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1. The track that launched Siouxsie and the Banshees was their 1978 non-album single "Hong Kong Garden". What (unexpected) percussive instrument was used as the intro to this post-punk classic?
2. The track "Switch" is a good illustration as to how far Siouxsie and the Banshees were able to progress musically in a very short space of time. What was the name of the 1978 studio album, the band's first, that featured this song?
3. The rushed second album "Join Hands" had one side dominated by the sprawling "Lord's Prayer", a song that the band had played at their first ever gig featuring, at the time, Sex Pistol Sid Vicious playing which instrument?
4. Which track from Siouxsie and the Banshees' 1980 album "Kaleidoscope", while taking a swipe at the illusion of the family as a unit, showcased a change in direction for the band?
5. Weird religious mysticism, that pervades which Siouxsie and the Banshees' single from 1980, was a sudden and unexpected failure for the band?
6. Which hypnotic Siouxsie and the Banshees' track, shaded with hints of danger and exhilaration, became the single the band would use to launch their 1981 album "Juju"?
7. Having taken their fans from punk to post-punk to goth Siouxsie and the Banshees proceeded to drag them onto the dance floor with which 1981 stomper that wailed against authority's control over society with the increased use of CCTV footage?
8. In confessing "I see you in darkness..." Siouxsie and the Banshees breathe an eerie vulnerability into which track on 1981's "Juju" album that was built on the murderous deeds of Peter "The Yorkshire Ripper" Sutcliffe?
9. Which shoegaze band, who recorded the 1991 album "Just For a Day", took their name from a 1982 Siouxsie and the Banshees' single that would herald another change in direction for the post punk rockers?
10. Surprise! (That's a hint). Siouxsie and the Banshees finally cracked the US Billboards' Hot 100 charts with the release of which 1988 single?
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