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
good year remember it well 44 and still listening and being true to the old school yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh healthy and loving it capricorn
siouxie never made it in the usa, they had such horrible taste in music only after siouxie and banshees started to go down and nirvana and other bans grew in the usa thats when suddenly the americans woke up, only to fall asleep again, americans have horrible taste in music, siouxie music is the 80s answer to doors, velvet underground, and new thing all together, my favorite band
@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
My favourite S&B song, probably because it's so much like a Cure song & I'm more of a Cure fan. My guess is that Robert Smith played a large part in the composition of this song, musically at least. Siouxie's a gorgeous performer in her appearance, dance moves and gestures, which Robert obviously drew a lot from.
@ImlnvadingManchester "The day you face me and get your ass beat is the day I turn theist..bwak bwakkkk", you squeal. So that means you'll never turn theist, because you'll NEVER beat me. You learned that in London when I faced you and smashed your face in.
i had hair like george michael,and now i look like the guy from the movie:"Powder". i lost my hair to alopecia UNIVERSALIS<---the WORSE kind,.,in 1996. see my channel for new photos of me without my wig..never released to the public before. thanks<-
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
Thing is with this band, they actually dressed the same in the street (more or less), it wasn't an act, which made them so good. Gaga is a stage show (and she knows it) it helps sell records. Staggering vocal and can see where florence gets inspiration. The only negative on this clip is the comment from f***ing Steve (radio Tw*t) Wright, what a Wan**er.
Her voice gives me those wonderful chills every time. She is just breathtaking to me in her movements,and her earth-shattering voice. How haunting and beautiful she is!
Love her music but she, in fact the whole band, should avoid being seen on their videos. Her odd movements are kind of a turn off. Sioux is better not seen but heard!
@1disaffected Hey,we all have our opinions,but I have to say,I love the way Siouxsie moves and dances. I find her movements very exotic,sensual,and very beautiful.
@stripedhyenuh - silly prick commentator was probably 3 when they performed and has just enough brains to get himself a degree in media studies and fuck lucky enough to have a daddy who has friends at the BBC.
I have always liked Siouxsie. She has such a great voice. I had an accident and was in the hospital in a coma ,had radio and someone brought a siouxsie tape,and I was shaking my head to the beat. Love Siouxsie.
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.
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............
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 ????
@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
@kydonia i like a few gaga songs to be honest..but she's not even in the same league as Siouxsie Sioux...siouxsie is a goddess...gaga is pure pseudo-aesthetics 101.
@kydonia FUCK YOU U STUPID MOTHER FUCKER U CANT COMPARE THEM THEY ARE TWO DIF TYPES OF FUCKING MUSIC YOUR SO FUCKING STUPID U MUST BE SOME OLD FUCKING GUY FROM THE 50S
@Jer0mmel she's ugly? lol her face is fucking gorgeous, and her idiosyncrasies make her even more hot-like that slight lower lip bend when she occasionally hits long notes, and that slight Strabismus(cross-eyed) look..i'd rather date siouxsie than a supermodel, just for the pure genuine aesthetic/artistic value, let alone her looks. P E A C E.
Until I found out seemingly twee indie folkstress Rozi Plain was actually a rock goddess with her full band, Siouxsie was my favourite female singer, along with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's.
Siouxsie & the Banshees at their best were up there with God's like Echo & the Bunnymen or The Chameleons UK.
ALL YOU LADY GAGA HATERS CAN BURN IN FUCKING HELL WITH YOUR FUCKING SIOUXSIE YOU THINK IS SO FUCKING TALENTED MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE FUCKIN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUCK U ALL
@leesaulsify lady gaga barely qualfies as a lint particle in Siouxsie Sioux's pussy hair. I think you need to go back to your fingernail polish and pneumatic drildo underneath your pillow, instead of trying to blast on an icon such as Siouxsie Sioux, you little freshmen gash. hahaha. Now go back to your mammy's basement and watch a jigaboo video.
@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???
T FUCKING WATCHING IT MY FUCKING BOY FRIEND WAS WATCHING IT AND HE SAID SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO SAY OR COMPARE SOEMTHING TO LADY GAGA AND I SAID WHAT AND HE READ ME YOUR COMMENT AND I GOT MAD SO FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@leesaulsify My fucking god just cause something is new doesn't mean it's fucking better. Why the fuck are you talking shit?some people don't fucking like Lady Gaga get the fuck over it. This is a fucking goth/punk band that paved the way for people like lady gaga.
