2-CD: 983238-8
RELEASED: 2005
LABEL: Polydor

Disc 1:
01. Pure
02. Jigsaw Feeling
03. Overground
04. Carcass
05. Helter Skelter
06. Mirage
07. Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)
08. Nicotine Stain
09. Suburban Relapse
10. Switch

Disc: 2
01. Make Up To Break Up (Riverside Session)
02. Love In A Void (Peel Session)
03. Mirage (Peel Session)
04. Metal Postcard (Peel Session)
05. Suburban Relapse (Peel Session)
06. Hong Kong Garden (Peel Session)
07. Overground (Peel Session)
08. Carcass (Peel Session)
09. Helter Skelter (Peel Session)
10. Metal Postcard (Pathway Session)
11. Suburban Relapse' (Pathway Session)
12. Staircase (Mystery) (Pathway Session)
13. Mirage (Pathway Session)
14. Nicotine Stain (Pathway Session)
15. Hong Kong Garden (7" Single Version)
16. Staircase (Mystery) (7" Single Version)

The entire back catalogue of Siouxsie & The Banshees has been remastered and will be released over the next year. Their first reissue is their 1978 debut album, The Scream. Remastered as two CD sets, much like the recent Cure reissues, the first disc includes the original album, while the second disc includes bonus tracks of the first ever release of the early Banshees live favourite "Make Up To Break Up" tracks from the 1978 John Peel sessions, the band's first two singles "Hong Kong Garden" and "Staircase (Mystery)" as well as five prototype tracks from The Scream, recorded at Pathway Studios. By the time it made its first appearance back in November 1978, Sioux had already left behind the toybox pallet of punk - swearing, swastikas and simple pogo-friendly riffs - and was busy inventing post-punk. While punk's Year Zero mentality meant bands were tossing the Bolan out with the Roger Waters, the Banshees were happy to raid pop culture for starting points. 'The Scream. is leading off a procession of Banshees re-releases over the coming 12 months or so, and in a world where it's easy to assume there's nobody left on a major label who much cares about music, it brings a tear to the cynical eye to see just how much care has been lavished on the package. The original collection of tracks has been given the expected digital remastering, but, more importantly, a second disc of stuff actually worth having has been gently eased into the slipcase. You get two complete Peel Sessions from '78 and the demo debuts of some of 'The Scream' tracks. 'Hong Kong Garden', the Top 10 hit left off the collection in a fit of something between petulance and perversity is welcomed back and, for the first time ever on anything approaching an official basis, 'Make Up To Break Up'.

Influences / Similar Artists:
The Cure, Joy Division, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Gene Loves Jezebel