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  • rip john

  • That opening guitar chord by the late john mcgeough is sublime

  • génial! toute mon enfance...

  • this is the shit!

  • What a song,just superb,god bless ya peter clarke where ever you are.

  • so fucked upppppp! love it all!

  • timeless

  • There is something romantic and haunting about her voice.I had a poster of Siouxsie on my wall when i was 12! She still fascinates me

  • Such a great song on a great record! I think it's one of The Banshees' underrated songs, so good too! So memorable!

  • I completely agree. In fact, I think The Banshees are very underrated as a group in general. I'm just glad I discovered them when I did (late 80s).

  • Definitely!

  • This takes me back to when music videos were raw and when MTV "actually played" MUSIC VIDEOS! I saw SATB live in San Diego in 1991. They were good as ever and the hardcore fans were out in their 80's get-ups and hair. Where I live, this particular "goth" style which was MY norm in the 80's, has made a huge come-back & re-invented itself. You know the saying about trends,"so old, it's back in style"!

    Hhmm...wish they would make a comeback with MTV, where it was "ALL MUSIC VIDEOS, ALL DAY".

  • I so feel you! That was probably their tour for "Superstition". AWESOME SHOW! I skipped my 5 year H.S. class reunion to go see them in my hometown of Philly! It was so worth it. @ that show, 2 16 yr. old teens sat in front of me & my sister. They got up & went to the bathroom. When they came back, 1 of them had 1/2 her head shaved. We still laugh when we remember that. LOL! Good times... good times. & btw: you're so right about MTV, VH1 et. all. Where's the music???

  • my favorite track yet the most simple musicly

  • Bananashit lady

  • Steve Severin is an amazing bassist.

  • batcave

  • Very good old Gothic-Rock song!!

  • umm, no. She's not lesbian, last I heard she was bi.

  • gran banda great song

  • "Christine" isn't a Scandinavian name, but, whatever.

  • From Wikipedia: "The song was inspired by the story of Christine Costner-Sizemore, whose battle with dissociative identity disorder was dramatized in the film The Three Faces of Eve. Two of Christine's identities, the Strawberry Girl and the Banana Split Lady, are mentioned in the lyrics of the song."

  • does anyone know what this song is about?

  • I've heard it's about a woman named Christine (of course)who was a groupie and ran in the Siouxsie Sous circle with the Sex Pistols.

  • Christine Chubbuck

  • Hits every spot

  • I like the song, but the video...not so much. They could have done with something a little more creative. I like music videos that follow the song's story line.

  • remember this was in the early-mid eighties, music video was a pretty new medium. Any kind of drama in a video was pretty much unheard of.

  • Psycodelicious

  • This.

  • Love this song.Paul x Loads of crap comments.

  • Is it my tinnitus or is YouTube all of a sudden in stereo..??

  • And since Join hands (another cover my physics teacher shot) and the Mckay/Morris era had ended, the Banshees were always portrayed as a threesome in shots up until the JuJu album ...... Remember McGeoch was also doing stuff for Visage with Steve Strange and the great Magazine with Howard Devoto, so he was pretty much just a session musician with the Banshees for a while till Magazine split and people got bored of Visage and the new romantic scene ....

  • Love this song.

  • I once knew a girl called Christine. She was more of a wortleberry girl. Dressed in blue she convinced herself she had the characteristics of a gnu. I can honestly say she never disintergrated. She just mildly crumbled, occasionally.

  • CLASSIC!

  • sheer classic

  • it's more like the other way around, but yes.

  • Robert Smith played guitar there.

  • Robert Smith only played on the album Hyena....actually

  • True, he also play on Nocturne but, as you probably know, that was live...

  • P.S. meant "played"...

  • Actually it was the late John McGeoch who plays guitar here but, since he was ill at the time of this video, Siouxsie didn't want him to appear ill and groggy on film so they shot the video showing only Siouxsie, Budgie, and Steve but, if you look closely, you can see the headstock of John's guitar on the far right pop in and out of view every now and then...

  • Actually you're wrong, yes McGeoch did play on the track, but he wasn't considered a Banshee at the time so he wasn't included in any shoot, the publicity shots for the Kaliedoscope album were just Siouxsie, Steve and Budgie, I know this because my old physics teacher shot the cover (Adrian Boot) and i was at the filming for this video when i was 19 ! (shot at Westway studios London) And the headstock you see on the right is actually a reflection of Steve's bass, John wasn't there that day !

