Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Slowdive” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
From the album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982)
“Slowdive” by Siouxsie and the Banshees appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1982 and 2003. It was first released in 1982 on the album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. Its best result is #23 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #71 alternative song of 1982 and #5,524 alternative song of all time.
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"Slowdive" was the first single from A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, the fifth Siouxsie and the Banshees album, and Polydor released it on 1 October 1982. Siouxsie Sioux wrote the lyrics and shares the music with Budgie, John McGeoch and Steven Severin, and the band produced it themselves with Mike Hedges at the desk as engineer.
This is the Banshees getting ornate and adventurous. Violins and a cello thicken the air, the drums lock into a hypnotic krautrock pulse that Rolling Stone compared to Can, and Siouxsie takes all that brooding straight onto the dance floor. AllMusic praised its hook, and the Guardian's Dave Simpson rated it among the band's very best recordings, hearing it swerve from brooding rock into psychedelic pop.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 23 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 122 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988) | 200 |
| 2003 | 1949 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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