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Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time

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X-Ray Spex, 'Germ Free Adolescents'
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X-Ray Spex, 'Germ Free Adolescents'
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Blue Plate/EMI, 1978

London punk at its trashiest and catchiest, led by the thrilling screech of Poly Styrene.

Essential moment: "Art-I-Ficial,” where Poly sticks up for all the losers and outcasts like her in a consumer society.


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