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"Peek-a-Boo" is a song by English alternative 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".〔Mathur, Paul. "Born Again Savages". ''Melody Maker''. 9 July 1988.〕 "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". ''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."〔Quantick, David. "Single of the week". ''NME''. 23 July 1988〕 PopMatters retrospectively placed it at number 18 on their list "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s", saying that its instrumentation was "inventive" with "ingenious vocal phasing".〔Gerard, Chris. ("The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s" ). Pop Matters. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015〕 Bloc Party praised "Peek-a-Boo" and their singer Kele Okereke said: "It sounded like nothing else on this planet. This is just a pop song that they put out in the middle of their career that nobody knows about, but to me it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard." ==History== The song's peculiar sound is due to its experimental recording which was based on a sample. The song was built on a loop in reverse of a brass part with drums which the group previously arranged a year before for a cover of John Cale's "Gun".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Music Producers, Part Two : Mike Hedges on Peek-a-boo by Siouxsie & the Banshees )〕 The band selected different parts of that tape when played backwards, editing them and re-recording on top of it, adding a different melody plus accordion, a one-note bass and discordant guitar. Drummer Budgie also added another beat. Once the instrumental parts were finished, Siouxsie sang her lyrics over it. The lyric track was further manipulated by Siouxsie's use of a different microphone for each line of the song.〔 It took the band a year to arrive at this result. When initially composed to be an extra track for 1987's "The Passenger" single, the band realized that the song was too good to be relegated to B-side status and deserved better exposure. "Peek-a-Boo" was one of Siouxsie and the Banshees' most recognisable and popular singles; it was also the group's first to chart in the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=allmusic.com )〕 reaching the No. 53 in the week of 3 December.〔(Billboard Hot 100 - week 12 December 1988 ). Billboard. Retrieved 15-8-2015〕 The song was very popular on alternative rock radios and received heavy play on MTV. In September 1988, ''Billboard'' magazine premiered a new Modern Rock Tracks chart, which measured radio airplay on USA modern rock stations; "Peek-a-Boo" was the chart's first No. 1 song.〔("A Billboard Anniversary Salute" ). ''Billboard''. November 27, 2004. P.17. Retrieved 8 October 2015.〕 In the UK, "Peek-a-Boo" became their fifth Top 20 UK hit, peaking at number 16 in the Singles chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Siouxsie & the Banshees (charts ) )〕 A minor controversy ensued after the single's release, as the lines to the chorus ''("...Golly jeepers/Where'd you get those weepers?/Peepshow, creepshow/Where did you get those eyes?...")'' were found to be too similar to the lyrics in the 1938 song "Jeepers Creepers". To remedy the situation and to avoid legal action, the band gave co-songwriting credit on "Peek-a-Boo" to Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. 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「Peek-a-Boo (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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