@THEATHElSTPARADlGM You can shut it as well, you bloody idiot. If I see you posting here again without my permission, I'll break every bone in your worthless body, and dislocate every joint. Then, and only when I'm satisfied that you've experienced enough pain, I'll kill you.
Nobody noticed Robert Smith on keyboards, that hairy bloke from The Cure. Yeah, that one that wrote this song and then left when he was told the song was written by Sou and the Banshee's. If u doubt me listen to the Piano on "The Top" Album by The Cure, was realeased before whatever Boohiss album this was from
@BunnymanUK It is no secret that he helped write some of the songs on the Banshees "Hyaena" album, "The top" was released at the same time, give or take a week. Robert Smiths "tenure" with the Banshees was never meant to be permanent, he didn't "leave" because of a dispute over song writing credits, he simply wanted to concentrate on The Cure.
@BunnymanUK Robert Smith declared in 2003 : "I was blown away by how powerful I felt playing that kind of music. It was so different to what we were doing with The Cure. Before that, I'd wanted us to be like The Buzzcocks or Elvis Costello, the punk Beatles. Being a Banshee really changed my attitude to what I was doing."
@boabaobab Why don't you get a good shag, you twat? Are you living in the 21st century or in the 13th?? Are you a religious fanatic? Fuck you, arsehole. And fuck religion, it's SHIT.
Fuck who cares adultry is when a woman is married to her husband and has sex with someone else. If she is not married it is fornication..even then fuck Christanity views!! if we all di that most of us are going to HELLL!!! oh shit so am I I have had a few girlfiends and had sex many many many times with birth control ..I dont give a fuck, as long as your senceable about sex, I dont care if someone has gay sex who gives a fuck as longas its senceable!
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?
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you can so tell she is lip sinking. I feel bad for Robert Smith for giving these guys help in hand with their music when he really should have worried about The Cure alone.
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.
Where is the film clip version, when she is wearing that white top!!!! and staring down the camera, had it taped off rage 20 years ago!!!I went out and got one made just llike it lol!!! Great song, beautiful voice... Love arabian nights and looking glass(??) too!!!
@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.
@manhandle42 this song is about a chick who was apparently pregnant and the town scorned her and murdered her, thrown her kid down a well. (from what i've heard, anyway). peace.
@peytonazak a chick getting pregnant and the community scorning her..killing the baby, thrown down a well..for a face burnt to helllllllllllllll..feel the cruel stonneessssssss..breaking her bonneeessssss
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.
This is probably my all-time favorite song by them. It's overlooked and fucking brilliant. What the HELL DOES IT MEAN. I don't even care, though. I just keep listening to it, and have been for, like the past 25 fucking years.
@blackbranches islamic assholes torturing females for thinking they've cheated and the chick was presumably pregnant but she wasn't..they jacked her anyway, scorned her "pushed down a well..for a face burnt to hell...feel the cruel stonneesssssssssss..breakikng her bonesssssssssss'' what a FUCKING great song. this is one of my all-time favorite songs, period. hardly anything close. maybe a tool song "parabola", or 'right in two' but shit, this song hits deep. peace.
@snowball1988 let me check...brb..lol...i actually have the casette...i think you're right..i think i posted one of the lines WITHING "joga' 2nd song, first side. good job bro/sis. those two off of 'homogenic' were pretty decent. I l iked the old 'hunter' video, though, with the bear on it. but the new version she freakin looks hotter with that bald head for some reason lmao.
@TheAtheistParadigm "but the new version she freakin looks hotter with that bald head for some reason lmao."
I now what reason, and so do you. Shut it or die. Now get that bare crown slapped one THOUSAND times. I want it BLEEDING. Should you fail to obey me, I'll tear your limbs off and leave you for the foxes in my garden.
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....???
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?
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
1misterdrifter 1 week ago
good year remember it well 44 and still listening and being true to the old school yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh healthy and loving it capricorn
adriancamano1 2 months ago 2
Steve Wright is such a turd.
