Downside Up

Downside Up is a four-disc box set collecting B-sides and bonus material from the catalog of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Also included (on disc four) is The Thorn (EP), originally released in 1984. Some of these songs of this boxset were later hailed by other acts. Tricky covered "Tattoo" to open his second solo album Nearly God. "Tattoo" is a pre-Trip-Hop that the band recorded in 1983. It inspired Tricky when he forged his style. Massive Attack sampled in 1997 "Mittageisen" (the "Metal Postcard" version sung in German) on "Superpredators" for the movie soundtrack The Jackal. Acts from other genres also selected some of these Banshees's B-sides. Morrissey played "Eve White/Eve Black" during intermission on his 1997 Maladjusted tour. Shirley Manson of Garbage stated Mark Paytress's biography that "Drop Dead / Celebration" was one of her favourite tracks by the band, she also stated to Rolling Stone magazine in 1996 her fondness for this B-side. The Times wrote in its review : "Standouts include the spiky Drop Dead/Celebration, the sinister Eve White/Eve Black and the chopped up industrial funk of Tattoo". The critic also rated the band as one of "the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era." Most of these songs (only present on these cds) were classics of the band's live repertoire like "Pulled To Bits", "Eve White/Eve Black", "Red Over White", "I promise", "Something Blue" and "B-side Ourselves".