The Scream is the debut studio album by British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 13 November 1978 by Polydor Records. Its innovative combination of angular and serrated guitar with a bass-led rhythm and machine-like drums played mostly on toms, made it a pioneering work of the post-punk genre.
The Scream was met with widespread critical acclaim; it was seen as an original musical development in rock music. It strongly influenced post-punk, noise rock and alternative rock genres and rock guitar playing in general. Groups and musicians including Joy Division and Killing Joke, cited it as a major influence.
Background
In late 1977, Siouxsie and the Banshees received major press coverage but failed to secure a recording deal.[1] A fan undertook a graffiti campaign in London, spraying the walls of the major record companies with the words "Sign the Banshees: do it now".[2] Polydor finally signed them in June 1978.[3]
John McKay had become the band's guitarist in July 1977; music historian Clinton Heylin argued that the recruitment of McKay (along with the first concerts of Magazine in late 1977 and the formation of PiL in mid-1978), marked the "true starting-point for English post-punk".[4] Several songs from The Scream had already been recorded on BBC Radio 1 for two John Peel sessions: "Mirage", "Metal Postcard" and "Suburban Relapse" premiered in November 1977, and "Overground" and "Carcass" were aired three months later in February 1978. When recording their first Peel session, Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin had described their music as "cold, machine-like and passionate at the same time". Music journalist Vivien Goldman wrote: "Siouxsie and the Banshees sound like a 21st century industrial plant".[5] Their first Peel session became one of the most requested in the show’s history.[6]
Recording, music and lyrics
The Scream was recorded in one week during August 1978, and mixed in three weeks with Steve Lillywhite co-producing.[7] The group were in the studio while their debut single "Hong Kong Garden" was released.[8] Lillywhite was recruited because he recorded the drums in a different way. He asked drummer Kenny Morris to play the bass drum and the snare drum first. Then he did the cymbals and the tom-toms later.[9] Music journalist Kris Needs noted that Lillywhite used "deep echo" on drums.[7] Joy Division's drummer Stephen Morris noted in his autobiography that the Banshees used "the bass-led rhythm" and their drummer "Kenny Morris played mostly toms".[10]Percussions were an important component of the music: future Banshees drummer Budgie remarked that Morris did "a lot of percussion overdubs" and "they are really part of the songs".[11] Siouxsie's way of singing was singular: musician Boz Boorer observed that "the whooping vocal wasn't just singing a tune, it would slide around."[12]
Music historian Simon Goddard described the music on The Scream as a "claustrophobic abyss of angst and angularity", saying it was part of a triptych of albums layering the foundations of post-punk.[13] The opening cut, "Pure", had a spacious, atmospheric sound. Journalist Miranda Sawyer noted that Siouxsie's "vocals came from a distance", that "there was a lot of space" and that "the sound was big and slow".[14] Music journalist Ian Birch wrote that "Pure" was an atmosphere piece; "a snarling, predatory bass stalks its ground before it's met by teeth-grinding guitar splinters, and the distant footfall of drums. Siouxsie's voice becomes an instrument."[15] Kris Needs remarked that at the end, it seeps out into "Jigsaw Feeling", a "song of disorientation and bewilderment" with a "huge, sometimes awe-inspiring sound".[7] On "Metal Postcard", there is a "motorik austerity" in the rhythm patterns.[16] The last song, "Switch", was divided in three sections, "for the different people who swap jobs with terrible results - scientists, general practitioner and vicar".[7] The music on The Scream was "monochrome and minimal".[17]
The "original... idea" was "a pure musical democracy" . The group didn't want any lead instrument, neither the voice or the guitar "which usually dominated" the music. Every member of the band "occupied their own space, melodically and rhythmically".[18] Severin didn't see "the bass as a supporting instrument": he always thought of it "as a driving instrument".[18]
Siouxsie wanted the Banshees' music to be "cinematic"; Bernard Herrmann's score to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho inspired the music of "Suburban Relapse", where the guitars echo the knife-screeching violins of the famous shower scene.[19] McKay co-wrote most of the songs. Only "Carcass" dated from the band's time with Peter Fenton, their guitarist from January to July 1977.[20]
