My First Time Listening to JuJu by Siouxsie & The Banshees Full Album Reaction

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[@franko6677]

I love to see a full reaction to this incredible album. To me the themes running throughout are fear and the darkness and depravity that can be present in the human psyche. It’s not about the supernatural in a literal sense, it’s metaphorical. A few meanings: Night Shift- About an English serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper Arabian Knights - About brutality against women in the middle east Monitor - Around this time Close Circuit TV was installed in England in an attempt to prevent crime, but resulted in people taking pleasure in watching real life crime on their TVs. Voodoo Dolly - using a voodoo doll to represent something that leeches onto you and sucks the life out of you, such as an addiction or toxic person.

[@dmonping2399]

Spot on!

[@burnhappy]

Right? Everyone always does reactions to THE SAME SONGS. Never seen anyone do a whole album. Especially not one of their early albums. Anything Peepshow and before deserves this full treatment

[@Darrenski]

Brit bands are so innovative and creative. I just can't imagine where music would be without their contribution. They lifted a supposed 'low form of culture' (rock n roll) and elevated it to a high art form.

[@welshhibby]

They dont call us Great Britain for no reason !

[@andrewgarrett3555]

SATB are fantastic. One of the most original, influential, and underrated bands.

[@Darrenski]

Underrated by who? I don't ever remember them not being big. And I remember them from before they existed.

[@Darrenski]

I wish I could deal with incredibly ignorant neighbours with such patience. Why do i let them piss me off. A+

[@RiceaFashionBossXPD]

@@Darrenski Why u so enraged...it's just an opinion.

[@eduardomauricio8090]

nice reaction, this is my favorite album of all time, i can't believe someone finally reacted to it!!

[@glynwigley1581]

You want to know what Night Shift is about..it's about an infamous British serial killer called Peter Sutcliffe, also known as The Yorkshire Ripper. Although by the time of the album's release he had been caught, I believe that at the time that the song was written the killer's identity was as then still unknown

[@kellypedersen6590]

The guitarist, the late John McGeoch, was in an early post-punk band called Magazine for 3 albums before he joined The Banshees for 2 albums. Those albums are definitely worth checking out, especially their second album, "Secondhand Daylight", from 1979 (watch out for the lyrics on the last song, though).

[@jameshannagan4256]

They were a very influential band I think they had some influence on Radiohead among other bands.

[@jungatheart6359]

Such a masterpiece. Although 'A Kiss In The Dreamhouse' is competition and 'Tinderbox' has its advocates, 'Juju' achieves a sustained intensity of atmosphere and musical precision unmatched in their catalogue. A feverish plunge into every dark cellar, attic and locked closet of the human psyche, driven by Budgie's atavistic rhythms and McGeogh's astonishingly inventive playing. Add Siouxsie's peak vocal moments, set just right in the mix, and you've got something really special. 'Arabian Nights' was inspired specifically by the execution of a Saudi Princess, 'Night Shift' (as others have noted) by the Yorkshire Ripper murders (though I feel this is a starting point for something much darker), 'Halloween' by the John Carpenter film; 'Monitor' predicts the voyeurism and surveillance culture of years into the future, and 'Voodoo Dolly' goes all the way into the shadow side of female sexual power and the obsession (possession even) it creates when deployed by a certain narcissistic personality type. 'Monitor' is my favourite track, but it's a toss-up. Great reaction!

[@dennycochran5323]

John McGeoch was absolutely an amazing guitarist! One of my faves sound-wise. Gone way too soon. RIP

[@Darrenski]

He used mostly a yamaha sg, other guitars as well, but on most of juju he used it, apart from an acoustic as well. He was also innovative in his use of a flanger.

[@rayname908]

You are ready for Cocteau Twins !

[@dannymarksya]

Hear hear!

[@spumagu5225]

Very good next artist, there won't be lyrics to analyze!

[@Alix777.]

