Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
“O Baby” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
From the album The Rapture (1995)
“O Baby” by Siouxsie and the Banshees appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1995 on the album The Rapture. Its best result is #1668 on the CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,942 alternative song of all time.
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"O Baby" sounds like almost nothing Siouxsie and the Banshees had released before it. The first single from The Rapture, their 11th studio album, arrived through Polydor in December 1994 as a brisk love song that skips along on a bouncing beat and a light touch on the guitars, with lyrics from Siouxsie Sioux that are, of all things, plainly happy. John Cale produced it and Mark Saunders mixed, and the music is shared between Siouxsie, Budgie, Steven Severin, Jon Klein and Martin McCarrick.
John Hillcoat shot the video like a documentary, at a beauty pageant for young girls in Flagstaff, Arizona. The song climbed to number 34 in Britain, the last time a Banshees single made the top 40.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1691 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1691 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1691 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1683 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1669 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1669 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1668 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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