Siouxsie & Banshees - Kiss in the Dreamhouse
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Artist: Siouxsie & BansheesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-05-19
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Cascade
- Green Fingers
- Obsession
- She's a Carnival
- Circle
- Melt!
- Painted Bird
- Cocoon
- Slowdive
- Fireworks [12" Version][*]
- Slowdive [12" Version][*]
- Painted Bird [Workhouse Demos]
- Cascade [Workhouse Demos]
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Music Review: The Banshees at their creative best
Rating: 5 Stars
People often tend to overlook the fact that Siouxsie & The Banshees sprung from the first generation of English punk rock in 1976. This is easy to do when you listen to an album like Kiss in the Dreamhouse. This is a far cry from "Never Mind The Bollocks". The reason why the Banshees were able to experience the unique kind of success and longevity that they did was because they refused to paint themselves into the "punk corner".
OK, a quick history lesson: The Sex Pistols... crushed under the weight of their own myth after only one album. The Clash... succumbed to the exact rock and roll cliche they initially set out to destroy. The Damned... continued to evolve and experiment with new sounds, and as a result are still together today, recording new albums, albeit with numerous line-up changes and almost no commercial success. The Banshees followed a similar ethos as the Damned, though they actually did break through to the mainstream market... and here's the most amazing part of all... THEY DID IT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THEIR INTEGRITY. This puts them in a very unique standing in the world of rock and roll.
To me, "Dreamhouse" is the perfect example of the Banshees' modus operandi. This is easily their most daring and experimental album. Siouxsie has often been known for not wanting to discuss past glories in her interviews, instead opting to always look forward, and as a result most of the Banshees' output sounds very ahead of it's time. The 2 albums that preceded "Dreamhouse"... "Kaleidoscope" (1980) and "Juju" (1981), broke ground for a new scene that would later come to be known as "Goth", and the Banshees had the foresight to not get trapped by the limitations of their own creation by pushing things to the next level with this album.
"A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" remains to this day virtually uncategorizable. No other album by the Banshees or any other band for that matter sounds even remotely similar. It still sounds fresh and challenging, even in this jaded day and age of "been there, done that". It's not everyone's cup of tea though. Even some of the more die-hard Banshees fans have been known to snub this one. In my humble opinion this is where the Banshees hit their creative peak. They went wild in the studio, using a plethora of effects and unorthodox instruments. The creative energy spent making this album was exhausting enough to purge John McGeoch from the band, and the relatively mellow convention of the following album, 1984's "Hyaena", was almost a perfect backlash to the wild creativity expressed here.
Highly recommended.
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