For Women’s History Month, I’m selecting some of my favorite songs from some of the most talented and influential women in music. From frontwomen to singer-songwriters to iconic performers, I’m picking one song a day on Mental Jukebox until the end of March.

You can’t write a book about post-punk without mentioning the swirling, intense musical storm that is “Spellbound”. One of my favorite Siouxsie and the Banshees’ anthems — and there are several of them — this song was brilliantly original in every way. No one else sung like Siouxsie. No one else played guitar like that. And no one sure as hell ever wrote a song like that. “Spellbound” was a ritualistic purge of convention.

“Following the footsteps of a rag doll dance, we are entranced.”