X-Ray Spex & the Power of Poly Styrene, Opinions on Saba & Shamir

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Poly Styrene led X-Ray Spex in the punk explosion of the late 1970s and inspired a generation of riot grrrls in the 1990s. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with her daughter, Celeste Bell, about her new documentary, "Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché." They also do a classic album dissection of the X-Ray Spex album "Germ-Free Adolescents" and review new albums from Saba and Shamir.

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Featured Songs:

X-Ray Spex, "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!," Germfree Adolescents, EMI, 1978

Saba, "Survivor's Guilt (feat. G Herbo)," Few Good Things, Saba Pivot, 2022

Saba, "One Way or Every N**** With a Budget," Few Good Things, Saba Pivot, 2022

Saba, "Soldier (feat. Pivot Gang)," Few Good Things, Saba Pivot, 2022

Saba, "Fearmonger (feat. Daoud)," Few Good Things, Saba Pivot, 2022

Shamir, "Cisgender," Heterosexuality, AntiFragile, 2022

Shamir, "Gay Agenda," Heterosexuality, AntiFragile, 2022

Shamir, "Stability," Heterosexuality, AntiFragile, 2022

Shamir, "Cold Brew," Heterosexuality, AntiFragile, 2022

Mari Elliott, "Silly Billy," Silly Billy (Single), GTO, 1976

X-Ray Spex, "Warrior In Woolworths," Germfree Adolescents, EMI, 1978

X-Ray Spex, "Plastic Bag," Germfree Adolescents, EMI, 1978

X-Ray Spex, "Genetic Engineering," Germfree Adolescents, EMI, 1978

X-Ray Spex, "Germ-Free Adolescents," Germfree Adolescents, EMI, 1978

Lucy Dacus, "Thumbs," Home Video, Matador, 2021

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the
0:05.2	Patreon page and free. Oh, Show.
0:23.0	Show it. Show it. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're doing a classic album
0:38.1	dissection of germ-free adolescents by X-ray Spex and talking with Polly Steinrene's daughter,
0:44.5	Celes Bell, who has a hand in this new documentary.
0:48.4	I'm Jim Deeregatus.
0:49.7	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:50.7	But first, Jim and I have two new albums to review from Saba and Shamir.
0:55.0	Hey, A, A, Brays below Poverty.
0:58.0	Now I keep a sacred geometry. I'm with my circle. I'm training for mayhem, but all I'm training
1:02.0	because I'm gonna train you because I saw
1:02.5	leave the intangible fill on my squirt like a planeer be careful they on the
1:05.8	dangerous for diamonds it's spiraling they want us in boxes but can't contain us
1:09.5	on my God I'm trying to move better what's really eating when you from a fool desert I see the
1:14.2	newsletters can't listen to them maybe moving too careless this album's
1:17.6	confessions of a man moving quick when he regret it once I make a ban and
1:21.8	get rich ritz ritz it's a little bit of Survivor's Guilt from the new Saba album, Few Good Things.
1:28.5	Saba, Bourantage, Malik Chandler, proud son of Chicago's West Side.
1:34.0	He's made his name not only as a rapper, a songwriter, producer, but community activist, and
1:39.4	a voice for the oppressed in Chicago.
1:41.5	Chicago young authors.
1:42.7	Absolutely.
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