Join Hands

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Join Hands is the second album released by Siouxsie & the Banshee. Polydor Records released it in the UK in September 1979. It is also the last album on which band members McKay and Morris appeared. The last track ending the album, is the studio recording of "The Lord's Prayer," the song that they are famous for playing in their debut live performance at the 100 Club Punk Festival in September of 1976. In the Melody Maker, Jon Savage described the first track "Poppy Day" as "a short, powerful evocation of the Great War graveyards in Flander." He also wrote about "Placebo Effect" : it "has a stunning flanged guitar intro, chasing clinical lyrics covering some insertion or operation." About "Icon", Jon Savage stated : "the brilliantly reverbed guitar is a perfect foil for Siouxsie's soaring and, for once, emotional vocal." LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy has a special liking for that album. The first albums he bought were "Siouxsie and the Banshees Join Hand, The Fall Grotesque, and The Birthday Party Nick the Stripper, all in one day. And all three of those records are three of my favorite things I've ever heard." .

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