Siouxsie and the Banshees - Captain Scarlet

Siouxsie and the Banshees' radical adaption of the theme from the cult 1967 UK puppet series about indestructible (and hence no longer quite human) agent Captain Scarlet. From their March 1977 Track Studio session. "Indestructible, Indispensible, Incompatible, Insignificant". Band was Siouxsie Sioux - vocals, Steve Severin - bass, Pete Fenton - guitar, Kenny Morris - drums. Video footage is from the show's opening titles (yes, people actually got killed in kids' shows back then). Still images from: thebansheesandothercreatures.co.uk/
Enjoy.

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Music

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• Siouxsie
• Banshees
• Captain
• Scarlet
• punk
• demo
• 1977
• Track
• Rehearsals
• goth
• gothic
• alternative
• rock
• postpunk

[804safety]

im just anti-fascist & dont think you should be wearing swatikas unless you truly believe in its idealism...SMASH FASCIST NAZI TRASH,the first people the nazis would have killed if they took power were all of those punks...doesnt anybody realize this or you just a bunch odf apathist?????

[Slammerworm1]

@804safety You just don't get it. The Nazis were a then-potent touchstone of rebellion and outrage for early punks, (e.g. the half-Jewish Ramones had a song called 'Im A Nazi', etc.), and that is punk history. WW2 was being exhaustively celebrated in film, book and on TV in the 1970s, and this was a legitimate artistic subversion, valid over 1976-77, then discarded when 'real' politics came in. BTW, for someone who's 'anti-fascist', you seem rather draconian about free expression...

[axs007ful]

@Slammerworm1 we in d had the antifascist rev and in alley-s countries the have chosen to be swasts. thats the easy explanation of a high discussed item. better shu up.

[Slammerworm1]

@axs007ful Please excuse me, but I don't understand your comment. Could you perhaps rephrase?

[Slammerworm1]

@804safety To be fair, you've mixed up the 'non-PC' early punks with the later 'political' ones (like Crass). Siouxsie, Buzzcocks, Ramones, etc. mentioned neither anarchy nor freedom and the Sex Pistols' 'anarchy' was destruction plain and simple, not growing veggies on a commune. Too little space to fully explain here, but the Nazi gear was a naive but legitimate reaction to mid-1970s fascist leaders, societal attitudes and the rock culture's rigid 'hippie' aesthetic. Cheers from New Zealand!

[axs007ful]

@MrMonsterstiffy do they really fix their mind and eyes on the swastika.

[momarrr]

i'm german and i think it's nonetheless a shame. not rebelllious, immature

[igordenic74]

@Slammerworm1 zi

[nojszeger]

@804safety The antifascist bleat boring, and commonplace. The PC the prison of the thought and the art.

[MrMonsterstiffy]

@deadbirdsings The reverse image of a swastika have been a symbol of good luck to many many cultures for many centuries.

[deadbirdsings]

This cover sucks. The original theme song is a million times better. As for all the political comments here, I've only got one thing to say: Sieg Heil, motherfuckers!

[deadbirdsings]

@CyberpunkJohnny - "Stole" it from who? Was the swastika someone's registered trademark?