Cant believe the nods towards Robert Smith for this. I know he is playing and I'm not putting him down by any means (Genius in his own right). But John mcGeoch who help write this is an unsung British (Scottish) guitar hero!
Agree. I really like Bob a lot, but John composed most of this material and did the experimentation with electronics to create many of the Banshees' signature guitar sounds 1979-1983.
Definitely tip my hat off to Robert Smith for tackling John McGeoch genius guitar compositions, two of them are legends in my mind, appreciate these two geniuses from the UK
I remember going to see them at a later gig at the Albert Hall, Siouxsie had broken her leg but had continued the tour with the aid of a "skull" walking cane and a high stool..She is without a doubt pure class!!..I was and still am captivated by the band and their music!!.
Awesome,,, I saw this concert on the Friday night and the supporting band was Far Gadget,,,very happy days,,miss them but was so happy to be there,,,wish everyone happiness,,
If it weren't for the history they drag... Severin, Budgie and Bob, you would not even give a glance to the musicians as Siouxsie is SO impressive and so amazing, a real Queen of Ice and Performance.
One of the best bands that came after PUNK TIME and remained with no compromises until the break. And a slim Robert Smith on guitars ! I saw them in Paris in 1984 after the release of "HYENA".
Good to see Robert still moves the same as he does now😂 Crazy to see the visuals to a live album I grew up listening to. No overdubs, all performance! Probably my favorite song by them
her voice is so much better and stronger on this than it is today - she never looked better than when she had that fading 1920's beaded dress on either - simply wonderful xx
my favorite band of all time. My friend was my high school dj., she would get pissed at me cause i would only listen to Siouxsie for like 3 yrears. The best trippin music to the best lsd and extacy and just being sober as well. Love SIouXSiE!!! The goth and punk GoDESs for all time !
what an amazing song the voice the dancing the guitar the movement that this music have is awesome to me it works like "The Scream" of Munch, dunno really why
the live version blows the album version out of the water. Even though I respect both guitarists equally. I think Budgie and Steve Severin's rhythm section is a lot more powerful live and more subdued in the studio.
In fairness the only other guitar player who could have done this song justice after John McGeoch's breakdown and departure is Robert Smith, and the Nocturne album proves it 😎
Robert is playing an Ovation Breadwinner,rare as rocking horse manure,but they come up on e-bay occasionally. I paid £550 for mine after a fierce bidding war
I always wonder if the singles had been, "Cascade" and "Painted Bird", how would they have charted in the U.K. I still can't fathom, even over here in The States, how "Slowdive" and "Melt!" never even made it to the Top 40 in England. Too brilliant to be noticed? The LP is a forever classic. Just like pretty much everything else they did before and after.
+Painted Bird REALLY?! Those two singles were "censored" on the radio in 1982/83? Then how come the polite British police didn't catch the lines and phrases of "Arabian Knights" from 1981 ("orifices" anyone?), letting that single chart to the Top 40, I believe? I guess it was an absolute miracle/triumph that both "Spellbound" and "Fireworks" reached #22 on the charts. I would love to know what it was like in 1982 to hear "Melt!" on the radio, even once...just to hear those brilliant, visually arresting-yet-intriguing lyrics by Severin. For my money, I've decided, after hearing/reading that tale for decades, that the song is about a particular female in the form of a Black Widow spider: She mates, she kills, she cremates (thus, "Melt! My Lover, Melt!"). I always think of the 1987 Debra Winger/Theresa Russell film, Black Widow, or a little bit of the film White Oleander starring Michelle Pfeiffer, in which she kills her lover w/ the poison from said flower ("So many blazing orchids burning in your throat...").
They recorded this song so badly in studio the guitar is way too far down in the mix it has to be on top like it is here for the song to work it’s saddening
@@theointhebeanie7008 And the main chorus line vocals are buried in a wall of echoed vocal overdubs on the album - live this song is 100X better , more powerful - don't know what they were thinking with the album mix - if done properly this could have done well as a single.
