19 January 2019. Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such the Siouxsie And The Banshees and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily. And love, admiration and adoration.
Siouxsie is such a phenomenal vocalist, and so expressive in her movements. Severin, Budgie and Robert Smith really make for perfect accompaniment. Another group gone there will never be a substitute for their greatness.
Heard Siouxsie first in '81 and was hooked ever since - there hadn't been a band quite like them and this song was strangely my favourite for years. Incidentally, she is taller than Robert Smith. Budgie is underrated - so few drummers are creative enough to NOT use standard 2 and 4 beats - he often created a drum piece
Robert Smith once stated that until he heard the Banshees he just wanted to be in a band that sounded like Buzzcocks. They were his biggest influence and working with them a huge privilege.
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I can´t believe this amazing song still has so few views!!!
According to what the songwriters have shared, this song is about devolution. It's about a culture that punishes its youth by death if they are suspected of extra-marital sex. Tragically, seahorses in the nearby ocean are kinder parents than these people. This sympathetic song is so beautiful and still makes me cry!!
amazing sound! amazing singer! it reminds me when i was 20yrs.........a strange and in the mean time fantastic period. The Berlin wall, the dualism btwn usa and urss... fear of nuke ( du remember the film the day after?) the Tacher in UK ....sorry Im talking like an old man but siuxie represents a period were the singers re really able to sing and the session man were really music player ( have you noted bob smith ?). May be i was young , may be Siuxie is outstending but ......WHO IS GAGA ????
Wait, did I misunderstand sth? The recording is from 1984, right? And that corresponds to my adolescence memory. But from 1:12 a website is given - Internet wasn't yet around in 1984...??!!
The music on this song was mainly composed by Robert Smith. You can find a similar theme on « Six different ways » a song on the head of the door album.
Awesome video!I I love her strange and beautifull face. Big eyes, and a little mouth. She is so sofisticated (appearence), Her voice and lyrics where fantastic too!
Is everything lip synced on Top of the Pops? This sounds exactly like the recording and other stuff I've seen from TOTP seems that way as well.. just curious.
Oh WoW! FlashBack my head between the speakers, huffing a bottle of poppers, and Evolving into the Next Dimension's representation on this Void Plain. Siouxsie changed me.
Deep love for Siouxsie at the moment. This is the first time I have heard this song but I just keep hitting replay. I love the way she moves in this video, I think she is beautiful to look at as well, why isnt there anything this good now. Lady Ga Ga my arse. Big love to her and the band and isnt that Robert Smith on keyboards?
Awesome band siouxsie and the banshees what amazing singer with fantastic vocals by the greatest showwoman siouxsie sioux what a legend and icon with amazing drumming from budgie and amazing guitarist by Robert Smith .🥁🥁🎸🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎤🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
@leesaulsify Now listen here you. Did it ever occur to you that reason why some people don't care for or don't like Lady Gaga at all is because she's given FAR too mcuh press?? That's she's talked about nearly EVER single blody day?? And another thing, if you love Lady Gaga so much, why are you even watching this video? You a troll or something???
I read somewhere that she hated how, the music video turned out. And she wanted a Horse to feature in the, video urinating or something. Lol I dunno but someone posted that comment on here once.
Someone earlier said it's about a horrible subject. I see it as being about sex and its sometimes torturous intensity (and the refrain being about sperm being released). Too bad there's the TOTP junk on top of this great performance.
@elm1230 It was the format of the Top Of The Pops show. They forced everyone to do it. American Bandstand used to do the same thing. For the best anti-lip-sync moment in history look up Johnny Rotten's performance with Public Image Limited on American Bandstand. He told them he wouldn't lip sync. They tried to force him so he agreed. Then when the show went live he just started walking through the audience talking with fans and not singing as his vocals played on the tape.
