The Scream (album)
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November 13, 1978 |
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| Label (s) | Polydor | |||
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Punk , post-punk , gothic punk |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
39:04 |
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Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steve Lillywhite |
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The Scream is the debut album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees . It was released in November 1978 on the Polydor label.
history
The band, which after its founding in 1976 through numerous appearances, and especially through the stage presence of Siouxsie Sioux , had gained national fame, could not sign a record deal until 1978. Among other things, John Peel tried to get the band to sign a contract with BBC Recordings . At the latest after at least one banshee fan had initiated a graffiti campaign to spray the city's major labels with the slogan Sign the Banshees: do it now , the Polydor label decided to sign the Banshees in June.
Most of the songs were written by Siouxsie, McKay and Severin. Siouxsie wanted to keep the music of the banshees on film and was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho for the piece Suburban Relapse . The guitar echo is modeled on the knife scratching of the famous shower scene.
The Scream was recorded within a week and mastered and mixed in the following three weeks. While the band was in the recording process, the debut single Hong Kong Garden was released in August 1978 . The single reached seventh place on the UK singles chart.
The Scream was re-released on October 27, 2005 as part of the Universal Deluxe series. The remastered version includes two CDs. This includes the revised album as well as demos, live tracks and singles from the period of the album.
reception
After its release, The Scream received consistently good reviews from the press. Uncut magazine reviewed the album and placed it at number 43 on the list of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums . It was also mentioned in the work 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . After Dave Thompson established the album and the singles as pioneers of the dark, wavy and guitar-led sound that would shape a whole following generation. The music historian Clinton Heylin described McKay's recruitment by the Banshees, along with the founding of the bands Magazine and Public Image Ltd. , between August 1977 and May 1978 the “real start of English post-punk ”. Thompson describes the album, on which pieces like Carcass and Nicotine Stain occasionally remind us of the raw atmosphere of the punk clubs, as the moment in which the term post-punk became an independent sound.
According to Robert Smith of The Cure , the Banshees with The Scream joined the group of pioneers of post-punk.
"When The Scream came out, I remember it was much slower than everybody thought. It was like the forerunner of the Joy Division sound. It was just big-sounding. "
“I still remember when The Scream came out and it was a lot slower than anyone thought. It was like a predecessor to the Joy Division sound. It just sounded great. "
Track list
A side
- Pure (Sioux, Severin, McKay, Morris) - 1:50
- Jigsaw Feeling (Severin, McKay) - 4:39
- Overground (Severin, McKay) - 3:50
- Carcass (Sioux, Severin, Peter Fenton) - 3:49
- Helter Skelter (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:46
B side
- Mirage (Severin, McKay) - 2:50
- Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) (Sioux, McKay) - 4:14
- Nicotine Stain (Sioux, Severin) - 2:58
- Suburban Relapse (Sioux, McKay) - 4:12
- Switch - (Sioux, McKay) - 6:49
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-87930-607-6 , Siouxsie and the Banshees, pp. 617-620 .
- ↑ Mark Paytress (2003). Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Authorized Biography. Sanctuary Publishing
- ↑ Episode 3, "The Movie That Changed My Life. Episode 3. July 31, 2009. BBC Radio 2. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ^ Siouxsie & the Banshees [uk charts]. officialcharts.com. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
- ↑ "100 Greatest Debut Albums". Uncut . August 2006
- ↑ Robert Dimery: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Cassell Illustrated, 2005.
- ↑ Heylin 2006, p. 460.
- ↑ Steve Sutherland: "Disturbing Old Ghosts". Melody Maker . October 1, 1983