Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Turn to Stone” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
From the album Peepshow (1988)
“Turn to Stone” by Siouxsie and the Banshees appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1988 on the album Peepshow. Its best result is #1574 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,379 alternative song of all time.
"Turn to Stone" is a track from Peepshow, the album Siouxsie and the Banshees released in Britain on Polydor in September 1988. The lyric is Steven Severin's, set to music he wrote with Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie, and Mike Hedges produced it with the band and engineered the sessions.
Peepshow was the ninth Banshees album and their first as a five-piece, with multi-instrumentalist Martin McCarrick and guitarist Jon Klein newly on board, and it ranges across a wide spread of influences. Critics at the time praised the album's unpredictable orchestrations and the new shadings in Siouxsie's voice. This one was not among its three singles; those were "Peek-a-Boo", "The Killing Jar" and "The Last Beat of My Heart", and "Peek-a-Boo" gave the band their first American hit. In 2018 Samantha Bennett devoted a whole book to the record.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1574 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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