Stratoszero 2 months ago
siouxie never made it in the usa, they had such horrible taste in music only after siouxie and banshees started to go down and nirvana and other bans grew in the usa thats when suddenly the americans woke up, only to fall asleep again, americans have horrible taste in music, siouxie music is the 80s answer to doors, velvet underground, and new thing all together, my favorite band
ukusapillage 2 months ago
@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
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My favourite S&B song, probably because it's so much like a Cure song & I'm more of a Cure fan. My guess is that Robert Smith played a large part in the composition of this song, musically at least. Siouxie's a gorgeous performer in her appearance, dance moves and gestures, which Robert obviously drew a lot from.
ShiyinCsris 4 months ago
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.
exeuroweenie 4 months ago
One of their most underrated songs.
vsander09 4 months ago 8
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@ImlnvadingManchester "The day you face me and get your ass beat is the day I turn theist..bwak bwakkkk", you squeal. So that means you'll never turn theist, because you'll NEVER beat me. You learned that in London when I faced you and smashed your face in.
Shut it, weakling.
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ImInvadingManchester 4 months ago
Those were the days - style AND substance!
quiretenor 4 months ago
She looks like a female Robert Smith.
destructingparabola 5 months ago 5
@destructingparabola And the guy on keyboards at 1:32 looks like a male Robert Smith. LOL... there's irony in there. ;)
vsander09 4 months ago
@vsander09 that is robert smith..
rckhnt 1 month ago
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Lady Gaga has NOTHING on Siouxise!
Siouxsie's a sexual, poetic Goddess, and Lady Gaga's just provactively dressed clown!²
Nothing more to say after these words.
Gaga sounds like shit.
kakolicht 5 months ago
Look it is Bert on keybords!!
louisfriendhastaste 6 months ago
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leesaulsify is my gf dont diss lady gaga to her, it makes her mad, and she comes from a long line of serial killers.
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Curt Smith was also in a band called "the Glove" in circa 1983 or 1982 even.
IamYOURmasterrrr 6 months ago
@IamYOURmasterrrr Shut your sperm-filled mouth, you pathetic streak of vegan salad. Speak when I tell you, otherwise I shall kill you. Simple as.
EE - I have spoken.
electroexecutoide 4 months ago
Your foolish for even compareing one to another, music is a taste
leesaulsify 6 months ago
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@leesaulsify bro..it's ""YOU'RE"" not """your""". your is a possessive pronoun, while you're is a contraction of you are. Emesis.
IamYOURmasterrrr 6 months ago
and baby im far from a troll. ;)!!!
leesaulsify 6 months ago
and baby im far from a troll. ;)!!!
leesaulsify 6 months ago
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
theselector 7 months ago
Thing is with this band, they actually dressed the same in the street (more or less), it wasn't an act, which made them so good. Gaga is a stage show (and she knows it) it helps sell records. Staggering vocal and can see where florence gets inspiration. The only negative on this clip is the comment from f***ing Steve (radio Tw*t) Wright, what a Wan**er.
iamthedalilama 7 months ago
Her voice gives me those wonderful chills every time. She is just breathtaking to me in her movements,and her earth-shattering voice. How haunting and beautiful she is!
shinyeyedwomyn 7 months ago 2
I always count my blessings that I was a teenager when we had music like this, right time and right age to get it.
milander007 7 months ago
Love her music but she, in fact the whole band, should avoid being seen on their videos. Her odd movements are kind of a turn off. Sioux is better not seen but heard!
1disaffected 8 months ago
@1disaffected Hey,we all have our opinions,but I have to say,I love the way Siouxsie moves and dances. I find her movements very exotic,sensual,and very beautiful.
shinyeyedwomyn 7 months ago
oh .she is still special lyrical god voice beyond and beyond of gaga no harmony in her songs..souxsie.so gorgeous..gosh
BRASISEX 8 months ago
yep i used to have same make up wish i was 18 again
wiggywoo1965 8 months ago
You'd F$@k em Both tho'!!!
feederdave 9 months ago
Im 17 and I totally love S&TB lol
AxelZaore 9 months ago
What's up with the twat commentary at the very end?
stripedhyenuh 10 months ago
@stripedhyenuh - silly prick commentator was probably 3 when they performed and has just enough brains to get himself a degree in media studies and fuck lucky enough to have a daddy who has friends at the BBC.
milander007 7 months ago
@milander007 The commentator is Steve wright from Radio 1 now on radio 2, he's 50. He'sstill an idiot now.
iamthedalilama 7 months ago
I have always liked Siouxsie. She has such a great voice. I had an accident and was in the hospital in a coma ,had radio and someone brought a siouxsie tape,and I was shaking my head to the beat. Love Siouxsie.
dillon940 10 months ago
Beautiful song. Outstanding in every respect-melody, vocal, lyrics, production, musicianship..
stephenhkent 10 months ago 2
yes robert smith used to play with them back in teh day!
stonnedwarrior 11 months ago
Wow Siouxsie is like a mythical being, and is that Robert Smith on keys?
trexinvert 11 months ago
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.
