Poly returned the kiss I threw her at Erics in Liverpool 1978, What a great time when a plump mixed race Woman could make the charts singing about what a shit place the World was becoming, no sexuality, just joy in what She did and commitment to what She believed...seems the World is regressing somehow.
Better times really Alan weren't they? Can't beat those days. 76-82. Now all the women are just strippers pretending to be singers and speaking for people. I miss those times so much.
I paid a small fortune for this on orange vinyl when it was first released, I can't have been more than 12. I'm 43 now and LOVING listening to it again! What a buzz!
On April 26, 2011, one of my heroes, Marianne Joan Elliott-Said a.k.a. Poly Styrene of the X-Ray Spex, the true queen of punk rock, died. I'm completely heartbroken. Tears cannot stop falling from my eyes. You don't know how much your music changed my fucking life. I will never forget you. Thanks for your wonderful contribution to this piece of shit world. You made it worthwhile. Rest in peace. I will never stop listening...
She looks so happy in this song. Just happy to be making music that mattered. What a great time the late 70's, early 80's were. Everything after is just copying.
Lyrics I clambered over mounds and mounds of polystyrene foam Then fell into a swimming pool filled with fairy snow And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh I wrenched the nylon curtains back as far as they would go Then peered through perspex window panes at the acrylic road And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh I drove my polypropylene car on wheels of sponge Then pulled into a wimpy bar to have a rubber bun And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh The world turned day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh The X-rays were penetrating through the latex breeze Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves fell from the rayon trees The day the world turned day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, you know The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
I wasn't lucky enough to have the album that had the inner sleeve with the lyrics, I used ti listen to the songs over and over to try and work out the lyrics. One day in my favorite record shop they had up on the wall the album with the lyrics inside, I quickly took it down to read the lyrics I'd wanted to know for years. It was great.
@@PrinceAndrew100 I'm always ready to consider the mental vision of a mind utterly unlike my own, such as here, when I read mental visions which my own mind could never have suggested to me. I think the poet William Blake should have been interested in these mental amblings, were he to have been famiar with the throwaway ' synthetic ' materials Polly refers to, here; (and which, I like to believe, but without condoning, her large, vacant eyes show her body, right at this very moment, were very familiar !). I dont know what was the B side; but that you, I and surely most others who also haven't heard above more than a few words over the years, were still willing to listen, shows how compelling to us was its musical power; it has a definitive, gripping, relentless menace, which builds before exhausting itself quite marvelously. Had I known her, I should have like to have suggested that the B side should've been a near musical version of it; the same music, but over it, (you may need to look up these singers' styles), her voice in a ' Swingle Singers ' style; that group used their voices as a type of instrument: vocal sounds, but without words. The '' You know ''s in the lyrics above aren't in the song; but this is the closest I've ever read. For years, I've heard the words '' ...British group'', not ''...rayon trees '', for example. Please could somebody who has the album type the lyrics printed on it on here ?. Thanks very much. I must listen to it again. The loss of women hurts my heart very, very much.
@@Mist-Media Poste Malone has been #1 of hip hop charts many many times while he's making pop songs and has refuted making hip hop songs publically. This is punk rock and it doesn't really matter of others have claimed otherwise. Especially if you take into consideration that many ppl have tried to exclude x ray spex and their influence in rock by claiming they were pop
only just found out ,totally devastated ,a lovelylady ,was lucky enough to see x ray spex live in 96 ,fuck reading ,all ways in our hearts ,the music lives on forever !
This used to be one of my favorite bands when I was younger but they didn't sound like anything else I listened to. They were unique, something that is very rare in music these days.
Pure genius. So good live - helped change my life...these lyrics and 'germ free' are still two of the greatest indictments of the modern world..shame there was only a few of us listening...
Sax as a rhythm instrument. That's the way to do it. I remember buying this on 45 and playing it when I got home. Mind blowing. Both sides of it. Love it. xx
Happily remember blowing a kiss to Poly at Eric's in Liverpool back in 78 and her blowing one back, A lovely Lady full of joy and hope... sadly missed.
The thing about the punk of that era is that they did not all look nor sound the same, That came later, There was no uniform. Very soon, there was one. Those true moments are always very short lived.
I thank my musical god for X-Ray Spex; and the divine Polystyrene who wrote and sang an album of classics thats still ahead of its time 35 years later. RIP Queen Poly- your poetry, your muisc, and that glorious scream live on.
Well, I started off listening to Parliament, then, The Beat, then Dean Friedman (go figure) Now this. It's been wonderful! Great childhood memories, and lovely hairy chest Dean. The things the memory remembers!
