About this episode
Exploding Suburban MythsFeminism, Formica and Friends Watch the curtains twitch for a brand-new switchAnother music from a different day-glo kitchenMyriad, misogynistic, moustachioed menGermFree Adolescents! Poly’s lyrics reach out across time Don’t touch me please I can’t take the wants and needs!Poly sings Love songs and laments for the voiceless onesNew Yorks a-Go-go!A formative experience for Poly and the boysTwo gigs a night made a mind changing noiseX-Ray Spex were the first punks to play the USACBGBs crowd a million times ruder than Erics in their day Exhaustion and Tears in The Whiskey a-Go-go!It wasn’t that Poly had to catch up with the World‘Twas the World had to catch up with Poly.Big Paul’s drumming was Big and completePoly often sang acapella to the beatHigh Energy Rock & Roll!Poly also sang each instrument’s partAnd produced the Music and created the Art50’s Do-Wop n’ Blues had an influential handIn Poly’s creative use of the bandPoly’s Passions!Punk’s DIY Ethic was a necessary toolFinance was fickle and Poly was no foolNecessity was always the Mother of InventionPoly’s Grandmother Understood!She was never going to be a doctor - but if she’d wanted to she couldShe was Always going to be a creator - and so often misunderstood___Respect: Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said: 3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011) ___ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
