X-Ray Spex 1st Press UK LP Germ free adolescents VG+ 78 EMI INS3023 British Punk
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X-Ray Spex 1st Press UK LP Germ free adolescents VG+ 78 EMI INS3023 British Punk
Original 1st Press UK LP released in 1978 on EMI Records. Cat: INS 3023. Comes with original round cornered printed lyric inner bag which is in Excellent condition. Matrix/Runout: INS 3023 A-1 MASTERED AT' ABBEY ROAD’-NICK/ INS 3023 B-1 NICK UU.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.
Tracks: Art-i-ficial/ Let’s submerge/ Obsessed with you/ I can’t do anything/ Warrior in Woolworths/ Identity/ Genetic engineering/ Germ free adolescents/ I live off you/ Plastic bag/ I am a poseur/ The day the world turned dayglo.
Record has some light scuff marks and very light scratches that cause a few light crackles throughout and is in VG+ condition. Full gloss cover has a small sticker stain on top right corner and is in Excellent condition.
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