Juju (Siouxsie & the Banshees album)

Infobox Album
Name = Juju
Type = studio
Artist = Siouxsie & the Banshees


Released = 6 June 1981
Recorded = 1981
Genre = Post-punk
Gothic rock
Length = 41:06 (Original release)
Label = Geffen/Warner Bros. (USA)
Polydor (UK)
Producer = Nigel Gray, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:u96xlfje5cqi link]
Last album = "Kaleidoscope"
(1980)
This album = "Juju"
(1981)
Next album = ""
(1981)

"Juju" is the fourth album by the British rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. After the electronic bent of their last album, the Banshees returned to a more guitar-based sound for "Juju", due to the now-official new Banshees guitarist, John McGeoch. Released by Polydor Records in 1981, this album also featured prominently, for the first time, the intricate percussion work of band member Budgie. "Juju" was remastered as a single-disc digipack in May 2006.

In 1995, Melody Maker placed "Juju" as "one of the most influential british albums of all time." [Melody Maker, Cathi Unsworth, 14 january 1995, p34]

In 2007, The Guardian put "Juju" in its list of "1000 albums to hear before you die". Journalist Alexis petridis wrote. "Perennial masters of brooding suspense, the Banshees honed their trademark aloof art-rock to its hardest and darkest pitch on Juju. With their musical alchemy at its peak and Siouxsie at her most imperious, pop marvels such as Spellbound and Arabian Knights were poised, peerless exercises in magic realism that you could dance to." [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/nov/21/1000tohearbeforeyoudie5 The Guardian, 1000 albums to hear before you die] ]

*Morrissey stated to "GQ" in 2005 that "Juju" is to him the second best Siouxsie & the Banshees album. [ [http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/gqarrific/?action=view&current=page7.jpgGQ] ]

*Johnny Marr from Morrissey's previous band The Smiths stated on the BBC radio 2 in february'2008 that he highly rated guitarist McGeoch for his work on the first song on this album, "Spellbound". [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_johnmcgeoch.shtml?focuswin BBC, the story of McGeoch featuring Johnny Marr] ]

Track listing

All tracks by Sioux, McGeoch, Severin, and Budgie.

Original release

# "Spellbound" – 3:17
# "Into the Light" – 4:13
# "Arabian Knights" – 3:07
# "Halloween" – 3:42
# "Monitor" – 5:35
# "Night Shift" – 6:06
# "Sin in My Heart" – 3:38
# "Head Cut" – 4:24
# "Voodoo Dolly" – 7:04

2006 remastered reissue

* Includes original track listing plus:
#

" "Spellbound" (12" Mix)
# "Arabian Knights" (12" Vocoder Mix)
# "Fireworks" (unreleased Nigel Gray Version)

Singles

* "Spellbound"
* "Arabian Knights"

Personnel

*Siouxsie Sioux: vocals, guitar on "Sin in My Heart"
*Steven Severin: bass guitar
*Budgie: drums, percussion
*John McGeoch: guitar
*Nigel Gray and Siouxsie & the Banshees: producers

Uses

* The track "Halloween" played during the end credits of the 2006 CG-animated film Monster House.

Notes

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