X-RAY SPEX – Germfree Adolescents (Repress) – LP – Black Vinyl [OCT 31]

LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl Repress. Includes Inner Lyric Sheet. Includes 12″ insert poster of album cover + sleeve notes by Stephanie Phillips.

Germfree Adolescents is one of the signature albums of the early (1978) British punk movement that serves as an ideal prism through which to see the hypocrisy of consumerist culture.

The one and only LP release from X Ray Spex and its irrepressible frontwoman Poly Styrene has been deemed by everybody from Greil Marcus to Robert Christgau to Spin to Mojo as one of the greatest punk albums ever made, and for this reissue, weve done it right; besides the clear vinyl (offering excellent sound), weve reproduced the inner lyric sheet, where you can read Polys brilliant observations about the plastic, corporate nature of modern society.

All of which she sings in a passionate yowl all her own (with Lora Logic among others backing on saxophone); this is not only one of the most penetratingly observant punk records, its also one of the most passionate, and, surprisingly enough, catchy. Check out The Day the World Turned Day-Glo and Germ Free Adolescents if its hooks youre after; if its righteous anger and a noisy racket youre seeking, every track will do ya.

Tracklist:

Side 1 (Contents 1)
1. Art-I-Ficial
2. Obsessed With You
3. Warrior In Woolworths
4. Let’s Submerge
5. I Can’t Do Anything
6. Identity

Side 2 (Contents 2)
1. Genetic Engineering
2. I Live Off You
3. I Am A Poseur
4. Germ Free Adolescents
5. Plastic Bag
6. The Day The World Turned Dayglo