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Susan Whitby was 15 years old and had been playing saxophone for a little more than six months when she joined her friend Marion Elliot (aka Poly Styrene) and formed the great English punk band X-Ray Spex in 1976. At this juncture, Whitby renamed herself Lora Logic and brought her honking and squawking to X-Ray Spex’s guitar-propelled punk rock, staying in the band long enough to record the seminal feminist-punk single “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” Prior to the recording of their debut album, Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwriting muse and formed the wonderfully named Essential Logic.
Eschewing fast and loud guitars for off-kilter rhythms, “bluesy” sax playing, and forays into dissonance and atonality, Essential Logic created some of the most liberating, exciting music of the early post-punk era. Along with her primitive, exhilarating sax playing, Logic displayed a wildly imaginative vocal style that conflated the subtle eroticism of Patti Smith with the epiglottal spasms of Yoko Ono. Singing, braying, and screeching her implicitly (at times explicitly) feminist lyrics while her backing band crashed and bashed in the background, this was almost a punk version of that most despised of genres, art rock. And while the subjects of most of her songs were serious (alienation, sexism, poverty, urban isolation), there was a bratty tongue-wagging raffishness to Logic (and band) that placed them a cut above the rest. After one album as Essential Logic, Lora Logic disbanded the group to go solo.
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Lauren-Pz wrote:
i tidy up the kitchen sink...
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RussellChap wrote:
OK...Kinda post-punk by numbers...Some good ideas
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Nanninanni wrote:
I just fell in love!
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clenchedteeth wrote:
'One of my favourite ever singers. Noone else has a voice quite like Lora Logic.' she sounds like girls at our best! and to a lesser extent delta 5
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Blockades wrote:
anything is better than xrayspecks
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GrindFreak88 wrote:
Essential Logic > X-Ray Spex [2] without a fucking doubt.
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honestrabbit wrote:
One of my favourite ever singers. Noone else has a voice quite like Lora Logic.
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petma90 wrote:
Maybe I don't know what similar means then. I have trouble with vowels and consonants. Are the vowels the ones that look like Harry Redknapp?
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fitter_stoke wrote:
Essential Logic > X-Ray Spex
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ashdinosaur wrote:
@petma90: By "burds" am I to deduce that you mean women? Are you sure you know what the word "similar" means? Because that might give you a clue.
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coquettish wrote:
THE UNIVERSEEEEEEEEEEE IS CRUMBLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
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bingbongbilly wrote:
Remember buying Wonderful Offer on 12-Inch Single with two belting tracks on the B-side.
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petma90 wrote:
It's a bit annoying that all the top similar artists have burds in each band, making them similar musically then. Why do they do that? Or is it just a coincidence?
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Lauren-Pz wrote:
does anybody know if there is a possibility to read the lyrics of these songs?
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GoatedBloat wrote:
...and these guys peed on it...
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kapitan_govno wrote:
how dare you. that sax really tied the room together
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shanary wrote:
sax ruins it for me personally. although collecting dust is a really great song!
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kapitan_govno wrote:
rat alley is my favourite
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cotton_fever wrote:
love it
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blowyrgourd wrote:
better than xrayspex
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