Primary members: Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin, Budgie
Band Biography
Albums of focus: The Scream (1978), Juju (1981), Nocturne (1983), Tinderbox (1986)
Songs for study:

"It was a case of us knowing what we didn't want, throwing out every cliché. Never having a guitar solo, never ending a song with a loud drum smash. At one point, Siouxsie just took away the high-hat from the drum kit. Siouxsie wanted a guitar sound like a cross between The Velvet Underground and the shower scene in Psycho." --Steve Severin, bassist

"Love in a Void"	"Mirage"	"Suburban Relapse"	"Voodoo Dolly"
"Night Shift"		"Pure / Jigsaw Feeling"	"Melt!"

"Voodoo Dolly" - from Juju (1981)

SIOUXSIE: "I suppose everyone has their own personal voodoo dolly which is capable of destroying them. A bad habit, or something they like but shouldn't. A vice, most vices; one that's hard to control, hard to kick. The same for men with certain girlfriends, they're like voodoo dollies, always winding them up and they destroy them." --Source: Sounds 20 June 1981

She's your little voodoo dolly And she's gonna make you lazy Like the little drum in your ear Transfixes you to your fear And now she's transfixed in your fear And you know she's gonna stay there Because her nails are deep in your hair And she made you so unaware

Are you listening to your fear The beat is coming nearer Like the little drum in your ear Transfixes you to your fear She's such an ugly little dolly And she's making you look very silly And when you listen in to her ear You get paralysed with her fear Oh down down in your fear

Now this little voodoo dolly Has made you very lazy And you're anaemic from her sucking And when your dead she'll find another Better break that little dolly And sling her in the corner Now she's a sorry little dolly Such a sorry little dolly Are you listening to your fear The beat is coming nearer Like that little drum in your ear Transfixing you to your fear listen

"Night Shift" - from Juju (1981)

SIOUXSIE: " 'Night Shift' was about the Yorkshire Ripper, not Bela Lugosi, or whatever. Goth was pantomime." -- Source: Time out 26 September 1998 "This news journalist told me that they had a lot of information about the Ripper before he was caught. I don't know how true...that he was a necrophiliac, at least while he was a gravedigger, and that was why he wanted to work the night shift." --Source: Juju liner notes

Only at night time I see you In darkness I feel you A bride by my side I'm inside many brides Sometimes I wonder What goes on in your mind Always silent and kind unlike the others Fuck the mothers kill the others Fuck the others kill the mothers I'll put it out of my mind because I'm out of my mind with you In heaven and hell with you

My night shift sisters Await your nightly visitor They don't bother me no No they don't bother me The cold marble slab Submits at my feet With a neat dissection Looking so sweet to me, please come to me With your cold flesh, my cold love Hissing, not kissing A happy go lucky chap Always dressed in black He'll come to you, he'll come to you

My night shift sisters With your nightly visitor A new vocation in life My love with a knife Fuck the mothers kill the others Fuck the others kill the mothers I'll put it out of my mind because I'm out of my mind with you in heaven and hell with you