- Audio CD (22 Oct 2001)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Castle
- ASIN: B00005QIU3
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,990 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Oh Bondage! Up Yours! | |||
| 2. I Am Cliche | |||
| 3. Day the World Turned Day-Glo | |||
| 4. I Am a Poseur | |||
| 5. Identity | |||
| 6. Lets Submerge | |||
| 7. Germ Free Adolescents | |||
| 8. Age | |||
| 9. Obsessed With You | |||
| 10. Generic Engineering | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (Live) | |||
| 2. Identity (Live) | |||
| 3. Let's Submerge (Live) | |||
| 4. Plastic Bag (Live) | |||
| 5. I Live Off You (Live) | |||
| 6. I Am a Cliche (Live) | |||
| 7. I Can't Do Anything (Live) | |||
| 8. Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (Live) | |||
| 9. Cigarettes (Live) | |||
| 10. Junk Food Junkie (Live) | |||
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best punk albums,
By A Customer
This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
I think that "Germ Free Adolescents" was one of the best punk albums of its era. Why only 3 stars, then? It isn't because of the additional material that isn't so great -- I can easily just not play the live disc. What's wrong with this particular package is that the mastering isn't very good. The sound is thin and bright compared with the previous cd issued by Virgin (which lacked the copious bonus tracks of this package). Given that it's the original album that's so classic, I suggest that fans should buy the Virgin cd instead.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Muffin the mule / ain't no fule / no! / he's cule,
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This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
X-Ray Spex only released one album, 'Germ Free Adolescents', and it's repackaged here with some fluff that you don't need, at the price of a single album. The first sixteen tracks on disc one comprise the album, although for no reason at all the track listing has been moved around. Ignore the demo and live material and you have one of the most consistent of the wave of punk albums to emerge at the time. The group were unusual in that they had two saxphone players (plus the obligatory grinding guitars), and a lead singer who was a woman, a plain-looking woman with braces and an impressively bratty set of pipes. Poly Styrene had already had a microscopic career as a teen-pop-reggae act, releasing a single before punk happened, and the group's songwriting is much more sophisticated and pop-friendly than one might imagine. Nonetheless, they avoided accusations of being sell-outs through a mixture of charm and brassiness.Essentially the original album compiled the group's singles, plus b-sides, with six extra tracks. Indeed, 'Germ Free Adolescents' contained the group's entire professionally-recorded output (the only tracks not released on a single were 'Genetic Engineering', 'Obsessed with You', 'Artificial', 'I Live off You', 'I Can't Do Anything' and 'Plastic Bag'), which makes this anthology an odd marketing decision. All the tracks are of a high standard, and mixing up the track order avoids the slight slump which affected the original album, which was about ten minutes too long. The between-song links - Styrene shouts out the song titles - give it the feel of a continuous live show, which is nice. The title track is a high point, an odd ballad which encapsulates the album's twin themes, consumerism and cleanliness (!), with a reference to Gibb's SR toothpaste, which probably means that Unilever gets half the record's royalties. 'Oh Bondage Up Yours' was the famous single but it's actually not as good as some of the album tracks, including the sad-sounding 'Plastic Bag', the bouncy 'Dayglo' and 'Obsessed with You', which has dated very well. The title track and the slightly annoying 'Warrior in Woolworths' slow things down, and although nothing stands out as well as some of the stuff on the Sex Pistols' debut, and there's no attempt at making deep political points, man, it's much of a piece and remains my favourite of the early pop-punk albums.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME !!!!,
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This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
I love this band.All I had till I got hands on these CD's wasthe crappy sounding ¨Obssesed With You¨cd .The remastering is gorgeous,typical of Castle Records,and the bonus tracks are by no means fillers of any kind,each and every of them being worth repeated listenings.The ¨Live At The Roxy¨+ 3 tracks from the ¨Concious Consumer¨reunion album has great documentary value,this band really kicks @ss live !!!.If you like the band,simply give away whatever material you got on any format and treasure this excellent 2 cd set,which is more of a boxed set for the enormous amount of musical history.It would have been perfect if Castle had included a comprehensive booklet instead of the little poster,which is barely legible,but that's what internet is for,isn't it ?.REALLY WORTH THE MONEY !!!!!!! THANK YOU CASTLE AND AMAZON FOR THE SALE PRICE.
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