POISON GIRLS - Persons Unknown - The Complete Recorded History - 7CD Box Set [MAR 27]
Limited Edition 7CD Box Set. Includes a fully illustrated, full-colour 96-page booklet that contains an exhaustive set of song lyrics and a succinct history of the band written by Rich Cross.
This limited-release seven CD box set brings together all of Poison Girls studio and live albums, plus all of the band’s singles released on the Xntrix, Small Wonder, Crass Records, Illuminated, and Upright labels.
Also included are demo recordings of unreleased tracks from early in the band’s career, songs by spin-off duo That Famous Subversa, and live and home recordings from the final years of the band’s life—material that has never been released before. The box set includes a fully illustrated, full-colour 96-page booklet that contains an exhaustive set of song lyrics and a succinct history of the band written by Rich Cross.
The box set includes materials remastered by Pete Fender and Richard Famous and is co-released by PM Press, Cooking Vinyl, Free Dirt, and Active Distribution.
Tracklist:
Persons Unknown
1 Persons Unknown 7:15
Hex
2 Old Tart’s Song 2:21
3 Crisis 3:26
4 Ideologically Unsound 2:40
5 Bremen Song 7:16
6 Political Love 2:31
7 Jump Mama Jump 3:03
8 Under the Doctor 2:49
9 Reality Attack 5:22
Piano Lessons
10 Piano Lessons 3:46
11 Closed Shop 2:45
12 I Wanted the Moon 2:45
Burleigh House demos 1978
13 Revenge 2:09
14 Cat’s Eye 2:28
Four-track studio demos 1979
15 Ice Cold 3:19
16 Radio City 3:50
17 Reality Attack 7:58
18 Alienation 3:44
DISC TWO: CHAPPAQUIDDICK BRIDGE
“Statement” flexi / Chappaquiddick Bridge LP / Dirty Work single
Chappaquiddick flexi
1 Statement 4:30
Chappaquiddick Bridge
2 Another Hero 4:58
3 Hole in the Wall 4:12
4 Underbitch 4:15
5 Alienation 6:48
6 Pretty Polly 4:03
7 Good Time 6:58
8 Other 5:50
9 Daughters and Sons 5:17
10 Tender Love 1:45
11 State Control 3:28
All Systems Go
12 Dirty Work 4:31
13 Promenade Immortelle 6:55
DISC THREE: TOTAL EXPOSURE
Total Exposure LP, live 1981 / “The Offending Article”
Total Exposure
1 Persons Unknown 4:06
2 State Control 2:57
3 Old Tart’s Song 1:34
4 Bully Boys 2:18
5 Tension 2:47
6 Another Hero 3:38
7 Don’t Go Home Tonight 3:20
8 SS Snoopers 4:35
9 Other 5:03
10 Daughters and Sons 5:05
11 Fucking Mother 3:42
12 Dirty Work 3:41
13 Alienation 6:06
Hainault Road demo
14 The Offending Article 4:41
DISC FOUR: WHERE'S THE PLEASURE
Where’s the Pleasure LP / “Statement” (Orchestral version)
Where’s the Pleasure
1 Where’s the Pleasure 3:07
2 Lovers Are They Worth It? 2:48
3 I’ve Done It All Before 3:18
4 Whiskey Voice 1:04
5 Ménage Abattoir 4:28
6 Take the Toys from the Boys 2:21
7 Soft Touch 2:37
8 Take the Toys (reprise) 0:56
9 Velvet Launderette 3:27
10 Rio Disco Stink 4:16
11 Cry No More 3:16
12 Mandy Is Having a Baby 2:57
13 Fear of Freedom 6:19
Wargasm
14 Statement
(orchestral version) 5:10
DISC FIVE: SEVEN YEAR SCRATCH
One Good Reason single / Not A Real Woman single / Seven Year Scratch LP—live tracks, 1983
One Good Reason
1 One Good Reason 3:16
2 Cinnamon Garden 3:14
Real Woman
3 Perfect Crime (Rebels or Hooligans) 4:47
4 Tension (single mix) 3:23
Seven Year Scratch (live)
5 Fear of Freedom 7:00
6 Where’s the Pleasure 3:13
7 Too Close for Comfort 4:46
8 Real Woman 3:45
9 Rio Disco Stink 5:54
10 Are You Happy Now? 3:53
11 Too Proud 4:20
12 Tell the Children 3:04
13 White Cream Dream 3:59
14 State Control 3:59
15 Tension 3:38
16 I’ve Done It All Before 4:27
DISC SIX: SONGS OF PRAISE
Songs of Praise LP / Happy Now single / live tracks 1984-85
Songs of Praise
1 Real Woman 3:44
2 Voodoo Pappadollar 4:32
3 Hot for Love 3:32
4 Riot in My Mind 3:54
5 Feeling the Pinch 2:09
6 Desperate Days 6:19
7 Too Close for Comfort 4:12
8 Rockface 3:34
9 No More Lies 2:44
10 Too Proud 4:16
11 State Control (banjo) 0:22
Are You Happy Now?
12 Are You Happy Now? 3:08
13 White Cream Dream 4:02
14 Are You Happy Now? (remix) 4:30
Dig This!
15 Cry No More 3:30
16 Voodoo Poppadollar 4:20
Communicate!!!
17 Rockface 4:00
DISC SEVEN: LATER, LIVE, AND UNRELEASED
Price of Grain twelve-inch / Leytonstone studio recordings / Unreleased live recordings, 1987 / Songs by That Famous Subversa / “Statement” live, 1995 / “Persons Unknown”, live 2015
Price of Grain
1 Price of Grain 2:46
2 Stonehenge 1985 2:54
3 Jenny 3:34
4 Girls Over There 4:00
Leytonstone studio recordings
5 Let It Go 3:46
6 Cupid 3:43
7 Mirrors and Glass 2:08
8 Abort the System 3:39
9 All The Way 4:56
Unreleased live (1987)
10 I Hate The West 4:03
11 Stranger 3:13
12 The Money’s Not Real 2:32
13 Seducer 3:07
14 The Force 3:36
15 Oh Boy 2:57
16 Hot Slots 2:50
17 I’ve Done It All Before 3:40
That Famous Subversa demo
18 The Hook 2:46
19 Torture 2:39
Poison Girls live (1995)
20 Statement 4:35
Vi Subversa’s Naughty Thoughts (2015)
21 Persons Unknown 3:19