Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Shadowtime” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
From the album Superstition (1991)
“Shadowtime” by Siouxsie and the Banshees appears on 12 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1991 and 2005. It was first released in 1991 on the album Superstition. Its best result is #27 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #38 alternative song of 1991 and #1,144 alternative song of all time.
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"Shadowtime" came out in July 1991 as the second single from Superstition, Siouxsie and the Banshees' tenth studio album, and it catches the band in a brisk, bright, pop-minded mood. Stephen Hague produced it for Polydor, with Mike "Spike" Drake engineering and Nigel Godrich among the assistants.
It's an up-tempo tune with a sleek shimmer, and Steven Severin later described it as a kind of tribute to Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure; you can hear that art-rock gloss in its bones. For the single the track got a light remix that filled it out with synthesizers and added extra backing vocals from Siouxsie Sioux. American alternative radio warmed to it, and it spent six weeks on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, topping out at 13.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 58 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991 | 107 |
| 1991 | 27 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 | 91 |
| 1991 | 48 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 | 105 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 124 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 196 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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