Her make up looks so fresh here in the opening song, Israel. Watch the entire gig and see how it wears off more & more :).
@ OfraHaza, i think she is one of the best live singers ever.. You have to consider how intense they toured at that time, and after the years, touring did let her voice suffer, but in 81 she sounded just brilliant!
This "Rockpalast" concert has never had an official release, but there are various bootleg DVD's of the gig. I'm very fortunate enough to own a bootleg DVD of this full concert called "Voodoo Dolly: Live in 1981". It includes this full show as well as the broadcasted songs from the 9 March 1981 "Rock Goes To College" gig and a few bad quality clips performed in early 1979 on French TV.
I've uploaded clips from the bootleg DVD on my other channel, 'Mr13595Stephen'.
Here's a great example of how, for all the blather about punk going against the old school rock, in the end it was still just another variation on it - and I mean that in a good way. McGeoch was a rock guy - playing Zeppelin tunes since he was 10 - and he brought that skill and his immense creativity to a band that had great potential, but needed that "something" more - something that a punk guitarist would not have had the skill or diversity.
A goth band should write a song about the dispossessed Palestinians called "Palestine" that goes "little orphans in the sand, with no place to call their home, start their singing..."
@wolzek Then they'd be slammed for praising subhumans and cannibals (yes, I read someone calling "those ay-rabs" this) only good to be turned into collateral damage and be summoned to write about Israel. On and on and on and on…
I LOVE Siouxsie!!!!.... And to all you fans, you MUST check out THE other great rock band with a female singer, BELLADONNA.... Just watch their haunting video of "Let There Be Light " the song they did with legendary composer MICHAEL NYMAN based on his music of Oscar-winning movie "The Piano"... Nyman himself plays piano on it!!!... search for "nyman belladonna" here on youtube and you'll find it!!....:-)
Saw her at the second Womad festival just outside Clevedon , bristol, she was a pain in the arse , arrogant, wannabee diva, kept stopping and sending bouncers/stage crew out to take cameras from the audience everytime a flash went off, as the headline act for the final night it could not have been a worse choice, thank goodness Gil Scott Heron and Toots and the Mayalls providing good memories from the friday and saturday
and ps. nobody now or ever can command an audience quite like siouxsie sioux. love her or hate her,you were (and still are!) interested in what she had to say.
Saw them 3 times around this time, twice at Hammersmith Palais, right at the front, skinhead riot at the 1st one. This is when they were at the top of their game. Your right, McGeoch was a genius.
@yahoosirius Ah, evidently not just from McGeoch but also from John MacKay, Banshees guitarist over 1977-79. Check out 'The Scream', which one imagines was a popular spin around at Edge's place. Play 'Jigsaw Feeling' and then U2's 'I Will Follow' and thar she blows...
I think Siouxie sounds great live. Saw her in the first LaLaPolooza tour. I agree about Bernard of New Order. Still love 'em both. Been a fan since alternative was truly alternative.
I like siouxsie and the banshees but she sounds dreadfull live(her singing not the band) lol, about as bad as new order live but i still like both of them...its all about the music!
U Racist idiot that fact that Siouxsie had to sing this song and wear that shirt for the sole reason that idiots thought she was being anti Semitist shows how retarded people are.Even if its a Nazi symbol SO WHAT its a symbol that's all whereas Israel actually advocate Hitler with there ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Yes, it was played in Germany, so bloody what ? Are we going to blame Germany forever ? Then why not blame Churchill, who founded concentration camps during the South African war ? We're in the XXIh century, can't we stop pointing fingers ?
Don't get me wrong : I'm from France, and I'm really proud to count Brits and German folks as my very dear friends and to speak both languages (okay, my German needs improvment ;). We'reall Europeans nowadays, and we're mate/Freunden !
Siouxsie wrote this song after getting into trouble wearing a swastika herself (she did it for fashion, a bit naive on her part) and subsequently National Front-type followers starting showing up to her performances. She nipped the swastika backlash and NF attendance with this song.
@pateris cromwell killed half the population of irleand in the mid 1600s and then the potato famine in the 1840s the brits never apologize the japanese never apologized for the rape of nanking, the turks dont even admit they commited genocide against armeninans, my family in holland fought in the reristance my aunt was tortured by the gestapo for hiding jews.. its my opinion however that its long past time to stop bashing the german people they suffered too why are all germans to blame
do we blame russians for communism should other gruop be held collectively resposible for marxsims crimes?? no germany has been made to feel guilt, why not pick on some group that never took respsiblity for its crimes
Alan Bangs (the host) was a real douche. Never liked him. I remember when he (tried) to interview Johnny Rotten. Johnny made him look even more stupid.
