A cover version of the song was used in the 2001 film Jeepers Creepers. The song was made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band platform on 20 April 2010. "Peek-a-Boo" was covered in 2010 by Australian artist Bertie Blackman. The music video was chosen by The Chart Show to be their "Best Video of the Year" for 1988. Rap artist Sir Mix-a-Lot used elements of the song's themes about sex work for a track on his 1989 Seminar while initial pressings featured actual samples from the song, repressings removed the samples. To remedy the situation and to avoid legal action, the band gave co-songwriting credit on "Peek-a-Boo" to Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. Ī minor controversy ensued after the single's release, as the lines to the chorus (".Golly jeepers/Where'd you get those weepers?/Peepshow, creepshow/Where did you get those eyes?.") were found to be too similar to the lyrics in the 1938 song " Jeepers Creepers". In Canada, the song reached #29 in the 'Retail Sales' chart. In the UK, "Peek-a-Boo" became their fifth Top 20 UK hit, peaking at number 16 in the Singles Chart. In September 1988, Billboard magazine premiered a new Modern Rock Tracks chart, which measured radio airplay on US modern rock stations "Peek-a-Boo" was the chart's first No. The song was very popular on alternative rock radios and received heavy play on MTV.
"Peek-a-Boo" was one of Siouxsie and the Banshees' most recognisable and popular singles it was also the group's first to chart in the U.S. When initially composed to be an extra track for 1987's "The Passenger" single, the band realized that the song was too good to be relegated to B-side status and deserved better exposure. It took the band a year to arrive at this result. The lyric track was further manipulated by Siouxsie's use of a different microphone for each line of the song. Once the instrumental parts were finished, Siouxsie sang her lyrics over it.
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The band selected different parts of that tape when played backwards, editing them and re-recording on top of it, adding a different melody plus accordion, a one-note bass and discordant guitar. The song was built on a loop in reverse of a brass part with drums which the group previously arranged a year before for a cover of John Cale's "Gun". The song's peculiar sound is due to its experimental recording which was based on a sample. to me it sounded like the most current but most futuristic bit of guitar-pop music I've heard." īloc Party praised "Peek-a-Boo" and their singer Kele Okereke said: "It sounded like nothing else on this planet. PopMatters retrospectively placed it at number 18 on their list "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s", saying that its instrumentation was "inventive" with "ingenious vocal phasing". NME described it as "Oriental marching band hip hop" with "catchy accordion." They then said : "If this nation was served by anything approaching a decent pop radio station, "Peek A Boo" would be a huge hit." Sounds wrote that it was a "brave move", "playful and mysterious". "Peek-a-Boo" was rated "Single of the Week" in both Sounds and NME. Melody Maker described the song as "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance" and qualified its genre as "thirties hip hop". It was released in 1988 as the first single from the band's ninth studio album, Peepshow. " Peek-a-Boo" is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Siouxsie and the Banshees singles chronology
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