Siouxsie And The Banshees - Monitor Lyrics

This song is so heavy, it's way ahead of it's time. Just like Killing Joke's first album.

The riff sound very similar to Deftones - Be quiet and drive.

i happily introduce you to my favourite song in my favourite album of my favourite band

Simply one of the all time great bands.

Play this ! eat breakfast, repeat !!! get on velocipede , repeat , PLAY , ride , repeat !!!..

JuJu is such a great album.

So takes me back to elephant fayre Cornwall 1982, what a night..the bands only guy after siouxsie had lost her voice

Gig I meant

I was there to ... sleeping on the beach & being woken up by the band playing football on the beach !! 😆

As if her pain was our fault !!!!!!

Holly f, I just heard this song today for the first time and realized I naturally play my guitar like the chords in this song sound .. now I’m in love with this

13 dislikers need monitoring

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Monitor
"Monitor" as written by and Steven Severin Susan Ballion....



Monitor outside
For the people inside
A prevention of crime
A passing of time

The come and they go
It's a passing of time
They come and they go
Whilst we sit in our homes

Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy
Our new air of authority
Our sentinel of misery

His face was full of intent
And we shook excitement
Then the victim stared up
Looked strangely at the screen
As if her pain was our fault
But that's entertainment
What we crave for inside
No more second rate movies
From those people outside

That slide by Sev on the intro is just beautiful. First bass player I was ever blown away by and still has a sound I love.........

I'm 55 now and this still sounds brilliant I'm doing the ironing and have a brush pretending I'm John on the guitar he was a legend :)

One of the best albums ever recorded. Still blast mine on a reg basis much to my neighbours delight.

How soon is now, is the same song

Amazing I was 14 when I first heard this, - "it changed my life", "really fond memories, my first girlfriend, I'll never forget her, Francesca" peace and love to you all from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Otis..

Sit back... and enjoy... the real McGeoch

I don't think I have ever heard a song so before it's time!!! Incredible.

What album?

Caught them live on Juju tour way back..this live was the highlight by far for me along with Spellbound....nothing around like this anymore really...sad

My absolute fav one

I been sleeping on this.

Still listening in 2018!

Will still be listening to this in a thousand years.

Fuck man, what a guitar playing and sound ! This guy was really gifted.

RIP John Mc.

(For those who chose "Most recent comments first":)

MOnItoR - siOUXsiE & The BanSHeeS - jUJu - 1981

Monitor outside
For the people inside
A prevention of crime
A passing of time
They come and they go
It's a passing of time
They come and they go
Whilst we sit in our homes
Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy
Our new air of authority
Our sentinel of misery
His face was full of intent
And we shook excitement
Then the victim stared up
Looked strangely at the screen
As if her pain was our fault
But that's entertainment
What we crave for inside
No more second rate movies
From those people outside

.............

Witches outside, inside, welcome at night of scare!!!

To me, that deftones song sounds very similar to this in the guitar

jacky slack „shove it“?

Y Tho yeah one of their songs, honestly their songs sound the same to me so idk

jacky slack it’s the only one I know lol but I can hear that aswell. That’s why I asked. It’s not very obvious so I thought that was especially cool

Yeah I’ve always thought the riff to “Be quiet and drive” is very similar and Deftones are fans of The Banshees so it’s likely they took it as inspiration.

i swear theres another song out there that sounds just like this one but its a more popular song i just cant remember what it was

Be quiet and drive by Deftones

MEANWHILE FACIST POWERS CON AND SUBVERT REWALITTY

i THINK THIS IS PURE ROCK !

I TOTTALLY WANT TA SLEEP WITH HER TOO!!!!!!!!!

DANICA PATRICK

ok um you all know i just want to sleep with Siouxie.....

and it rocks.....

One of their best.

John McGeoch .The real McCoy!!!

Budgie was beastmode on the drums for this song...... Tell me this song didnt become reality.

Budgie pounding one out!. Band was tight as a virgin on this record.

I used to think Siouxsie was my buddy's sister and friend's music. We listened to hardcore and punk. Until I heard this song 20 years later in a skate flick....Darren Navarrette part?

Early Gary Numan (guitars) & later Numan (synths).

As a whole, 'Juju will ALWAYS be her finest hour.

this is my favorite song of them

Love the guitar et al

Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy

Post punk Classic

My favourite S&tB song ever

This song is so perfect. Juju is a masterpiece.

