Siouxsie & The Banshees TinderboxSiouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux (vocals); John Valentine Carruthers (guitar, keyboards); Steven Severin (keyboards, bass); Budgie (drums, percussion). With their 1984 release, HYAENA, Siouxse & the Banshees dropped more than just a few hints that they were entering very melodic territory (their cover of the Beatles' "Dear Prudence," etc.). And they delivered on their promise with their follow up two years later, 1986's TINDERBOX. The Banshees

a sweeping piano-violin gem that she began writing with the late Gaviati

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" where Clark's deceptively sweet vocals sound equally at home with gentle strings or harsh guitar outbursts

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" is a straight-ahead post-bop number that pops and swings with a fine understated solo by Ferrante

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