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Skunk Anansie is tagged as: rock, female vocalists, alternative, alternative rock, british

Skunk Anansie is a British rock band, notable for having a black, skinhead (not ideologically), female singer, named Skin (born Deborah Anne Dyer, on 3 August 1967, in Brixton, London). Other members included Cass (Richard Lewis) on bass guitar, Ace (Martin Kent) on guitar and Mark Richardson, who replaced the original drummer, Robbie France. The group formed in 1994, but broke up in 2001. They were named after the West-African folk tales of Anansie the spider-man, with “Skunk” added to “make the name nastier”. They were sometimes grouped as part of a Britrock movement, running alongside Britpop. They reformed in 2009 with a new tour and album.
The group has been labelled as a “political” band, but the group has emphasized that they would prefer to be labelled simply as a “rock band”. Skin herself, however, has described Skunk Anansie as a “clit-rock” group, which All Music Guide clarifies as “an amalgam of heavy metal and black feminist rage”. Members Skin and Ace have mentioned the Sex Pistols, Blondie, dub music, reggae, electronica, hip-hop music and world music as significant influences.
Since the breaking up of the band, Skin has gone on to a solo career - releasing two albums: Fleshwounds, and Fa...
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Top 10 Skunk Anansie Songs
Secretly
Weak
Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
Charlie Big Potato
Lately
You'll Follow Me Down
Brazen (Weep)
I Can Dream
All I Want
Selling Jesus
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Top 10 Skunk Anansie Albums
Post Orgasmic Chill
Stoosh
Paranoid & Sunburnt
Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
Paranoid and Sunburnt
Weak
Charlie Big Potato
Brazen Weep
Brazen 'Weep' CD1
Twisted - Everyday Hurts
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