X-RAY SPEX
GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS
DELUXE EDITION
13TH APRIL 2009
This deluxe double-CD edition comprises a total of 41 tracks. The first twelve tracks on Disc One make up the whole of X-Ray Spex’s superb 1978 album, Germ Free Adolescents. Also included are four single tracks, A & B sides plus seven BBC Peel Sessions from February and November of 1978.
Disc Two comprises a series of studio demos and rough mixes as well as two unreleased backing tracks.
One of the great English punk bands of the late 1970s, X-Ray Spex was formed in 1976 by school friends Marianne Elliot (Poly Styrene) and Susan Whitby (saxophonist Lora Logic). They exploded onto the punk scene with one of the era’s great singles, the feminist punk-rallying cry Oh! Bondage Up Yours! With Logic’s sax stating the melody semi-tunefully and Jak Airport’s guitar laying down a wash of distorted chords, Styrene’s vocal, especially on the chorus is a marvel, making this one of punk rock’s finest moments.
So too was X-Ray Spex’s debut LP, Germfree Adolescents (although Logic had by this time left the band). The songs were guitar driven punk pop that combined outrage and aggression with a sense of alienation and disenfranchisement about rampant commerciality and an increasingly sterile and artificial world.
Tracklisting:
Disc One
Art-I-Ficial (Germ Free Adolescents)
Obsessed With You (Germ Free Adolescents)
Warrior In Woolworths (Germ Free Adolescents)
Let’s Submerge (Germ Free Adolescents)
I Can’t Do Anything (Germ Free Adolescents)
Identity (Germ Free Adolescents)
Genetic Engineering (Germ Free Adolescents)
I Live Off You (Germ Free Adolescents)
I Am A Poseur (Germ Free Adolescents)
Germ Free Adolescents (Germ Free Adolescents)
Plastic Bag (Germ Free Adolescents)
The Day The World Turned Dayglo
Oh! Bondage Up Yours!
I Am A Cliché
Age
Highly Inflammable
Genetic Engineering
Art-I-Ficial
I Am A Poseur
Identity
Germ Free Adolescents
Warrior In Woolworths
Age
Disc Two
Obsessed With You
Let’s Submerge
Plastic Bag
I Live Off You
I Am A Cliché
I Can’t Do Anything
The Day The World Turned Dayglo
Oh! Bondage Up Yours!
Genetic Engineering
Art-I-Ficial
Germ Free Adolescents
Age
Warrior In Woolworths
Obsessed With You
The Day The World Turned Dayglo
I Can’t Do Anything
Warrior In Woolworths
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