Not their ethereal crap plz

[@richarda.vandermeeden6337]

There is a book by Peter Routley titled Songs: From the Edge of of the Wold. A chronolgical guide to the songs of Siouxsie and the Banshees. It outlines every song in the format of what the press said, what the band said, and what Siouxsie said. Monitor is about the UK putting up closed circuit camares all over London. People would hack into the cameras and watch crime as it happened. Night Shift is about Peter Sutcliffe a.k.a The Yourshire Ripper. Of Head Cut, Siouxsie says, “’Onibaba’, this black-and-white Japanese film by Kaneto Shindo. I saw it on BBC2 when I was about nine. There was this great repeated scene: every night , this girl would run through fields of long swooshing cane in the rain to her lover, but this demon would appear and scare here way… It turned out that the demon was her mother who’d worn a Samurai mask to scare her away from this boy, but the mask had got stuck to her face. It made such a strong impression.” Word 10/04/1981 I first heard JUJU in 1981 when it was released. I idolized Siouxsie back then, still do. One has to appreciate how the band came into being. Siouxsie had never sung on stage before. Only one of the Banshees knew how to play an instrument (Marco played guitar and the only thing he knew you to play was Smoke on the Water). They get on stage at the first punk festival and for 24 minutes grind out "The Lord's Prayer" mixing in "Twist and Shout", "Knocking on Heaven's Door', and "Deutschland Uber Alles". That started a band that lasted 20 years and produced a body of work that was way ahead of it's time. Siouxsie says, in the autobiography of the Banshees, that getting on stage and seeing the crowd and having no idea what she was doing, adreline kicked in and they just did it. She said she remembers very little of it.

[@SM80FG]

Love Juju and SATB. Loved your review and would love to see you do all their albums. BTW: as others have likely noted, Night Shift is about a killer (Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper). Love and agree with your quote: " Siouxsie and the Banshees...geniuses".

[@allenhowell1574]

This was a period when the members of both Siousxie & The Banshees and The Cure (the two bands were closely aligned and Robert Smith of the Cure even toured as a Banshee for a time) were doing quite a bit of LSD to influence their writing. The lyrics definitely have a surreal quality that might have come out of some tripping sessions. The lyrics for Head Cut sound like maybe Siouxsie went to an art gallery tripping balls while staring at a sculptural bust (head). Maybe she fantasized about grabbing it and running home with it? This might also explain the cover art for the album.

[@Alix777.]

The guitar work in this album is amazing

[@modsleix6]

Listening to Siouxsie stuff and stumbled upon your video as a recommendation. It is really cool that you actually reacted to the album as a whole. Not many reaction channels doing that. This album is a Goth/Post Punk masterpiece. An iconic album from S&TB but, you haven't even begun to scratch the surface on the Goth/Post Punk genres. As a bass player myself, Steven Severin is a personal musical hero of mine. He and Siouxsie wrote most of the bulk of S&TB's catalog. His playing has influenced me greatly in my own playing. If you want to stroll into the dark woods and tumble down the black rabbit hole, here are some essential (and personal favorites of mine) Goth/Post Punk albums that are right at home alongside _'Juju'_ from S&TB... The Chameleons - _'Script Of The Bridge'_ Asylum Party - _'Picture One'_ Joy Division - _'Unknown Pleasures'_ Clan Of Xymox - _'Clan Of Xymox'_ The Cure - _'Pornography'_ Killing Joke - _'Night Time'_ The Southern Death Cult - _'The Southern Death Cult'_ The Jesus & Mary Chain - _'Psychocandy'_ The March Violets - _'The Botanic Verses'_ Bauhaus - _'Mask'_ The Sisters Of Mercy - _'First And Last And Always'_ Siouxsie & The Banshees - _'Tinderbox'_ (my personal pick as a S&TB masterpiece) Blade Fetish - _'Absinthe'_ just to name but a very few to get you started.... Cool video here.. 👍👌✌️

[@dennycochran5323]

"The Scream", "Join Hands" and "Kaleidoscope" are also amazing! :-D

[@PlasticR0b0t]

As a long-time fan of Siouxsie & the Banshees, I really enjoyed your reaction to this album. It's been one of my favorites for a long time. I would love to see your reaction to their concert film, Nocturne. The ending alone, features a blistering rendition of Voodoo Dolly, which is followed by Eve White/Eve Black, which will raise the hair on the back of your neck. It also features Painted Bird, which is an all-time favorite of mine.

[@erikverkoyen8689]

Arabian Nights is obviously about the role of women in Arabian/Islamic culture.

[@jefmay3053]

I'm late to your party, Slop. Now you need to check out some live performances....Siouxsie is beautiful, mesmerizing, and INTENCE🥰😍🤩

[@jefmay3053]

Dude check out the live video of' Sin in My Heart' from Koln Germany. Siouxsie is so sexy in that one.