IAmPlaysWithSquirrel 1 year ago
which swimming styles if done regularly will make you grow taller?
TheLeilisa 1 year ago
i must have been too drunk, i dont remember watching this video 6 days ago. wait..i'm drunk now..nm
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
wtf are some o u tards on about, can't u just comment on the song without gettin sidetracked by bullsh*t
pmc40 1 year ago
@pmc40 you're doing the very thing you're bitching about though dipshit lol. stfu.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
i so love siouxsie's voice
pmc40 1 year ago 2
truly magical times!
Nechepsos 1 year ago
Bob de Rooy you mean
ronaldvanderkleij 1 year ago
bob smith on the keyboard there
mitchie1169 1 year ago
See Robert Smith at 1:30. He transforned this album into something beyond the group's previous releases.
reinforcedpenisstem 1 year ago
Before I croak..i have to see two bands(as well as paul mcartney), and they are "TOOL", and "SIOUXSIE". I'd die a happy man.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
I had never heard this beautiful song on commercial radio. in the US. Perhaps it's too morbid of the subject for the "filler".
74LS08 1 year ago
One of my favorite S&TB songs !! Thanks Jef for posting this TV show version with HQ sound !!
AlanTubeViewer 1 year ago
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............
Centvinmartin 1 year ago
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 ????
pupizzo99 1 year ago
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.
kydonia 1 year ago 52
@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
AlanTubeViewer 1 year ago
@kydonia i like a few gaga songs to be honest..but she's not even in the same league as Siouxsie Sioux...siouxsie is a goddess...gaga is pure pseudo-aesthetics 101.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago 3
@kydonia WELL SAID!
thistleflowers 9 months ago
@kydonia FUCK YOU U STUPID MOTHER FUCKER U CANT COMPARE THEM THEY ARE TWO DIF TYPES OF FUCKING MUSIC YOUR SO FUCKING STUPID U MUST BE SOME OLD FUCKING GUY FROM THE 50S
leesaulsify 6 months ago
Beautiful, ugly, attractive and scary at the same time...
But, overall a kind of hot.
Special lady.
Jer0mmel 1 year ago
@Jer0mmel she's ugly? lol her face is fucking gorgeous, and her idiosyncrasies make her even more hot-like that slight lower lip bend when she occasionally hits long notes, and that slight Strabismus(cross-eyed) look..i'd rather date siouxsie than a supermodel, just for the pure genuine aesthetic/artistic value, let alone her looks. P E A C E.
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Jer0mmel 1 year ago
she were a cracking lass, still is!
kevfullo 1 year ago
This song still gives me chills.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago 3
British originality!
MrRobjkerr 1 year ago 2
looks like curt smith on the synth with shades on.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
this was the track that all the girls hated and at the time i loved it just to annoy them,but hearing it now,well before its time
andavclk 1 year ago
Until I found out seemingly twee indie folkstress Rozi Plain was actually a rock goddess with her full band, Siouxsie was my favourite female singer, along with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's.
Siouxsie & the Banshees at their best were up there with God's like Echo & the Bunnymen or The Chameleons UK.
trev7771000 1 year ago
Lady Gaga has NOTHING on Siouxise!
Siouxsie's a sexual, poetic Goddess, and Lady Gaga's just provactively dressed clown!
Jakegothicsnake 1 year ago 67
@Jakegothicsnake Siouxsie has a crareer spanning 34 years. Gaga will be forgotten in a couple of years just like Britney Spears.
lewisner 1 year ago 2
@lewisner Indeed.
Jakegothicsnake 1 year ago
@Jakegothicsnake if you hate lady gaga so much then why mention her on this video?
DeMystified2012 1 year ago
@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.
