x-ray spex crap/not crap

[foo]

that x-ray spex bird slapped my friend round the face after a gig.

so i'm with unix - crap!

 

[Orang Utan]

EXACTLY!

 

[Chuff]

I am really looking forward to the roundhouse gig.

 

[hammerntongues]

Saxophones have no place in punk

have you not heard Baker Street ? music doesn`t get more anarchic than that .

 

[boskysquelch]

EXACTLY!

*sits on foo & unix.*

 

[boskysquelch]

Legendarily...it's on Friends Reunited somewhere... I am still cited as the reason why the common rooms of my old school is not allowed to have musical apparatus in'em ...when ever any kids ask they are pointed towards a framed version of MY confiscated copy of Oh Bondage Up yours in the deputy heads office...

 

[chico enrico]

Crap!

Nearly as crap as the angelic upstarts.

You are fool.

X-Ray Spex were BRILLIANT!! without doubt one of the best bands from then.

I used to have a promo poster for the album up on my wall when i was a kid. The lady in the record shop let me have it after the LP had been out for a while. Them all in test-tubes. Wish I still had it. I even had the poster before i had the album, and that was one of the first records i ever bought. Gonna whack it on as soon as I get home.

Does anyone remember the Arena documentary that was on TV about them in 78 or 79? I remember it was a week or two before the one on Sham....

I also remember - "as a treat" being allowed to stay up late , on a school-nite, to watch them when they performed on the Old Grey Whistle Test. I must have been 8 or 9. My old dear thought they were great and kept singing "warrior in Woolworths" for ages afterwards which was highly embarassing when i had mates round.

Would love to see it again.

 

[chico enrico]

I am really looking forward to the roundhouse gig.

Fuck , yea!! I'd forgotten about that!! I'm up for going too. Went to see them with 'Polly Filla' singing when they reformed in the nineties in Edinburgh. Poor girl, you couldn't help but feel sorry for her squawking away , but she was ver much a 'poor man's Poly Styrene.

 

[Pavlik]

I had to think about that for a while.
They were mostly crap but had a wicked, unique sound.

 

[seeformiles]

Saxophones have no place in punk

I agree - that's what always put me off them. No problem with sax in Hawkwind though!

Oh yeah - the Angelic Upstarts were crap as well (in fact an awful lot of punk was crap with a few notable exceptions)

 

[rollinder]

just heard The Day The World Turned Dayglo again & would like to change my vote to fucking not crap

mind from past experiance that sax intro is a killer earworm

eta: the Angelic Upstarts aren't crap - Sham on the otherhand..

 

[Swearing Nonna]

You are fool.

You were 8 or 9, probably watching roland rat after school too so don't mind me if I don't take you too seriously. You'll be telling me next Sham 69 were good