Needles & Grooves AoTM /// Vol. 9 - March 2020 /// X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents

[Mr Moore]

I’ll guess it then, can’t seem to make many clues work but it did get a recent reissue I seem to remember.

 

[gaporter]

this is one of the greatest images my eyes have ever beheld

 

[bfly]

I’ll guess it then, can’t seem to make many clues work but it did get a recent reissue I seem to remember.

my gears are turning but they are in need of grease. where the sleuthers at?? I like this but I feel like it was brought up before

 

[Joe Mac]

my gears are turning but they are in need of grease. where the sleuthers at?? I like this but I feel like it was brought up before

Yeah I mentioned it about 10 days ago, and then fell down a rabbit hole of listening to it on repeat because it’s great. I didn’t guess it then because I couldn’t see how the clues tied in and still can’t as much as I’d like them to.

 

[teefer]

Yeah I mentioned it about 10 days ago, and then fell down a rabbit hole of listening to it on repeat because it’s great. I didn’t guess it then because I couldn’t see how the clues tied in and still can’t as much as I’d like them to.

They have a song called Plastic Bag! That links to the last clue, at least.

 

[dhodo]

 

[dhodo]

Also lol at that "lightening" typo. Unless that's a British thing? Here it means something else.

 

[Joe Mac]

Also lol at that "lightening" typo. Unless that's a British thing? Here it means something else.

nah typo, lightening would be lightening the load or lightening the colour palette.

 

[dhodo]

nah typo, lightening would be lightening the load or lightening the colour palette.

Thanks.

Also:

 

[debianlinux]

Thanks.

Also:
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I am completely innocent here. I mean, I was trying to figure out how to work Ogre You Asshole into this lightening thing but we’re going to ignore that.

 

[Dirtbag Auntie]

I am completely innocent here. I mean, I was trying to figure out how to work Ogre You Asshole into this lightening thing but we’re going to ignore that.

so close to becoming the newest member of my ignore list.

 

[gaporter]

so close to becoming the newest member of my ignore list.

The more you ignore deb, the closer he gets. You're wasting your time

 

[teefer]

X-Ray Spex - Identity lyrics:

Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream

 

[debianlinux]

May have cracked it.

 

[D Jilla]

Great choice if it’s Germ Free Adolescents! Definitely an essential record that always seems to get overlooked.

 

[teefer]

Poly Styrene was 19 when they recorded their first single, and they only really have one album too.

 

[MikeH]

AOTM is The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

Genre is Psychobilly (major influences without getting their due)

Bananarama

Game Controller - Hand Cramps?

Bathroom Mirror - I have no idea????

REM Song - Rock On the Moon

TV Set

Pile of Magazines dated February 2009 - Lux Interior Died in February 2009

Many drummers but notably Nick Knox for this album

Number 1 - their 1st album

Number 19 - The age Poison Ivy met Lux Interior

Cinderella's Big Score

Unless I missed something else. I really think this is the one.

Trash bag clue is Garbageman.

Sonic Youth =The Cramps played at one of the first shows Thurston Moore saw in NYC at Max’s Kansas City.

Banksy painting = The Gramps.

 

[gafacaode]

Unless I missed something else. I really think this is the one.

Trash bag clue is Garbageman.

Sonic Youth =The Cramps played at one of the first shows Thurston Moore saw in NYC at Max’s Kansas City.

Banksy painting = The Gramps.

Yeah but "the front person identifies as a woman" hint kills that guess.

 

[dhodo]

For the Sonic Youth clue:

Thurston Moore Sings With X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene in 1978 at CBGB in Unearthed Recording

Moore hosts this week's episode of BBC Two's "Artsnight," exploring the early British punk scene

pitchfork.com

 

[agutierrezb]

Yeah, I think we may have cracked it. TBH I've never heard of X-Ray Spex, but I'll give them a listen today.