk/goth/core. Wish the production was a bit better

Not my favorite, but I think I get it. And I bet it was influential. "Underground" being in 5 feels weird. Like, it's in 5, but then it switches sometimes to 3. It's cool, but a weird feel. I'm sure early punk and early grunge fans enjoy this. But it's not my thing.

I never realized they dated all the way back to '78; I remember still thinking Siouxsie & the Banshees were still cool in the 90s. Hong Kong garden is my least favorite on here; Staircase or Mirage are much better.

I love this sound, feels like the band still had to mature a bit, but wag at a great debut.

I do much prefer Siouxsie And The Banshees' later albums where they really lean into the gothic rock way more, but I still really like this one. The much more raw and gritty sound is cool, being much more punk rock adjacent than anything they did after this. But I am very glad they moved away from this sound on later albums, as fun as it is it would never have lasted, and they are so much better at the more gothic side of things.

Pure. Like an Opera overture letting us know what's in store for us throughout the album. Background ephemeral vocals and strangeness abounds but I am not scared this being my second banshees album. Overground has a, is that a 5/4 pattern? Holy. Very Groovy. Bold to cover Helter Skelter. Let's cover one of the biggest bands ever. It can work, Jimi and Watchtower, and it can fail. Not sure they quite made this their own. It was different, but not so much that I would say it came anywhere close to eclipsing the original or offering a good difference I would want to go to. I would always rather listen to the original. That's the difference with Bob and Jimi. Some decent songs on here. I have this at a 3. Maybe it's that the novelty wore out over the first album on this list. Maybe they should have picked the best out of the two since this one felt subpar to the other I just reviewed.

Wow, this was pretty bad. It sounds like something my sister would listen to in the car, which is NOT a compliment. Rounding up from a 1.5/5.

This was an interesting record, had a good punk feel. It did become a bit repetitive for me. Favorite song was Switch, even if it went a bit astray in the middle of the track. Certainly get why this would be influential on a lot of people though. Solid.

I actually like this album a lot more than I thought I would. Helter Skelter and Hong Kong Garden are a couple of highlights. 4 stars or B-.

Lei ha una voce molto bella, e pure le basi non sono male

This album is something that is typically the style I would listen to. I do feel, this album does drag on at points. I would say I like Siouxie, but I think I might prefer her as a singles artist over an album artist. And this album does, in particular have any of my favorite hits either. Fav Track: Switch

i love switch

I can appreciate that this is maybe important in its genre but I don’t get a lot from it.