Siouxsie-Downside Up

[cubby]

Just got my copy of the Siouxsie b-sides box set today. Music-wise, it is flawless. 51 b-sides plus the Thorn EP. Especially like the first disc from 1978-1982. It is great to finally have all these songs in 1 place and remastered. My only complaint is with the packaging. I think I would have preferred it to be in a book form sort of like the Cure's "Join the Dots" instead of a heavy cardboard fold-out. The print in the book is way too small though. C'mon Siouxsie, your fans are getting old; our eyesight isn't what it use to be!!! (HA HA!!) Overall, definitely worth the $$$. This one will be on my player for a longgggg time. Anyone else have it yet?

[Justj0hn]

Not yet but it's on my list. The box set has been almost 10 years in the making and this release sees an end to a long drawn out battle with Polydor to have all those non-lp trax reissued. I've had all the b-sides in my possession in one form or another f

[rogmagog]

Does it have pictures of all her 12" singles? I have about 12 0f them...I was hoping that they would release a book that showed all her album covers in LP size...Kind of like Peepholism- Morrissey's album cover art...which showed all The Smiths and Morris

[cubby]

Yes, for each b-side it has the lyrics, notes from Siouxsie, Severin and Budgie and pics of the 7" and the 12". The pics are small but they are there.

[cubby]

In the forward, Siouxsie writes that she has been wanting to do this since 1986. As she puts it "well it's about bloody time".

[schwenko]

[quote]Originally posted by cubby
[br]Just got my copy of the Siouxsie b-sides box set today. Music-wise, it is flawless. 51 b-sid

[cubby]

No US release date as of yet for either of them.

[I. M. He]

Grrrrrr... I've had my copy on order since late October from Amazon.ca and they keep pushing the release date back. So, lucky for me I found out about CD-WOW http://www12.cd-wow.com/index.php
from the SATB-list, they're selling it for £17.99 (plus FREE s

[yipyipcoyote]

WOW Excellent deal! I could have spent twice as much ordering from somewhere else. Thanks for the tip I'm He!!

[xtc-1957]

This is why going back over these old threads is so cool. I never would have known about this Siouxsie release. (and it's down to $41 from the amazon sellers)