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Christgau Consumer Guide

"AVENGERS" (CD) These 14 cuts constitute the recorded output of a late-’70s San Fran punk band best remembered for “We Are The One,” the finest U.S. indie single of 1977, and a 1979 Steve Jones-produced EP. The notes extol their “breakthrough—however brief—into a vision of life expressing firsthand passion and revolt,” but to me Penelope Houston sounds like a valley girl with too much attitude.

May 1, 1984
ROBERT CHRISTGAU

Christgau Consumer Guide

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

"AVENGERS"

(CD)

These 14 cuts constitute the recorded output of a late-’70s San Fran punk band best remembered for “We Are The One,” the finest U.S. indie single of 1977, and a 1979 Steve Jones-produced EP. The notes extol their “breakthrough—however brief—into a vision of life expressing firsthand passion and revolt,” but to me Penelope Houston sounds like a valley girl with too much attitude. If her “We are not Jesus/We are not fascists/We are not capitalists/We are not communists” confounded cant on the single, over the long haul her anti-political railing, lapsed-Catholic obsessions, and assertions of self-sufficiency protest too much. And I wish she knew she was singing flat. Address: 1230 Grant Avenue, Suite 531, San Francisco, CA 94133. B

CHIC

"Believer" (Atlantic)

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