Sioux: vocals
Severin: bass
Budgie: drums
Mcgeoch: 6+12 string guitars, fawfisa
She tries not to shatter, kaleidoscope style personality changes behind her red
smile every new problem brings a stranger inside helplessly forcing one more
new disguise
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Singing sweet savages lost in our world this big-eyed girl sees her faces
unfurl now shes in purple
Now shes the turtle
Disintegrating
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
22 faces… disintegrating.
Kind of insane to think Siouxsie is not only a musical icon but serious beauty icon as well, she was stunningly beautiful so many still emulate her today.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Christine - Kaleidoscope (1980)
She tries not to shatter, kaleidoscope style
Personality changes behind her red smile
Every new problem brings a stranger inside
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine, banana split lady
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine, banana split lady
Singing sweet savages lost in our world
This big eyed girl sees her faces unfurl
Now's shes in purple now's shes the turtle
Disintegrating
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine, banana split lady
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl
Now's shes in purple
Now's she the turtle
Disintegrating
Christine, Christine
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine, banana split lady
Christine, the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl
Christine, Christine, Christine
Christine turn into faces
Disintegrating
Christine, Christine
Disintegrating
One of the most darkest grooves I've ever heard in my life. You feel like you are trapped in a ghost's house.
"Christine disintegrated." Oooh, that lyric always gives a chill up my spine.
Siouixsie - I forgot just how many great hits you had. So talented.... I have gone back in time tonight playing all my old faves and in a way it all seems like yesterday. Is it just me?
Watching German Goth girls whirling around the dance floor creepily to this back in the early 80s was a sight to behold. The DJ at the Gloria Palast in Saarbrücken would spin Shadowplay by Joy Division and follow it with Christine, then Primary by The Cure, creating an almost orgasmic reaction from the Goths.
It is quite interesting that the song has multiple musical scales on each section, as the character has multiple personalities (the verse being d phrygian, the chorus d dorian, the bridge d mixolidian).