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Downside Up

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2004 · Rock

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Downside Up by Siouxsie And The Banshees

Downside Up is an Alt/Indie album by Siouxsie And The Banshees, originally released in 2004.

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Downside Up is a four-disc box set collecting B-sides and bonus material from the catalog of Siouxsie & the Banshees. Also included (on disc four) is The Thorn EP, originally released in 1984. Three songs of this boxset were later hailed by other bands : * Tricky covered "Tattoo"(the b-side of "Dear Prudence) to open his second solo album Nearly God. "Tattoo" is a pre-Trip-Hop that the band recorded in 1983. It inspired Tricky when he forged his style. * Massive Attack sampled in 1997 "Mittageisen" (the "Metal Postcard" version sung in German) on "Superpredators" for the movie soundtrack The Jackal * Shirley Manson of Garbage stated that "Drop Dead / Celebration" (the B-side of "Happy House") was one of her favourite tracks by the band. The singer also stated to Rolling Stone magazine in 1996 her fondness for this B-side. * Morrissey played "Eve White/Eve Black" (the b-side of "Christine") during intermission on his 1997 Maladjusted tour. The Times wrote in its review : "Standouts include the spiky Drop Dead/Celebration, the sinister Eve White/Eve Black and the chopped up industrial funk of Tattoo". The critic also rated the band as one of "the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era." Most of these songs (only present on these cds) were classics of the band's live repertoire like "Pulled To Bits", "Eve White/Eve Black", "Red Over White", "I promise", "Something Blue" and "B-side Ourselves".

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Tracklist

  1. 1-01Voices (On The Air)5:34
  2. 1-0220th Century Boy2:00
  3. 1-03Pulled To Bits3:26
  4. 1-04Mittageisen (Metal Postcard)4:10
  5. 1-05Drop Dead / Celebration4:26
  6. 1-06Eve White / Eve Black3:05
  7. 1-07Red Over White4:36
  8. 1-08Follow The Sun2:49
  9. 1-09Slap Dash Snap3:42
  10. 1-10Supernatural Thing4:26
  11. 1-11Congo Conga4:15
  12. 1-12Coal Mind3:32
  13. 1-13We Fall3:39
  14. 1-14Cannibal Roses4:30
  15. 1-15Obsession II3:52
  16. 1-16A Sleeping Rain4:19
  17. 1-17Il Est Né, Le Divin Enfant2:32
  18. 2-01Tattoo3:30
  19. 2-02(There's A) Planet In My Kitchen5:23
  20. 2-03Let Go3:37
  21. 2-04The Humming Wires4:23
  22. 2-05I Promise4:39
  23. 2-06Throw Them To The Lions4:51
  24. 2-07An Execution3:51
  25. 2-08The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog4:55
  26. 2-09Lullaby3:33
  27. 2-10Umbrella4:14
  28. 2-11Shooting Sun4:45
  29. 2-12Sleepwalking (On The High Wire)5:11
  30. 2-13She Cracked3:07
  31. 2-14She's Cuckoo4:16
  32. 2-15Something Blue3:56
  33. 2-16The Whole Price Of Blood3:54
  34. 2-17Mechanical Eyes3:36
  35. 3-01False Face2:52
  36. 3-02Catwalk4:58
  37. 3-03Something Wicked (This Way Comes)4:21
  38. 3-04Are You Still Dying, Darling?4:45
  39. 3-05El Dia De Los Muertos3:38
  40. 3-06Sunless4:28
  41. 3-07Staring Back3:17
  42. 3-08Return5:04
  43. 3-09Spiral Twist3:56
  44. 3-10Sea Of Light4:35
  45. 3-11I Could Be Again4:31
  46. 3-12Hothead3:31
  47. 3-13B Side Ourselves3:48
  48. 3-14Swimming Horses (Live)4:41
  49. 3-15All Tomorrow's Parties (Live)6:12
  50. 3-16Hang Me High6:06
  51. 3-17Black Sun3:11
  52. 4-01Overground3:53
  53. 4-02Voices (On The Air)5:26
  54. 4-03Placebo Effect4:37
  55. 4-04Red Over White5:43

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Post-Punk
  • angular
  • dark
  • art school

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

As on front sticker:
"B-Sides & Rarities Box Set
55 tracks on 4 CDS All digitally remastered
34 tracks on CD for the first time!
Includes a 76 page booklet with an introduction by Siouxsie
Annotations by all 3 members of the band for each track
Full lyrics for all tracks
982 182-3"
Track 1-17 traditional 18th century french carol.
Printed as "Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant".
The discs are packaged in a white card three panel fold-out digipak, which itself is housed in a silver cardboard O-ring type slipcase.
The first two panels each have a twin digipak CD holding tray, in white. The third panel is a pocket which contains the full colour booklet.
White rectangular front sticker with black text. This is applied directly to the slipcase, within shrink-wrap.
Not credited on the sleeve: slightly different versions of "False Face", "Hang Me High" and "Black Sun" were included in the tracklisting.

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