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''Join Hands'' is the second studio album by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in September 1979 by record label Polydor. It was the last album with the band's first recorded lineup, as guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris quit the group after a disagreement at the beginning of the tour. Musically, ''Join Hands'' is in a darker vein than their debut album ''The Scream''. The record peaked at No. 13 on the UK Albums Chart. One single, "Playground Twist", was taken from the album. == Content == The opening track, "Poppy Day", was based on John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields", which was written in 1915 after the loss of a friend during a battle in World War I. The poppy reproduced on the album cover is a symbol of Remembrance Day. On the inner sleeve, the mention "2 minutes of silence" was added next to "Poppy Day". The second part of "Mother / Oh Mein Papa" is an interpretation of the German song "O mein Papa" with words by Siouxsie. Two voices sing simultaneous love and hatred for the same mother. The closing track on the album is a studio recording of "The Lord's Prayer", the song that they were famous for playing at their debut live performance at the 100 Club Punk Festival in September 1976. Commenting a few days before the album's release, Jon Savage wrote about the music: "The songs are delivered with the stifling intensity of inner violence in a locked room". Kris Needs remarked that ''Join Hands'' was in retrospect, an ironic title for a record which split the group in two.〔Needs, Kris. " Night of the Long Knives". ''NME''. 22 September 1979.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Join Hands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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