She wrote this after getting beat up for wearing a swastika to i guess prove she's not rascist/fascist. She only like how it looked to be anti-bourguoisie... she rocks.
Meiner Meinung nach wäre ein ähnlicher Auftritt heutzutage schwerlich möglich: Man singt über Israel, sofort wären irgendwelche Muslim-Bruderschaften auf den Plan gerufen.
Selbstmordattentäter würden den Saal bevölkern...
Meine Fresse, wie ich solche religiösen Spinner hasse...
@Tengocuentadeyoutub Andy Gill of Gang of Four springs to mind. His guitar playing on their first couple of releases sounds like a Pollock painting to me.
when you compare her vocals back then and what she sounds like now....it's a seriously amazing difference.....the way she sings now is so bad, i can't even listen to anything she does now.....that solo record was AWFUL! it seems like people just don't notice or choose not to.....i miss the way she used to sound...now she just sux bad!
Believe me, I live next to Germany (Holland) and I can still see some conservative sentiment by the Germans when it comes to national pride, nationalism, their history, etc. I don't give the youngsters any blame of what happened during the war. But it's a common fact that no one talks about it with their parents/grand-parents, because of shame from their elders. I don't think they are to blame, but it still is a sensitive thing... that's all.
I have this concert on the Siouxsie & the Banshees "Voodoo Dolly Live in 1981" DVD which contains this whole concert as well as the Warwick University "Rock Goes to College" performance and French TV specials.
not really, after all, the third reich ended 36 years before the concert and no-one really felt any sort of connection to that time by the 80s
I honestly wonder when people will stop obsessing about the Third Reich, yes it was a terrible act, but German's shouldn't feel guilty or uncomfortable about it now. After all the Americans and British killed off nearly all of the Native Americans - stop trying to make modern-day Germany feel bad for a history it has nothing to do with.
i dont understand how its possible to knit such a dense music carpet with only three instruments!!!singing and shouting 4 2 hours must be very exhausting!!
thank u so much skywalker!!!That is the german concert S and the B gave for the german TV program Rockpalast for the WDR TV Station in Cologne back in 81!!Brings back great memories!!!best music ever!!!enjoy instead of talking about religion...
I dont think Siouxsie is Jewish though at all, i thought she had more gipsy blood but who really cares. I guess she donned herself in 'Jewish' symbolism against the antics of shortsighted bigots to make a point.
She's an artist who observes the world and writes about it. I dont think her sentiments would be the same of Israel today though!!
Still, she's eternally gorgeous and was my fave teen pin up!
SIOUXSIE on the song ISRAEL: "No it's not about religion as such, its more general. A disillusioned person, or whole race whove ceased to understand or believe in what they held to be the truth. It tries to put across, you shouldnt cover what you feel inside by teaching or attitudes imposed on you. It emphasises the strength of the individual." Source: Sounds 28/02/81.
Siouxsie's background is actually Jewish. The swastika thing was when she was younger and was just a gimmick -- a bad one at that. Maybe she did feel guilty.
Always glad to bring a smile into your day as I certainly did with Souxie and the rest of the band for that matter...It was a happy house that night I can tell you
In regards to what Demachman said responding to the ignorant person; its called Zionism for the calling of the jewish nation to, get this, zion= israel/palestine. Because I don't know if you've heard of this but there was a thing called the holocaust and there were plenty of displaced jews after the war and they looked to refuge in zion.
Jews are a deceptive race they have a criminal mind and they can't tell the truth ...they are racist and hateful people I believe the jews must be removed from there as it looks nobody want them...peace without jews is the only option available now...
I'm agree with you, they'll never understand this, but this song don't mention the "Zionist" side of Israel. Remember: Not all jews are Zionists (just look for David Cole's videos and revisionism articles and you will see)
Siouxsie is indeed an artist and zionism is not a scam. Your birth is, maybe, but not Zionism. Zionism is as old as the day Judea got called Palestine by some Roman Emperor so the Jews would forget their Heritage. You understand? Or do you copy the biassed media and don't investigate or thinkm before you talk sh-t?
it was in Germany, Rockpalast was somethhing like Top of the Pops in UK once a week on TV and steered away from the charts with a more alternative twist
I think the lyrics to Arabian Knights are misguided and generally a bit crap, but that aside, Zionists aren't the only people who might take issue with some aspects of Arab culture.
