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X-RAY SPEX

Formed in late 1976 by Poly Styrene and Stuart Falcon, X Ray Spex appeared on the top 30 album hit live Roxy Club album with their rallying cry 'Oh Bondage Up Yours'.  In September of that year it was released by Virgin (and banned) as a one off before the band signed to EMI. Every single that followed was an absolute peach and Top Of The Pops appearances followed.  By the end of '78 they had had three hit singles and a hit album 'Germ Free Adolescence', which saw the band trapped inside test tubes on the cover. One more single followed in '79 and then that was it. In August 1979 the band split through musical differences. Poly to go first solo and then become Maharani Devi in the Hare Krishna and BP and Jak to form Classix Nouveaux....

1978      LP     EMI RECORDS     INS 3023 

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE

This version: Issued on custom 'X-ray Spex' labels in a fully laminated picture sleeve 

and cardstock inner sleeve with rounded corners, illustrated and with lyrics printed in brown.

Barcode: none

LABEL: EMI - LIGHT BLUE LABEL - BLUE TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) INS 3023    (rear) INS 3023 Stereo OC 062-61 787

Catalog on labels: INS 3023 (INS 3023A) / INS 3023 (INS 3023B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): INS 3023 A-2 MASTERED AT' ABBEY ROAD'-NICK

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): INS 3023 B-1 NICK UU

On labels: rim text reads "EMI Records Ltd...........Mage in Gt Britain"

Festawood Ltd.

? 1978 Mobjack Ltd.

On Back Cover: ? 1978 Mobjack Ltd.

EMI Records Ltd.........Made and Printed in Great Britain.

E.D.T.  G.L.     ART-I-FICIAL PRODUCTS

tracklisting

Side A: ART I FICIAL - OBSESSED WITH YOU

WARRIOR IN WOOLWORTHS - LET'S SUBMERGE - I CAN'T DO ANYTHING - IDENTITY

Side B: GENETIC ENGINEERING - I LIVE OFF YOU - I AM A POSEUR

GERM FREE ADOLESCENCE - PLASTIC BAG - THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED DAYGLO

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Perhaps the most utopian aspect of the U.K. punk scene was that it offered creative, articulate young people the opportunity to express themselves, and to kick up an exuberantly noisy racket in the process. X-Ray Spex certainly came from this wing of the movement, the brainchild of two female schoolmates who re-christened themselves Poly Styrene and Lora Logic. X-Ray Spex was far from the only female-centered British punk act, but they were arguably the best, combining exuberant energy with a cohesive worldview courtesy of singer and songwriter Poly Styrene. As her nom de punk hinted, Styrene was obsessed with the artificiality she saw permeating Britain's consumer society, linking synthetic goods with a sort of processed, manufactured humanity. Styrene's frantic claustrophobia permeates the record, as she rails in her distinctively quavering yowl against the alienation she feels preventing her from discovering her true self. Germ Free Adolescents is tied together by Styrene's yearning to be free not only from demands for consumption, but from the insecurity corporate advertisers used to exploit their targets (especially in women) -- in other words, to enjoy being real, imperfect, non-sterile humans living in a real, imperfect, non-Day-Glo world. Fortunately, the record is just as effective musically as it is conceptually. It's full of kick-out-the-jams rockers, with a few up-tempo thrashers and surprisingly atmospheric pieces mixed in; the raw, wailing saxophone of Rudi Thomson (who replaced Lora Logic early on) gives the band its true sonic signature...(AllMusic)