Join hands

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Join hands
Siouxsie and the Banshees studio album

Publication
(s)

7th September 1979

Label (s) Polydor

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Gothic punk , post punk

Title (number)

8th

running time

42:29

occupation

production

Nils Stevenson, Mike Stavrou

chronology
The Scream Join hands Kaleidoscope

Join Hands is the second studio album by the British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees , and was released in September 1979 on the Polydor label. The album is the final release with guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris.

history

The album was released on September 7, 1979 on the Polydor label, and is the successor to the debut album The Scream . The release reached number 13 in the UK album charts. Just two days after the band released the album, John McKay and Kenny Morris left the band before a confirmed performance in Aberdeen. Robert Smith , who supported Siouxsie and the Banshees with his band The Cure, stepped in for the rest of the tour .

In April 2015 the album was re-released with an alternative cover. The alternative cover is the actual original, which at the time was rejected by the record company on the grounds that it was religiously offensive.

Track information

The song Poppy Day was based on John McCrae 's poem In Flanders Fields , which after the death of a good friend, he in 1915 in World War I wrote. The piece "Mother / Oh Mein Papa" is an interpretation of Siouxsies based on the German song O mein Papa .

Music genre

Siouxsie Sioux used the word gothic in interviews to describe the sound of the album. In doing so, she shaped the usage of language. In later interviews she again distanced herself from this word, but in vain. According to Marcus Stiglegger , the album established the Gothic cliché with its howling guitars and monotonously pounding drums. The music is attributed to the original style of Gothic Rock , which emerged in the post-punk environment , which was known as Gothic Punk in the second half of the 1990s and retrospectively was also attributed to previously published publications.

In contrast to the debut album The Scream , Join Hands was musically arranged in a darker manner. The album, which Steven Severin himself describes as “gothic”, represents the transition from post-punk to early gothic rock . Simon Reynolds judged that, together with the subsequent album Juju , Join Hands contained “about 70% of the sound and the lyrical themes of Gothic ”.

reception

Oliver Sheppard describes the guitar playing of the song Premature Burial, which is covered with flanger effects, as groundbreaking for later dark post-punk and gothic bands.

After David Cleary from Allmusic , Joy Division took inspiration from a few pieces for their second work Closer . The piece Placebo Effect is considered to be a major influence on the Joy Division piece Colony . Overall, despite the praiseworthy risk-taking of the band, it is difficult to recommend the record: The pieces are all too gloomy, static and structureless, the singer is not in the best of shape vocally. The experimental pieces such as The Lords Prayer and Mother / Oh Mein Papa are uninteresting to hear or have failed. The best song on the record is, despite the unpromising beginning, icons , where the vocals sound fuller and the guitar work is bolder.

Track list

A side

  1. Poppy Day
  2. Shelf zone
  3. Placebo effect
  4. Icon
  5. Premature Burial

B side

  1. Playground twist
  2. Mother / Oh my papa
  3. The Lords Prayer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.backagain.de/db/kritik.php?wort=3173
  2. ↑ a b c Join Hands (Media Notes). Polydor POLD 5024 (2442 164). 1979.
  3. ↑ Mark Paytress: Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Authorized Biography . Sanctuary, 2003, ISBN 1-86074-375-7 , pp. 97-98 .
  4. ^ Siouxsie & the Banshees [uk charts]. officialcharts.com. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Marcus Stiglegger: Preacher Men. Mysticism and Neo-Mythology in British Gothic Rock . In: Marcus S. Kleiner and Thomas Wilke (eds.): Pop & Mystery. Speculative cognitive processes in popular cultures . transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-2638-8 , pp. 63–80, here p. 63 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  6. ↑ Marcus Stiglegger : Preacher Men. Mysticism and Neo-Mythology in British Gothic Rock . In: Marcus S. Kleiner and Thomas Wilke (eds.): Pop & Mystery. Speculative cognitive processes in popular cultures .tanscript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-2638-8 , pp. 63–80, here p. 63 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
  7. ↑ Goddard, Simon: Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths [Sioux, Siouxsie entry] . Ebury Press,, p. 393.
  8. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again - Post Punk 1978-1984. Faber and Faber Ltd., April 2005, p. 429.
  9. ↑ Oliver Sheppard: A Brief History of Deathrock, Part II .
  10. ^ David Cleary: Siouxsie and the Banshees: Join Hands . allmusic.com, accessed July 2, 2020