Profetic :)

wonderful song..

the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah

POST PUNK AWESOME

It has that batman vibe to it.

One of the best songs ever.

...And Truely One of This Century's Greatest Beauties ah Siouixie....😘

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Sit back, and enjoy...........the real McCoy!

This song was at minimum a decade before its time.

Megamaniac610 This song is more relevant today than ever before.

@Tony Scalia
it's history repeating/plain human nature
or just too great!

At least 2 decades or more...this is reality TV my man :)

EXACTLY!!

DEStination unKnOWN!!!

Destination Unknown.

♥♥♥

monitors the electrical magnetic charges in the Metal Head....

My favourite Siouxsie track of all time....

smashed my fucking face in.........................................................................................
...............................................................this song did the first ever time I heard it.....

How prophetic this song turned out to be.

PandoraNYC1 Indeed.

Anti Hero skate video "destination unknown" brought me here. great song!!!

same brother

I love how much skaters adore this band! I'm not one myself, but have known dudes that appreciate the energy the Banshees have and include them in videos, mixtapes, or just bump the music while practicing with friends.

Absolutely love how I can discover music like this through skateboarding videos.... Destination Unknown is my favourite skate vid of all time too

Same here... Reminds me a little of Jane's Addiction.

MUY BUENA (y)

janes addiction

Monitor outside
For the people inside
A prevention of crime
A passing of time

They come and they go
It's a passing of time
They come and they go
Whilst we sit in our homes

Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy
Our new air of authority
Our sentinel of misery

His face was full of intent
And we shook with excitement
Then the victim stared up
Looked strangely at the screen
As if her pain was our fault
But that's entertainment

What we crave for inside
No more second rate movies
From those people outside

Monitor outside
For the people inside
A prevention of crime
A passing of time

A monitor outside
A monitor outside

They come and they go
It's a passing of time
They come and they go
Whilst we sit in our homes

Sit back, sit back, sit back
Sit back and enjoy
The real McCoy

Our new air of authority
Our sentinel of misery

Monitor outside

His face was full of intent
And we shook with excitement
Then the victim stared up
Looked strangely at the screen
As if her pain was our fault
But that's entertainment

What we crave for inside
No more second rate movies
From those people outside



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Thanks for your lyrics post.

lyrics please? LMAO

+Jordiknot why LMAO? do you get it comes across as if you are joking when you are asking for the lyrics? Or that you're not getting that after the question you are saying 'I'm laughing so hard right now' Just a small fyi . I think ppl nowadays say LMAO or use the emoji with the laughing with tears coming out to lighten a situation, but it can end up being insulting unintentionally. JORDIKNOT, very cool shirt.

you're welcome for the butt hurt and thank you for the shirt..........lmao

Three dislikes, and another mystery. Why would any sane person randomly choose a video of an album track from a band they don't like, or (more likely have never even heard of) and then click the dislike button?

I think I'll head over to some fucking C&W video now featuring some guy from Nebraska with a double barreled name, and randomly click dislike - Just to see what it feels like.

called haters

Some guy from Nebraska has a lot more in common withSATB than some rapper from the east or west coast

I will say this much! This person never heard of "Siouxsie and the Banshees" and still continues to jerk off to BEYONCE!!!!

Deekayguy1 Maybe, just maybe, in some completely hypothetical, totally unrealistic situation, they, listened to it for the first time, and, did not like it? I know the theory sounds a bit far fetched, but it could happen.

David Schlotterback how dare you even mention this nonsense, David. Truly atrocious.

yes yes yes

more McGeoch mastery and there was plenty of it! 1st time I've listened to Ju Ju in 25 years or so!

+kendokunti Just a shame Sioux and Severin didn't have the intelligence to hang onto him despite his issues in 1982. The Banshees were a truly great band with him in it.

There was so much greatness to come after him though!
No Robert Smith = No Hyaena, for example.

Budgie said he was asked to join back but he denied and said he was happy with PIL  and didn't want to ruin his hardly found balance

The sound/style of this (awesome) song always takes me to the debutalbum of Killing Joke (also awesome btw).

+TheSanveana Indeed, reminds me of Killing Joke. Long time ago :-)

exactly!

When they lost John, they wanted to get Geordie as his replacement.

wealth at his most turns into air. so the monitor at home is the illusional turning point of getting lost in the drain or in the mix

At 2:32 starts the B side of the original Vinyl.

