Peek-a-Boo (Siouxsie and the Banshees song)

"Peek-a-Boo"
"Peek-a-Boo"
Single by Siouxsie and the Banshees
from the album Peepshow
B-side	"False Face"; "Catwalk";
Released	18 July 1988
Recorded	1988; Early 1987 (initial recording)
Genre	Dance-rock; alternative rock;
Length	3:10
Label	Polydor; Geffen;
Songwriter(s)	Susan Ballion; Peter Edward Clarke; Steven Severin; Harry Warren; Johnny Mercer;
Producer(s)	Siouxsie and the Banshees; Mike Hedges;
Siouxsie and the Banshees singles chronology
Music video
	"Peek-a-Boo" on Dailymotion

"Peek-a-Boo" is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1988 as the first single from the band's ninth studio album, Peepshow. Melody Maker described the song as "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance" and qualified its genre as "thirties hip hop".^[2] "Peek-a-Boo" was rated "Single of the Week" in both Sounds and NME. Sounds wrote that it was a "brave move", "playful and mysterious".^[3] NME described it as "Oriental marching band hip hop" with "catchy accordion." They then said : "If this nation was served by anything approaching a decent pop radio station, "Peek A Boo" would be a huge hit."^[4]

PopMatters retrospectively placed it at No. 18 on their list "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s", saying that its instrumentation was "inventive" with "ingenious vocal phasing".^[5]

Bloc Party praised "Peek-a-Boo" and their singer Kele Okereke said: "It sounded like nothing else on this planet. [...] to me it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard."^[6]

^ "New Singles". Music Week. 16 July 1988. p. 47.
^ Mathur, Paul. "Born Again Savages". Melody Maker. 9 July 1988.
^ Kane, Peter (23 July 1988). "Single of the week". Sounds.
^ Quantick, David. "Single of the week". NME. 23 July 1988
^ Gerard, Chris. "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s". Pop Matters. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015
^ O'Kane, Josh (18 September 2008). "Talking Bloc during Harvest Jazz - Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke talks life, love, music and Ultimate Fighting". [Here] New Brunswick. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2012. With the new record, he said he was inspired by a song written years ago by Siouxsie and the Banshees called Peek-a-boo. "I heard it for the first time, and it sounded like nothing else on this planet. This is just a pop song [...] it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard. I thought, that'd be cool, to make music that people might not get at the time, but in ten years' time, people would revisit it."

[1] "New Singles". Music Week. 16 July 1988. p. 47.

[2] Mathur, Paul. "Born Again Savages". Melody Maker. 9 July 1988.

[Sounds-3] Kane, Peter (23 July 1988). "Single of the week". Sounds.

[4] Quantick, David. "Single of the week". NME. 23 July 1988

[5] Gerard, Chris. "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s". Pop Matters. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015

[6] O'Kane, Josh (18 September 2008). "Talking Bloc during Harvest Jazz - Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke talks life, love, music and Ultimate Fighting". [Here] New Brunswick. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2012. With the new record, he said he was inspired by a song written years ago by Siouxsie and the Banshees called Peek-a-boo. "I heard it for the first time, and it sounded like nothing else on this planet. This is just a pop song [...] it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard. I thought, that'd be cool, to make music that people might not get at the time, but in ten years' time, people would revisit it."

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]