I always remember Susie Sue live at Southampton University years ago live! In fact, l used to play Painted Bird or Cascade after all my Arabic students left my class at University for their speaking and listening tests, written test et all in the Arabian Desert - thanks Susie those song tracks washed away the monenity and a stressed brain afterwards! As l played the tracks from my class computer overlooking miles of sand hills in Saudi! 😎
@VlogKing--How very interesting and thank you!!..I was very fortunate to have been at that Royal Albert Hall gig, in later years i also saw them at the Glasgow Barrowlands, which is in sharp contrast to the Albert Hall! But also a fantastic gig!..
I first heard this in 2006 and loved it, I used to hate that times but now I think it was not so bad, I was listening great music and sometimes having a good time
Loved them in the beginning right up until the end, still do. A musical force to be reckoned with! Banshees were totally individualistic on the musical front. Always kept trying new ideas, never treaded the same way twice. Was never bored listening to them, or The Creatures! Bah please, I miss them coming to town!
Muchas gracias "nwilhelmy" en muy pocos videos podemos apreciar a esta formidable banda, y todavia menos con Robert Smith, esta banda logro que 3 grandes leyendas de la musica punk y post-punk tocaran juntas, Sid Vicious, Siouxsie Sioux y Roberth Smith. Post Punk el mejor genero musical que existe para mi.
@Cerissssssa You have no idea how many times that exact thought has gone through my head....lol Although I would have chosen the McGeoch era. But hell, with a time machine , you can see them all.
Siouxsie did not create that look, she was doing the opposite of what pop culture was doing at that time (the blonde haired girls and trendy outfits) Madonna, Cindy Lauper, blondie etc.
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It's Absurd how good Siouxsie & The Banshees were.
...are.
There was always a real atmosphere at their gigs !! The days when there was a great music scene !
@@davido4425 So true mate , bands today just seem to copy , have they not got the their own talent to write their own music???
I agree.
ARE....NOT WERE
one of the greatest bands ever.
this song flies under the radar a lot. its quite a gem!
Great vocal!! At this in "Royal Albert Hall" in 1983 show, was 7000 people! Great gothic era!
This is one of the best things I have ever seen...
Cant believe the nods towards Robert Smith for this. I know he is playing and I'm not putting him down by any means (Genius in his own right). But John mcGeoch who help write this is an unsung British (Scottish) guitar hero!
Agree. I really like Bob a lot, but John composed most of this material and did the experimentation with electronics to create many of the Banshees' signature guitar sounds 1979-1983.
RIP to John
love John, gread pioneer of the Flanger, though Robert is a genius as well
Definitely tip my hat off to Robert Smith for tackling John McGeoch genius guitar compositions, two of them are legends in my mind, appreciate these two geniuses from the UK
They are both great but I think the guitars on Thinderbox are outstanding
I love this song!
Siouxsie, amazing!😍
We all know her and the band are great, but i really love her dancing, especially between singing as well.
I remember going to see them at a later gig at the Albert Hall, Siouxsie had broken her leg but had continued the tour with the aid of a "skull" walking cane and a high stool..She is without a doubt pure class!!..I was and still am captivated by the band and their music!!.
Take me back!
this video put me 25 years back in my life.
I love that woman.
Awesome,,, I saw this concert on the Friday night and the supporting band was Far Gadget,,,very happy days,,miss them but was so happy to be there,,,wish everyone happiness,,
I love this performance. The Old Grey Whistle Test performance is amazing also. The way she dances and moves around...I love it!
she sings in such a great way in this video.
One of my favourite songs!!
What a powerful live performance. One to be at.
this song is amazing!!!
Siouxsie & Robert. Oh yes
So pure, so original!
So excellent .... provokes powerful memories for me - she is the greatest here xx
perhaps the best version of one of the best songs ever IMO. I think better than the album version...
Clearly
Robert smith and siouxsie. Classic
me too !
first band ever saw play live aged 13
If it weren't for the history they drag... Severin, Budgie and Bob, you would not even give a glance to the musicians as Siouxsie is SO impressive and so amazing, a real Queen of Ice and Performance.
I love Steve's bass playing! :D
Robert Smith is the complete boss
If I could play drums for one band, it would be this one.
