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X-Ray Spex is tagged as: punk, punk rock, female vocalists, new wave, post-punk

X-Ray Spex are an English punk band from London that formed in 1976. The original line-up featured singer Poly Styrene (born Marion Elliot-Said) on vocals, Jak Airport (Jack Stafford) on guitars, Paul Dean on bass, Paul ‘B. P.’ Hurding on Drums, and Lora Logic (born Susan Whitby) on saxophone. This latter instrument was an atypical addition to the standard punk instrumental line-up, and became one of the group’s most distinctive features.
X-Ray Spex’s other distinctive musical element was Poly Styrene’s voice, which has been variously described as “effervescently discordant” and “powerful enough to drill holes through sheet metal”. As Mari Elliot, Poly had released a reggae single for GTO Records in 1976, “Silly Billy”, which had not charted. Born in 1957 in Brixton, London, of Somali-English parentage, Poly Styrene became the group’s public face, and remains one of the most memorable front-women to emerge from the punk movement. Not conventionally attractive, she wore braces on her teeth and once stated that “If anybody tried to make me a sex symbol I would shave my head tomorrow”.
X-Ray Spex existed from mid-1976 to 1979, during which time they released five singles - “Oh Bondage, Up...
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Top 10 X-Ray Spex Songs
Identity
Obsessed With You
I Am A Poseur
Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Art-I-Ficial
Warrior In Woolworths
I Live Off You
Genetic Engineering
I Can't Do Anything
Let's Submerge
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Top 10 X-Ray Spex Albums
Germfree Adolescents
Germ Free Adolescents
Nag Nag Nag
Germ Free Adolescents - The Anthology
Conscious Consumer
The Anthology
Let's Submerge: The Anthology
Live @ The Roundhouse London 2008
Anthology
Live at the Roxy
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