Hanging From Your Daisy Chains

Siouxsie and the Banshees : Playground Twist

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On June 24, 1979 Siouxsie and the Banshees released "Playground Twist" b/w "Pulled To Bits",  a single from the forthcoming album Join Hands. The single would peak at U.K. #28 and earn critical praise from NME's Roy Carr who wrote:

"If Ingmar Bergman produced records, they might sound like this. The listener is immediately engulfed in a maelstrom of whirling sound punctuated by the ominous tolling of church bells, phased guitars, thundering percussion, a surreal alto sax and the wail of Siouxsie's voice. It demands to be played repeatedly at the threshold-of-pain volume to elicit its full nightmarish quality"

The video juxtaposes our favorite goth with children to young to know how much mascara it takes to make a statement.  The B side may be about these very same children pulling wings and legs off bugs the way my sister did because she didn't want her new pets to run away.