X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene r.i.p.

Translucence is on Spotify. Probably never looked for it or under teh name Poly Styrene until now.
There's also a much later solo lp up there.
The Pre X Ray Spex single was included on ana anthology some years ago too so may be up there somewhere too.

That newer one, Generation Indigo, was released right around when she died. It's pretty good!

Just rewatched this and liked it a lot more. I think I was feeling too restless to appreciate it fully last week.

The archive footage and photography in general is very good. There’s something about a lot of the voices that still feels a bit flat and lifeless.

i liked that they broke away from the normal talking head presentation these docs usually have and didn't show the heads. it didn't feel flat to me but perhaps that's what made it seem flat?

US screening is happening! Online via the SFFILM Festival, get a ticket now

https://sffilm.org/event/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche/

Excellent doc!

Now streaming!

Amazing

Amazing

connection issues, sorry for double post.

One post for each strand of the double helix.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/arts/music/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-documentary.html

I liked this, but I may have built up unrealistic expectations over time. I was surprised, checking my email, it was only 2017 when they started crowdfunding--feels like farther back than that. I know her daughter initiated, wrote, and directed the film, but I didn't find her segments especially compelling. I found the 40-minute BBC documentary, Who Is Poly Styrene? (still on YouTube), more moving. On a positive note, I spent the first half wondering why they hadn't used the amazing Top of the Pops clip of "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo," then almost the whole thing turned up. And although this was the second documentary in a row I'd seen with Thurston Moore holding court (right after Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child), his "Oh Bondage" story is a good one.

Thurston Moore is the alt-Bono.

Indeed