!Action Pact! - Suicide Bag (EP 1982)

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Though active at the time of the hardcore movement, this bunch of Londoners opted for a more 77-ish sound instead, with female vocalist George Cheex's snotty shriek occasionally evoking comparisons with (the vastly superior) X-Ray Spex. Meanwhile, her male cohorts hid behind such pseudonyms as Dr Phibes and Joe Fungus and whacked out basic four-chord guitar noise at mid-speed.

Initially linked to Dead Man's Shadow (in addition to the split EP in 1981 they shared some band members) and Newtown Neurotics (Steve Drewitt guested on the Pact's version of 'Rockaway Beach'), they had enough character of their own to be of some interest, although perhaps not outside of punk circles. Let's face it, Cheex had a voice that was horrible (yet, somehow, utterly wonderful). As Trouser Press put it, she "sounds perennially outraged, terrified and amazed, all at once". Just about everything they recorded is excellent.

They formed in early 1981 as The Bad Samaritans, with Dead Man's Shadow singer John on vocals. When he was replaced by schoolgirl Cheex, !Action Pact! was born: