Siouxsie & The Banshees bevægede sig i 1987 ud i den specielle disciplin, at udsende et album udelukkende med coverversioner. Through the Looking Glass er som sådan en noget broget affære med alt ombord fra Billie Holiday til Kraftwerk, fra Sparks til Junglebogen, Television til The Doors. Loyale versioner af favoritnumre, sendt afsted med isdronningebandets iskolde postpunk-lyd, som dog i for mange tilfælde naturligt bliver stående i skyggen af originalerne. Den klare undtagels er Siouxsie’s take på Iggy Pop’s evige ‘The Passenger’, der naturligvis ikke overgår det oprindelige mesterværk, men alligevel formår at lette, båret samtidig af det fandenivoldske og det übercool…

Med hvad synes Iggy?

“That’s good. She sings it well, and she threw a little note in, which she sings, that I wish I’d thought of. It’s kind of improved it. And I thought Budgie plays really good on it. And the horn thing is good. They called me up and let me hear it before it went out, which is nice. They took me to the ballet as a matter fact. Sort of like, you know, ‘we did your song here, let’s go to the ballet’, so that was nice.”