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Artist:	SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Title:	Downside Up: B Sides And Rarities
Label:	POLYDOR (GERMANY)
Format:	4CD BOX
Price:	$65.00
Catalog #:	POLY 21823CD

55 tracks on 4 CD's, 34 of them for the first time, including the Thorn EP. Includes a 76-page booklet with an introduction by Siouxsie and full track annotation by all 3 band members. Full lyrics for all B-sides printed for the first time with sleevenotes by Mark Paytress. "Siouxsie Sioux first came to our attention in 1976 as a Sex Pistols acolyte who was standing behind the band during the notorious interview with Bill Grundy on the Today programme. Yet with hindsight, her work doesn't seem to belong to punk at all. Her debut album didn't appear until 1978, by which time untutored three chord thrashing was beginning to appear passé. Instead, with the Banshees she helped invent a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation that was as influential as it is underrated. Downside Up features 55 tracks spread across four discs, some of which have not previously appeared on CD. The result is a collection that constitutes an alternative history far more revealing than a greatest hits package, for here is a group that never filled B-sides with inferior throwaway tracks. Rather they saw them as an outlet for some their most radical and challenging work. Standouts include the spiky 'Drop Dead/Celebration', the sinister 'Eve White/Eve Black' and the chopped up industrial funk of 'Tattoo', tracks that prove that the Banshees stand proudly alongside PIL, Gang Of Four and The Fall as the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era." --Nigel Williamson.

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