Top 500 #398

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The Raincoats came up with one of the most experimental and thrilling sounds to emerge from the London punk explosion — four women making their own gloriously unkempt racket. As guitarist Ana Da Silva explained, “We rehearsed for hours, but we always fell apart.” Da Silva and Gina Birch chant over Palmolive’s manic drums and Vicky Aspinall’s buzz-saw violin, for gems like “In Love” and their gender-twisted cover of the Kinks’ “Lola.” Their debut album finally got its long-overdue U.S. release in 1993, at the insistence of Raincoats superfan Kurt Cobain.

A1	Fairytale In The Supermarket	2:55
A2	No Side To Fall In	1:46
A3	Adventures Close To Home	1:52
A4	Off Duty Trip	3:14
A5	Black And White	2:28
A6	Lola	4:01
B1	The Void	3:51
B2	Life On The Line	4:21
B3	You're A Million	3:33
B4	In Love	3:11
B5	No Looking	3:16