Downside Up

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Downside Up
Downside Up cover
Box set by Siouxsie & the Banshees
Released November 29, 2004
Recorded 1978-2001
Genre Post-punk
New Wave
Alternative rock
Pop
Length ??:??
Label Universal
Producer Various
Professional reviews
Siouxsie & the Banshees chronology
Seven Year Itch
(2003)		 Downside Up
(2004)		 Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions
(2006)

Downside Up is a four-disc box set collecting B-sides and bonus material from the catalog of Siouxsie & the Banshees. Also included (on disc four) is The Thorn EP, originally released in 1984.

Most of these songs were classics of their repertoire like "Pulled To Bits", "Eve White/Eve Black", "Red Over White", "I promise", "Something Blue" and "B side Ourselves".

Three songs of this boxset were later hailed by other bands :

  • Massive Attack sampled in 1997 "Mittageisen" (the "Metal Postcard" version sung in German) on "Superpredators" for the movie soundtrack The Jackal [1][2]
  • Shirley Manson of Garbage wrote in the foreword of the Siouxsie & the Banshees biography by Mojo magazine journalist Mark Paytress that "Drop Dead / Celebration" (the B-side of "Happy House") is one of her favourite tracks by the band. [3]. The singer of Garbage also stated to Rolling Stone magazine in 1996 her fondness for this B-side. [4]
  • Tricky covered "Tattoo" (the B-side of "Dear Prudence") on his second solo album Nearly God. [5]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Voices (on the Air)"
  2. "20th Century Boy"
  3. "Pulled to Bits"
  4. "Mittageisen"
  5. "Drop Dead/Celebration"
  6. "Eve White/Eve Black"
  7. "Red Over White"
  8. "Follow the Sun"
  9. "Slap Dash Snap"
  10. "Supernatural Thing"
  11. "Congo Conga"
  12. "Coal Mind"
  13. "We Fall"
  14. "Cannibal Roses"
  15. "Obsession II"
  16. "A Sleeping Rain"
  17. "Il Est Né, Le Divin Enfant"

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Tattoo"
  2. "(There's A) Planet in My Kitchen"
  3. "Let Go"
  4. "The Humming Wires"
  5. "I Promise"
  6. "Throw Them to the Lions"
  7. "An Execution"
  8. "The Quarterdrawing of the Dog"
  9. "Lullaby"
  10. "Umbrella"
  11. "Shooting Sun"
  12. "Sleepwalking (On the High Wire)"
  13. "She Cracked"
  14. "She's Cuckoo"
  15. "Something Blue"
  16. "The Whole Price of Blood"
  17. "Mechanical Eyes"

[edit] Disc three

  1. "False Face"
  2. "Catwalk"
  3. "Something Wicked (This Way Comes)"
  4. "Are You Still Dying Darling?"
  5. "El Dia De Los Muertos"
  6. "Sunless"
  7. "Staring Back"
  8. "Return"
  9. "Spiral Twist"
  10. "Sea of Light"
  11. "I Could Be Again"
  12. "Hothead"
  13. "B Side Ourselves"
  14. "Swimming Horses" (KROQ Acoustic Christmas)
  15. "All Tomorrow's Parties" (KROQ Acoustic Christmas)
  16. "Hang Me High"
  17. "Black Sun"

[edit] Disc Four (The Thorn EP)

  1. "Overground"
  2. "Placebo Effect"
  3. "Voices (on the Air)"
  4. "Red Over White"

[edit] Sources and references

  1. ^ Massive Attack sampled "Metal Postcard" in 1997 for their track "Superpredators" on the movie soundtrack "The jackal"
  2. ^ tracklisting of "The Jackal" with Massive Attack's "Superpredators (Metal Poscard)"
  3. ^ Shirley Manson signed the foreword of the Siouxsie & The Banshees official biography
  4. ^ Shirley Manson mentions the Siouxsie B-side "Drop Dead / Celebration" in a Rolling Stone interview
  5. ^ Tricky covered "Tattoo" for the opening track of his second album "Nearly God" in 1996
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