When initially composed to be an extra track for 1987's "The Passenger" single, the band realized that the song was too good to be relegated to B-side status and deserved better exposure. It took the band a year to arrive at this result. The lyric track was further manipulated by Siouxsie's use of a different microphone for each line of the song. Once the instrumental parts were finished, Siouxsie sang her lyrics over it.
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The band selected different parts of that tape when played backwards, editing them and re-recording on top of it, adding a different melody plus accordion, a one-note bass and discordant guitar. The song was built on a loop in reverse of a brass part with drums which the group previously arranged a year before for a cover of John Cale's "Gun". The song's peculiar sound is due to its experimental recording which was based on a sample. to me it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard."
īloc Party praised "Peek-a-Boo" and their singer Kele Okereke said: "It sounded like nothing else on this planet. 18 on their list "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s", saying that its instrumentation was "inventive" with "ingenious vocal phasing". PopMatters retrospectively placed it at No. NME described it as "Oriental marching band hip hop" with "catchy accordion." They then said : "If this nation was served by anything approaching a decent pop radio station, "Peek A Boo" would be a huge hit."
Sounds wrote that it was a "brave move", "playful and mysterious". "Peek-a-Boo" was rated "Single of the Week" in both Sounds and NME. Melody Maker described the song as "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance" and qualified its genre as "thirties hip hop". It was released in 1988 as the first single from the band's ninth studio album, Peepshow.
" Peek-a-Boo" is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Siouxsie and the Banshees singles chronology For other songs of this or a similar title, see Peekaboo (disambiguation). This article is about the Siouxsie and the Banshees song.
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