Siouxsie and the Banshees ----- Through the Looking Glass

cocteau · 發表於 2024-3-3 20:34:29

Siouxsie and the Banshees ----- Through the Looking Glass

"Through the Looking Glass" turns 37 on today.

36 years ago today (2 March 1987), Siouxsie and the Banshees released their eighth studio album “Through the Looking Glass” featuring singles "This Wheel's on Fire" and "The Passenger". The album covers artists like Roxy Music, Iggy Pop, Television, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Billie Holiday and more.

In a retrospective review, AllMusic said: "The inspired range of covers reaches from glam-era landmarks (Roxy Music's 'Sea Breezes', John Cale's 'Gun') to Billie Holiday's sorrowful touchstone 'Strange Fruit' to, in one of the best such efforts ever (and a year before Hal Willner's Stay Awake project), a Disney classic—namely the slinky 'Trust in Me', originally from The Jungle Book and given a spare, mostly-Budgie backing that could almost be a sparkling Creatures outtake". Mojo included their version of "Strange Fruit" on the 2007 CD Music Is Love: 15 Tracks That Changed the World Recovered By.... Writing in the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Mark Coleman and Mac Randall gave Through the Looking Glass a rating of 2.5 stars out of five, saying that it contains "overpolished covers of the group's obvious influences". In an article about "Records Turning 30 Years Old in 2017", Paste included it in their top fifteen saying that it was, "an eclectic and adventurous album of Siouxsie-fied takes on a diverse collection of songs", with "interesting and engaging choices". Journalist Will Hodge concluded: "this album is a prime example of the value of artistic merit not being accurately measured by mainstream successes".