Siouxsie & The Banshees - Melt! / Painted Bird - 12/11/82 - Old Grey Whistle Test

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[@leeannrorex1509]

My God, this woman's voice. ❤️

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

Impossibly angelic

[@MD-ru5vs]

yes incredible !!

[@susanb.1113]

Perfect in every way.

[@Amathusukx]

Getting old sucks, I wish I could go back to those days when life was hard but great and the music and life style filled you with immense joy. OGWT introduced me to some great bands all of which I adore to this day.

[@tomglenn485]

getting old means you remember it .... imagine you were old when your saw this live ... now you'd be dead.... and as a poster down the pg notes 'Great thanks to the inventer of KZbin'

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

Life was hard, but it definitely wasn't great.

[@nicholasmiller872]

Totally agree mate ✌️🙏🙏🙏

[@calzabbath]

I loved being there but there was so much suffering too. I wouldn’t be 20 again even if I could. Enjoy being alive and take good care of your health.

[@barbararenton8009]

I have absolutely zero cartilage in my knees now from my 1980s slam-dancing days at my favorite punker bars. But maybe they'll start one just for us who have to use walkers? 😂 I love her music very much and makes losing cartilage well worth it!

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

Simply spellbinding, listening to Siouxsie sing live here really makes me feel. My heart bleeds of raw emotion of the most purest, simply stunning. And the guitars just want to make me scream in tears and life. Divinity +

[@brianperry4713]

I will never forget the first time I saw Siouxsie live. I was so excited and filled with so much happiness and when her Royal Gothness took the stage all I could do was cry. I screamed and cried like my mom did for Elvis.

[@Lupi33z]

one of those bands you enjoy every player's contribution

[@littleghostfilms3012]

She's hypnosis in the form of a gorgeous, dancing vision. Wow!!!

[@csmsmith1]

I can't believe this was forty years ago. She is ravishing in this video. ❤

[@markrussell3414]

Siouxsie and the banshees what amazing band with a gorgeous singer called Siouxsie .wow Siouxsie you are a legends in the punk rock music 🎶 🎵 fantastic vocals by Siouxsie Great song 🎵 melt 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@Fractalite]

Brilliant guitar lines of John Mcgeoch, well executed by Robert Smith.

[@thunder_heads]

I'm pretty sure the original is mandolin

[@patthewoodboy]

@@thunder_heads I am sure is was a Ukulele

[@michaelsnow7252]

better guitarist than most people give credit for

[@rinobisesto3705]

There are moments she simply looks like the most beautiful woman that ever sang and danced on the planet earth

[@RM360CR]

the most to who and why, i feel the music dream imagine your comment implies competition like the most or the less when i dont think is about that.

[@rinobisesto3705]

@@RM360CR just feelings 🙂

[@MrDLOC11]

Vocals on point! Exotic musical dreamscapes like no one else!! Legendary talent on display here ....

[@zarahsantoshernandez9122]

She's absolutely beautiful ❤️

[@mrqs1549]

So romantic! I love you Siouxsie.

[@65BigNorm]

Fantastic vocals

[@agesflow6815]

It's really mint finding these gems from days gone.

[@NathanDiegoiam]

Sioux dancing must be the cuttiest thing in the world

[@raulmacias1311]

You know, Siouxsie is mesmerizing and actually hypnotising to watch dance on "The Staircase Mystery" Promotional Film/Video from "79! What an ENCHANTRESS is SUSAN JANET "SIOUXSIE SIOUX" BALLION!

[@raulmacias1311]

Peter Edward "Budgie" Clarke holds down a very hypnotising Drum pattern! Budgie is one of my all-time favorite Drummers of any genre!

[@wkenneth7916]

I abstained from listening to this band for the entire month of February. My reasons are twofold: 1. I couldn't think of a bigger musical sacrifice 2. I now appreciate them so much more after a month-long absence.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

But that's like stopping breathing for a month just to appreciate air.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I would think that such deprivation would be rightfully classified as cruel and unusual punishment to yourself. I reckon you're a bit of a masochist?

[@milowfan3212]

WE ALL LOVED HER THE MOST :)

[@yereverluvinuncleber]

Still do!

[@filmover9843]

Before computers avent, musicians created or paid tribute to their idols. But they always invented something new. Today they copy or commit plagiarism.

[@villedocvalle]

Severin and Smith make for an amazing duo

[@j.colman6484]

Genuine talent! Magical.

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

Budgie’s drums…Severin’s amazingly flowing lines….smith’s flourishes…Susan - ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@dominica4799]

She certainly has an incredible voice

[@Skorpp13]

That MusicMan bass with that typical Siouxie sound, nice :)

[@mraven7507]

just amazing.

[@nicholasmiller872]

Love you Siouxsie ❤❤❤

[@pressureworks]

Magic.

[@ClaireBodaine-en4ez]

Prestation ❤❤❤

[@steelyman08]

Amazing!

[@dejanstojkovic1751]

Melt!,it's so sad song!❤

[@ianrobson9601]

Superb

[@philippem4400]

For Siouxsie J Mcgeoch was a miracle...... 🎸

[@shanebonter6521]

I love how Siouxsie Sioux made her first apearance on television where Bill Grundy interviews the Sex Pistols. She starts flirting with grundy just fucking around with him, and he tells her "Maybe We'll meet up after.. " haha. Ironically Sid Vicious was a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees for a short period of time. he played drums.. Then Robert Smith of the cure of course was their guitarist. When he told the band he was leaving to spend more time working with the cure. He was told "Why leave a sure thing, It's not like you will ever get anywhere with it."... I forgot who exactly said it, my dad told me that when I was like 12 or 13. But who ever said it got put right in their fucking place. hahahaha.

