| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Head Cut Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i had a book in the 1980's that detailed everything about the banshees up to 84 i think. this book, long gone now, claimed that HEAD CUT was based on a hammer studio film about a woman who steals a samurai mask from a museum. i think that idea is most likely crap as the author was also wrong about GREEN FINGERS, which was inspired by a night gallery episode starring elsa lanchester. | |
| Bauhaus – Terror Couple Kill Colonel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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bauhaus did not "expand" very much on the story, they give it nearly verbatim. i have a friend who was an army brat in the 1970's and lived in the same neighborhood as this u.s. army intelligence colonel who was killed. the GSG9 came to my friend's house. wish i could remember more or find more details. to someone familiar with the military the supposed dying regrets of the colonel do not seem so compellingly ironic. VERY FEW people in the military have any connection at all with killing. i was in MI and my colonel was an paper-shuffling administrator like any other, a babysitter for a huge herd of air-head kids and a few wannabe bad-asses. definitely one of my favorite bauhaus songs. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Arabian Knights Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "lash out at arab culture(?)" please save the histrionics. no culture is sacred or immune to criticism. the song ARABIAN NIGHTS is intelligent and thoughtful in it's critique and based on historical fact. white slavery, repression and deviant sex, oil spills, misogyny, all especially visible in arab culture past and present. siouxsie can trash ANY culture with accuracy and style, and she does. siouxsie "lashes out" at western culture in almost every song she writes, and we should be thankful, she is one of the few doing it intelligently. should poor little defenseless arab culture be protected from big bad souixsie? dry your tears, i think arab culture can survive the occasional criticism. in fact lack of criticism means no possibiltiy of change or growth. siouxsie's ARABIAN NIGHTS represents some of the best criticism there is, insightful, compelling, and most important of all, it is great music. | |
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