The "other" X

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Ian Rilen, Stephen Lucas, Steve Cafiero and Ian Krahe formed X in the late 70s, by all indications completely oblivious that a poetry-loving couple, a rockabilly guitarist who never smiled and a drummer who no one ever remembers were calling themselves X around the same time but on the other side of the world. But aside from the name and a general categorization as a "punk" band, Australia's X has little in common with their American counterparts. Their entire first album, Aspirations, recorded in 5 hours at a studio in Sydney in 1979 and self-released a year later, is classic but "Turn My Head" and "Police" are my two favorite songs.

thanks to Cacophony and Coffee

this needs to be revisited! GO!

Not as good as X US, but still pretty good