Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Germ Free Adolescents

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The remastered reissue gods are smiling upon us. Last week brought the US release of the expanded edition of the classic Germ Free Adolescents from punk legends X-Ray Spex. Fronted by spazzed out Poly Styrene and featuring the scronky sax of Lora Logic, this band only recorded this one album - a collection of bouncy, perky pop punk. The reissue has 11 bonus tracks - the band's first two singles and seven tracks recorded as Peel sessions. This version of Germ Free Adolescents is one of the Peel session tracks - it's a bit less punchy than the studio recording, and also has a lot more keyboards on it. It's lovely. There is also a two disc version of this available with the second disc being mostly live stuff. A tremendously fun album.

3 comments:

guanoboy said...

Went to look at the track listing for the two versions...they're very different...strange. Do you have any insight as to why?

You'd think that disc 1 on the double CD release would be the same as the single disc release.

Hmmm. Which to buy?

Michael said...

I have no idea as to why they are so different. When I picked this up I had no idea there were two versions. It wasn't until I was prepping this post that I discovered the other version - I would have liked to buy that one! Oh well...

JulianLD50 said...

Is the link still working?