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| Anima Animus | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Creatures - Siouxsie
Label: Instinct Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 42546
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 410413
UPC: 720841041320
EAN: 7208410413202
ASIN: B00000I06D
Release Date: February 16, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | 2nd Floor | | • | Disconnected | | • | Turn It On | | • | Take Mine | | • | Say | | • | I Was Me - The Creatures, | | • | Prettiest Thing | | • | Exterminating Angel | | • | Another Planet - The Creatures, | | • | Don't Go to Sleep Without Me |
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Album Description
The first album by Siouxsie & her percussion-loving bandmateBudgie since Siouxsie broke up the Banshees in 1996. This isthe third album overall by Siouxsie & Budgie as The Creatures. 10 tracks, including the single '2nd Floor'. The first 5,000 copies ONLY come in a limited edition his/ hers die-cut slipcase cover. 1999 release.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Deliciously Dark April 11, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have been an on-agian-off-again fan of Siouxsie and The Banshees for years. When I heard about this album, I was excited, but apprehensive. Being more of a casual fan, I was not sure what to expect. Finally, after I found it for a good price, I took the leap and bought it. I am so glad that I did. It is undoubtedly one of the most rewarding discs I have run across recently. It took a few listens to get the gist of it, but once I was hooked, I was REALLY hooked. The first half is a little on the slow side... except for "2nd Floor" (straight ahead dance pop, IMO) and "Say" (Beautifully melodic trippiness, with synthesizers to boot) this first side recalls the rhythmic emphasis of "Boomerang." But the second half picks up, takes off, and never comes down for air. "I Was Me" is one of the coolest tracks I have ever heard Siouxsie do. Its dark folk-sy strumming will take you completely off guard. The lyrics on this one are fantastic, too. Its a big genre step for Siouxie, and she handles it just fine, thank you. "Prettiest Thing" is so completely bleak, so tense... its pretty indescribable. Turn the lights out and sit in a dark room for this one... you will have a hard time sitting through this one... its just kind of menacing and creepy... very stalker-esque. This particular track is based around a muted and reverbed "ticking" drum beat - almost sounds like a heart beat, once the bass gets going with its "throb, throb, throb-throb, throb." And then there is the album's highlight... the brilliant, "Exterminating Angel." The music is incredible, and fits perfectly with the very "gothic" lyrics. All blood and gore and filth on this epic piece of armegeddon. The whining, harping synths are un-nerving, to say the least, and the rhythm is very hypnotic. Eerie. Next comes, "Another Planet," which kind of retreats into itself, and is over shadowed by its predecessor - but it is still a quality track... just not quite as memorable as some. The album closes with Siouxsie going a capella on "Don't Go To Sleep Without Me." This particular song brings me to another point... besides displaying wonderful lyrics and dense melody on this album, Siouxsie is in wonderful vocal form. Her voice sounds as good as ever, and she carries her songs with her well suited pipes... whether its her witch-like cackle as on "I Was Me" and "Exterminating Angel" her breathy, sexy whispers, as on "Prettiest Thing" or her smooth swooping croon, as on "Say" and "Don't Go To Sleep Without Me," Siouxsie's voice is no less the highlight than it was more than 20 years ago when the Banshees first began performing. I would recommend this album to anyone who likes Siouxsie and the Banshees, or anyone who is looking for an adventurous foray into dark, but not depressing, music. A real pleasure to listen to.
