4CD / 90 track set exploring the work of female artists in the decade following the punk explosion. From household names and legends - Alison Moyet, Toyah, Kirsty MacColl, Nico, Tracey Thorn, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, Pauline Murray, Sinead O’Connor, Tracey Ullman, Cosey Fanni Tutti - to underground figureheads and unsung pioneers. Spanning the genres – from the punk howl of X-Ray Spex and the NWOBHM stylings of Girlschool to Cosey Fanni Tutti’s post-TG electronica, the experimental dub of Vivien Goldman and the the High Street pop of Bananarama. Hardback book format includes over 14,500 words of sleeve-notes (including artist-written pieces) and introductory essay by Lucy O’Brien. Produced by the team behind the critically acclaimed “Scared To Get Happy”, the “C86” series, “Electrical Language” and a number of other essential box sets.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
  • 2. Turn My Motor On - Kirsty Maccoll
  • 3. Lucky Number - Lene Lovich
  • 4. Hidden From History - Bright Girls
  • 5. Dream Sequence I - Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
  • 6. Bored Housewives - Androids of Mu
  • 7. White Mice - Mo-Dettes
  • 8. Ee-I-Adio - Hazel O'Connor
  • 9. Violence Grows - Fatal Microbes
  • 10. Old Tart's Song - Poison Girls
  • 11. Plastic Flowers - Devil's Dykes
  • 12. Diet - Au Pairs
  • 13. Don't Dictate - Penetration
  • 14. Food - the Chefs
  • 15. Kid - Pretenders
  • 16. Typical Girls - the Slits
  • 17. Love and Romance Spoilsports
  • 18. Body and Soul - the Passions
  • 19. Take It All Away - Girlschool
  • 20. You Do - April and the Fools
  • 21. Motorway - Emma Sharpe

• - 2 -

  • 1. Bird In Flight - Toyah
  • 2. Pumping Iron - the Flatbackers
  • 3. Brute Fury - Lora Logic
  • 4. I Hate Being In Love - Amy and the Angels
  • 5. Ruder Than You - the Bodysnatchers
  • 6. Saeta - Nico
  • 7. Guilty Dub - Honey Bane
  • 8. Private Armies - Vivien Goldman
  • 9. Small Town Girl - Tracey Thorn
  • 10. Self Defence - Ova
  • 11. Been Teen - Dolly Mixture
  • 12. Stuck - and the Native Hipsters
  • 13. Fast Boyfriends - Girls At Our Best
  • 14. Aie a Mwana - Bananarama
  • 15. You're My Kind of Climate - Rip, Rig & Panic
  • 16. Black and Blue - the Selecter
  • 17. Your Your Lay Lay - Pragvec
  • 18. Everybody Thinks Everybody Else is Dead Bad - the Skodas
  • 19. Money - the Mockingbirds
  • 20. Normal - the Petticoats
  • 21. In the Ruins of Your Body - Real Insects
  • 22. Rebel - Teezers
  • 23. Negative Conversation - the Objeks

• - 3 -

  • 1. It's a Fine Day - Jane
  • 2. Such is Life (Ft John Lacey) - Cosey Fanni Tutti
  • 3. Winter Kills - Yazoo
  • 4. I Wish - Pink Industry
  • 5. No One's Little Girl - the Raincoats
  • 6. The Boiler - Rhoda With the Special Aka
  • 7. Jimmy's Grin - Margox
  • 8. Speak No Evil - Cocteau Twins
  • 9. Nothing You Say - Grab Grab the Haddock
  • 10. They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
  • 11. We Are Ninja - Frank Chickens
  • 12. It's Only Money - Chantage
  • 13. Drum Beat For Baby - Weekend
  • 14. She is So - a Craze
  • 15. A Place In the Sun - Marine Girls
  • 16. Dear Marje - the Gymslips
  • 17. Crush - the Twinsets
  • 18. Government Policy - the Expelled
  • 19. Dying Man - the A-Heads
  • 20. Living In a Coffin - Lost Cherrees
  • 21. Black Sheep - Vice Squad
  • 22. Young Too Young Girl - Rhythm and Faith
  • 23. Pale Yellow - Two

• - 4 -

  • 1. X X Sex - We've Got a Fuzzbox... and We're Gonna Use It
  • 2. Son of a Gun - the Vaselines
  • 3. Go Away - Strawberry Switchblade
  • 4. Don't Go Away - Talulah Gosh
  • 5. Burning Oil - Skeletal Family
  • 6. Ballad of Miss Demeanour - the Flowers
  • 7. You Don't Know - Rote Kapelle
  • 8. Belle Vue - Miaow
  • 9. Crash (Demo) - the Primitives
  • 10. Sign On the Line - the Fizzbombs
  • 11. All Day Long (Slow Version) - Shop Assistants
  • 12. Comin' Home Baby - the Delmonas
  • 13. If I Die - Biff Bang Pow!
  • 14. Protection - Joolz
  • 15. Just a City - Voice of the Beehive
  • 16. Spin (Flexi Version) - Darling Buds
  • 17. Mandinka - Siniad O'Connor
  • 18. Toy - the Heart Throbs
  • 19. There's a Good Time-A-Comin' - Wilderness Children
  • 20. It Makes Me Realise -Go! Service
  • 21. Feels Like It's Love - Makin' Time
  • 22. Wood Song - the Fabulous Dirt Sisters
  • 23. Libera Me - Cagliostra