Germ Free Adolescents

Infobox Album |
Name = Germ Free Adolescents
Type = Album
Artist = X-Ray Spex


Released = November 1978
Recorded = Mid 1978 at Essex Studios
Genre = Punk
Length = 45:30
Label = EMI
Producer = Falcon Stuart
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2jnsa9ugb23s link] |
Last album =
This album = "Germ Free Adolescents"
(1978)
Next album = "Conscious Consumer"
(1995)

"Germ Free Adolescents" was X-Ray Spex's 1978 first album and contained the UK hit singles: "The Day The World Turned Day-Glo" (No. 23 in April 1978), "Identity" (No. 24 in July 1978) and "Germ Free Adolescents" which reached No. 18 in November 1978.

Track listing

# "Art-I-Ficial" - 3:24
# "Obsessed With You" - 2:30
# "Warrior in Woolworths" - 3:06
# "Let's Submerge" - 3:26
# "I Can't Do Anything" - 2:58
# "Identity" - 2:25
# "Genetic Engineering" - 2:49
# "I Live Off You" - 2:09
# "I Am a Poseur" - 2:34
# "Germ Free Adolescents" - 3:14
# "Plastic Bag" - 4:54
# "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" - 2:53

Additional Tracks

The expanded version from 2005 also has bonus tracks:
#

"Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" - 2:51
#"I Am a Cliché" - 1:55
#"Highly Inflammable" - 2:35
#"Age" - 2:38
#"Genetic Engineering" - 2:49
#"Art-I-Ficial" - 3:24
#"I Am a Poseur" - 2:34
#"Identity" - 2:25
#"Germ Free Adolescents" - 3:05
#"Warrior in Woolworths" - 3:06
#"Age" - 2:38Tracks 13-16 from the singles, tracks 17-20 from Peel Session 20/02/1978, tracks 21-23 from Peel Session 06/11/1978

Personnel

*Poly Styrene - vocals
*Jak Airport - guitar
*Paul Dean - bass
*Rudi Thomson - sax
*B.P. Hurding - drums
*Ted Bunting - saxophone on "Identity" & "The Day The World Turned Day-Glo"
*Falcon Stuart - producer
*John Mackenzie Burns - engineer
*Andy Pearce - assistant engineer
*Nick Webb - mastering