Before the Nazis stole the symbol and corrupted it, it was used(and still is) at many Hindu, Buddhist and Jain ceremonies.
Yeah i grew up in Thatcher's Britain and used to 'worship' Siouxsie as my goddess!
People were using all manner of symbolism to rebel against the order but the very ideals of punk were bought and sold back to the masses without the meaning!
I saw them at Bracknell Sports Centre in 1981 and all i can remember it was invaded by a load skins.
They were all 'Seig Heiling' so i joined in!!!
Well as a 15yr old kid it all seems a bit of fun but i could never work out why SATB attracted so many skins to their gigs. A bit sad really as they aint Nazis for sure.
Several months ago I've read in some UK music mag interv.with her (her new solo record was coming out) and the reporter asked her about swastika. She was so pissed about the question, she walked out, and they had to promise they won;t ask it again. So I guess to this day she feels ashamed and perhaps guilty of her young days' stupidity.
Before that, I;ve seen a documentary in which she gave an interview wearing swastika. She wasn't nazi, she tried to be antisocial, anarchistic and came kinda like a stupid & spoiled nazi brat instead.
On the other hand I've heard late 70s & 80s were quite a hard time for many young people in GB, Thatcherism, antisocial & anticultural politics, so...;)
Anyway, I like S&tB songs very much and this one's my fav.
Happy Noel
myreflection100 1 month ago
Her make up looks so fresh here in the opening song, Israel. Watch the entire gig and see how it wears off more & more :).
@ OfraHaza, i think she is one of the best live singers ever.. You have to consider how intense they toured at that time, and after the years, touring did let her voice suffer, but in 81 she sounded just brilliant!
warminator 2 months ago
Does anyone knows where to get the original release of this?
EruptionLaVey 2 months ago
@EruptionLaVey
This "Rockpalast" concert has never had an official release, but there are various bootleg DVD's of the gig. I'm very fortunate enough to own a bootleg DVD of this full concert called "Voodoo Dolly: Live in 1981". It includes this full show as well as the broadcasted songs from the 9 March 1981 "Rock Goes To College" gig and a few bad quality clips performed in early 1979 on French TV.
I've uploaded clips from the bootleg DVD on my other channel, 'Mr13595Stephen'.
VlogKing 2 months ago
I love Siouxsie, but I don't think she can sing live, and that is not a good thing. I've seen her live and it is no different.
OfraHaza 2 months ago
Powerwoman!!!
ThedarkLucifer100 3 months ago
fantastici!!
manilazanni73 4 months ago
A classic from her......
mikado622 4 months ago
Here's a great example of how, for all the blather about punk going against the old school rock, in the end it was still just another variation on it - and I mean that in a good way. McGeoch was a rock guy - playing Zeppelin tunes since he was 10 - and he brought that skill and his immense creativity to a band that had great potential, but needed that "something" more - something that a punk guitarist would not have had the skill or diversity.
samsonheaded 6 months ago
SHePP sann DarR ,
451TIMOTHY 6 months ago
The guitarist was cut short
edisonoside 7 months ago
john mc geoch sos lo maximo , aguante siouxsie !!!!!!!
cristianix1 7 months ago
This Video will draw me to it time and time again XX
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Lextjaefvel 8 months ago
incredible
TheWheels777 8 months ago
she's got that look I always look for in a girl
spaceorbison 8 months ago
She looks like a female Pharoh...ahead of their time
MatimoreAgain 9 months ago
i want sooooooooooooooooo much this showww :X
hsprodigiez 9 months ago
5 years before I was born....