J. G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs provided the reference points for the lyrics of The Scream.[14] In a track such as "Suburban Relapse", the band wrote about suburbia, where they were born and raised. Severin emphasized: "That's why J.G. Ballard resonated so much with us, because all his near-future tales were set in this bizarre suburban wasteland. Suburbia is a place where you can imagine any kind of possibility, because there's space, not urban clutter".[21]
Title and sleeve
The title of the album was in part inspired by the 1968 film The Swimmer (starring Burt Lancaster), in which main character, Neddy Merrill, intended to swim home, using open-air pools. Climbing over garden fences, from pool to pool, his journey put him into a state of mental and physical exhaustion, and in the end, Goddard said, "all Neddy Merrill could think to do was scream, [...] as a scream of exhausted jubilance after a troubled, arduous journey".[22]
The idea for the cover was Siouxsie's. Photographer Paul Wakefield met with her and the band to discuss the project. Wakefield later said:
The idea was to shoot disquieting and unnerving images underwater in a swimming pool – you can't scream underwater. I wanted to be able to completely control the lighting, and so an indoor pool was the only option. I scouted quite a few pools, but when I saw this pool in the YMCA in Central London, which was dark blue tiled with light blue lane stripes instead of the normal reverse colours, I knew it was the ideal location. I wanted to give it an eerie underwater night-time feel, and this setting was perfect. We used a number of 1000K and 2000K lights around the pool edge. I used schoolkids as models and they pretty well ran riot.[23]
Release
More than one month prior to its release, DJJohn Peel broadcast the album on BBC radio 1 from an advance copy on a cassette, from the beginning to end, with no interruptions. "That's the one boys and girls,' he says when it's over. 'That's the one.'"[24]
The Scream was released on 13 November 1978. It was an almost instant commercial success, peaking at No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart.[25]
The Scream was reissued on CD in the UK on 27 October 2005 as part of Universal's Deluxe Edition series. The new edition featured a remastered version of the album on the first disc, while the second disc contained demo and live tracks together with the singles from that period. A single-disc edition of the reissue was also released.
A 180g black vinyl LP reissue of the original edition, mastered from the original ¼ inch tapes and cut half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, was released in September 2018.[26]
The Scream was named "the best debut album of the year" by Sounds.[33] Reviewer Peter Silverton gave the album 5 stars out of 5,[32] and the paper listed it at No. 2 in its end-of-year best album list.[34]Record Mirror also published a 5-star review, saying: The Scream "points to the future, real music for the new age.... It is vital, it's moving. It's a ... landmark." Chris Westwood praised the cohesion between the words and the music: "The album's lyrical frame of mind is perfectly reflected in the work of [guitarist] McKay. [Bassist] Severin and [drummer] Morris; constantly shifting, restless, controlled aggression, they are as essential as Siouxsie."[31]Melody Maker described the sound as "strong, abrasive, visceral and constantly inventive, with a thrust that makes the spaces equal partners to the notes", with the critic comparing the album's textures to that of Wire and Pere Ubu.[15]ZigZag qualified it as a "magnificent record", with reviewer Kris Needs writing: "I can't think of another group who could have made an LP so uncompromising, powerful and disturbing, yet so captivating and enjoyable... It is certainly a special classic to join milestones like [David Bowie's]Diamond Dogs, Roxy [Music]'s first and [Lou Reed's]Berlin. This is music of such strength and vision that you just can't not be moved by the time they swing into the final climactic passage of 'Switch', the closing track." Needs qualified the sound as "huge, sometimes awe-inspiring" and commented that drummer Morris created "one of the best drum sounds I've ever heard – the deep echo and floor-shuddering mix accentuating his muted Glitter Band stomp".[7] Critic Adam Sweeting began his review by saying, "This is a chilling, intense masterpiece". Sweeting then noted that the musicians "have perfected a group sound which is powerful but streamlined", adding that "the words and music combine to produce coolly dazzling images".[35]
Several journalists from NME also praised the record. Nick Kent first stated that the band sounded "like some unique hybrid of the Velvet Underground mated with much of the ingenuity of Tago Mago-era Can." He then focused his attention on the opening track, saying: "Pure" "takes the sound to its ultimate juncture, leaving spaces that say as much as the notes being played. Certainly, the traditional three-piece sound has never been used in a more unorthodox fashion with such stunning results."[36] In December 1978, another critic from NME, Paul Morley, described the music on The Scream as "unlike anything in rock":
