Join Hands

Join Hands is the second studio album by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in September 1979 by record label Polydor. Upon its release, it was hailed by the British press, including Melody Maker, Sounds, NME and Record Mirror. It was the last album with the band's first recorded lineup, as guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris quit the group after a disagreement at the beginning of the tour.

Join Hands took "the very un-rock'n'roll topic of World War I as its inspiration". Musically, it is in a darker vein than their debut album The Scream.

The record peaked at No. 13 on the UK Albums Chart. "Playground Twist", was taken from the album: it was their third single in less than a year and "probably the best", according to music historian Clinton Heylin.

History, content and music

When the album was written in 1979, there were new reports from Iran and what was going on there: repression and curfews. It was one of the first times that viewers saw people being shot and killed on television. In England, It was also a time of instability. In London, the rubbish was piling high in the streets. Siouxsie saw it as "a real time, everything in flocks and uncertain but also festering underneath, and because this stuff from the past that was just left there rotting there and it needed to be acknowledged and then cleaned up, not just swept away still rotting".

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Join Hands

by: Siouxsie & The Banshees

Coronets rest on a death's head mask
No-one is safe while the curfew lasts
But crusted orbs glitter, scepters gleam
While helmets of blood fill the screen
They look away and then they say
"For the good of the land, for the love of the man"
Standing alone, sitting alone
On the throne of the regal zone
Old limbs hang in the torture room
While old kings hang in the portrait room
Their noble eyes gaze on the uneasy dance
Of the squirming body on the marble plate
They look away and then they say
"For the good of the land, for the love of the man"
Standing alone, sitting alone
On the throne of the regal zone
Regal zone, alone
Standing alone, sitting alone
Alone, regal zone
Alone, regal zone
Regal zone
Regal zone
They look away and then they say
"For the good of the land, for the love of the man"
Standing alone, sitting alone
Alone, regal zone
Alone, regal zone
Alone, regal zone
Regal zone
Alone, regal zone




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