Peepshow

Peepshow (1988) Siouxsie & the Banshees

If the main quality of great art is that it sets a mood, then Siouxsie & the Banshees's Peepshow falls into that catagory.

Tomorrow, go to the record store and buy Peepshow. Then tomorrow night, after dinner, pop it into your Discman and walk around your neighborhood. If you live in city, drive to someplace where there are a lot of trees, maybe a park. This album feels like October. It feels like Halloween.

The opening track "Peek-A-Boo" is a fucked-up song. It's ok if you wanna skip over it and go to track two, "The Killing Jar". I think you're going to love "Burn-up", the song that closed side one on the LP. "Rawhead and Bloodybones" is wierd but also really cool.

For an album from 1988, this album holds up really well. Their next album, Superstition, sounds more dated than Peepshow, though it doesn't sound too dated either.

The album art is amazing. I love the the way they write the song titles. The front and back covers look like movie posters for a horror movie.