Prepare to be blown away- Creature Style April 25, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
From the I'm-in-purgatory-and-I'm-proud-and loving-it attitude of the first track, "2nd floor" to the Oriental hot-mud-bath-for-two finisher, "Don't Go To Sleep Without Me", you'll fall painfully in love with Anima Animus. My personal favorite track is "Exterminating Angel", an all-out powerhouse that is part hysterical Judgement Day reckoning and part ode to menstral bitchdom. As far as our heroes are concerned, drummer Budgie is no Little Helicopter-he's a Stealth Bomber. As for Siouxsie, her vocals have taken on a delightfully buzzing raspiness that can be warm and crackling like a slow-burning ember on "Say"(compassion for a distant friend), "Prettiest Thing"(touch of self-loathing) and "I Was Me( detached self-analysis)" or omnipotent angry smoker's rants like on "Exterminating Angel" and "Turn It On" The Millenium Bug ("Disconnected") is a Black Widow in Anima Animus, and thanks to Carl Jung, Who's Afraid of The Big, Bad, 4-0? Not Siouxsie and Budgie! Buy it and weep! The great part is, you won't know why you're weeping, joy, pain, frustration, fear, paranoia, longing, love, ache- Its all here. Siouxsie says it best: It makes me laugh, in spite of it, just for the hell of it!
 Siouxsie turns trendy Goth/Dance chick. EEEK! November 4, 2000
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Well, I guess it was bound to happen. She hinted towards it with the dreaded "Peek-a-boo" and "Kiss them for me", but this is worse than expected. Siouxsie has lost her imagination and released this awful album geared towards the moody, trendy, teen dance goth crowd. Barely a hint of Siouxsie's previous excellence shows through. The opening track "2nd floor" is a soundalike dance song that is as faceless as the next. The trademark Creatures sound, that being the heavy drums and percussion, are only represented on 1 tolerable track "Turn it on". The album suffers from the dullest lyrics ever put to anything with the Siouxsie name. She even takes the overdone, and really boring route of using a carefully selected amount of vulgar language. Apparently Sioux had a problem with turning 40, and in denial of it she is attempting to become the "Punk" that made her famous in the late 70's. I will give her credit. Most musicians alter their sound after hitting 30, then the just take the "Adult contemporary" route. Sioux did the Gary Numan and decided to try to become hip with the Goth/Dance youth of today. Didn't work too well. While short term fans may think it's a step in the right direction, record sales haven't neared what the Banshees did. One of the most unforgivable things about this whole thing is that Sioux is now releasing worthless CD singles containing countless awful remixes of these already mediocre to bad songs. The trademark unavailable B-side, which Siouxsie is very well known for, seems to be turning into a thing of the past. As if all these remixes weren't bad enough, now she's released a remix album. I'm speechless! OK Sioux, you played the rebellious teenager role once again. Time to regain your senses. I will not be buying the next Creatures release, as Sioux is now on my reject pile along with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, The Stranglers, U2, REM, etc..............
 The lowest rung on the creatures ladder August 10, 2004
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The most uninspired collection of music in the creatures history. Well maybe if i was a goth/wannabe/vampire/industrial (isnt that music tired already?) fan id enjoy it. Now it's really not as bad as it sounds...it's still siouxsie so it better than anything released these days, but i was soo disappointed when i first heard it. I was so excited by erasercuts that this let me down. I was very elated when Hai was released!! There's the creatures I love (feast, boomerang and now Hai) and i cannot wait to see them next month!!! This compares (anima animus) to Superstition in the Banshees collection ...uninspired and commercial sounding, sterile and dull...and just as unlistened to by me as superstition. But hey, everybody (band) can have a downer right? Siouxsie has only been guilty of a few letdowns and even those can be pleasant compared to the majority of pop music today!
 It's not Tinderbox, but it is still great July 15, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a Siouxsie Sioux fan of long standing; when The Banshees broke up I was sad, but given "The Rapture" they HAD to go. I then heard that Siouxsie & Budgie would continue with The Creatures. Wow. Okay, this is not Siouxsie's best album (I'll reserve that for Tinderbox), but this is exciting, interesting, and heavily textured music. Still following along the not-quite-Goth,not-quite- Punk, not-quite-Pop line, this album rolls off the presses strong and just keeps moving. Anything involving Budgie directly is going to have interesting percussion work and this album proves the tale. But above all else it is Siouxsie Sioux's voice that captures. After a quarter century (think about it) of singing, her voice is still strong, haunting, dramatic, and, well, sexy. If you have not tried them yet, give The Creatures a run with this album.
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