Playground Twist
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| "Playground Twist" | ||||
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| Single by Siouxsie and the Banshees | ||||
| from the album Join Hands | ||||
| B-side | "Pulled to Bits" | |||
| Released | 29 June 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriters | Susan Ballion, Kenny Morris, John McKay and Steven Severin | |||
| Producers | Nils Stevenson, Mike Stavrou | |||
| Siouxsie and the Banshees singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Playground Twist" on YouTube | ||||
"Playground Twist" is a song by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1979 as the sole single from the band's second album, Join Hands (1979).
The track was produced by the band's manager Nils Stevenson and Mike Stavrou, a recording engineer on T. Rex's final album, Dandy in the Underworld (1977)
Critical reception
NME's Roy Carr hailed the single and wrote: "If Ingmar Bergman produced records, they might sound like this. The listener is immediately engulfed in a maelstrom of whirling sound punctuated by the ominous tolling of church bells, phased guitars, thundering percussion, a surreal alto sax and the wail of Siouxsie's voice. It demands to be played repeatedly at the threshold-of-pain volume to elicit its full nightmarish quality".[1]
