cleanliness is her obsession

Armagideon Time's Inagural Week Cover Song Blowout Jamboree continues today with a cover of X-Ray Spex' punk classic "Germfree Adolescents" by Scottish dance-poppers bis, from the Japanese release of their 1999 album, Social Dancing.

This track falls squarely within my previous definition of a mediocre cover song. There's no radical reinterpretation going on here, just a by-the-numbers recreation of the original. I'd have preferred hearing a bis cover of one of X-Ray Spex' punkier, more uptempo songs like "Art-I-Ficial" or "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo", but what we got was good enough for a bonus track on an import release, I suppose.