In 1978 this record from X Ray Spex was revolutionary and it helped shape what Punk music became. To have a woman of color front a Punk band was pretty much unheard of and she faced far more obstacles on a daily basis than the other white male dudes occupying space in the genre.

With the opening track of Germfree Adolescents, I Am a Cliche, she spouts gibberish, yama yama yama yama shamelessly in between versus proclaiming, I am a cliche, I am a cliche / I am a cliche youve seen before / I am a cliche that lives next door / I am a cliche you know what I mean / I am a cliche pink is obscene. She addresses any criticism she might receive head on, with humor, with wily energy, and with a half time distorted guitar chugging along underneath her vocals.

The songwriting is political, precise, poetic, and it defies the linear concept of time. Between Polys wild unleashed vocals, the saxop