Playground Twist

Infobox Single
Name = Playground Twist


Artist = Siouxsie & the Banshees
from Album = Join Hands
B-side = "Pulled to Bits"
Released = July 28, 1979
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 03:00
Label = Polydor
Writer = Sioux / Severin / McKay / Morris
Producer = Nils Stevenson
Mike Stavrou
Chart position = * #28 (UK)
Last single = "The Staircase (Mystery)" (1979)
This single = "Playground Twist" (1979)
Next single = "Mittageisen" (1979)"Playground Twist" is the third single released by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. Issued in the UK by Polydor Records in 1979, the track was written by Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, John McKay and Kenny Morris and produced by Nils Stevenson and Mike Stavrou. It was released as the only single from the Banshees' second album "Join Hands".

"Playground Twist" has a 3/4 time signature which is unusual for rock and roll music. The pacing of the song gives a childlike (i.e. "playground") feel (along with references to childhood nursery rhymes), although the lyrics provide a much more sinister picture. The single became Siouxsie & the Banshees' third top forty hit, peaking at number twenty-eight in the UK singles chart.