#kiss them for me

[bitter69uk]

Released on this day 33 years ago (13 May 1991): “Kiss Them for Me” by life-changing veteran British punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Musically, the bewitching first single from the Banshees’ Superstition record (their tenth studio album, issued on 10 June 1991) is a danceable jasmine-scented swirl of psychedelic exotica with a pronounced Asian influence (Talvin Singh plays tablas on it), while the lyrics offer a twisted valentine to Hollywood’s ill-fated sex kitten-gone-berserk Jayne Mansfield. (The title references Mansfield’s 1957 film Kiss Them for Me). “It's divoon / Oh, it's serene / In the fountains pink champagne / Someone carving their devotion / In the heart-shaped pool of fame” Siouxsie coos, sketching-out Mansfield’s commitment to glamour and publicity at her legendary Pink Palace and culminating in her 1967 death in a car crash (“On the road to New Orleans / A spray of stars hit the screen / As the tenth impact shimmered / The forbidden candles beamed …”). “Kiss Them for Me” scored the Banshees their biggest US chart hit (around this time they joined the first Lollapalooza tour, which significantly boosted their profile stateside). The stylish art-y video - seemingly inspired by the cinema of Kenneth Anger and Jean Cocteau - featured a pink poodle, popping champagne corks, palm trees, golden cherubs, the male band members sporting menacing leather biker gear (very Scorpio Rising) and Siouxsie frolicking in a fountain. It justifiably received heavy rotation on MTV (and on MuchMusic in Canada, which is where I would have seen it). Now sing along with me! “No party she'd not attend / No invitation she wouldn't send …”

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 13, 1991

Lyrics:

It glittered and it gleamed

For the arriving beauty queen

A ring and a car

Now you're the prettiest by far

No party she'd not attend

No invitation she wouldn't send

Transfixed by the inner sound

Of your promise to be found

"Nothing or no one will ever

Make me let you down"

Kiss them for me, I may be delayed

Kiss them for me if I am delayed

It's divoon, oh it's serene

In the fountains pink champagne

Someone carving their devotion

In the heart-shaped pool of fame

"Nothing or no one will ever

Make me let you down"

Kiss them for me, I may be delayed

Kiss, kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed

On the road to New Orleans

A spray of stars hit the screen

As the tenth impact shimmered

The forbidden candles beamed

Songwriter:

Kiss them for me, I may be delayed

Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed

Kiss them for me, kiss them for me

Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed

Kiss them for me, kiss them for me

Budgie / Martin John Mccarrick / Siouxsie Sioux / Steven Severin

SongFacts:

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[ladiesonphone]

kiss them for me (1957) Jayne Mansfield / Suzy Parker

[rocknrollflames]

Kiss Them for Me

- Siouxsie and the Banshees

[achromecoveredclone]

I LOVE KISS THEM FOR ME BY SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES ITS SUCH A BANGER

And the music video is literally amazing like 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾 literally no other song like it (if there are pls reccomend them)

[vintage-tigre]

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[4chambersofmystery]

"Nothing or no one will ever

Make me let you down"

[yatanis]

One of his favorite poems was a bit of doggerel: "They bought me a box of tin soldiers, I threw all the Generals away, I smashed up the Sergeants and Majors, Now I play with my Privates all day.".

[popgodz]

[fallenangelontheceiling]

I think Marina should do a cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Kiss Them For Me”

[blueiskewl]

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Kiss Them For Me

A Ukrainian Mi-8 is sending some love to the occupiers.

[mgabrielb]

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Official Music Video)

[seagreenlaurin]

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