4th dimension It wouldn't be the same; like the 'Bunnymen' without Pete de Freitas, or 'The Who' without Keith Moon.
If you’re as good as Budgie I’ll let you join mine 😉
I recently heard this song. Now it’s one of my favorites. This was Siouxsie in her prime!
I love this song. Top favorite tunes of the Banshees. Gem 💎🖤
please reupload to better format IT DESERVES IT! the best song EVER live of siouxie. my tears say so
One of the best bands that came after PUNK TIME and remained with no compromises until the break. And a slim Robert Smith on guitars ! I saw them in Paris in 1984 after the release of "HYENA".
The first time I saw Robert playing this one I nearly fainted! It was absurd!
I love this group
Good to see Robert still moves the same as he does now😂 Crazy to see the visuals to a live album I grew up listening to. No overdubs, all performance! Probably my favorite song by them
i love this song
I can't stop listening.
Siouxsie is a painted bird :)
her voice is so much better and stronger on this than it is today - she never looked better than when she had that fading 1920's beaded dress on either - simply wonderful xx
The more I join Siouxsie-carriers channels, the more I find new ones !
When I win, I replay ! :)
MY MOST FAVORITE SHOW EVER!!! #RoberSmith #MyGod!!!!!!
Best quality thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Your Hithcock carrion!
my favorite band of all time. My friend was my high school dj., she would get pissed at me cause i would only listen to Siouxsie for like 3 yrears. The best trippin music to the best lsd and extacy and just being sober as well. Love SIouXSiE!!! The goth and punk GoDESs for all time !
I was born too late. I was 11 years old when this concert was recorded, but I would love to have been there.
what an amazing song
the voice
the dancing
the guitar
the movement that this music have is awesome
to me it works like "The Scream" of Munch, dunno really why
cant get better
Energy is beautiful here
Siouxsie brought me here.
my fav
Amazing, incredible. Favorited.
She really makes you feel the music, I wish I could've been there.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
I was! A youthful 18 year old. Seeing her again in early September at Troxy, London. Can't wait
They are a great band even better "live"! So original, so believable, so incredible!
the live version blows the album version out of the water. Even though I respect both guitarists equally. I think Budgie and Steve Severin's rhythm section is a lot more powerful live and more subdued in the studio.
Fantastic live, especially Budgie's and Steve's drums and guitar. Budgie is still a fuckn amazing percussionist!
In fairness the only other guitar player who could have done this song justice after John McGeoch's breakdown and departure is Robert Smith, and the Nocturne album proves it 😎
uno de los mejores temas de siouxsie
amazing.
Robert is playing an Ovation Breadwinner,rare as rocking horse manure,but they come up on e-bay occasionally. I paid £550 for mine after a fierce bidding war
awsome........... words fail me. she and elizabeth fraser are thee best
Awsome band just fuckin great,,,,
Excellent point.I'll bet no band ever changed more guitarists,and also still keep the signature sound of the band intact.
This would have been a great single
I always wonder if the singles had been, "Cascade" and "Painted Bird", how would they have charted in the U.K. I still can't fathom, even over here in The States, how "Slowdive" and "Melt!" never even made it to the Top 40 in England. Too brilliant to be noticed? The LP is a forever classic. Just like pretty much everything else they did before and after.
+Painted Bird REALLY?! Those two singles were "censored" on the radio in 1982/83? Then how come the polite British police didn't catch the lines and phrases of "Arabian Knights" from 1981 ("orifices" anyone?), letting that single chart to the Top 40, I believe? I guess it was an absolute miracle/triumph that both "Spellbound" and "Fireworks" reached #22 on the charts. I would love to know what it was like in 1982 to hear "Melt!" on the radio, even once...just to hear those brilliant, visually arresting-yet-intriguing lyrics by Severin. For my money, I've decided, after hearing/reading that tale for decades, that the song is about a particular female in the form of a Black Widow spider: She mates, she kills, she cremates (thus, "Melt! My Lover, Melt!"). I always think of the 1987 Debra Winger/Theresa Russell film, Black Widow, or a little bit of the film White Oleander starring Michelle Pfeiffer, in which she kills her lover w/ the poison from said flower ("So many blazing orchids burning in your throat...").