[@shuaibvincent283]

I had the pleasure of meeting Siouxsie and Budgie a few times. Her Creatures albums are just as good. She used to play in such small venues in LA. I kid you not when I tell you that I used to hold her foot while she was on stage and give her cigarettes. Yep...amazing experience

[@jean-christophelebachelet5926]

Siouxsie & the Banshees were so ahead of their time, they showed the way to all the post punk /goth bands and 90's indie rock bands, leader and singer of The Cure Robert Smith played several times guitar for them since 1979 and became officially member of the Banshees between late 1982 and 1984, he recorded TWO albums, the fantastic live album Nocturne and Hyaena the Sixth Siousxie & the banshees official album The Banshees were so ambiguous, sexy and toxics, like a serie noir or horror movie/book

[@Viouxdioux]

This was the first album I actually bought on the day it was released. By this time I was so enthralled by Siouxsie & the Banshees that I was waiting for it with bated breath. In 1981 there was no streaming, no tidbits of tracks prior to release so waiting for an album's release was exciting. Other than Spellbound which had already been released as a single in the UK, I had no idea what this would sound like. Suffice to say I was blown away. It's difficut to pick favourite trackes and single them out on an album like this just because it works so well as a whole so I always like to listen to it in its entirety and make that journey. It was fantastic to watch you reacting to this wonderful album and experience it from your perspective over forty two years later! Their first album was 'The Scream'- it's raw and unusual and is considered one of the greatest post punk debut albums so I figure you might well enjoy it - definitely worthy of a review sometime.

[@burnhappy]

My first one was Tinderbox. I know that anticipation. Had it for Depeche and Cure releases too 🙂

[@jean-christophelebachelet5926]

Now you have to react to the Album PORNOGRAPHY (1982) by The Cure..... one of the darker album ever written...... it's like a descent to the gate of Hell

[@Lord_Heron]

I agree. Juju and Pornography, 2 of the best albums ever made in my opinion.

[@johnnymoped]

if you love this listen to the Magazine - Real life album - same guitar player same innovation - RIP John McGeoch.

[@toddk9219]

it's an underrated masterpiece. Probably my favorite album of all time. Budgie is one of the best drummers. So glad you got to experience it.

[@spumagu5225]

Budgie is a top drummer for me as well, style wise , not virtuosity wise, very tasty!

[@jameshannagan4256]

Man I forgot how great this album was.

[@marcraygun6290]

That but of feedback in nightshift....scary....brilliant

[@paololattuca9635]

This album set the pace for horror outside of the pedestrian goth schlock of the 80s. It still pulls people in more than 40years after it's release, enough said. No doubt you've read up on it but for others, Nightshift is about the Yorkshire ripper, a serial killer who targeted sex workers. The screaming guitar is their death scream.

[@Lucas-vj8rr]

My all time fav album Every song is great I have the LP with the free single Israel

[@dennycochran5323]

There isn't a bad song on the album.

[@marcraygun6290]

Yes one of my top albums of all time

[@roumiaou]

So many thanks. This reaction is a great job. Love Siouxsie btw, met her one day ;-)

[@kellypedersen6590]

This album is a high-water-mark for the early 80s UK Goth movement- and yes, Budgie's tumbling polyrhythms are insanely inventive (before this, he joined an otherwise-all-female reggae-inspired punk group called The Slits- their 1979 album "Cut" is worth checking out of you like this).

[@dennycochran5323]

"Arabian Knights" is about the mistreatment of women in the Middle-East. It has some shock-value tropes in it, that Siouxsie and some others of the era were fond of using. She commented once about how getting the word "orifices" on the radio was amazing.

[@faithcollins7207]

It's about a serial killer in England at the time. So it gives two POV's

[@lesbastable3101]

Yes the lyrics were printed on the inner sleeve. A dark album my favorite from the Banshees

[@nikolanikolic1366]

Man I loved the video! I discovered this in the early 00's when I was a teen, I keep coming back to it. I highly recommend their album Peepshow or check out Siouxie's and Budgie's side procject called The Creatures, wild stuff!

[@CursiMusic]

enjoyed Peepshow. did a cover of scarecrow this week....yesss.. Siouxsie

[@Alix777.]

Halloween is just sick

[@sleepfan]

Need to check out their album Tinderbox. Take care

[@spumagu5225]

Tinderbox is a top 2 of theirs, "Land's End"! Great mention here.

