Album
Join Hands
1979 · Rock
9 collectors on Gatefold own this
Join Hands is an Alt/Indie album by Siouxsie And The Banshees, originally released in 1979. On Gatefold: 51 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
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Join Hands is the second album released by Siouxsie & the Banshees. 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 Flanders." 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 Hands, 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." Morrissey chose "Mother" in his playlist when he was interviewed by Janice Long in late 2008.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Poppy Day2:02
- A2Regal Zone3:47
- A3Placebo Effect4:38
- A4Icon5:27
- A5Premature Burial5:58
Side B
- B1Playground Twist3:01
- B2Mother / Oh Mein Papa3:23
- B3The Lords Prayer14:08
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Post-Punk
- brittle
- brooding
- nocturnal
Second studio album, originally released in September 1979 by Polydor (except in the USA by Geffen and in Australia by Interfusion). Recorded at Air Studios, London, and produced by Mike Stavrou and Nils Stevenson. Words and music by Siouxsie and The Banshees, except "Poppy Day" (words adapted from the first two stanzas of "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, 1915) and "O Mein Papa" (music composed by Paul Burkhard, 1939).
The lyrics of "The Lords Prayer" quote from the prayer of the same name, and from songs including Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", Phil Medley and Bert Berns's "Twist And Shout", Dillinger's "Cocaine In My Brain", and John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" (at their early concerts, the recording of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" from Cabaret - Original Soundtrack Recording was played before the band appeared onstage).
Vocals, Piano – Siouxsie Sioux
Guitar, Saxophone – John McKay
Bass Guitar – Steven Severin
Drums, Percussion – Kenny Morris
One single from the forthcoming album was released in July 1979: Playground Twist.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- John MckayGUITAR, SAXOPHONE GUITAR
- Kenny MorrisDRUMS DRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Siouxsie SiouxLEAD VOCALS, PIANO VOCALS VOCALS, PIANO
- Steven SeverinBASS BASS GUITAR
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 51 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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