DominiqueDiablo777 11 months ago
A goth band should write a song about the dispossessed Palestinians called "Palestine" that goes "little orphans in the sand, with no place to call their home, start their singing..."
wolzek 11 months ago
@wolzek the cure did killing a arab
mathamore 11 months ago
@mathamore americano?
todoaciento 7 months ago
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@mathamore eres americano?
todoaciento 7 months ago
@wolzek Then they'd be slammed for praising subhumans and cannibals (yes, I read someone calling "those ay-rabs" this) only good to be turned into collateral damage and be summoned to write about Israel. On and on and on and on…
pateris 7 months ago
If i could have two Girls, these would be Siouxie and Debbie Harry
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I LOVE Siouxsie!!!!.... And to all you fans, you MUST check out THE other great rock band with a female singer, BELLADONNA.... Just watch their haunting video of "Let There Be Light " the song they did with legendary composer MICHAEL NYMAN based on his music of Oscar-winning movie "The Piano"... Nyman himself plays piano on it!!!... search for "nyman belladonna" here on youtube and you'll find it!!....:-)
thepianostarful 11 months ago
raw talent , and oh so awesome because of it . where is she now?
ahian5620z 11 months ago
@ahian5620z She lives in Paris, last I heard. I think Mantaray was the last time she toured.
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Saw her at the second Womad festival just outside Clevedon , bristol, she was a pain in the arse , arrogant, wannabee diva, kept stopping and sending bouncers/stage crew out to take cameras from the audience everytime a flash went off, as the headline act for the final night it could not have been a worse choice, thank goodness Gil Scott Heron and Toots and the Mayalls providing good memories from the friday and saturday
kearnzy1988 1 year ago
and ps. nobody now or ever can command an audience quite like siouxsie sioux. love her or hate her,you were (and still are!) interested in what she had to say.
scottjhnsn 1 year ago
not did the banshees bode the most prolific guitarist but they had the best drummer that ever existed,imo,in budgie.
scottjhnsn 1 year ago
What a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!
mlwttkk11 1 year ago
Is great song. and why Israel?
this kind of guitars in 1981 is amazing!
sveikasveta 1 year ago
Saw them 3 times around this time, twice at Hammersmith Palais, right at the front, skinhead riot at the 1st one. This is when they were at the top of their game. Your right, McGeoch was a genius.
PhotoDaveWaller 1 year ago
If it was £1000 to get into this gig I would get a bank loan.
lewisner 1 year ago
she is so cool. so, so, so cool.
Alma889900 1 year ago
Saw them in Cardiff on this tour what a great singer!!
rjart645 1 year ago
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Their music, their image is timeless.
bridget312001 1 year ago
Their music, their image is timeless.
bridget312001 1 year ago
1980 all over again....power,and passion from the queen of punk and goth.....siouxise ...you gave so much....thank you
chrisdavid4026 1 year ago
Awesome!!
bronnstarhys 1 year ago
John McGeoch, Greenock Strone Guitar Genius, ya bass.
f12sysrq 1 year ago
John McGeoch, like myself, from Greenock Strone stock. Artistically, worlds apart.
f12sysrq 1 year ago
What is the meaning of this song?!?
Khultan 1 year ago
Great band, takes me back to my teenage years. Doesn't Alan speak in German, then says the band's name in a northern accent?
3212finch 1 year ago
You know who ripped these guys off blind? U2, that's who. Plenty of examples, but just play 'Pride' after this one...
Slammerworm1 1 year ago 3
@Slammerworm1
The Banshees, yes....
and Joy Division/New Order, another victims of U2
TrottaVonSipolje 1 year ago 2
@Slammerworm1 not surprising at all! Edge got his inspiration from McGeoch and can hear that in most of their songs.
yahoosirius 1 year ago
@yahoosirius Ah, evidently not just from McGeoch but also from John MacKay, Banshees guitarist over 1977-79. Check out 'The Scream', which one imagines was a popular spin around at Edge's place. Play 'Jigsaw Feeling' and then U2's 'I Will Follow' and thar she blows...
Slammerworm1 1 year ago
siouxsie un icono, lo mejor del underground ochentero
madmartygen25 1 year ago
Siouxsie sounds a bit.....Cockney????
bludgeonbunny 1 year ago
@bludgeonbunny That would be because she is London born nd bread.
ricchardo 1 year ago
Santa Claus fave band and tune!
Salaminguana 1 year ago
I think Siouxie sounds great live. Saw her in the first LaLaPolooza tour. I agree about Bernard of New Order. Still love 'em both. Been a fan since alternative was truly alternative.
DjSpyder71 1 year ago 2
great song and fotage by a great band, boy did Sioxsie look hot back in '81! Thanks for this skywalker
scarletfever72 1 year ago
1st time I have heard this, thought she and the Banchees are pretty good, will listen to more
Needles2u 1 year ago
I like siouxsie and the banshees but she sounds dreadfull live(her singing not the band) lol, about as bad as new order live but i still like both of them...its all about the music!
dirtyjew1974 1 year ago
This is sooo cool! I never heard of this band until 1988..I was into other band before this
hobbit151 1 year ago
i love you banshees
pollysioux 1 year ago
SIOUXSIE<33333333
THiRAKAULiTZ 1 year ago
I love it!
