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Track: Switch
Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Album: The Scream

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Name: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Spotify Genres: gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, new wave, deathrock, cold wave
Followers: 1,328,782
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U.K. band, formed in London in 1976, fronted by [a=Siouxsie Sioux] (Susan Janet Ballion) on vocals, with [a=Steven Severin] (Steven John Bailey) playing bass. [a=Budgie (2)] (Peter Clarke) on drums (who also worked with Siouxsie as the band [a=The Creatures]) joined them in 1980 up to their demise. Guitarists for the band have included [a=Marco Pirroni] (1976), [a=Pete Fenton] (1976-1977), [a=John McKay] (1977-1979), [a=John McGeoch] (1980-1982), [a=John Valentine Carruthers] (1984-1987), [a=Jon Klein] (1987-1995), [a=Knox Chandler] (1995, 2003) and also [a=Robert Smith] of [a=The Cure] (1980, 1982-1984) (who also worked with Severin as the band [a=The Glove]). Multiinstrumentalist [a=Martin McCarrick] was the band's full-time keyboard player from 1987 onwards. They disbanded in April 1996 and returned once for 'The Seven Year Itch' Tour in 2002.

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Release: Siouxsie And The Banshees* - The Scream
Year: 1978
Genres: Rock
Styles: Post-Punk

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LYRICS

Different Lives Shuffle(d) Lives
in different places into wrong categories
familiar problems cross the wires
same old faces and fuse humanities
Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...

Scientist G.P.'s
with patient guinea-pigs
cureing their head-aches
with drastic side-effects
switch

Doctor rectorates
condescending from on high
for all hallucinaters
see druggist in the sky
switch

Vicar experiments
but 'tis blasphemy
dismissing thought of progess
as the mark of devilry
(Watch the muscles twitch
for a brand new switch...)
switch

People walk Something blows up
and even talk won't come down
people listen scattered muscles twitch
then they halt too late to switch.
(They're dying to switch)