Thursday, November 6, 2025

Songs That Stand Out !# 6 X Ray Spex

 


This sounded uncannily strange as a thirteen year old who knew next to nothing watching this on Top of the Pops in 1978, The message was was way beyond me at the time but it's incredible in its poignancy almost fifty years on. Punk. In the true sense of the word. I can't think of another song like it,

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  1. Yes, to me too. Really strange. Something about her look and the braces, too. Yet, it totally stayed with me through many years, pre-Internet, when all I had were my memories of it. It's such a proper, wonderful oddity. And incredibly poignant.

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    1. It's an incredible song Darren. It floats in an atmosphere of its own. Yes to the braces and the outfits,

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