  • Yeah, I guess you're right. I read that he was there in a Siouxsie book that documented the history of the band up till Peepshow.. I guess they got it wrong. Kinda strange how wikipedia says Budgie and John were made proper members of the band during the recording of Kaleidoscope, which would make John a Banshee at the time of the video. Oh, well... I guess I stand corrected. Thanks.

  • Both bands got their inspiration when they first saw the Stranglers. This was the best song by the S&B imo.

  • DISINTEGRATING~~~~~~!!!!

  • Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle

    xD

  • muito bom....

  • why oh why do certain songs make one want to turn back the hands of time. such wonderful memories. love Siouxsie!

  • oui

  • the banana girl ...

  • When will your posters learn that NOBODY wants to see that opening 10 seconds where you tell us who put it up????? NOBODY CARES!

  • this song was wrote about the 3 faces of eve(1957)a true story about split personalities

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees are almost as awesome at making music videos as Kate Bush.

    They are mos def my new fav band.

  • BARAONDA MUSIC

  • Christine

    the staregbweey girl

    Chrisitne

    But not a sweet lady

    Christine

    The Seindfeld Street girl

    Chrisint

    eThe Julia Lous Lady

  • jajajajaja

  • Now she's in puprle now she's a turtle!

    LOL!

  • Thanks for your information.

  • Pristine

    The Strawberry Curl

    Pristine

    An honesty lady

  • ... wow ass

  • your wrong, its christine the strawberry girl, christine, bannana sweet lady

  • Actually you are almost right my friend; it's "Christine the strawberry girl, Christine, banana SPLIT lady"

  • Well Siouxsie has a great voice. I wonder how she is doing now?

  • She's actually released a new solo album called 'Mantaray', and has toured a few places throughout Europe! I was lucky enough to see her earlier this year :)

  • I bumped into her at a Goldfrapp concert i went to with my Daughter last year ..... She was looking good, and was telling us about her new album ......

  • And let us all pray that this song never makes its way into Guitar Hero or Rock Band. This song stands as a testament to a time of simple yet well thought out rock songs. Music needs more artists like Bo Diddley (RIP), Siouxsie Sioux, Joy Division etc. Rock will never die...

  • Why not, guitar hero and rock band are a great way to introduce new music to those who never heard it before, you're not a sellout if you put your song and that game I don't think, the sex pistols and the Clash did, along with Dead Kennedys and X, I love the game and I would love to play it, I do play real guitar to by the way just not freakin that great so please don't be lame and use that argument.

  • Incidentally, I do play the guitar. But being a guitarist has nothing to do with it. I dislike the possible misrepresentation of image, associated with music found in guitar hero and rock band. I do enjoy both games, but it gets tiresome to have somebody hear you listening to a song that you liked long before the games existed, and still assume that you, like them, are into it because of the game. That's how I feel about The Fall of Troy. I don't want to feel that way about Siouxsie too.

  • AMEN! (even though i don't believe in god lol)

  • I freakin loooove this song!!!!!!!!

  • buen video si... (=

  • <3<3<3

  • My favourite Siouxsie song!

  • i luv this song (L)

  • THE Best band ever , for 24 tears you have kept me thinkin and kept my mind wondering!!!!

  • Yeah their delightfully hi-fallutin

  • they're*

  • Is this about that girl with the extreme case of multiple personality, 16 in total I think?

  • they believed it was approximately 20...

    I love this song...siouxsie rockss!!

  • maybe, "sixteen" rhymes with "christine"

  • Twenty-Two Faces...

    Disintegrating

  • this video is totally kitsch but i luv the song

  • siouxsie and the banshees was new dark wave along with the cure and sex pistols(are punk)

  • That's it. This song is friggen' mesmerizing........now where did I put my..................ooops disintegrrrating

  • christine is my name :D!!

  • Me, too!!!

  • i absolutelly love this song! its about the personality disorder of christine sizemore!

  • Siousie you are amazing the queen of gothxxxx

  • this is one of those songs i've heard so many times in the 80s but i had never actually seen this video, who else but siouxsie could pull off her dark look with her cowgirl outfit! thanks for posting

  • in love with this song. the drums are... incredible!!

  • first she was purple, now shes a turtle.....lol

  • jajajaj

  • Love you Siouxie!

    Brilliant at this year's wireless in London....

  • Love! love! love!