SheerGeniusZ 1 year ago
Apology taken. Sorry for my rude response, It wasnt my bay back then.
HawK047 1 year ago
definitely arabs hate this song!!! who cares?... we love this!!!
stoneroses13 1 year ago 6
Arabs? Never heard of 'em.
beowulven 1 year ago 14
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U Racist idiot that fact that Siouxsie had to sing this song and wear that shirt for the sole reason that idiots thought she was being anti Semitist shows how retarded people are.Even if its a Nazi symbol SO WHAT its a symbol that's all whereas Israel actually advocate Hitler with there ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Lucifer986 1 year ago
And I wasnt talking about the star on her shirt. You should have listened properly.
Siouxsie often wore a swastika necklace, which people found shocking.
HawK047 1 year ago
I just TOLD its not a nazi symbol.
HawK047 1 year ago
Today's exactly a year that I'm living in Israel... :)
I love Siouxsie since I was 15 (now I'm 20)
89naja 2 years ago
great performance !
astralhed 2 years ago 5
thanks for sharing.
mauvetys 2 years ago 5
I Love
danielfunebre15 2 years ago
So haunting and fckn brill.. Love u Siouxsie..
MrPaulconno 2 years ago 2
Reminds me of Kay in Brighton. Young love
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great band, melody of that song is beautyfull, but the context sucks.
G3RM4N04K 2 years ago
Uh oh! Everyone scatter, Thought Police have arrived!
yahoosirius 2 years ago
Siouxsie was around long before Sinead .
HAYWAIN63 2 years ago 5
Very true my friend
rainbowdragon131065 2 years ago
her voice is almost the same as Sineád O'connor I like that
gabengert56 2 years ago
i was playing this record all the time, it,s still magic.
Ashley Holland
frontosa15 2 years ago
what a great guitar solo.
beer0k 2 years ago 4
one of the best songs of the 80's and fuck with everyone who politicizes or disagree
its a great song period
hiati11 2 years ago 2
kossom is rael!!
kimz86 2 years ago
kossom israel!!!
kimz86 2 years ago
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wow what a goth pity she is not part of the suicide girls would of been if they were around back in the day
leesmith96 2 years ago
Yeah, because all women should be available for your personal masturbation needs. Right?
How sad.
0Frozen0Charlotte0 2 years ago 3
Yes, it was played in Germany, so bloody what ? Are we going to blame Germany forever ? Then why not blame Churchill, who founded concentration camps during the South African war ? We're in the XXIh century, can't we stop pointing fingers ?
Don't get me wrong : I'm from France, and I'm really proud to count Brits and German folks as my very dear friends and to speak both languages (okay, my German needs improvment ;). We'reall Europeans nowadays, and we're mate/Freunden !
pateris 2 years ago 22
Siouxsie wrote this song after getting into trouble wearing a swastika herself (she did it for fashion, a bit naive on her part) and subsequently National Front-type followers starting showing up to her performances. She nipped the swastika backlash and NF attendance with this song.
tellingpool 2 years ago 4
The swastika has never truly been a nazi symbol. Its a symbol of indian culture and even more then that.
Siouxsie didnt wear it as a nazi symbol.
She was propably perfectly aware of the symbol.
Either way, she really is a charming and a very talented woman.
HawK047 1 year ago 4
She admitted that she wore it for shock value, and that she did it out of youthful stupidity.
PhelanKA7 1 year ago
@pateris Totally agree dude, it's over lets move on. peace
comfy1 7 months ago
@pateris cromwell killed half the population of irleand in the mid 1600s and then the potato famine in the 1840s the brits never apologize the japanese never apologized for the rape of nanking, the turks dont even admit they commited genocide against armeninans, my family in holland fought in the reristance my aunt was tortured by the gestapo for hiding jews.. its my opinion however that its long past time to stop bashing the german people they suffered too why are all germans to blame
MrBillcale 5 months ago
@MrBillcale Indeed. No one can take the high ground… So it should be time to forget about it and concentrate on music ç
pateris 5 months ago
@pateris s'cool
MrBillcale 5 months ago
do we blame russians for communism should other gruop be held collectively resposible for marxsims crimes?? no germany has been made to feel guilt, why not pick on some group that never took respsiblity for its crimes
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I think Xmal Deutschland was way better than Siouxsie and the Banshees.
