Shirley Manson and Siouxsie Sioux

The Quote from Shirley Manson, lead singer for Garbage: “‘I learned to sing listening to her records — she made me connect with rock music,” says Manson, who discovered the Banshees in 1980 at age 14. ”Women in the charts up to that point had been presenting a glossy, sanitized version of femininity — wearing little rah-rah skirts with their bellies hanging out. But Siouxsie, her face painted with that tribal makeup, she came along looking like a warrior.”

The Source: Interview by Missy Schwartz, EW.COM – December, 2004

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New to Siouxsie Sioux? Start Here: Siouxsie and the Banshees career drifts beautifully from Sex Pistolesque wailing to goth and synth arrangements. The wailing is missing for the most part, but the goth and synth is wonderfully captured here on The Best of Siouxsie & Banshees. You get the collection leading cover of the Beatles’ Dear Prudence and the catchy/disturbing/still fresh sounding Peek-A-Boo and a whole lot more.

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