Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
From the album The Scream (1978)
“Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)” by Siouxsie and the Banshees appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1978. It was first released in 1978 on the album The Scream. Its best result is #50 on the John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1978). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,598 alternative song of all time.
Siouxsie and the Banshees put "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" on The Scream, their 1978 debut. The music is credited to Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, John McKay and Kenny Morris, the words to Siouxsie alone, and the band produced it with Steve Lillywhite, who also mixed it.
The title is a German pun that bends "Mittagessen", the word for lunch, around "Eisen", iron. It was inspired by the anti-Nazi German artist John Heartfield, whose photocollage Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! (Hurray, the Butter is Finished!) first ran on the front page of the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung in December 1935. In 1979 the band cut the song again with the lyrics in German for a West German single backed with "Love in a Void", and that September Polydor issued it in the UK as a double A-side, with Heartfield's collage on the sleeve.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 50 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1978) | 50 |
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