SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Juju 1981 UK POLYDOR 1st PRESS MINT
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Oct 14, 2013
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Oct 4, 2013
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SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Juju 1981 UK POLYDOR 1st PRESS MINT
LYRIC INNER - ONE PLAY - IMMACULATE SOUND
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEESJuju
UK POLYDOR (POLS 1034) FIRST PRESSING (June 1981) OF SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES' "Juju"
ONCE PLAYED AND DELIVERING FLAWLESS SOUND THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH CUSTOM POLYDOR LABELS
MATRIX: POLS1034 A//1?E STR 'STRAWBERRY' / POLS1034 B//1?E STR 'STRAWBERRY'
THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE SMOOTH, GLOSSY SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PICTURE/LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
One of the band's masterworks, Juju sees Siouxsie and the Banshees operating in a squalid wall of sound dominated by tribal drums, swirling and piercing guitars, and Siouxsie Sioux's fractured art-attack vocals.
If not for John McGeoch's marvellous high-pitched guitars, here as reminiscent of Joy Division as his own work in Magazine, the album would rank as the band's most gothic release.
Siouxsie and company took things to an entirely new level of darkness on Juju, with the singer taking delight in sinister wordplay on the disturbing "Head Cut," creeping out listeners in the somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Halloween," and inspiring her bandmates to push their rhythmic witches brew to poisonous levels of toxicity.
Album opener "Spellbound," one of the band's classics, ranks among their finest moments and bristles with storming energy. Siouxsie's mysterious voice emerges from dense guitar picking, Budgie lays into his drums as if calling soldiers to war, and things get more tense from there.
"Into the Light" is perhaps the only track where a listener gets a breath of oxygen, as the remainder of the album screams claustrophobia, whether by creepy carnival waterfalls of guitar notes or Siouxsie's unsettling lyrics.
"Arabian Nights" at least offers a gorgeously melodic chorus, but after that the band performs a symphony of bizarre wailings and freaky imagery. As ominous as the cacophony is on its own, close attention to Siouxsie's nearly subliminal chants paints a scarier picture. A passage such as "I saw you...a huge smiling central face with eyes and lips cut out but smiling and eating lots of other lips" doesn't exactly brighten one's day. Siouxsie is full of such quips throughout the album's running time, but her delivery packs as much punk as her message. Her attack-the-world dynamic range on "Voodoo Dolly" predates and out-weirds Björk's similar styling years later.
McGeoch, Budgie, and bassist Steven Severin deserve just as much credit for crafting an original sound that would inspire a diverse group of future bands from Ministry to Placebo.
The upfront intensity of Juju probably isn't matched anywhere else in the catalogue of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Thanks to its killer singles, unrelenting force, and invigorating dynamics, Juju is a post-punk classic
Side 1:
Spellbound
Into The Light
Arabian Knights
Halloween
Monitor
Side 2:
Night Shift
Sin In My Heart
Head Cut
Voodoo Dolly
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - one light spindle trace on one side (once played, or part played - spindle hole still tight)
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT
I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate but even so my play-check at loud volume found absolutely nothing to fault
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
As clean, crisp and fresh as the day it was made with just a tiny touch of rub to the spine corners
INNER SLEEVE: MINT-
Again, like-new - no seam splits and only given a (-) for a little natural record impression
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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525 (GS 6.6.5 (525))
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