Siouxsie & The Banshees – Swimming Horses – Single Released 16/03/84 – Chart: No.28 – Directed by Tim Pope – Currently not available.
Swimming Horses
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Swimming Horses – Single Released 16/03/84 – Chart: No.28 – Directed by Tim Pope – Currently not available.
Mans opression of woman and perfect imagery or metaphor. I really like the video to.
Robert was just lending a hand, I suppose he was never meant to stay. After their incipient years ( to call incipient to a band who put out The Scream, Join Hands and Kaleidoscope is a crime), as they entered the new decade, every and each album released was a bombastic challenge to our senses. Even Tinderbox has its moments, though it's the album when the band decided to make some financial justice to their 10-year legacy then ( and very rightfully so). In 20 years, they went from screaming like the Banshees they were on the watery stage of the 100 Club and the Roxy London, to mega-stardom without prostituting themselves, ending it all in a haze of glory with The Rapture, their last and allegedly BEST album ever, inviting Cale to work on some songs but not all, from what I infer from the press and the inlay notes. What else can we say? Better and greater than all the you-toos and cures from those islands, they were the truthful survivors and conquerors of said punk turmoil that shook some tv presenters and emepees. Who needs Jim Morrison when you've got Sioux?
Falling in your, falling in your, in your arms, in your arms
Fish on a line, learns to live on dry land
Thrown back again to drown
Kinder with poison than pushed down a well or a face burnt to hell
Feel the cruel stones breaking her bones
Dead before born, words fall in ruins but no sound
She's dying of your shame
She's maimed by your aim
He gives birth to swimming horses
He gives birth to swimming horses
Fish on a line, walking on dry land
But back in the water to drown
We drown
Floating in sky
He gives birth to swimming horses
He gives birth to swimming horses
Take a ride on the tide with the assassin at your side
The weightlessness under water
Forgets in slow motion
And washes pointless tortures
He gives birth to swimming horses
He gives birth to swimming horses
Floating in sky like fishes can fly through your arms
… it's primery good time … exelent 😉
And Robert Smith was slim back in 84…Saw Siouxie and The Banshees in Paris (Espace Ballard) on March 25 th, 1984. Smith was on guitars. But the best Banshees guitarist was John Mc GEOCH..(RIP).
"HYAENA" was just released…Still got my ticket somewhere in my "musical archives". TC MATIC was the supporting band…The singer Arno has a successful solo career for nearly 30 years now.
I <3 <3 <3 <3 you guys!~A
I've never found Ms Sioux that attractive but I completely adore that whole sequence that starts at 2:53
@Jakegothicsnake Yeah, if I remember correctly it used to actually play music, right?
Fat Boab's great!
I wish this video would have been included on the Twice Upon A Time collection vhs.
Hold on one second…. Is that Robert Smith???? lol
that was great, never saw that one before…this was when Robert Smith was the guitar player….i have seen them twice, always a huge fan, thanks for the video!!
Maybe their best song. Too bad the videos all suck!
(and the lip-synching..!)
One of my favorite Siouxsie songs… I did not know there was a video for it! thank you.
I listen to this song every day. Fantastic!
MTV was good before the end of the 90's….now it just sucks…….
for me, it is closedly related to women in the middle est. their impossibility to be theirselves because of male dominated society
Heh. I love that little smile she gives between 2:59 and 3:00. I remember loving this song as a small child and going into a trance listening to her enchanting voice as well as the beautiful instrumentation.
amazing video of an amazing song
look its robert!!!
In the seahorse species, it is the male who incubates and gives birth…
Love the song…love the video…hate that Fat Bob ruined it.
Ah this was when Robert Smith was in the Banshees : )
Hyaena is a fantastic album… in my top 3 with Juju and Tinderbox.
Siouxsie looks bored through most of this video.
i like it. thank you.