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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans included
Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, New Wave | Label: Polydor | # 831 474-2 | 00:43:46

Through the Looking Glass is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album is a collection of cover versions. It was co-produced with Mike Hedges and released in March 1987 on Polydor. Through the Looking Glass was preceded by the single "This Wheel's on Fire". It was the second and final album recorded with guitarist John Valentine Carruthers. Most of the songs were from artists who had influenced them: Roxy Music, John Cale, Iggy Pop, the Doors and Kraftwerk.

Following Tinderbox's success but still not working as well with John Valentine Carruthers as they could have, Siouxsie and the Banshees kept him on for one further album – a covers collection, much in the vein of band inspiration David Bowie's Pin-Ups. Through the Looking Glass is more than a time killer but less than a total success – if anything it's seen more now as a chance for the band to refocus before ditching Carruthers and creating the stunning Peepshow. But there have been far worse efforts from other performers in this vein, and there's a cool, giddy fun at work throughout that makes it a fine listen. The inspired range of covers reaches from glam-era landmarks (Roxy Music's "Sea Breezes," John Cale's "Gun") to Billie Holiday's sorrowful touchstone "Strange Fruit" to, in one of the best such efforts ever (and a year before Hal Willner's Stay Awake project), a Disney classic – namely the slinky "Trust in Me," originally from The Jungle Book and given a spare, mostly-Budgie backing that could almost be a sparkling Creatures outtake. Some takes are more or less direct clones without much to add – Sparks' "This Town Isn't Big Enough for Both of Us" misses the sheer hysteria that Russell Mael brought to the original, but Iggy Pop's "The Passenger" adds a bit of horn-section punch and lets Siouxsie demonstrate her ability with calm, dismissive cool. Turning Kraftwerk's empty, haunted "Hall of Mirrors" into a much more propulsive, Morricone guitar-tinged number makes for a fine reinvention, though, while Bob Dylan-via-Julie Driscoll's "This Wheel's on Fire" made for an enjoyable, string-touched single from the album. And if anyone needed proof that the Banshees were obsessive fan types when they started, the concluding cover of Television's debut obscurity "Little Johnny Jewel" would provide it.

Review by Ned Raggett, Allmusic.com

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)



Tracklist:

01. This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us (03:07)
02. Hall Of Mirrors (04:59)
03. Trust In Me (04:04)
04. This Wheel's On Fire (05:13)
05. Strange Fruit (03:48)
06. You're Lost Little Girl (02:55)
07. The Passenger (05:06)
08. Gun (05:03)
09. Sea Breezes (04:12)
10. Little Johnny Jewel (04:56)


Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

EAC extraction logfile from 1. March 2012, 11:54

Siouxsie & The Banshees / Through The Looking Glass

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Analyzed: Siouxsie & The Banshees / Through The Looking Glass
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)

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