Jakegothicsnake 1 year ago
@Jakegothicsnake na whatever i dont really care
DeMystified2012 1 year ago
@Jakegothicsnake WOW ANOTHER OLD FUCKING WANKER WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT TALENT
leesaulsify 6 months ago
ALL YOU LADY GAGA HATERS CAN BURN IN FUCKING HELL WITH YOUR FUCKING SIOUXSIE YOU THINK IS SO FUCKING TALENTED MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE FUCKIN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUCK U ALL
leesaulsify 6 months ago
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@leesaulsify lady gaga barely qualfies as a lint particle in Siouxsie Sioux's pussy hair. I think you need to go back to your fingernail polish and pneumatic drildo underneath your pillow, instead of trying to blast on an icon such as Siouxsie Sioux, you little freshmen gash. hahaha. Now go back to your mammy's basement and watch a jigaboo video.
PWNED<------
IamYOURmasterrrr 6 months ago
@leesaulsify ermm well like it or not siouxsie was out before lady gaga ...lady gaga is a siouxsie and madonna wannabe so fuck off troll
ThePaulinaisawesome 4 months ago
AND STOP COMPARING LADY GAGA TO EVERY FUCKING THING ALREADY JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!! YOU ALL FUCKIN JELOUSE OF HER OR SOMETHING?????????????????
leesaulsify 6 months ago
@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???
Jakegothicsnake 6 months ago
@Jakegothicsnake I WAS'N
T FUCKING WATCHING IT MY FUCKING BOY FRIEND WAS WATCHING IT AND HE SAID SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO SAY OR COMPARE SOEMTHING TO LADY GAGA AND I SAID WHAT AND HE READ ME YOUR COMMENT AND I GOT MAD SO FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
leesaulsify 6 months ago
a goddess hardly more like a druggy pale white BITCH. How does it feel to diss soemone you like!? So shut the fuck up about gaga.
leesaulsify 6 months ago
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@leesaulsify yep, you're a trolling nigger.
IamYOURmasterrrr 6 months ago
@leesaulsify My fucking god just cause something is new doesn't mean it's fucking better. Why the fuck are you talking shit?some people don't fucking like Lady Gaga get the fuck over it. This is a fucking goth/punk band that paved the way for people like lady gaga.
SuperPolytheist 6 months ago
@SuperPolytheist stfu you dimestore MONOeMONO quimbubble or i'll pimpslap ewe to the other side of the cosmos..lol **PWNED** rofl<-----
THEATHElSTPARADlGM 5 months ago
@THEATHElSTPARADlGM You can shut it as well, you bloody idiot. If I see you posting here again without my permission, I'll break every bone in your worthless body, and dislocate every joint. Then, and only when I'm satisfied that you've experienced enough pain, I'll kill you.
EE - I have spoken.
electroexecutoide 4 months ago
1:32 OMG LOOK! Robert Smith! XD
AngelofMusic101 1 year ago
man coming of age in the 80's must have been magical.
thelaughingman79 1 year ago 2
She's lip-synching here...
Craigbe 1 year ago
@Craigbe Everyone lip-synched on TOTP
YouthInAsia0 1 year ago
Love Siouxsie!!!!! And look Robert Smith on keyboards!!!! Very awesome
JoeyRamone129 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this vid!
goffog1 1 year ago
Siouxsie is so beautiful.
It blows me away to see her sing so passionately.
Girl0Interrupted0 1 year ago
Nobody noticed Robert Smith on keyboards, that hairy bloke from The Cure. Yeah, that one that wrote this song and then left when he was told the song was written by Sou and the Banshee's. If u doubt me listen to the Piano on "The Top" Album by The Cure, was realeased before whatever Boohiss album this was from
BunnymanUK 1 year ago
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mochyn2977 1 year ago
@BunnymanUK It is no secret that he helped write some of the songs on the Banshees "Hyaena" album, "The top" was released at the same time, give or take a week. Robert Smiths "tenure" with the Banshees was never meant to be permanent, he didn't "leave" because of a dispute over song writing credits, he simply wanted to concentrate on The Cure.
mochyn2977 1 year ago
@BunnymanUK Robert Smith declared in 2003 : "I was blown away by how powerful I felt playing that kind of music. It was so different to what we were doing with The Cure. Before that, I'd wanted us to be like The Buzzcocks or Elvis Costello, the punk Beatles. Being a Banshee really changed my attitude to what I was doing."
mochyn2977 1 year ago
Love it!!!