It is not, as some would say, chaotic – it is controlled. Each instrument operates within its own space, its own time, as if mocking the lines of other instruments. Known rock is inverted, leaving just traces of mimicry of rock's cliches – satire that often bursts with glorious justification into shaking celebration (as on "Helter Skelter"). It is easy to gain attention by doing something which is crudely obviously out of the ordinary, but the Banshees have avoided such futile superficialities: it is innovation, not revolution, not a destruction but new building. It has grown out of rock – Velvets, Station to Station, Bolan. And Siouxsie's staggering voice is dropped, clipped, snapped prominently above this audacious musical drama, emphasizing the dark colours and empty, naked moods.[37]
However, in her review of the album, NME'sJulie Burchill was unimpressed, stating that the Banshees sound was "a self-important threshing machine thrashing all stringed instruments down onto the same low level alongside that draggy sub-voice as it attempts futile eagle and dove swoops around the mono-beat. Their sound is certainly different from the normal guitar-bass-drums-voice consequence. But it's radically stodgy... loud, heavy and levelling, the sound of suet pudding".[38]
Kurt Loder gave a very favourable review in Rolling Stone, remarking that The Scream was a "striking debut album"; and that its "sound, stark though fully realized (thanks partly to a most simpatico co-producer, Steve Lillywhite), is lent added intellectual dimension by a series of disturbingly ambiguous lyrical images".[39] The 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide gave a 4 out 5 rating, with the comment: "Even if you can't figure out exactly what makes Siouxsie wail the way she does, The Scream creates a rich, claustrophobic maelstrom of crude sound and half-submerged feelings."[40]
During a BBC radio show, David Bowie mentioned a concert of the group given after their release of their first album: "I saw you Siouxsie and you were really excellent... I was clutching my copy of The Scream".[41]
Legacy
Record Mirror's Ronnie Gurr wrote that "The Scream, a masterpiece that, for six months, I failed to recognise as such, was a harrowing listening experience."[42] Since its release, The Scream has received a number of accolades from the music press. NME rated it at No. 58 in their "Writers All Time 100 Albums" list in 1985.[43] Don Watson of the NME in 1986 described the album's music as "something that whipped the past into a great whirlpool of noise, pulling the future down".[44]Uncut magazine placed it at No. 43 in their list of the 100 greatest debut albums.[45] It was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[46] In 2006, the music critic Garry Mulholland included it in his book Fear of Music about the 261 greatest albums since 1976.[47] In 2007, Record Collector wrote that "it stands as one of the great debut albums from any era".[48] In 2016, Les Inrockuptibles rated it as one of "The 100 Best British Albums" in a special issue.[49] In 2017, Q included it in their list of "the debut albums that changed music" with "revolutionnary sounds".[50]
When The Scream came out, I remember it was much slower than everybody thought. It was like the forerunner of the Joy Division sound. It was just big-sounding.[51]
The Scream has been influential on a large number of genres and artists. Joy Division's Peter Hook, who saw the group in concert in Manchester in 1977,[52] said about The Scream: "Siouxsie and the Banshees were one of our big influences ... The Banshees first LP was one of my favourite ever records, the way the guitarist and the drummer played was a really unusual way of playing and this album showcases a landmark performance."[53] Joy Division's drummer Stephen Morris said: "[their] first drummer Kenny Morris played mostly toms" and "the sound of cymbals was forbidden", "the Banshees had that... foreboding sound, sketching out the future from the dark of the past".[10]Geordie Walker of Killing Joke praised McKay's guitar playing and sound: "on The Scream,... he came out with these chord structures that I found very refreshing. The guy's been ripped off so much, he started that flanged chord thing".[54] The Cure's frontman said that he "loved" the band's early material, "especially "Metal Postcard"."[55]
