X-Ray Spex - "Peel Sessions" (1978)

Alright, no Lora Logic on these sessions, but we do have 7 classic major chord pop-punk thrashes featuring the dearly departed Polly Styrene and some future New Romantics!
Not satisfied with jumping on the Punk Rock bandwagon, the boys in X-Ray Spex couldn't wait to clamber on board the Futurist Cinderella's coach, and become the living joke that was Classix Nouveaux!!!....further evidence that the vast majority of our Punk 'Heroes' NEVER MEANT IT!
After a comfortable distance of 35 years, I downloaded the first two Classix Nouveaux LP's, and found them an abstract listening experience, and a lesson in how unintentionally 'weird' pop music can become. The singer was undoubtedly a complete prick, but musically it sounds like a soundtrack from a disco in a low budget sci-fi TV series from the mid-eighties. I'm thinking dancing Cylon's from Battlestar Galactica here? Hear the cymbal-less polygonal 'Simmons' electronic drum kit, fretless bass, clown-like catholic jugend (or Bell end?) Führer Sal Solo as an android Brian ferry, and take a selfie of yourself ,open mouthed in shock at what just entered your mind!......incredible stuff???

Tracklist:

1st Peel Session 20th Feb 1978:

1 Genetic Engineering
2 Art-I-Ficial
3 I Am A Poser
4 Identity

2nd Peel Sessions 6th November 1978: 

5 Germ Free Adolescents 
6 Warrior In Woolworths
7 Age

DOWNLOAD some proto-classix nouveaux HERE!

X-Ray Spex - "Live at the Roxy 1977"

Of course to round up the career of Susan Whitby,aka Lora Logic,the sax playing Buddhist. Here's one of the few recordings of her playing with X-Ray Spex at the infamous Roxy punk club in covent garden, Wearing a very dodgy outfit indeed.:

X-Ray Spex were one of the new waves' most instantly readymade groups.Hitting the ground running,with a bunch of incredibly simple and catchy,if piercing, tunes that anyone could learn and play in a few minutes.
Whitby provided a different edge in the legions of bandwagon punks,with her spidery sax lines,and was later heard to moan about the lack of writing credits provided by her chum, and ,weirdly, another future Buddhist, Marion 'Polly Styrene' Elliot (RIP).
Their career was just about the right length,as there was nowhere left to go in this format by the end of 1978.Like the Pistols, one LP was all that they had in them, or was needed....in fact as great as these songs were,hear more than 7 or 8 in a row tends to be too much for the ears.
As for Lora, she left after the first single to go to more progressive area's, along with the other early punk rock ship jumpers who saw the writing on the wall quickly.(Devoto,Perry,Lydon etc).
So here we have a faltering,sometimes inept, muffled recording of a performance at the Roxy Club in 1977.Don't know when, but it doesn't seem to be the one used on the 'Live at the Roxy' album.

Tracklist:

1 Oh Bondage! Up Yours! 2:42
2 Identity 2:25
3 Let's Submerge 3:05
4 Plastic Bag 4:10
5 I Live Off You 2:18
6 I Am A Cliche 1:48
7 I Can't Do Anything 2:59
8 Oh Bondage! Up Yours! 2:52

DOWNLOAD some x-rays of the corpse of the punk rock HERE!