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[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

OK. I have a great SATB collection! I go between SATB and The Creatures when collecting; right now my interest is all SATB. I do have Downside Up - which is seriously like the greatest Banshees release ever. The fact that they had 30 singles and managed to release 51 b-sides as well is amazing. Right now I'm just trying to get all of the 12" singles, and I might look for UK pressings of the albums afterwards, but I'm holding out in hopes of remastered vinyl releases.

So what are the current holes in your collection? Chances are I probably have it; I pretty much have every 12" single and EP they ever released (and there were a lot of them!) plus a menagerie of 45 singles containing non-LP tracks. Although I don't collect Siouxsie anymore, I do recall the fun I had collecting all of their releases- they made collecting records immensely fun and challenging. They were one of the few bands who released singles just for the sake of releasing a single (which often never ended up on an album), and they always had interesting, if not sublime, B-sides and multiple configurations of singles. Back before the interwebs, there was really no way of finding out what/when something was being released, which was especially challenging being in America. So every time I visited my favorite independent record store, I would beeline straight for the Siouxsie section to see what new surprises awaited me. Fun times. LOL

I was also a big fan of the Creatures. I loved the fact that since neither of them really played tuned instruments, they built these surprisingly catchy, melodic songs using just percussion and a couple of synthesizer notes. Or a few horns. Very avant garde but classic in a strange sense too.