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Just to get it out of the way, X Ray Spex’ “Oh Bondage, Up Yours” is one of the best first wave of Brit singles to be issued. That song’s so engaging, dudes that don’t even like punk too much enjoy listening. Of course, the fact that it was worked up by a handful of teenage girls doesn’t hurt. But that doesn’t detract from how engaging the song is on a purely musical level.

Either way, as with many of those early punk groups, line ups were pretty volatile and there didn’t seem to be any real end game in sticking around in one group for to long – stasis and all. You know. Either way, when Lora Logic and Poly Styrene called it quits with that aforementioned group, it wasn’t long before Essential Logic sprung up.

What’s weird is that there isn’t too great a difference between this latter group and the X Rays. Granted, funk and dub get ratcheted up a bit, but that seemed par for the course. It mirrors, to a certain extent the changes John Lydon would go through when moving from the Sex Pistols to Public Image Limited.