IamUberStein 2 years ago
Alan Bangs (the host) was a real douche. Never liked him. I remember when he (tried) to interview Johnny Rotten. Johnny made him look even more stupid.
warminator 2 years ago
What a woman!! I love her to pieces.
316StSt 2 years ago 5
Siouxsie and the Banshees ROCKS!
ferdzrines954 2 years ago 6
She wrote this after getting beat up for wearing a swastika to i guess prove she's not rascist/fascist. She only like how it looked to be anti-bourguoisie... she rocks.
DeLoused777 2 years ago 2
Meiner Meinung nach wäre ein ähnlicher Auftritt heutzutage schwerlich möglich: Man singt über Israel, sofort wären irgendwelche Muslim-Bruderschaften auf den Plan gerufen.
Selbstmordattentäter würden den Saal bevölkern...
Meine Fresse, wie ich solche religiösen Spinner hasse...
Haophil 2 years ago
I wish that every person in the world would read the study by Daniel Bar-Tal and Nets-Zehngut (Tel Aviv University) entitled:
"The Israeli-Jewish Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict"
If they did and truly understood all of it's implications then war would end in an instant.
Prunesqualer 2 years ago
I have not read this Study but if what you say is True then why not promote it?
Magicalmike1 2 years ago
he just did you fucking braindead retard. jesus. some people.
meatymouldia 2 years ago
No need to be rude to ppl meatymouldia! One comment on U tube isnt exactly promoting it .
But If I see the book I will give it a look.
Magicalmike1 2 years ago
sorry - im only on youtube for the comments bunfight. i dont want to mess with normal people only americans :)
meatymouldia 2 years ago
@meatymouldia
The police of the world, what have they done wrong apart from insist onfreedom of speech (for themselves and no one else) LOL
comfy1 2 years ago
she is so fuckin awesome.
revosuicide86 2 years ago 43
@revosuicide86 ill go with that
superemposed 1 year ago
2.47-3.04 - great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omelywka 2 years ago
John McGeoch! So Cool.
dmatzo 2 years ago 16
WAS
fleaby 2 years ago
how true
jojotorres1 2 years ago
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nxlrabyss 2 years ago
John McGeoch is (sadly was) a genius. One of my favourtite guitarists.
graemereaper 2 years ago 52
I agree 100%. The quintessential post-punk guitarist.
wdamian 2 years ago 8
@wdamian
Hi do you know other post punk guitarrist with a distintive sound, apart of the mediocre of robert smith?
Tengocuentadeyoutub 1 year ago
@Tengocuentadeyoutub Andy Gill of Gang of Four springs to mind. His guitar playing on their first couple of releases sounds like a Pollock painting to me.
wdamian 1 year ago
@wdamian
gang of four... umm I've heard some songs , but don't they play with distortion?
I like more a clean DISTINTIVE alternative guitar sound.
Like john mcgeoch , smith, etc.
Tengocuentadeyoutub 1 year ago
@graemereaper May Israel grow and prosper but not on the cost of taking land from their neighbours.
Haophil 1 year ago
so Siouxie like. Opening w/ this song in Germany...
MegaBufas 2 years ago
Funny isn't it ?
thiscantbesustained 2 years ago
I love this song 'israel' and siouxie sue for it expresses my support for the state of Israel and the Jewish peaple.
starlight5653 2 years ago
siouxsie sue is just brilliant!! musician
she really is a genius of rhe performing arts
starlight5653 2 years ago
is the best , good live in Israel.
DulceEnvenenado 2 years ago
I was only 6 but , i am such a siouxsie fan, the most amazing woman..
siouxsiebecks 2 years ago 4
i wasn't even born in 1981 i born on 1991 xD
altough i LUV the song
finneke111 2 years ago
me too ;D
kondor121 2 years ago 2
If I were male I'd ask her to marry me.
StrummerLivesxxx 2 years ago 2
that shouldnt stop you :)
spadehatesscrewtube 2 years ago
GEIL, GEIL!!!!
