C&L's Late Nite Music Club: X-Ray Spex
By David Neiwert Friday Apr 17, 2009 8:17pmX-Ray Spex were, in my mind, the very best of the one-album-wonder punk bands. Germfree Adolescents is very nearly a perfect album, and then Poly Styrene got religion and quit.
Well, at least she's still alive.
By the way, this is a studio overdub; the track is taken straight from the album and synched up to the live performance. Still, it's such a great song. A somewhat more authentic video is the "Identity" video.
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Punk music is not my usual choice, but X-Ray Spex is OK by me.
great tune, great band...haven't heard them in years! funny, she now sounds like a slightly poppier version of johnny rotten, especially in the verses.
Years for me too. Actually I don't ever remember seeing any pictures or videos of the band when I listened back in the late 70's. It was like all about the music back then, man.
She certainly has a clear voice, much better than the quivering vibrato that all these Idol contestants have, including Susan Boyle I'd say. I read a music critic that said a vibrato hides the fact that the singer can't actual hold a note. Either that, or I have no idea what I am talking about. Punk does rule though.
Great song, great band, great video which I've never seen, thanks!
when female singers werent judged on looks alone
these women had talent and personality...which made them far sexier than the brittanys, the mileys and whatever else pans itself off as talent today
damn you madonna
want talent??? how about some nina hagen
new york, new york
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST7XOxw4Dk
Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu2QX3GU-U
Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich - Don't Kill The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7kNz2U7Lc
Patsy Cline???
Siouxsie???
Romeo Void??
Janis Joplin???
Love ALL those videos you posted!!!
sad how women in music have devolved since the day
and it wasnt video that killed the pop star...it was corporate radio
and i love siouxsie...who like nina, still looks and sounds great
Quite frankly, pretty women bore the shit outta me...
I never knew that about Poly Styrene. She always struck me as the punk version of a Susan Boyle. Oh to quote Leonard Cohen quoting Janis Joplin, "We are ugly, but we've got the music."
Great choice for the music club.
Love that 80's punk. Some great artists came out of that movement.
The Hardcore movement. Which has shaped me into the critical thinking, always questioning man I am today. DOA, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, etc. - yes, rock and roll CAN change your life...
god, i loved that band
Still to this day. D. Boone - rest in peace. Mike Watt - STILL killing it!!
And I remember to this day, Watt talkin about how Boone wanted them to be "sovereign" states, which is why he played his guitar so high on treble. Such a great, talented, and peaceful man, taken from us, way too soon. And yet, Cheney, that evil fuck, still walks the earth...
Edit// -Did I forget to mention.... BAD BRAINS!!! I was listening to "Banned in DC" this morning and thinking; every 20 or so years, something comes along that shakes the fabric of RnR to it's very core, well it's been close to 30, and I've yet to hear ANYTHING that comes close to what these guys did.... stupid kids today.... GET OFF MY LAWN!!! arrrrggghhhh...
Thanks for the video Mr. Neiwert! I would have never put you and old school punk rock together. Sort of a strange bedfellows deal, but I'm glad a fantastic writer like you is an aficionado of the genre.
up yours. Besides, my mother told me little girls should be seen and not heard. They don't make'em like that anymore. God Bless Polystyrene wherever u might be.
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