Their third record ‘Tago Mago’ is described as their most extreme, but this has stood the test of time as one their most beloved. Ari Up makes a simple, direct, but biting attack on the perceived attitudes to femininity, at once offering up a delicious and mischievous alternative.Īs the 70s hit their stride, Cologne’s krautrock pioneers evolved into more expressive and extreme forms of jazz-inflected sound.
The zippy and infectious signature tune from the definitive female force of the punk rock scene. It was very quickly acknowledged as a classic. This oriental-flavoured day-glo riot proved she had the personality and musical muscle to forge a career that would outlast and outgrow the scene that she came from. Siouxsie Sioux proved herself as far more than a scenester from punk’s notorious ‘Bromley Contingent’. Casting herself as tragic heroine Cathy from Emily Bronte’s gothic romance, perhaps the reason so few pop songs are based on classic novels is that they’d have to live up to this.ĩ5 Siouxsie And The Banshees – ‘Hong Kong Garden’ Serene, pristine and deranged, nobody should underestimate quite how shocking it was when the teenaged Bush emerged to the world with this haunting piano melodrama of her own creation.
Imploring his girlfriend not to cry with the promise that things were going to get better, its hypnotic charm make it one of the best-loved of Bob’s catalogue. Bob Marley & The Wailers – ‘No Woman, No Cry’īob at his lilting best, looking back at his impoverished past in the ghettos of Trench Town in Jamaica.
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