JanisZeiss 1 year ago
I'm totally in love with this wonderful woman. And her music, obviously:)
Prizak1 1 year ago
@Prizak1 Hehehehe, Me too...
snodds88 1 year ago
gorgeous woman, great character, unique!
Northfieldclassics 1 year ago
voting office only open on freaky fridays and every sunday...
harlekin0263 1 year ago
@boabaobab Why don't you get a good shag, you twat? Are you living in the 21st century or in the 13th?? Are you a religious fanatic? Fuck you, arsehole. And fuck religion, it's SHIT.
Prizak1 1 year ago
Fuck who cares adultry is when a woman is married to her husband and has sex with someone else. If she is not married it is fornication..even then fuck Christanity views!! if we all di that most of us are going to HELLL!!! oh shit so am I I have had a few girlfiends and had sex many many many times with birth control ..I dont give a fuck, as long as your senceable about sex, I dont care if someone has gay sex who gives a fuck as longas its senceable!
hobbit151 1 year ago
@hobbit151 sensible, not senceable =)
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
yes that is Rob and this is a fantastic album Hyena!
SuperOrnament 1 year ago
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?
Robskit6 1 year ago
@Robskit6 right on. i admit this is one of my all-time favorite songs..chick singing or not. who cares. she's the shit.
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
She is soo Sexy..still!! RRRROOOWRRRR~!
hobbit151 1 year ago
sounds a bit `kate bush`!
tecdessus 1 year ago
This live presentation is better than the official vid, also the playback in rolling backside of the leadsinger... ^^
AndNoir 1 year ago
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!
Intergalaxy 1 year ago
@21love4ever ...every band that stars on topofthepops lip sinks.
blul0x 2 years ago 3
This comment has received too many negative votes show
you can so tell she is lip sinking. I feel bad for Robert Smith for giving these guys help in hand with their music when he really should have worried about The Cure alone.
21love4ever 2 years ago
@21love4ever
It was the policy of Top of The Pops to have the acts lip sync*.
Lrn2musik
Olikforever 1 year ago 2
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.
feydharkonnen 1 year ago
Where is the film clip version, when she is wearing that white top!!!! and staring down the camera, had it taped off rage 20 years ago!!!I went out and got one made just llike it lol!!! Great song, beautiful voice... Love arabian nights and looking glass(??) too!!!
whyisjaymeegtaken 2 years ago
Beautiful!
I love this song
Siouxsie is amazing
Robert looks very serious
scarecrowdark 2 years ago
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scarecrowdark 2 years ago
Don't u think the intro of this song sounds like the beginning of "6 different ways" by the Cure.??
TheFabienmasson 2 years ago
exactly! i thought the same when i first heard it. i like both songs:)
Fushia1992 1 year ago
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!
MARKSVIGIL 2 years ago
what there to explain when a voice like that runs over you like sweet water, yum:-)
jthomas666 2 years ago 2
Does everyone on this show lip-sync? If so do the musicians fake playing?
peytonazak 2 years ago
@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.
Phangmaster 2 years ago
Really? That's horrible. You can't blame someone of they got bored. Why did some people get to set their own rules while others didn't?
peytonazak 2 years ago
This song has to do with women in the Islamic world and men carring babies? Huh? I don't get it. CAn someone please explain it?
peytonazak 2 years ago
@peytonazak ...the song is about male roles and the swimming horses carrying young are male sea horses..hence Swimming horses..
manhandle42 1 year ago
@manhandle42 this song is about a chick who was apparently pregnant and the town scorned her and murdered her, thrown her kid down a well. (from what i've heard, anyway). peace.
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
@peytonazak a chick getting pregnant and the community scorning her..killing the baby, thrown down a well..for a face burnt to helllllllllllllll..feel the cruel stonneessssssss..breaking her bonneeessssss
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
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.
sparkyspacechimp 2 years ago 3
Same here, it IS a brilliant song =)
saphira1001 2 years ago 2
This song is so beautifull, and again shows the variety of sounds they good play without losing the "banshee touch".
warminator 2 years ago 3
Great again! Such a long time ago. c' mon dj 's what are you waiting for ?
soremedinges1 2 years ago 3
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.