Lot of comments on here & other Siouxsie videos comparing her/them with modern singers/Pop acts. It's not valid comparing as Siouxsie & Banshees were an "alternative" band & still are. There were Pop singers in her era as well ie. ABBA , Bay City Rollers , Madonna , Bucks Fizz , Kim Carnes etc.... it would be more apt comparing Gaga , J-Lo , Beyonce....to these acts & not Siouxsie.. Wat the Banshees were doing at the time was different , groundbreaking and left of centre.....In other words GREAT
Dude, cut the man some slack! The man is 50, and yep he is a bit rounder around the middle than 10 years ago. But that isn't what is important here! His voice is still as sublime as it was 20 years ago! Whereas, most performers voices have lost their clarity...Robert has been fortunate to NOT have lost his. His is still making awesome music and still able to perform as he did 20 years ago. Body weight can always be lost...voices can never be regained once they start to fade.
I really like the fact that this band always experimented with their music and came up with new things. I didn't like them at first, but something about them still intrigued me, and I gave their music a chance until it grew on me. Something for which I'm now grateful for. They opened me up to other artists who make "strange" and "unusual" music.
They're the type of band that the more you listen to their music closely, the more interesting they become.They have so many deep album cuts that are work of arts in my humble opinion. Just also attempt to always have an open mind with their music.
i discover at that ancient time (1984) this band with that magical album "hyaena" one of their best albums ! Siouxsie have an amazing voice...with..power and sensuality. for me she have 5 great lps : "hyaena" (1984), "tinderbox"(1986), "peep show" (1988), "superstition" (1991) and the great live album "nocturne" from (1983) with Robert smith in the band............
No, I don't think it should be like that. And she isn't separating women and men here for nothing; it's important in order to the issue to come across. If you think of this song wider than being a commentary on the stone-throwing tradition, it could be about insincerety and disguising one's cruelty towards another person. Those themes haven't got anything to do with gender.
Shame it is a playback. but nevertheless: a mesmeric beautifull song. It is about that males should carry the unborn child and take in all the responsability that goes along with it. Seahorses ("swimming horses") do it different. In their species, the male carries the unborn ones. Food for thought....???
Siouxsie Sioux is flawless and devine! Swimming Horses single is still one of my favourites! BTW where did you get this video? I love to have a copy of it! OMG now my kids are getting into Siouxsie! They think their old man is pretty kewl! They right! I am kewl! HE HE!
"Feel the cruel stones breaking her bones". Somewhere it's an acceptable punishmenf to throw stones at a person if she is unmarried and pregnant, like in this Swimming Horses case. The consequences of e.g. adultery can be a lot harsher to women than to men there.
I think it's about the cultures in which the male family members take care of their female siblings, while at the same time girls can get into serious trouble because of shame issues etc. It criticizes double standards?
Hey dead bat, be yourself, do not believe in role models. Siouxsie did not belive in role models. That is why she became what she is. Be inspired by her, but she would not aprove in being a role model. I guarentee you. Love.
it happens everyday in Iran. women are constantly being punished in the open by the morality police. they punish men too but what this jackblair guy said is right, much harsher on women. (duh)
@peytonazak Yes, back then they used to all mime. Shame isn't it. The musicians rarely had any choice, unless they were maybe Madonna or Paul McCartney, who could set their own rules.
@kydonia LOL Touché ! Gaga is a product, Siouxsie & the Banshees is a group of genuine Artists, with an A capital in all aspects of their musical creativity, outfit and scenaries tastes, image and influence along so many years
I'm really not that familiar with this subject, but I did some research and found out that it takes place mainly in some of the Islamic countries that use the Sharia law.
@ukusapillage Many, many Americans (like myself) love the Banshees and other great bands of the era.. don't make generalizations it makes you sound small minded
"When the still sea conspires an armor and her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters True sailing is dead Awkward instant and the first animal is jettisoned Legs furiously pumping their stiff green gallop and heads bob up Poise Delicate Pause Consent In mute nostril agony Carefully refined and sealed over" - James Douglas Morrison
19 January 2019. Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such the Siouxsie And The Banshees and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily. And love, admiration and adoration.