X-Ray Spex were always one of my favourite punk bands & they even had a sax player. I was really sad to learn that Polly had moved on but really happy for what she did when she was here. RIP Polly
Oh Bondage Up Yours !, world turned dayglo - Polystyrene was everything we are not - courage to be yourself and anti-establishment. BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL ALWAYS ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ and so relevant even now!!! Thanks Polly xxxxxxx
I am totally hooked, totally mesmerised by this. Really rate Poly as one of the pioneering female punk legends, a unique and talented lady. RIP Marianne x
@johnanthonyp too right ! - it was the first time i had a regular job and i used to buy a single and an album a week on spec, just by the covers or the titles - got some absolute rubbish but an amazing amount of pure gold
STILL PLAY ALL YOURE HITS POLY AS IF IT WERE YESTERDAY...... WISH WE COULD BRING YOU BACK LADY-YOU WERE A LEGEND WITH A GREAT WRITING TALENT. BYE MISS STYRENE, SADLEY MISSED XXXX
i listen to her music now, and it makes more sense than it did in 1977!! possibly because i was too young to understand back then, or maybe because she was so far ahead of her time, a visionary, and hit the nail on the head with her lyrics.
Man, I can't believe she has passed away....I was listening to 'Identity' yesterday and was thinking to get X-Ray Spex's album because I have not got round to buying it. My condolences to those who knew her
I personally would class punk as an ideology rather than just a music genre and x ray spex definatly stand up for what they believe in which to me, is as punk as it gets.
Heart and soul of punk , the truest and most beautiful expression of punk ethos without pretention or fakery.
Love you forever Poly
Couldnt agree more
Along with Pink flag by wire
Punk was all over by 78
Then it was football anthem time with Spam 69
And assorted drivel
Poly returned the kiss I threw her at Erics in Liverpool 1978, What a great time when a plump mixed race Woman could make the charts singing about what a shit place the World was becoming, no sexuality, just joy in what She did and commitment to what She believed...seems the World is regressing somehow.
Alan Ollier i'll always remember x ray spex
Missed these at Erics sadly . . and I was a regular in 78. Love everything they recorded. Rest In Punk heaven Poly
Dhat Innsmouth look..
Better times really Alan weren't they? Can't beat those days. 76-82. Now all the women are just strippers pretending to be singers and speaking for people. I miss those times so much.
Alan Ollier was she African??????
I paid a small fortune for this on orange vinyl when it was first released, I can't have been more than 12. I'm 43 now and LOVING listening to it again! What a buzz!
It was 70p in 1978 when I bought it
got it in 45 day glow mate
This band were fucking AMAZING!!!! She was amazing!!! Germ Free Adolescents is definitely one of the best albums recorded in the '70s (or ever!!!).
TheJTM45 EVER!
Indeed, one of the best bands ever!
To my ears, still one of the best punk choruses ever.
Female icon of 77s punk. Respect. RIP Poly.
Luciana Olea She was a genius!
Agreed , ❤️
Her voice is just apocalyptic!!!........Savage riff too.
RIP Poly. An inspiration to the older generation.Great band ,great memories.
On April 26, 2011, one of my heroes, Marianne Joan Elliott-Said a.k.a. Poly Styrene of the X-Ray Spex, the true queen of punk rock, died. I'm completely heartbroken. Tears cannot stop falling from my eyes. You don't know how much your music changed my fucking life. I will never forget you. Thanks for your wonderful contribution to this piece of shit world. You made it worthwhile. Rest in peace. I will never stop listening...
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She looks so happy in this song. Just happy to be making music that mattered. What a great time the late 70's, early 80's were. Everything after is just copying.
I've rarely seen a person so happy and so loud.
I agree.
God damn I love her voice. Would strip paint off the walls.
How could someone think of this back in the 70's? Pure genius!!!!
poly was beautiful. great stage presence. great eyes
Brilliant vocalist. Brilliant lyricist. Great band. Well missed!
She was a great front woman...
An angel rejoined heaven when this gal left us.
Lyrics
I clambered over mounds and mounds of polystyrene foam
Then fell into a swimming pool filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
I wrenched the nylon curtains back as far as they would go
Then peered through perspex window panes at the acrylic road
And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
I drove my polypropylene car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar to have a rubber bun
And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
The world turned day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
The X-rays were penetrating through the latex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves fell from the rayon trees
The day the world turned day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, you know
The world turned day-glo, you know, uh oh
Lyrics Hero.
