Song #70 on the Popdose Top 100 Covers list is “The Passenger”, by Iggy Pop and covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Here’s the original:
I was never into the punk/new wave scene in the 80s, so I’m largely unfamiliar with the catalog of artists like either Iggy Pop or Siouxsie and the Banshees. As such, I can’t say I’d ever heard this before. Pretty good song, just not one I know. Here’s the cover:
Not substantively different from Iggy Pop’s version, but again a good tune. Since I don’t have anything to add to that, I thought you might like to know that Siouxsie Sioux was born Susan Janet Ballion, while Iggy Pop‘s parents named him James Newell “Jim” Osterberg, Jr. I don’t know about you, but I feel better knowing that.
The punk scene was a lot of fun – and continues to be…when one of my siblings frets about one of their kids getting some piercing or ink or something, I just remind them that it’s a bloomin’ miracle I made it out of the ’70s without a safety pin through my nose. Within earshot of the kid in question, if possible.
This was off Siouxsie’s least “punk” album, one full of excellent covers and my favorite of her some 25 years ago.