"Dazzle" curiosity
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:16 amI'd always wondered if Siouxsie had lifted the wonderful orchestral intro and outro to Dazzle and even periodically listened for the original piece if there was such thing. I guess not...
http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/Text/kdeyoe.93/0010.html
'DAZZLE'
(Originally released May 1984, also from "Hyena")
"I wrote the strings for this on a toy piano!" remembers Sioux, fondly. "The
sentiment behind it is of lying on the gutter but still looking up at the
stars. I'd seen 'Marathon Man', and I was really intrigued by the guy
swallowing diamonds to keep them, and then realising it was like swallowing
glass --- that they would pass through his system and tear him apart. So
that's the line --- 'Swallowing diamonds, cutting throats'.
"Quite a lot of this, and 'Swimming Horses', came from visiting Israel for
the first time. 'The sea of fluid mercury', in the lyric, is the Dead Sea.
We did this crazy thing and hired a car to go to the Dead Sea, Robert (Smith,
their then guitarist) had to be the chauffeur, he was the only one who could
drive. But, when we got there, it was like 'The Hills Have Eyes' --- all
barbed wire and tanks and flags with skull and crossbones on them!
"We also went to Tel Aviv, where most of the audience were on acid ---
which was available after the show, so we took it as well! We ended up on the
beach, having a party until sunrise, and, of course, we ended up swimming.
The sea was very clear, but there were all these little fish flying out of it.
It wasn't the drugs, honest!"
I doubt she converted the toy-piano notes herself for strings, but whatever the case, she herself did indeed write it. 'Twas interesting to me is all...don't know if it's common knowledge.
http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/Text/kdeyoe.93/0010.html
'DAZZLE'
(Originally released May 1984, also from "Hyena")
"I wrote the strings for this on a toy piano!" remembers Sioux, fondly. "The
sentiment behind it is of lying on the gutter but still looking up at the
stars. I'd seen 'Marathon Man', and I was really intrigued by the guy
swallowing diamonds to keep them, and then realising it was like swallowing
glass --- that they would pass through his system and tear him apart. So
that's the line --- 'Swallowing diamonds, cutting throats'.
"Quite a lot of this, and 'Swimming Horses', came from visiting Israel for
the first time. 'The sea of fluid mercury', in the lyric, is the Dead Sea.
We did this crazy thing and hired a car to go to the Dead Sea, Robert (Smith,
their then guitarist) had to be the chauffeur, he was the only one who could
drive. But, when we got there, it was like 'The Hills Have Eyes' --- all
barbed wire and tanks and flags with skull and crossbones on them!
"We also went to Tel Aviv, where most of the audience were on acid ---
which was available after the show, so we took it as well! We ended up on the
beach, having a party until sunrise, and, of course, we ended up swimming.
The sea was very clear, but there were all these little fish flying out of it.
It wasn't the drugs, honest!"
I doubt she converted the toy-piano notes herself for strings, but whatever the case, she herself did indeed write it. 'Twas interesting to me is all...don't know if it's common knowledge.