5. Siouxsie And The BansheesThe Scream
By the end of punk, it was kind of like, what comes next? And nobody knew. There was a bit at the beginning of 1978 where you were thinking punk had run its course, so what do we do now? There were a couple of bands that led the way, and the Banshees were one of those. This record, you can hear that it came out of the punk movement, but it moves on, whereas hardly anybody else did. It was like punk, but different. Punk attitude, but not a punk sound. The guitar just sounded incredible. It was like, how is he doing that? And those two guys, Kenny Morris and John McKay, when they left the Banshees were still a great band but I think that they should have done whatever it took to keep those guys in the band. [Morris] was a great guitar player, he was just so inspired.