[@JRStephens5005]

I LOVE the Banshees, but they just do not hold a candle to The Cure, in my opinion.

[@raulmacias1311]

I felt Steve Jones's behavior was on that show was one of the most disgusting and repulsive things I've ever seen on television! What gratitude! Mr. Grundy had them on his show to help give them exposure and find out what they're all about and he gets verbally insulted by Jones!

[@ExternalInputs]

@@raulmacias1311 The Sex Pistols were a last minute replacement when the scheduled band cancelled and Grundy was drunk and sleazy. He goaded Jones and got the response he deserved. It was the moment that launched the Sex Pistols into the mainstream and it could easily have never happened, had Grundy acted like the professional he was supposed to be.

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

@@JRStephens5005 errrr as much as I love songwriting of The Cure, the banshees are the superior songwriters and musicians

[@milowfan3212]

our wildest times in frankfurt when parties generally started far after 12 and never ended before 4 am :D

[@librium68]

Vinyl worthy live performance, well done for the time...

[@paulsenkans3401]

R Smith to the rescue in this period of SATB. I saw them in late 1985 in Sheffield, but Smithy wasn't the band.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

It was a pity John McKay left the band as it was his guitar sound that really defined the band and was what Robert Smith was really covering, though I think it really changed the sound of the cure too.

[@AndrewZ54321]

@@user-yv2cz8oj1k McKay's guitar sound defined the EARLY Banshees sound. But the remainder was defined by the brilliant John McGeoch and his amazing work on "Juju" and the LP these cuts are from, "A Kiss in the Dreamhouse". It's his parts Smith is trying to cover here. And straining to try to do so. And his long shadow that's cast over every subsequent Banshees guitarist. Siouxsie herself has said McGeoch was her favorite guitar player ever.

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

@@AndrewZ54321 amen, well said

[@JODIDO84]

Saw Siouxie and The Banshees live in Paris in Spring 84, and Smith was playing the guitar... Even if I am still listening to The Cure up to these days, he couldn't match Mc Geoch's genius...!

[@moxey25]

Never heard this till I saw here in wolves gob smacked

[@melodypebbles]

🖤

[@markrussell3414]

Gorgeous stunning sexy siouxsie with her fantastic vocals and brilliant lyrics What amazing singer siouxsie you are the goddess of punk music 🎶 🎵 what a beautiful song 🎵 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@ernivaljota8703]

37/5000 God bless you, creators of KZbin

[@Mintcar923]

Siouxsie's just so original.. Would be really cool if Robert rejoined the Banshees should they ever do a farewell concert DVD.. They are the two most important artists of their genre outside of Peter Murphy IMO..

[@Mintcar923]

After over 20 years I think they could bury the hatchet.. Besides, it would be great for both business and music if they can reunite..

[@JRStephens5005]

+The Komit No love lost on his end, either. He refers to her in less than flattering terms (IE-The old witch etc...) LOL

[@AlexisAnderson]

@@komitmusic Really? I heard it the other way that Robert left the group in his own terms and Siouxsie felt betrayed..

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

To be fair to Robert they've been through a few guitarists, even John McKay who really defined their sound was only there a couple of years.

[@lavieenrose5954]

@@AlexisAnderson You’re right; Bob left and Sioux was pissed off ...

[@user-zn9po2nycgtdkkkkkk]

Siouxsie was called "Queen of Ice" . Amazing. Robert Smith wow.

[@yuragevko5693]

Why queen of ice?

[@user-zn9po2nycgtdkkkkkk]

@@yuragevko5693 I was not sure though I think I read NME told about her long long time ago.

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

@@yuragevko5693 Because she was powerful and commanding on stage, yet was not begging for the audience's adoration. She wasn't chatty on stage. Her black, spiky hair, pale skin, sometimes made up to look ghostly, her piercing blue eyes (sometimes tinted to look more striking), usually framed by black eye make-up, and her rebellious, indomitable facial expressions, gave many the impression that she was something otherworldly and unapproachable. Her lyrics were also beautiful, in a usually off-kilter, surreal way. Thus, a 1970s British music magazine tagged her, "The Ice Queen".

[@sidfletcher4955]

Ice Queen reminiscent of the Ice Queen who froze Narnia in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe .... regal, aloof, other worldly.........for an Ice Queen she was always super hot......

[@Milowfan1234]

Frankfurt 1984 - nights without days -)

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Okay...

[@guttersnippeesmithers3905]

If only this music was around today

[@nelohagen]

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[@alfinger34]

Epic

[@lillinablue]

💝

[@Rapid_GT]

Melts

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

Go watch the 1979 Jukebox jury with Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, they have a Banshees track on and they all said it would be a hit except Sid who was just being contrary to the rest of the panel at that point. 😀

[@johnandkate1000]

No band is better than this painted bird

[@ronaldkorringa7218]

I'am Melting

[@klaus-peteralbers3006]

roberth smith learning from the best

[@JorgeVelezMusic]

and yet he's still one of the greats.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

How good does she sound here?

[@captainfeedback1]

Not very..?

[@MsSusie110]

Where was this?

[@michaelsnow7252]

weird seing rob smith just on guitar....

[@andreidavidmatiut5559]

I prefer these songs live, the album version is recorded very bad.

[@Fractalite]

Agreed...Painted Bird has to be one of their best songs and the vocal mix on the album was a traversty.

[@captainfeedback1]

I'm so glad RS discovered his own way with an actual tune and left this pretentious amateur dramatics troupe behind

[@allowyou9225]

Smith grew out of this...The Banshees got stuck in this zone. While The Cure climbed to the sky.

[@ECCENTRICERIC69]

The Cure wouldn't have existed without Siouxsie you deluded muppets!