At the BBC (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)


At the BBC is a live box set containing three CDs and a DVD by alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in June 2009 by record label Universal International.

Content

At the BBC consists of four discs containing 84 digitally remastered tracks of BBC sessions, live concert tracks and TV performances recorded between 1977 and 1991 split across three CDs and a DVD, as well has a hard-back book.
The DVD featured several live sessions filmed for The Old Grey Whistle Test and Oxford Road Show, and for the first time, a previously-unreleased concert filmed in Warwick in March 1981, prior to their Juju album, with John McGeoch on guitar. Robert Smith was also featured on guitar on nine songs, including a TV session in 1979 and all the TV appearances from November 1982 through March 1984.

Reception

Mojo wrote:

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Love in a Void"
  2. "Mirage"
  3. "Metal Postcard"
  4. "Suburban Relapse"
  5. "Hong Kong Garden"
  6. "Overground"
  7. "Carcass"
  8. "Helter Skelter"
  9. "Placebo Effect"
  10. "Playground Twist"
  11. "Regal Zone"
  12. "Poppy Day"
  13. "Halloween"
  14. "Voodoo Dolly"
  15. "But Not Them"
  16. "Into The Light"
  17. "Arabian Knights"
  18. "Red Over White"
  19. "Headcut"
  20. "Supernatural Thing"

    Disc two

  21. "Coal Mind"
  22. "Green Fingers"
  23. "Painted Bird"
  24. "Cascade"
  25. "Candyman"
  26. "Cannons"
  27. "Land's End"
  28. "Shooting Sun"
  29. "Song from the Edge Of The World"
  30. "Little Johnny Jewel"
  31. "Something Blue"
  32. "Green Fingers"
  33. "Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man"
  34. "Sweetest Chill"
  35. "Cannons"
  36. "Melt!"
  37. "Candyman"
  38. "Land's End"

    Disc three

  39. "Night Shift"
  40. "92 Degrees"
  41. "Pulled to Bits"
  42. "Switch"
  43. "Happy House"
  44. "Cities in Dust"
  45. "The Last Beat of My Heart"
  46. "The Killing Jar"
  47. "Christine"
  48. "This Wheel's on Fire"
  49. "Something Blue"
  50. "Rawhead and Bloody Bones"
  51. "Carousel"
  52. "Rhapsody"
  53. "Skin"
  54. "Spellbound"
  55. "Hong Kong Garden"

    DVD

  56. "Metal Postcard"
  57. "Jigsaw Feeling"
  58. "Playground Twist"
  59. "Love in a Void"
  60. "Regal Zone"
  61. "Happy House"
  62. "Israel"
  63. "Tenant"
  64. "Israel"
  65. "Spellbound"
  66. "Arabian Knights"
  67. "Halloween"
  68. "Night Shift"
  69. "But Not Them"
  70. "Voodoo Dolly"
  71. "Eve White/Eve Black"
  72. "Spellbound"
  73. "Fireworks"
  74. "Melt!"
  75. "Painted Bird"
  76. "Melt!"
  77. "Overground"
  78. "Dear Prudence"
  79. "Dear Prudence"
  80. "Swimming Horses"
  81. "Cities in Dust"
  82. "Lands End"
  83. "This Wheel's on Fire"
  84. "Peek-a-Boo"
  85. "Kiss Them for Me"