I know right??? ..."of boys goats and things , ripped out sheep's eyes , no forks or knives"! Maybe the old geezer board caught on after the fact!
They recorded this song so badly in studio the guitar is way too far down in the mix it has to be on top like it is here for the song to work it’s saddening
@@theointhebeanie7008 And the main chorus line vocals are buried in a wall of echoed vocal overdubs on the album - live this song is 100X better , more powerful - don't know what they were thinking with the album mix - if done properly this could have done well as a single.
This song compelled me to read the Painted Bird by jerzy kosiński back in the '80s, I was a teenager and it blew my mind!
awesome !!!!!!!!!!
Siouxsie beautiful /banshees fantastic big artists.
I always remember Susie Sue live at Southampton University years ago live! In fact, l used to play Painted Bird or Cascade after all my Arabic students left my class at University for their speaking and listening tests, written test et all in the Arabian Desert - thanks Susie those song tracks washed away the monenity and a stressed brain afterwards! As l played the tracks from my class computer overlooking miles of sand hills in Saudi! 😎
@VlogKing--How very interesting and thank you!!..I was very fortunate to have been at that Royal Albert Hall gig, in later years i also saw them at the Glasgow Barrowlands, which is in sharp contrast to the Albert Hall! But also a fantastic gig!..
exelente!
great track 🤩👍
Oh god...ths remains utterly sublime!
I need A Woman like Siouxsie..........
So brightly peculiar!
como me encanta esta canción
I first heard this in 2006 and loved it, I used to hate that times but now I think it was not so bad, I was listening great music and sometimes having a good time
Loved them in the beginning right up until the end, still do. A musical force to be reckoned with! Banshees were totally individualistic on the musical front. Always kept trying new ideas, never treaded the same way twice. Was never bored listening to them, or The Creatures! Bah please, I miss them coming to town!
ONELOVE!
INTO FAVORITES!!!!!!!!!!!
1983
Gorgeous siouxsie
Awesome
Gotta love the dudes hair in front.. 1:17
1:14 Wow a mohawk XD
SIOXSIE AND THE BANSHEES ROCKS!!!
No more sorrow once Mantaray gets released!
el la guitarra robert smith..
Muchas gracias "nwilhelmy" en muy pocos videos podemos apreciar a esta formidable banda, y todavia menos con Robert Smith, esta banda logro que 3 grandes leyendas de la musica punk y post-punk tocaran juntas, Sid Vicious, Siouxsie Sioux y Roberth Smith. Post Punk el mejor genero musical que existe para mi.
Es hermosa, se mueve y las emociones brotan
@veuvecliquot typically siouxsie, love it too
Oh dear I've just bought another Breadwinner :)
Zillions of likes - only from me
me agrada cuando salian estas canciones en las peli de batman las antañas estaba super el toque de gotico perfecto
Demostration of how a song could improve so much live. Better than the album version
i smith tu gra,cudne to
@Cerissssssa You have no idea how many times that exact thought has gone through my head....lol Although I would have chosen the McGeoch era. But hell, with a time machine , you can see them all.
top tune
💋
She s good dance0
i love this woman :'|
un grandioso Robert Smith le da mas fuerza a las guitarras...
@chasingparkedcars I think you already have 'masterpiece'
Handmaids Tale needs to use this in a scene where men are getting the shit beat out of them.
ΠΟΣΟ ΤΕΛΟΙΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΥΤΗ Η ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑ
Damn, Karen O reminds me so much of her.
at 2:17, is that big bird in the crowd?
She is so wonderful.
Dancing at 28 secs showed goth/alt girls how to dance and look cool as fuck...
there best live song!
Too bad the banshees were not and are not goth.
They were not Goth but Siouxsie created the look. Within a year they had moved on with Kiss in the Dreamhouse.
Siouxsie did not create that look, she was doing the opposite of what pop culture was doing at that time (the blonde haired girls and trendy outfits) Madonna, Cindy Lauper, blondie etc.