Siouxsie And The Banshees

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Strange Fruit

TruthForTiki

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@lashwhip 12 років тому

The brilliance of the cover is the addition of the funeral march, the slow inevitability of the procession balances Sioxsie's expert delivery of dark verses.

@peritomoreno4660 14 років тому

the video, though non official, has nothing of irrelevance to the song. it recalls us there is still the same racist hartred that reigned during the time the song depicts. It doesn´t matter where in the globe: Brazil, the US, Africa. There exists nowadays new kinds of lynching which make those fruits drop.

@vomeinsamenmadchensophie 5 років тому

Tears....♥

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

They are open-pit diamond mining for DeBeers Corp.

@katmd03 14 років тому

Great cover...I like how you get more of a feeling of death and its stench in the air.

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

Thanks for your comments, but I do know what this song is about.. I read Billy Holiday's autobiography. This video is not meant to be taken in literal terms. It is a contemporary interpretation. It would seem you've lost the ability for abstract thought - Cheers to all of you literalists out there ;D

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

Thanks for the compliment!!

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

thanks!!!

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

Totally relevant. I am drawing parallels regarding the strife of peoples. This is all footage from Africa, with that said... this song has relevance for all nations if not being perceived so myopically; or if you insist on being a literalist than I suppose you are correct in your own right.

@TruthForTiki 13 років тому

@rinbar70 They aren't being buried per se, they are in an open pit mine, thus those on top digging in the earth for diamonds are, by virtue of gravity covering those farther down in the pit with dirt and rocks. The lack of regard for those men below bloodied the mans head sending him scrambling for the surface in pain.

@musicforchewfaygs 14 років тому

@SaschaDuda i found the video very appropriate, and was not offended at all.

@ceciliawyu 11 років тому

small world....

@DerKorious 12 років тому

Follow up with Dazzle a song about the diamond trade

@olddudeaustin 9 років тому

One of many really good versions of a Billie Holiday classic - others Tori Amos and latest Beth Hart. An amazing song about a very depressing topic.

@Danielespa70 12 років тому

PRECIOSA, música en contra de toda la injusticia que hay en ÁFRICA, con los diamantes, (muchos ricos, mucha pobreza...) y destacar ese tono de esta canción estilo FUNERALES de personas de color, muy bonita.

@TribalMoonPie 13 років тому

What's the part where they are trying to bury those people in the hole?

@oaktreebrannon7375 3 роки тому

There's money in pretending to care, money in war.. I don't care about money.

@RonInbar 13 років тому

@TruthForTiki But why are they being buried?

@sbryn74 12 років тому

can someone please educate me on the event the footage in this video shows?

@releasethedogs 6 років тому

Id like to know also

@ExodusButterfly66 14 років тому

"then the sudden smell of burning flesh" .......I think that she is talking about burnt bodies as "black bodies swinging"

@annthorpe8411 8 років тому

This wouldn't happen to be the same Susan Ballion that used to wear a swastika armband during early Banshees performances would it?

@shadowjohan 8 років тому

+Ann Thorpe From Wikipedia: "In early September 1976, the Bromley Contingent followed Sex Pistols to France, where Siouxsie was beaten up for wearing a black armband with a swastika on it. She claimed her intent was to shock the bourgeoisie, not to make a political statement. She later wrote the song "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" (in memory of the anti-Nazi artist John Heartfield)."

@ExodusButterfly66 14 років тому

Then again, I could be wrong. Just an observation, I guess

@TruthForTiki 14 років тому

@SaschaDuda No offense intended.

@Claudia-do1im 4 роки тому

akunamatata

@thesmogmankills 13 років тому

@TruthForTiki dont ask for forgiveness... you have no reason to be sorry saschaduda should be the one begging for forgiveness for his/ her feeblemindedness on the sunject of the song