I wasn't lucky enough to have the album that had the inner sleeve with the lyrics, I used ti listen to the songs over and over to try and work out the lyrics. One day in my favorite record shop they had up on the wall the album with the lyrics inside, I quickly took it down to read the lyrics I'd wanted to know for years. It was great.
@@PrinceAndrew100
I'm always ready to consider the mental vision of a mind utterly unlike my own, such as here, when I read mental visions which my own mind could never have suggested to me.
I think the poet William Blake should have been interested in these mental amblings, were he to have been famiar with the throwaway ' synthetic ' materials Polly refers to, here; (and which, I like to believe, but without condoning, her large, vacant eyes show her body, right at this very moment, were very familiar !).
I dont know what was the B side; but that you, I and surely most others who also haven't heard above more than a few words over the years, were still willing to listen, shows how compelling to us was its musical power; it has a definitive, gripping, relentless menace, which builds before exhausting itself quite marvelously.
Had I known her, I should have like to have suggested that the B side should've been a near musical version of it; the same music, but over it, (you may need to look up these singers' styles), her voice in a ' Swingle Singers ' style; that group used their voices as a type of instrument: vocal sounds, but without words.
The '' You know ''s in the lyrics above aren't in the song; but this is the closest I've ever read.
For years, I've heard the words '' ...British group'', not ''...rayon trees '', for example.
Please could somebody who has the album type the lyrics printed on it on here ?.
Thanks very much.
I must listen to it again.
The loss of women hurts my heart very, very much.
One of the most exciting pop records ever made.
pop?
@@miurtouissi1093 Popular record, even being performed on Top Of The POPS, so how's it not a pop record?
@Zed Popular record, even being performed on Top Of The POPS, so how's it not a pop record?
@@Mist-Media Poste Malone has been #1 of hip hop charts many many times while he's making pop songs and has refuted making hip hop songs publically. This is punk rock and it doesn't really matter of others have claimed otherwise. Especially if you take into consideration that many ppl have tried to exclude x ray spex and their influence in rock by claiming they were pop
It was pop, most punk was pop once it became incredibly popular. Rock is also pop if it’s popular, people shouldn’t get hung up on the word.
A punk rock classic. Their best song.
only just found out ,totally devastated ,a lovelylady ,was lucky enough to see x ray spex live in 96 ,fuck reading ,all ways in our hearts ,the music lives on forever !
I am American and punk is the music that got me addicted to heavier rock music, X-ray Specs is the best punk rock band ever
still listening to this - one of the best
2023 and this Song is still F**king Amazing!!
The queen of Punk!!!!!!
Pure joy! Poly is a shining star in the sky now. 🌟
This used to be one of my favorite bands when I was younger but they didn't sound like anything else I listened to. They were unique, something that is very rare in music these days.
I am now 51 and I used to hear Polly Styrene and spex in the van in the late seventies, GREAT
Bloody excellent..remember it so well..I'm still a punk at heart
Pure genius. So good live - helped change my life...these lyrics and 'germ free' are still two of the greatest indictments of the modern world..shame there was only a few of us listening...
I was in love with this girl! and still have this disk in my car after nearly 30 years
I'd never heard this until recently. I suppose I was only 9 and more into Abba and Bee Gees at the time, but still - I missed a treat. And she's cute.
Thanks so much for posting this, I loved Poly Styrene so much!!
Fantastic. Bless her so much x
This performance of an amazing song is one of the greatest moments in art rock. Pop art at its finest, made by a genius.
I just loved the music. I just loved Poly . Songs don’t change the world .
she has great and unique style of performing....love this...
Will always bring back the nostalgia
RIP Poly. Just the best
Sax as a rhythm instrument. That's the way to do it. I remember buying this on 45 and playing it when I got home. Mind blowing. Both sides of it. Love it. xx
Good everything here. Good drummer equals Good Band. RiP Poly...🖤
Full of energy from beginning to end - amazing.
True punk legend.
"Oh bondage up yours"! is up there with any punk classic.What a woman.R.I.P Poly!
Happily remember blowing a kiss to Poly at Eric's in Liverpool back in 78 and her blowing one back, A lovely Lady full of joy and hope... sadly missed.
devastated. loved x-ray spex. RIP Poly
The thing about the punk of that era is that they did not all look nor sound the same, That came later, There was no uniform. Very soon, there was one. Those true moments are always very short lived.
Like every underground music scene, once it becomes popular the cool part is gone.
I cant tell you the excitement I felt when I first heard this little lady belting out this tune back in 78. What a sad day and a great loss.
Poly. You gave more to this world than you took. x
Will never forget my Marianne Elliot...gosh getting emotional now :-(
My hero, the most original figure in punk - Poly Styrene.