Pat Smear of Germs said: "it is so weird and great... all the guitar playing on that first Banshees album really inspired me".[56]Steve Albini of Big Black praised guitarist John McKay for the noise he created, stating that "The Scream is notable for a few things: only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player (you know, the one who's been replaced by everyone in England) got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs", and further adding, "good noise guitar is like an orgasm."[57] Elsewhere, Albini recounted that he "admired and emulated... Wire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, This Heat."[58]Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth said that all of the records he owned in the mid-1970s "got kind of put into the basement. And they were supplanted by" the debut albums of bands like "Talking Heads and Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was a completely new world, a new identity of music that was an option for youth culture".[59] Moore, who also included "Hong Kong Garden" in his 25 favorite songs of all time,[60] stated about this album and the group: "Siouxsie and the Banshees, did they release a better record than The Scream?"[61] While playing his favourite records on BBC Radio 6, Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain commented: "'Jigsaw Feeling' from The Scream album... it was brilliant, amazing. That's a reason why I made music".[62]Morrissey had "Mirage" played during intermission before all concerts of his 1991's Kill Uncle tour.[63] Morrissey's main composer, Boz Boorer, rated The Scream highly, ranking it second in his "Top Five Desert Island Album Selection".[64] Boorer stated: "Another big influence on my playing is John McKay... That first Siouxsie record was quite incredible sounding, and it started me in thinking that music didn't have to be any certain way—that there could be many different influences in music and it didn't have to be a single, strict avenue. That first Banshees album has a lot of jarring guitar that rubs against what you'd think was going to or maybe should happen over a part, and that changed my thinking quite a bit".[65]
Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream said that he was inspired by their debut album: "They had a sound unlike any other band" and the songs were "a realisation that life is difficult, not normal pop song material. The Scream was the first record through which I experienced these themes, where the band's music mirrored the lyrics perfectly", with "a film noir atmosphere". He praised guitarist McKay for delivering "quicksilver notes of beautiful sonic violence". Gillespie also wrote: the band "were a new kind of rock", and McKay "reinvented rock guitar playing".[69]Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson cited it as one of her all-time favourite records.[70]Brett Anderson of Suede included The Scream on a list of albums titled "current fascinations".[71]Marc Almond of Soft Cell also explained why the songs mattered to him: "The Scream made a real impression on me. I loved the way they turned these suburban things into nightmares—that was a great influence on early Soft Cell stuff".[72]Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl remembered 1978 as an important music year. "Back then when I only had five or six records I'd listen to each of them over and over, knowing every beat, every word, every scratch. Elvis Costello's My Aim is True, The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jam's In the City, Moving Targets by Penetration, and Another Music in a Different Kitchen by Buzzcocks".[73]
Aftermath
Journalist David Cavanagh wrote in 2016: "The Scream - released on Polydor after Peel had repeatedly cajoled record labels to sign the band - was to influence the sound of early U2, the Cure, the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine. Each one of these bands has influenced at least four hundred others".[74]
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↑ Cavanagh, David (2015). Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to ... Faber & Faber. ISBN978-0-571-32789-8. 3 October 1978 [...] And tonight brings the clear hint that he believes he now has a much younger audience than he had two years ago. Siouxsie and the Banshees' first album, The scream, is released next month and Peel has an advance copy. BASF and TDK cassettes at the ready, Banshees fans: this is a unique scoop. 'The only track on it that isn't a group composition is "Helter Skelter",' Peel tells them. 'It occurred to me that you might not have heard the original from 1968, from the Beatles' White album. They might not have heard the Beatles? How old he think they are? And what might a Festive 50 look like if these young music fans were to vote for it? After giving them a flavour of what the Fab Four sounded like back in the day, he plays The Scream from beginning to end, with no interruptions. 'That's the one boys and girls,' he says when it's over. 'That's the one.'
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