Shangrilala88 2 years ago
love her
nourights 2 years ago 3
Siouxsie awesome voice & awesome image
ZiggyEncaoua 2 years ago 6
i have a video i downloaded from around 2k where she is wearing knee length leather boots, same song. cannot find it anywhere. she is so awesome ..
hard to believe that the cure, sex pistols, and souxsie all have histories that tie together ..
spadehatesscrewtube 2 years ago
Well, it always goes like that, there are tribes of artists, tribes of musicians all connected ;)
Oeil2chat 2 years ago
john mcgeogh looks so fucking cool, no wonder johnny marr was a big fan
tomdickhead 2 years ago 9
when you compare her vocals back then and what she sounds like now....it's a seriously amazing difference.....the way she sings now is so bad, i can't even listen to anything she does now.....that solo record was AWFUL! it seems like people just don't notice or choose not to.....i miss the way she used to sound...now she just sux bad!
Gregory4 2 years ago
Sadly, you're right. She didn't take care of her voice.
Nick0L 2 years ago 2
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
mikele444 2 years ago 7
Believe me, I live next to Germany (Holland) and I can still see some conservative sentiment by the Germans when it comes to national pride, nationalism, their history, etc. I don't give the youngsters any blame of what happened during the war. But it's a common fact that no one talks about it with their parents/grand-parents, because of shame from their elders. I don't think they are to blame, but it still is a sensitive thing... that's all.
ebia07 2 years ago 3
I have this concert on the Siouxsie & the Banshees "Voodoo Dolly Live in 1981" DVD which contains this whole concert as well as the Warwick University "Rock Goes to College" performance and French TV specials.
VlogKing 2 years ago
my to
dondeandas09 2 years ago
goddamn her voice is awesome! and shes so young here....shes like some kid here
yoda9999 2 years ago
Bit awkward to play a song about Israel in a Germany concert. Lot of people must felt a bit unconformable.
ebia07 2 years ago
not really, after all, the third reich ended 36 years before the concert and no-one really felt any sort of connection to that time by the 80s
I honestly wonder when people will stop obsessing about the Third Reich, yes it was a terrible act, but German's shouldn't feel guilty or uncomfortable about it now. After all the Americans and British killed off nearly all of the Native Americans - stop trying to make modern-day Germany feel bad for a history it has nothing to do with.
hypergreg 2 years ago 6
i dont understand how its possible to knit such a dense music carpet with only three instruments!!!singing and shouting 4 2 hours must be very exhausting!!
spheresector 2 years ago
The Police do it quite eloquently too.
Warthogfan 2 years ago
thank u so much skywalker!!!That is the german concert S and the B gave for the german TV program Rockpalast for the WDR TV Station in Cologne back in 81!!Brings back great memories!!!best music ever!!!enjoy instead of talking about religion...
spheresector 2 years ago
I dont think Siouxsie is Jewish though at all, i thought she had more gipsy blood but who really cares. I guess she donned herself in 'Jewish' symbolism against the antics of shortsighted bigots to make a point.
She's an artist who observes the world and writes about it. I dont think her sentiments would be the same of Israel today though!!
Still, she's eternally gorgeous and was my fave teen pin up!
rushkagon 2 years ago
SIOUXSIE on the song ISRAEL: "No it's not about religion as such, its more general. A disillusioned person, or whole race whove ceased to understand or believe in what they held to be the truth. It tries to put across, you shouldnt cover what you feel inside by teaching or attitudes imposed on you. It emphasises the strength of the individual." Source: Sounds 28/02/81.
akiuru2812 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. Siouxsie never fails to impress me.
shicadasilva 2 years ago
I heard in an interview on VH1 that she used to dawn a swastika arm band on stage for shock value.
My theory is this song is at least in some part atonement for that. I also see a lot of videos where she wears a star of david t-shirt. Who knows.
godis4sale 2 years ago
Swastika was just a punk provocation/
cyberbarbie77 2 years ago
Siouxsie's background is actually Jewish. The swastika thing was when she was younger and was just a gimmick -- a bad one at that. Maybe she did feel guilty.
consumelikehoney 3 years ago 2
siouxie started wearing a big swastika on her arm, so i guess she felt guilty
kalttrabant 3 years ago
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Souxie is not Jewish. I should know because I noticed that she wasn't circumcised when I was sucking her cock.