@Bat Caver My pressing and every pressing listed on Discogs says that the whole song is on the end of side A

Sick. Glad I'm listening

Siouxsie...just the best....inspirational....

anyone else feel like this has a very smashing pumpkins siamese dream vibe? I can totally see the influence of Siouxsie on Billy 

I'll second that.  Tristessa, from Gish,  has similarities: Repetitive angular guitar line, minor chords.  I like SP a great deal, but I would be the first to admit Corgan & Co. were not so much inventing a new genre as gathering bits and pieces of the past: Sabbath, Blue Cheer, and late 70s early 80s punk/post punk.

ugh.....

Except he's a cunt and she's a goddess x

@Colin A. Day So is saying "hella".

marshare You nailed it lol! Pumpkins and deftones also my favorites!

Sit Back and enjoy the real Mc Coy!

this still makes me feel exactly like it did 30 years ago

EXACTLY!!

Gerry Vee misunderstood and full of teen angst?

One great concert in 1984 (?) at the Seaside Festival in Oostende Belgium, guitar+bass+drum+singer a great rock moment!!!

If I were stuck on a deserted island, and could only bring 10 albums with me, this would be among the collection. 

Blimey, but really really thinking about it, I would have to agree, man - 0:

Me three!

What would be the other 9 ?

Cardiff August 1981 JU JU tour I was 17

You lucky fucker I was 14 and was told I was just a bit too young, "something you'll never forget mate yea"? I'm from South Wales as well mucca. Peace and love to you from a forest in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Otis..

At CONSIDERABLYMORE1 - brilliant idea. 

If you have kids, as I do, educate them all the way back, musically speaking.

I've been very lucky that my daughter has had an open mind and open ear. 

@virutallypowered rather famous or cozy

virutallypowered ~ "All the way back..." -? Yeah, early 1980s is 'All the way back'. How knowledgable your children must be. Jesus...

Have to agree with you on both counts.

You are all fools...Siouxsie is the last of a dying breed.....talented, gifted and fiersley independant to what she believes in...music is dead...lomg live Souixsie !!!

supreme

Well said CONSIDERABLYMORE1. As a musician who started off at 12 with influences from bands like Siouxie, The Cure, The Mission etc etc, I can confirm you've said what I've struggled to say for years!!! As long as the likes of us know where the freedom in music still exists, it will never die.

Kevin Leece you make music? I’d like to give it a listen!

The Creatures for me. Feast and Boomerang in particular are superb. I often preferred The Banshee's B sides and pretty much everything on Feast sounds like it could be just that. Boomerang is very diverse and I suspect a lot of Siouxsie fans were less than enamoured with it. I swear by it ! Ju Ju undoubtedly The Banshee's best and most consistent album.

Indeed they certainly will not I was fortunate enough to see The Banshees The Creatures but I was too young to see them when John McGeogh was with them I really envy those who had the luck to see The Banshees at that time although John Valentine Carruthers who I saw was my favourite Banshee guitarist after McGeogh so I consider myself very lucky to have been there even though I was only 12/13 and mum had to go with me!!! No theres never going to be anything like Siouxsie ever again ..sad fact

Skin Desert Kisses Drop Dead Celebration Shooting Sun Blow the House Down
this could go on and on and on!!!

SRotten, what am I missing? Pls advice. Thanks

SRotten, Pls Advice

Nicotine Stain
Switch - Live 81
Monitor - Live 93
Love In A Void (Demo Vrsn)
Hong Kong Garden
Happy House
Eve White / Eve Black (Live 1983 , 1981)
Red Over White (Wht Pants, Live 1983)
Night Shift (Live 1993)
Christine
Cascade
Israel
Spellbound
Arabian Knights
Dear Prudence
Dazzle
Cities in The Dust
This Wheels On Fire
The Passenger
PeekABoo
The Last Beat of My Heart (Live 1993)
Kiss Dm For Me
The Creatures - Exterminating Angel (Live 1993)

This will be my lineup for my ipod!

mmm hard to have a top 20 or so with Siouxsie for me anyway can never choose so many l love

I just added to my top 22 of her, both are good (Live)...undecided.

Yes it was a great live track as well

Sit back and enjoy the real McCoy.. This is Guy Debord Situationism at its more powerful. I do agree is ome of the best song ever

lyrics please

My favorite Siouxsie song hands down...And they have a lot of good songs....

This song and Orwell make me think of Facebook,tracking cookies,security cameras nowadays.

Absolute classic, Morrissey walks onto stage to this!!