Siouxsie is such a phenomenal vocalist, and so expressive in her movements. Severin, Budgie and Robert Smith really make for perfect accompaniment. Another group gone there will never be a substitute for their greatness.
absoluted right
Thank you for posting this vid!
Are people REALLY comparing Siouxsie to Gaga ? That's like comparing a 5 lb Lobster tail drenched in butter to a McDonald's Filet 'O Fish.
Heard Siouxsie first in '81 and was hooked ever since - there hadn't been a band quite like them and this song was strangely my favourite for years. Incidentally, she is taller than Robert Smith.
Budgie is underrated - so few drummers are creative enough to NOT use standard 2 and 4 beats - he often created a drum piece
Robert Smith once stated that until he heard the Banshees he just wanted to be in a band that sounded like Buzzcocks. They were his biggest influence and working with them a huge privilege.
I can´t believe this amazing song still has so few views!!!
Beautiful song. Outstanding in every respect-melody, vocal, lyrics, production, musicianship..
According to what the songwriters have shared, this song is about devolution. It's about a culture that punishes its youth by death if they are suspected of extra-marital sex. Tragically, seahorses in the nearby ocean are kinder parents than these people. This sympathetic song is so beautiful and still makes me cry!!
For what it is worth, I rate this in my top ten songs of all time. That probably means 3/fifths of f$#k-all to anyone, but there you go.
No, Robert Smith always said he got his look from Siouxsie. It's the other way round.
amazing sound! amazing singer! it reminds me when i was 20yrs.........a strange and in the mean time fantastic period. The Berlin wall, the dualism btwn usa and urss... fear of nuke ( du remember the film the day after?) the Tacher in UK ....sorry Im talking like an old man but siuxie represents a period were the singers re really able to sing and the session man were really music player ( have you noted bob smith ?). May be i was young , may be Siuxie is outstending but ......WHO IS GAGA ????
Noo!Robert (the cure)Smith is the male version.He was the guitar man in the "Banshees"
I always count my blessings that I was a teenager when we had music like this, right time and right age to get it.
One of their most underrated songs.
La Belle Siouxsie Siouxsita Sioux! J'adore!!! Fantastique!!!! Magnifique!!!!!!!! Je Suis Sioux!!! :) :) :) :)
Wait, did I misunderstand sth? The recording is from 1984, right? And that corresponds to my adolescence memory. But from 1:12 a website is given - Internet wasn't yet around in 1984...??!!
+MetteC5 The show, TOTP2, is playing old Top of the Pops clips from the 70s, 80s. TOTP2 is a fairly recent show, like only 10 or so years old.
+Koalar3 Thanks, mate!
bob smith on the keyboard there
The music on this song was mainly composed by Robert Smith. You can find a similar theme on « Six different ways » a song on the head of the door album.
I tink the Banshees knew what was going on more than the Radio 1 DJs knew what was going on.
Heard Happy House....never looked back ..fabulous and gorgeous and great track
Awesome video!I
I love her strange and beautifull face. Big eyes, and a little mouth.
She is so sofisticated (appearence),
Her voice and lyrics where fantastic too!
Wow Siouxsie is like a mythical being, and is that Robert Smith on keys?
Is everything lip synced on Top of the Pops? This sounds exactly like the recording and other stuff I've seen from TOTP seems that way as well.. just curious.
See Robert Smith at 1:30. He transforned this album into something beyond the group's previous releases.
truly magical times!
yes Robert adopted the look to fit in to the Banshees style at that time
God damn, I'm old
and yet still beautiful
@kydonia WELL SAID!
Robert Smith stole Siouxsie´s look.
There will never be another Siouxsie Sioux.
Doesn't get any better, what an amazing moment
Oh WoW! FlashBack my head between the speakers, huffing a bottle of poppers, and Evolving into the Next Dimension's representation on this Void Plain. Siouxsie changed me.
British originality!
