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Lets make some noise: Poly Sterene of X Ray Spex (reposted from my journal)
To go with the British women in punk series downstairs.
Oh Bondage Up Yours - X Ray Spex
Wikipedia
Peace Meal - X Ray Spex (She is a vegetarian btw. This is anti-meat song if I remember correctly)
It took me a bit to get used to her vocals because I wasn't very used to punk when I started hearing about her. I just asked, where were the black women in rock and someone said: Poly Sterene!
Identity - X Ray Spex
Poly Styrene interview 1978
I am a Cliche - X Ray Spex
*Blink* She was a trained opera singer? Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex (from "The Punk Years") (Uh: May I raise my eyebrows at the idiot at the end who asserted that she wasn't part of the punk scene? I don't get that? Why didn't the documentary-makers contact her and ASK, instead of having "experts" speculate?)
Good Time Girl - X Ray Spex
Germ Free Adoloscents - X Ray Spex
Oh Bondage Up Yours - X Ray Spex
Wikipedia
X-Ray Spex are an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.
During their first incarnation (1976 – 79), X-Ray Spex were “deliberate underachievers”[1] and only managed to release five singles plus one album.[2] Nevertheless, their first single, "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single[3][4][5][6] and the album, Germ Free Adolescents, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of all-time.[7][8][9][10][11]
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“ X-Ray Spex were a wonderful, shambling, musical mess of rebellion, fashion and fun. Main muse Poly Styrene danced, yelped, screamed and sang over the joyful noise belted out by her punchy buzzsaw’n’biscuit-tin band while fighting off Laura Logic’s sax honks from stage left – all with a smile of pure glee.[12]
Peace Meal - X Ray Spex (She is a vegetarian btw. This is anti-meat song if I remember correctly)
It took me a bit to get used to her vocals because I wasn't very used to punk when I started hearing about her. I just asked, where were the black women in rock and someone said: Poly Sterene!
Poly is best known for her vocal performances for X-Ray Spex.[1] She has been described by Billboard as the "archetype for the modern-day feminist punk" who, because she wore braces, stood against the typical sex object female of 1970’s rock star, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed-race, was "one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female".[3]
Stumbling upon a very early gig by the legendary Sex Pistols live on Hastings Pier, playing a set of cover songs, performing to three people, which included Poly and two language students from Sweden, Poly was so inspired by this, she put an add in the paper for ‘young punx who want to stick it together’ to form a band.MORE
Identity - X Ray Spex
Poly Styrene interview 1978
I am a Cliche - X Ray Spex
*Blink* She was a trained opera singer? Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex (from "The Punk Years") (Uh: May I raise my eyebrows at the idiot at the end who asserted that she wasn't part of the punk scene? I don't get that? Why didn't the documentary-makers contact her and ASK, instead of having "experts" speculate?)
Good Time Girl - X Ray Spex
Germ Free Adoloscents - X Ray Spex