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- Artist: X-Ray Spex
- Single: The Day The World Turned Dayglo / Iama Poseur
- Label: EMI
- Year of Release: 1978
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on 2011-10-07 CharlesMartel Said:
After banning X-Ray Spex's first single, the BBC felt almost duty bound to give a full airing to the bands next. As if in response, X-Ray Spex felt almost duty bound not to release as a single a song with as provocative a title as "Oh Bondage, Up Yours! " The result was " The Day the World Turned Day-Glo ."
X-Ray Spex's theme throughout their first album was the plastic, throw-away society of the western world, and its fascination with cheap, characterless products. This not-so subtle subtlety was pretty much lost on the generation which was in the process of fucking up British society at the time, and which regarded X-Ray Spex as a freak show. Yet there was no doubt that they carved for themselves a special niche in British music of the era. With a sax player who was more than capable of ripping out anguished wails of pain with her instrument, and the not-so naive ingenue in Poly Styrene, " The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" was as much a comment on society as it was on the transient stupidities of British pop music.
Rating: 7/10