1:32 OMG LOOK! Robert Smith! XD
Welcome to the LSD 80's Psychedelics had a big effect on her around this time. Great Song. Great Album
Deep love for Siouxsie at the moment. This is the first time I have heard this song but I just keep hitting replay. I love the way she moves in this video, I think she is beautiful to look at as well, why isnt there anything this good now. Lady Ga Ga my arse. Big love to her and the band and isnt that Robert Smith on keyboards?
yep i used to have same make up wish i was 18 again
Fuck ...Siouxsie rules!!! I rarely use the f word.
Awesome band siouxsie and the banshees what amazing singer with fantastic vocals by the greatest showwoman siouxsie sioux what a legend and icon with amazing drumming from budgie and amazing guitarist by Robert Smith .🥁🥁🎸🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎤🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
You better say he look like a male Siouxie
@leesaulsify Now listen here you. Did it ever occur to you that reason why some people don't care for or don't like Lady Gaga at all is because she's given FAR too mcuh press?? That's she's talked about nearly EVER single blody day?? And another thing, if you love Lady Gaga so much, why are you even watching this video? You a troll or something???
I read somewhere that she hated how, the music video turned out. And she wanted a Horse to feature in the, video urinating or something. Lol I dunno but someone posted that comment on here once.
She looks like a female Robert Smith.
Enigmatic and stunning - at their best here.
Horrible subject matter but gorgeous song.
Someone earlier said it's about a horrible subject. I see it as being about sex and its sometimes torturous intensity (and the refrain being about sperm being released). Too bad there's the TOTP junk on top of this great performance.
@DeMystified2012 I was in a "I hate Lady Gaga" mod and I needed to vent a little. If you want, I'll delete my comment.
@elm1230 It was the format of the Top Of The Pops show. They forced everyone to do it. American Bandstand used to do the same thing.
For the best anti-lip-sync moment in history look up Johnny Rotten's performance with Public Image Limited on American Bandstand. He told them he wouldn't lip sync. They tried to force him so he agreed. Then when the show went live he just started walking through the audience talking with fans and not singing as his vocals played on the tape.
Lot of comments on here & other Siouxsie videos comparing her/them with modern singers/Pop acts. It's not valid comparing as Siouxsie & Banshees were an "alternative" band & still are. There were Pop singers in her era as well ie. ABBA , Bay City Rollers , Madonna , Bucks Fizz , Kim Carnes etc.... it would be more apt comparing Gaga , J-Lo , Beyonce....to these acts & not Siouxsie.. Wat the Banshees were doing at the time was different , groundbreaking and left of centre.....In other words GREAT
Dude, cut the man some slack!
The man is 50, and yep he is a bit rounder around the middle than 10 years ago.
But that isn't what is important here!
His voice is still as sublime as it was 20 years ago!
Whereas, most performers voices have lost their clarity...Robert has been fortunate to NOT have lost his.
His is still making awesome music and still able to perform as he did 20 years ago.
Body weight can always be lost...voices can never be regained once they start to fade.
I really like the fact that this band always experimented with their music and came up with new things. I didn't like them at first, but something about them still intrigued me, and I gave their music a chance until it grew on me. Something for which I'm now grateful for. They opened me up to other artists who make "strange" and "unusual" music.
They're the type of band that the more you listen to their music closely, the more interesting they become.They have so many deep album cuts that are work of arts in my humble opinion. Just also attempt to always have an open mind with their music.
i discover at that ancient time (1984) this band with that magical album "hyaena" one of their best albums ! Siouxsie have an amazing voice...with..power and sensuality. for me she have 5 great lps : "hyaena" (1984), "tinderbox"(1986), "peep show" (1988), "superstition" (1991) and the great live album "nocturne" from (1983) with Robert smith in the band............
No, I don't think it should be like that. And she isn't separating women and men here for nothing; it's important in order to the issue to come across. If you think of this song wider than being a commentary on the stone-throwing tradition, it could be about insincerety and disguising one's cruelty towards another person. Those themes haven't got anything to do with gender.
Shame it is a playback. but nevertheless: a mesmeric beautifull song. It is about that males should carry the unborn child and take in all the responsability that goes along with it. Seahorses ("swimming horses") do it different. In their species, the male carries the unborn ones. Food for thought....???