Love this song.
I thank my musical god for X-Ray Spex; and the divine Polystyrene who wrote and sang an album of classics thats still ahead of its time 35 years later.
RIP Queen Poly- your poetry, your muisc, and that glorious scream live on.
Fucking brilliant song, listen to that voice and those melodies! Love the guitar sound and the drums on this as well. What a gal Poly Styrene was :)
Like Lydon with the Pistols; she really like to phrase her vocals with the drums....
Well, I started off listening to Parliament, then, The Beat, then Dean Friedman (go figure) Now this. It's been wonderful! Great childhood memories, and lovely hairy chest Dean. The things the memory remembers!
RIP POLY. A great lost for the punk scene
Absolutely shocked, loved this group and Poly RIP x
X-Ray Spex were always one of my favourite punk bands & they even had a sax player. I was really sad to learn that Polly had moved on but really happy for what she did when she was here. RIP Polly
i still listen to the album xray spex on vinyl brilliant pure class R.I.P Polly.
RIP Poly....thank you for the wonderful music!!
A most wonderful song from a beautiful woman and her band.
Two and a half minutes of perfect New Wave.
Brilliant, even after all these years I still love this.
This is my FAVOURITE band.
super cool, randomly heard this song on radio and had to track down. amazing voice
Classic English chunk rock ... I was a young lad at the time and remember it all.
Finally a Warrior in Heaven R.I.P. POLY X
This will Never Die!!..Poly's in the PunkrockTop 4 Ever Oi!
Orange vinyl if you got it quickly (first 10,000 pressings?).
Oh Bondage Up Yours !, world turned dayglo - Polystyrene was everything we are not - courage to be yourself and anti-establishment. BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL ALWAYS ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ and so relevant even now!!! Thanks Polly xxxxxxx
my brother is 3 yrs older than me & i can remember listening to a load of his punk songs in 77 on cassette. i was 10 at the time. happy memories
still got this on 7'' single ,dont have a record player but will never get shot of this !!
I miss those days.
Poly will be so sadly missed RIP x
Unique and brilliant!!
love her.
WHAT a voice..... (loving filthy sax playing too.....
)
I am totally hooked, totally mesmerised by this. Really rate Poly as one of the pioneering female punk legends, a unique and talented lady. RIP Marianne x
RIP. Thanks for great songs like this
This has got be one of the best records ever made!
cute,,,,,she was ahead of her time xx
Number 1 female punk icon - no debate!!!!!!!!
@johnanthonyp too right ! - it was the first time i had a regular job and i used to buy a single and an album a week on spec, just by the covers or the titles - got some absolute rubbish but an amazing amount of pure gold
RIP and thank you for everything you meant to me
I remember buying this on 7inch at the tender age of 10.
I thought I was the Mutz Nuts.
Punk Rocks
Romeo Juliet me 2, and I still play it (as well as many other's from bk then) regularly, pure class, R,I,P POLLY,,,
Agreed Scotty ;)
And you were!!!!!!!!
x
haha nice one, thanks ;)
My life became complete the day I first saw this!
Magnificent!
STILL PLAY ALL YOURE HITS POLY AS IF IT WERE YESTERDAY...... WISH WE COULD BRING YOU BACK LADY-YOU WERE A LEGEND WITH A GREAT WRITING TALENT. BYE MISS STYRENE, SADLEY MISSED XXXX
i listen to her music now, and it makes more sense than it did in 1977!! possibly because i was too young to understand back then, or maybe because she was so far ahead of her time, a visionary, and hit the nail on the head with her lyrics.
Man, I can't believe she has passed away....I was listening to 'Identity' yesterday and was thinking to get X-Ray Spex's album because I have not got round to buying it. My condolences to those who knew her
sorry to sound stupid though I will be probably be told that but when or what date did Poly decease?
she still has a beautiful voice :)
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
fantastic
RIP Poly, you were never a cliche.
I feel that she expressed a genuine punk aesthetic. Remember nipping out of sixth form at lunchtime to buy this single!! Great days.
I personally would class punk as an ideology rather than just a music genre and x ray spex definatly stand up for what they believe in which to me, is as punk as it gets.
real talent there
Ramones - they have a place in history.
Spex - legends!
Poly Styrene - R.I.P. a one off original.
This is a great single....so much spunk
Raw punk music where the guitars don't drown out the vocals. What a great sound.
Brilliant loved this band go on poly
Is there subtitles for this video.
I love the sound of the sax paired with the punk music. it sounds so amazing in a new way. makes me wanna dance like crazy! o_O