Through The Looking Glass with Siouxsie & The Banshees

Even when she mirrors her band in other band's music, Siouxsie sounds as Siouxsie. This I believe is a great ground for making good covers. Here is a whole album with such covers, covering quite different artists.

Especially fascinating for me is to be brought back to 1987 but not by 80's pop songs, rather by mystical 70's pieces and even older. Some of these must have been more forgotten then, than today, less available for the young audience to listen to and compare. Before I only heard Siouxsie making Helter Skelter, a decade after Beatles in a punky way. Next decade here, as they had drifted far away from punk, they still seems to do whatever they do in a tough, uncompromised and well-polished way.





most Sexy song: THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US [Sparks]

most Smart song: HALL OF MIRRORS [Kraftwerk]

"Even the greatest stars
live their lives in the looking glass...
Even the greatest stars
dislike themselves in the looking glass"

most Strange song: SEA BREEZES [Bryan Ferry /Roxy Music]

most Amusing song: STRANGE FRUIT [Billie Holliday]

most Beautiful song: YOU'RE LOST LITTLE GIRL [The Doors]

most growing Strong song: GUN [John Cale]



Overall Album


6 compositions

6 instrumentations

6 playin' feeling /singin' feeling

4 philosophy

3 timeline (order of tracks)

7 concept (titles, cover picture)

6 historical importance

= 38


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 X 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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