A Kiss in the Dreamhouse Tracklist
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was the first album on which Siouxsie and the Banshees really exploited the possibilities of the studio and allowed themselves to be inspired by sounds. It is the fifth studio album by the band and was released on 5 November 1982 by Polydor Records.
The record marked a change of musical direction. Engineer Mike Hedges, who was interested in vocals, encouraged them to fiddle with the effects and put different effects and multi-layered on Siouxsie’s voice for the album.
According to the band, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was probably their most experimental work. The album contains recorders, chimes, tubular bells, loops and many vocal overdubs.
As revealed in “Siouxsie and the Banshees”: The Authorised Biography by Mark Paytress, the title of A Kiss in the Dreamhouse came to [Steven] Severin after watching a programme about Hollywood prostitutes in the 1940s who underwent cosmetic surgery to look like stars in order to get more clients. The “Dreamhouse” was a brothel in Los Angeles that actually existed where people could meet “perfect replicas” of the stars of the time for example women who looked like Mae West.