  • Um, no, there is a music genre called Goth, the thing with Siouxise and the Banshees is they do everything. Who cares anyways, great music now matter what genre they play under ;)

  • Wrong Batty, Siouxsie was punk along with Sex Pistols, Crass, Anti Pasti etc. Goth wasn't even invented then!

  • Did I say Siouxsie was Goth???, and yes there was such thing, the term wasn't used that often back then. I never said she was Goth. I said the band it's self did everything(genre wise) thank you very much.

  • Hi Batty, I get what you're saying. I just can't remember there being Goths in the 70's.

    ANyway, Siousxie is brilliant! One of my friends even named his daughter after her.

    Bring back the goodould days lol

  • There wasn't Goth in the 70s, it was more wide spred in the 80s, and even then the therm "goth" wasn't used very often. Yes, Siouxsie is ver brilliant :)

  • She does have a goth feel. Put it this way, she's ahead of her time.

  • OMG!!! She's singin' MY name!! :D

  • Kaleideoscope is a masterpiece. disintegrating.............chr­istine, the strawberry girl

    this music is timeless

  • WANDERFUL!!!!!

  • Possibly my favourite band ever. I didnt really know what goth was in 1981 and still dont thank god, this is just great innovative music.

    Siouxsie was all over my bedroom walls when i was a teen.

    oh the memories!!

    Bracknell Sports Centre 1981. Remember, Paddy O'Connell and Rikki Allen??? I remember hiding behind cars in the car park scared shitless of all the skins who turned up.

    I still couldnt work that out!!!

  • no one ever knows what goth is still.. this is punkpop..i guess there never been any goth really

  • "I didnt really know what goth was in 1981 and still dont thank god" Yeah, cause Goths and Goth music is soooooooo bad*sarcasm*, just playin with ya :).

  • saw them in '81 amazing

  • This album is great. Sounds even better today. She was ahead of her time, Psychedelic punk.

  • I was introduced to Siouxsie's music back when I was in high school, and was immediately hooked. Too bad she's not well-known in the United States, though she does have a cult following. I'd certainly take Siouxsie her over Britney Spears, whose half Siouxsie's age and is already a burned-out has-been.

    Because of her, I also learned to appreciate British singers who use their normal accents, maybe that's one of the reasons her music's not popular in the States.

  • She played here in nyc back in Jan.A great show and alot of people there too.She's well known in the states.

  • I'm now dating a banana-split lady-boy.

  • good for you.

  • Now she's the turtle

  • ... disintegrated.

  • im called christine after this song.

    my parents love me soooo very much.

  • haha, cool parents!!

  • that,s brill... if true !!

  • I love this song my parents named me Krystyne Banshee because of Siouxsie and this song ^_^

  • with Siouxsie always the eyes and the lips..the ultimate in sex..love her always

  • Love Her. Visionary.

  • this song is one of me favorites its about a girl with split personality disorder. good ol bannana-split lady

  • One of my fav SatB songs too! Love it

  • MMM CHEESE CAKE.

  • I prefer a nice cheesecake myself

  • LOL me too

  • banana skin lady?? does she say that??

  • It's banana-split lady!

  • Lovely. It is a kinda "daring" music this, bechause they play some things you are "not supposed to in music".. Original, that is what we need today, creativity and a soul, and still it is so beautiful :)

  • She has a beautiful bone structure mother is French father British.Had a rather sad upbringing father was a chronic alcoholic actually died from it when she was 15.According to her she was on her own at a very young age,getting into clubs way before legal age.One of true performers has her own style very unique and almost impossible to emulate.

  • That would make sense as her bone structure does look French.

  • Her mother's English and her dad's from belgium I think. It says in their biography (I borrowed it from a friend.)

  • Oh yes, in total agreement with you. I used to

    be a Siouxsie clone: and I in fact have quite a similar background and she.

    I will NEVER forget the night my girlfriends and I were out clubbing: and when the d.j. played a Sinead song, they all said, in chorus

    almost: oh yes! She is the next Siouxsie!

    What, said I>WHAT WHAT WHAT? Have you all gone

    comletely mental?

    Sigh.

    I will never figure that one out.

  • Wonder how long it took her to put her make-up on everyday-

  • I'll field that question. I spent HOURS with

    hair and make-up in preparation for a performance when I was a professional dancer.

    And I had Siouxsie's look down to a tee. (I can also do a very convincing British accent)

    I sure had a blast when out clubbing at a place where I was now known. I had people clamouring for an autograph!