BullocksTroy 2 years ago
It's no surprise Robert Smith is a part of my favorite Siouxsie phase..They really got more atmospheric with Hyaena.
doshus73 2 years ago
Yes, Robert is on Keyboards, when his relation whit tha' Banshees started to became difficult
ivanerwin8279 2 years ago
is that robert smith on keyboards?
cloverfield911 2 years ago
siouxsie.......... :( this is playback man. oh well she sings for real everywhere else so its ok
telltalemse 2 years ago
is she high?
rawtofu 2 years ago
Oh so good.
wiildchiild87 2 years ago 2
Omgrrhugeijndfmefsx
shes my freaking idol
TwixSaer 2 years ago 3
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Great, but what the fug is she wearing?
RockinRhonda 2 years ago
chlothes!
raspberry479 2 years ago
wow, i can really hear now that tori amos gets inspiration from siouxsie. bigtime.
MissJunkie1983 2 years ago 2
Love Budgie's drumming on this track
Westernprovince 2 years ago 4
Classic record, that never really got the credit it deserved.
AMS1963 2 years ago 3
brilliance,words wont do this song justice
prasinos37 2 years ago 2
How long before the twats at WMG disable the sound to this aswell...
Hirsute63 2 years ago
It's fine, this is BBC property.
nicck 2 years ago
This is probably my all-time favorite song by them. It's overlooked and fucking brilliant. What the HELL DOES IT MEAN. I don't even care, though. I just keep listening to it, and have been for, like the past 25 fucking years.
blackbranches 2 years ago 3
My fucking sentiments exactly! Tho I didn't hear it til 96...
Hirsute63 2 years ago
@blackbranches islamic assholes torturing females for thinking they've cheated and the chick was presumably pregnant but she wasn't..they jacked her anyway, scorned her "pushed down a well..for a face burnt to hell...feel the cruel stonneesssssssssss..breakikng her bonesssssssssss'' what a FUCKING great song. this is one of my all-time favorite songs, period. hardly anything close. maybe a tool song "parabola", or 'right in two' but shit, this song hits deep. peace.
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago 2
before he became a fat-lump?
Lobotomyu 2 years ago
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.
hanzelheidi 2 years ago 2
i feel that siouxsie siouxe and bjork may be spiritually related...
youcandance12345 2 years ago
@youcandance12345 b'jork is another hottie i'd love to trap on an island. 'hunter' and 'emergency' are great tunes.
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
@TheAtheistParadigm do you mean 'Joga'? the lyrics go "state of emergency" but the song is called Joga
snowball1988 1 year ago
@snowball1988 let me check...brb..lol...i actually have the casette...i think you're right..i think i posted one of the lines WITHING "joga' 2nd song, first side. good job bro/sis. those two off of 'homogenic' were pretty decent. I l iked the old 'hunter' video, though, with the bear on it. but the new version she freakin looks hotter with that bald head for some reason lmao.
TheAtheistParadigm 1 year ago
@TheAtheistParadigm "but the new version she freakin looks hotter with that bald head for some reason lmao."
I now what reason, and so do you. Shut it or die. Now get that bare crown slapped one THOUSAND times. I want it BLEEDING. Should you fail to obey me, I'll tear your limbs off and leave you for the foxes in my garden.
Now GET SLAPPING.
EE - I have spoken.
electroexecutoide 4 months ago
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.
boabaobab 2 years ago
neptune.
the god neptune gives birth to swimming
horses.
tomcornhole 2 years ago
This is such an amazing song.
robi2000 2 years ago 2
i've just watched this three times!!! i love you Siouxsie Sioux in an unconditional way!
chronoglideskyway2 2 years ago
such a passionate singer, what a woman!
chronoglideskyway2 2 years ago 20
She was Robert Smith before Robert Smith was cool.
jahtez 2 years ago
rare video with siouxsie and robert smith on piano
PRODIGE221 2 years ago 4
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....???
Skull4Scavenger 2 years ago
Male seahorses should do that, because that's what they do.
She's saying that human males "should" also do it? Why? That makes no damn sense.
JackBlair2 2 years ago
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?
boabaobab 2 years ago
I guess. Is it more gender-feminist bitching?
JackBlair2 2 years ago
No way. The matter is for real and the lyrics just don't waste time apologizing.
boabaobab 2 years ago 2