[@modsleix6]

John McGeoch is the Banshees' star genius guitarist but, John Valentine Carruthers' guitarwork on _'Tinderbox'_ is beyond outstanding... John Alexander McGeoch R.I.P....

[@Tardigradetriops]

It is so delicious and 80s. I loved it when it came out and more so now.

[@eboethrasher]

The Gizmotron sounds like a full-guitar ebow basically. Obviously, I have an affinity for ebows.

[@iznone]

What I like - natural brute force, I listen a lot of metal, prog and etc ... this is cool as hell.

[@iznone]

Bro you finally touch some classic! +++ Now you know - they have absolute amazing songs out of the mainstream.

[@SergeC72]

Quote : Siouxsie and the Banshees based their song ‘Night Shift’ on the crimes of the prolific serial killer."

[@user-ri7jj1lk2r]

If you ever want to break one down listen to her song pulled to bits. She's always fantastic.

[@dennycochran5323]

You should also do a deeper dive into "The Cure". Go for "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith" and "Pornography" in that order. The late 70s/early 80s was the prime for Post-Punk.

[@SuperBroonie]

Juju certainly is a masterpiece, I love all their albums but John Mcgeochs guitars sound epic, flange chorus delay the essentials for any true gothic style band back then. The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Sisters of Mercy, The March Violets. The Cult, Psychedelic Furs.

[@iznone]

Suzy is ultimate dark singer!, all songs are some kind of struggle and all in minors - what I like! ... Suzy has a very bad childhood you don't want to hear what is about, god bless her, amen bro!

[@spumagu5225]

Thank you for this, Tower Records (an actual store and a big international chain) had a free magazine that one could take named "Tower Pulse". At the front of each issue, there was a section called "Desert Island Discs". This was made up by the readers sending by postal paper mail, a list of their 10 recordings they would choose, if stranded on an island for the rest of their lives, this album was on the list I sent in. I discovered The Chameleons (UK) from that magazine. From the same year a great listen in the dark album and an all time favorite, "Heaven Up Here" by Echo & The Bunnymen. A year later "Garlands" by Cocteau Twins (they are mentioned by Rayname908 in these comments).

[@ch8989-dk6jd]

Always like the dark - post punk, The Cure, Depeche Mode ... etc.

[@petemanning1768]

Many would say this album is the beginning of goth.

[@SuperBroonie]

Post Punk Gothic yeah but I believe The Velvet Undergound invented Gothic textures in Rock.

[@elench257]

I’d say Bauhaus were more obviously Goth in the late 70s, but they all contributed to the atmosphere. ❤ loved Siouxsie since I was 7 seeing her live on stage rolling on the floor of the stage, brilliant 🦇🤘👻

[@jameshannagan4256]

Kudos to you for doing this great, but almost forgotten album. I wish you would react to a Radiohead album or two i'd suggest OK Computer, Kid A, or In Rainbows.

[@thunderspike1892]

Monitor are phenomenal.

[@richardsmith2334]

You are not dumb. Encouraging.

[@JuanitoEsBonito]

Into the light. Details the experience of questioning your beliefs in religion. Or higher powers in generel.

[@CursiMusic]

"cough" good stuff LMAO! One of Siouxsie's best albums in my opinion. I Like, Night Shift and Love Arabian Nights. 😁 OMG! you know Oingo Boingo as well...cool. Danny Elfman is a musical genius.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Goth as hell...welcome to the darker side. 🖤

[@AngelGarcia-oy3yj]

The next one is Tinderbox

[@elench257]

I know Nightshift shook u a bit. I love the live version on the Nocturne album, so atmospheric and great to dance to, u can just go with the music instead of worrying who it was about.

[@Darrenski]

Siouxsie and Severin started the band

[@mariaef8359]

Candyman is darker

[@Daniel-qo3gh]

You need to lisen Peepshow album...

[@jameshannagan4256]

I heard you mention Green Day and I just have to say I can't stand them and I think bubble gum punk is the worst genre ever invented.

[@zaradragonia9863]

People like you really irritate me because you don't do your homework not know anything about what you are doing online. I mean - I wouldn't go online and start talking about something I know absolutely nothing about. Go out and see what is around you ffs

[@zaradragonia9863]

Way too much talking. I had to skip to the music. Even though I have heard this album about 100 times. Your face in Voodoo Dolly is hilarious 😢🎉