hee hee... i was in ANOTHER band, where we covered 'art-i-ficial'.

this band has been coming up a lot lately, an hearing them all over again, they are actually one of the better punk bands (along with the buzzcocks) in terms of arrangement. the structure of 'germfree adolescents', 'warrior in woolworths', 'i live of you'... they put more effort into what they did musically and lyrically than, say, the exploited (who came a bit later) or the new york dolls, etc. i think lyrically, the sex pistols were MUCH better than they were musically (and PiL's first two records beat anything the sex pistols ever did).

MJJstudent said:

hee hee... i was in ANOTHER band, where we covered 'art-i-ficial'.

this band has been coming up a lot lately, an hearing them all over again, they are actually one of the better punk bands (along with the buzzcocks) in terms of arrangement. the structure of 'germfree adolescents', 'warrior in woolworths', 'i live of you'... they put more effort into what they did musically and lyrically than, say, the exploited (who came a bit later) or the new york dolls, etc. i think lyrically, the sex pistols were MUCH better than they were musically (and PiL's first two records beat anything the sex pistols ever did).

In the context of the Pistols, I think Rotten was distracted with issues that hampered the early years of the Pistols (especially with Sid) so when he formed Public Image Ltd., he decided to really focus on the musical delivery that was not seen in the Pistols.

As for X-Ray Spex, they definitely were tight musically and lyrically. I haven't stopped listening to Germ Free Adolescents. That record pops off IMMEDIATELY! Plus the fact there were two female members who practically were the breadwinners (the woman, I think her name was Dolly Dagger, who played sax, and of course the legendary Poly Styrene, who proved BLACK GIRLS CAN INDEED ROCK) was incredible too. I think, also, Poly was still in her teens when X-Ray Spex formed in '77.