Siouxsie Sioux is flawless and devine!
Swimming Horses single is still one of my favourites!
BTW where did you get this video?
I love to have a copy of it!
OMG now my kids are getting into Siouxsie!
They think their old man is pretty kewl!
They right! I am kewl! HE HE!
"Feel the cruel stones breaking her bones". Somewhere it's an acceptable punishmenf to throw stones at a person if she is unmarried and pregnant, like in this Swimming Horses case. The consequences of e.g. adultery can be a lot harsher to women than to men there.
Look it is Bert on keybords!!
I think it's about the cultures in which the male family members take care of their female siblings, while at the same time girls can get into serious trouble because of shame issues etc. It criticizes double standards?
Hey dead bat, be yourself, do not believe in role models. Siouxsie did not belive in role models. That is why she became what she is. Be inspired by her, but she would not aprove in being a role model. I guarentee you. Love.
it happens everyday in Iran. women are constantly being punished in the open by the morality police. they punish men too but what this jackblair guy said is right, much harsher on women. (duh)
@peytonazak Yes, back then they used to all mime. Shame isn't it. The musicians rarely had any choice, unless they were maybe Madonna or Paul McCartney, who could set their own rules.
@kydonia LOL Touché ! Gaga is a product, Siouxsie & the Banshees is a group of genuine Artists, with an A capital in all aspects of their musical creativity, outfit and scenaries tastes, image and influence along so many years
I'm really not that familiar with this subject, but I did some research and found out that it takes place mainly in some of the Islamic countries that use the Sharia law.
Sioux looks good in white
good year remember it well 44 and still listening and being true to the old school yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh healthy and loving it capricorn
si es playbacj pero ver esa banda esvivo eslo mas grandioso ojala algun dia venga al peru io los vi en madrid
With just one note she can take you to another-more noble-plane.The only problem in the past 30+ years is that you're rudely pulled back.
oh .she is still special lyrical god voice beyond and beyond of gaga no harmony in her songs..souxsie.so gorgeous..gosh
@destructingparabola And the guy on keyboards at 1:32 looks like a male Robert Smith. LOL... there's irony in there. ;)
Mulher mais perfeita desse mundo
exactly! i thought the same when i first heard it. i like both songs:)
@TheAtheistParadigm do you mean 'Joga'? the lyrics go "state of emergency" but the song is called Joga
siouxsie.......... :( this is playback man. oh well she sings for real everywhere else so its ok
Yes, Robert is on Keyboards, when his relation whit tha' Banshees started to became difficult
Yes I read that in Mark Paytress's book on em, but that the horse peed accidentally.
No way. The matter is for real and the lyrics just don't waste time apologizing.
@vsander09 LOL! wow thanks for the information. Never knew. Funny story too.
Love this track hope it’s not about a real murder ???
Great again! Such a long time ago. c' mon dj 's what are you waiting for ?
Inter-Galactic Beauty...absolutely timeless!!!!!
this song teminds me of paris-saw few gigs then was white dress n red dress-
yeah he used Siouxsie's lipstick once! that started it your right
My fucking sentiments exactly! Tho I didn't hear it til 96...
Love Siouxsie!!!!! And look Robert Smith on keyboards!!!! Very awesome
She's lip-synching here...
Brilliant track, Siouxsie thanks
man coming of age in the 80's must have been magical.
is that robert smith on keyboards?
It's fine, this is BBC property.
Great, but what the fug is she wearing?
Those were the days - style AND substance!
33 years ago.....my god ¡¡¡¡¡
@lewisner Indeed.
she were a cracking lass, still is!
that shit is not like sex pistols
@vsander09 that is robert smith..
Im 17 and I totally love S&TB lol
@ukusapillage Many, many Americans (like myself) love the Banshees and other great bands of the era.. don't make generalizations it makes you sound small minded
"When the still sea conspires an armor
and her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
and the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
their stiff green gallop
and heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
and sealed over"
- James Douglas Morrison