LISTEN TO IT #30: OH CANCER, UP YRS

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Meanwhile, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex is also gone.

Which may not mean much to a lot of you, but I’m a big fan of X-Ray Spex. They only managed one album before splitting up, but they made it count. So much so that it’s hard to pick just one song for this post. But I’ll go with “The Day The World Turned Day Glo” because it gets me blood moving in the morning.

Meanwhile, by the wildest coincidence, I’d been planning to do a post on Poly’s latest solo album, Generation Indigo, which is only her third solo album since X-Ray Spex broke up.

Based on the evidence below, like a lot of pioneering music icons, she might never live up to her own past, but she still had something to say, which is more than you could say for almost any female singer mainstream singer today.

I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say there’d be no Lady Gaga without Poly Styrene. But there’s no doubt she did her part to kick Polite Society in the teeth.

Respect.

Seen and heard,

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