picturesofpictures 3 years ago
ahahah i'm a huge fan but my side is hurtin im laughing so hard
ibtarnine 3 years ago
Always glad to bring a smile into your day as I certainly did with Souxie and the rest of the band for that matter...It was a happy house that night I can tell you
picturesofpictures 3 years ago
Amazing composition
HarmonicsExplorer 3 years ago 2
In regards to what Demachman said responding to the ignorant person; its called Zionism for the calling of the jewish nation to, get this, zion= israel/palestine. Because I don't know if you've heard of this but there was a thing called the holocaust and there were plenty of displaced jews after the war and they looked to refuge in zion.
frklgrl 3 years ago
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They're still there for revenge. If they cared, and if they really wanted world peace, they would've gone back by now.
tanticient 3 years ago
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Jews are a deceptive race they have a criminal mind and they can't tell the truth ...they are racist and hateful people I believe the jews must be removed from there as it looks nobody want them...peace without jews is the only option available now...
monica19777 3 years ago
I'm agree with you, they'll never understand this, but this song don't mention the "Zionist" side of Israel. Remember: Not all jews are Zionists (just look for David Cole's videos and revisionism articles and you will see)
UnholyKrustBastard 3 years ago
Siouxsie is an artist - Zionism is a scam... It's not THAT hard to distinguish, now, is it?
KucheKlizma 3 years ago
Siouxsie is indeed an artist and zionism is not a scam. Your birth is, maybe, but not Zionism. Zionism is as old as the day Judea got called Palestine by some Roman Emperor so the Jews would forget their Heritage. You understand? Or do you copy the biassed media and don't investigate or thinkm before you talk sh-t?
DeMachman 3 years ago 3
No need to get aggressive. Not everybody knows every term in english. I just misinterpreted.
KucheKlizma 2 years ago 2
it was in Germany, Rockpalast was somethhing like Top of the Pops in UK once a week on TV and steered away from the charts with a more alternative twist
niall8 3 years ago
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Love this song, too bad she sounds like a Zionist, especially when you listen to Arabian Knights.
skipp0023 3 years ago
I think the lyrics to Arabian Knights are misguided and generally a bit crap, but that aside, Zionists aren't the only people who might take issue with some aspects of Arab culture.
SimplyReg 3 years ago
Is Siouxsie Jewish?
Gladiator0719 3 years ago
I don't think so, I believe on her first album she had a song called: "The Lords Prayer" which is Christian.
SapereRisin 3 years ago
Who cares?
Throw all religions away, they don't have positive aspects, they are the reasons of all wars.
Believe in mankind, not in "gods" from myths thousand years ago.
Haophil 3 years ago 3
That's just about the most historically ignorant comment I've ever seen.
The history of the 20th century abounds with examples that disprove your assumption.
larkydozer 3 years ago
Maybe this problems are results of that religious nonsens? Ever thought about that? And they carry it to this century...
9/11, ever heard of?
Haophil 3 years ago
Well, sure Islam has a long history of extreme violence, beginning with Mohammed.
But that's not really addressing the assumptions involved in the comment I responded to.
larkydozer 3 years ago
Before the Nazis stole the symbol and corrupted it, it was used(and still is) at many Hindu, Buddhist and Jain ceremonies.
Yeah i grew up in Thatcher's Britain and used to 'worship' Siouxsie as my goddess!
People were using all manner of symbolism to rebel against the order but the very ideals of punk were bought and sold back to the masses without the meaning!
rushkagon 3 years ago 9
I saw them at Bracknell Sports Centre in 1981 and all i can remember it was invaded by a load skins.
They were all 'Seig Heiling' so i joined in!!!
Well as a 15yr old kid it all seems a bit of fun but i could never work out why SATB attracted so many skins to their gigs. A bit sad really as they aint Nazis for sure.
rushkagon 3 years ago
Several months ago I've read in some UK music mag interv.with her (her new solo record was coming out) and the reporter asked her about swastika. She was so pissed about the question, she walked out, and they had to promise they won;t ask it again. So I guess to this day she feels ashamed and perhaps guilty of her young days' stupidity.
Wacek4444 3 years ago
Before that, I;ve seen a documentary in which she gave an interview wearing swastika. She wasn't nazi, she tried to be antisocial, anarchistic and came kinda like a stupid & spoiled nazi brat instead.
On the other hand I've heard late 70s & 80s were quite a hard time for many young people in GB, Thatcherism, antisocial & anticultural politics, so...;)
Anyway, I like S&tB songs very much and this one's my fav.
Wacek4444 3 years ago