Halloween Albums: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Keeping with debut album theme, today’s Halloween music pick is The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees. The song “Suburban Relapse” was inspired by the stabbing strings of Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho, and the song “Carcass” is about, umm well, we’ll let Sioux explain…
“Yeah Carcass — it’s about a butcher’s assistant who can’t get girls and so he falls in love with a lump of meat on the slab and so that he can be like the object of his affection — he cuts off his arms and legs.”
Ah hold on! I say (thinking I’ve deduced a flaw in their logic), How can he cut off ALL his arms and legs — it would be really difficult for him to cut off his last arm — wouldn’t it?
“Not at all”, comes the reply “he just leans his shoulder on the Bacon Slicer!”
Sounds like Halloween to me.