  • She's wearing the same Budweiser beer hat my drunk redneck uncle used to wear to the WInston 500 stock car races. It looks much better on her but I can't take my eyes off of it. It kind of ruins the video for me.

  • lol, you almost spoil the vid for me too with your reply man...i 5hought that was a budhat...lol

  • I miss the 80s (not the fashion or the big hair). Siouxsie is great.

  • That's sad. I like Siouxsie as much today as I did in the 80s. Same goes for many other bands.

  • Does anybody know where I can find tabs to this song? I've looked all over the internet.. and its like they don't exist...

    Please somebody... I would really appreciate it!

    Thank you

  • Haven't been on the guitar for long, have you?

  • hypnotic is a good word for this song. there was a cd that came w/ mojo magazine where the members of u2 picked their fave songs and this was on the cd. great bass part.

  • My comment is a reply to Juancito20siniestro. Just an opinion.

  • Yes you're right, THEY say that...

    ...but I think that the bands listed below are inspired by the 80's sound but they make it their own, the sounds they're making are a resemblence of the 80s but with a more modern twist yet i agree with you Soulvlaki besides the 80's music is such a great sound to copy of

    =)

  • Yes you're right, THEY say that...

    ...but I think that the bands listed below are inspired by the 80's sound but they make it their own, the sounds they're making are a resemblence of the 80s but with a more modern twist yet i agree with you Soulvlaki besides the 80's music is such a great sound to copy of

    =)

  • Can anyone upload Drop Dead?

  • Another brilliant track from this great 80's band!

  • Groovy.

  • there is just so many great bands and talent back in the 80's. Pic any of these : Cure, A-ha, Psych Furs, The Smiths, The Cult, Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure, The Police, U2, Talk Talk, New Order, INXS, OMD, The Fixx, Tears For Fears...any one and listen to all there music. Just so much talent. Now what is there? coldplay and keane thank the universe!!

  • I dislike coldplay and keane

    There are such great bands out there like

    The like, interpol, kasabian, maximo park, editors, boa, the sounds, arctic monkeys, bloc party, desden dolls, garbage, radiohead, She wants revenge, sugarplum fairy, the fratellis, the killers, the view, hard-fi, the vines, jet, travis, placebo, the strokes, the walmen and much much more...

  • I agree with you, but they say the most of these bands are copies of the 80's.

  • of course there are alot of great bands out there and i like some of those you mentioned but it's just how it goes...you always love the music you grew up to more than anything

  • i hate the music that's out now besides some bands, and i'm growing up. i mean, who wants to listen to the fallout boys, or panic at the discos? not me.

  • i agree with soulrebel27. cant imagine me liking the music thats around now when im older, specially seeing as i dont like it now. all the music i like seemed to stop being made around five years before i was born (94). SUCKS!

  • you have to say all that magazine etc stuff is off the scale and no one is ever coming close.Aparrt from Johnny Marr.

  • drifter -- sleepwalk

    drifter -- sleeptalk

    awake to who is following

  • A gothic cowgirl, she is :-p

  • Can never get enough of Siouxsie...

  • Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle...

    Classic

  • one of my boyfriend fav song...but he's in heaven now

  • one of my boyfriend fav song...but, he's in heaven now...

    soulmate

  • jeezes, she was so a hot thing. Lets go back 20 years in time!!! I adore the '80s and I really hate the years we are living in now!!!

    Thank God there was New Wave!!!!

  • Always remember first hearing this when I was 11 and became a banshees nut from that day forth

  • Truly ahead of their time. Sioxsie was so hot.

  • Anyone here hear (he're?) the BBC programme about poor Mr John McGeogh dying last year?

    Severin said something like "yeah, loads of guitarists have tried to get the first chord of Christine, but they can't get it, it's a real McGeogh chord, completely made up."

    Dude, it's an E one fret up. Everyone at home try it. It's extremely easy. I got it by HEARING it.

    However, how the rest of the song goes is, as they say, real McGeogh.

  • so in otherwords its an f

  • Ha, you haven't tried it then!

    first chord: open E shape, but at 2nd fret (no barre)

    second chord: regular E.

  • It's vaguely like an E, f or f# but it isn't. As Severin says its a real McGeoch chord. The whole songs way more full of random chords then it sounds anyway.

  • Mmm. I've been trying to work out Spellbound for yonks. I think it's a song McGeogh has taken with him. Can't be done by mortals... I suppose that's how it should be, too.