Biography

It is not an exaggeration to call the Raincoats one of the most important British bands of the late 1970s. Releasing three albums on the famed Rough Trade label, the Raincoats (composed of an all-female line-up) played music that was punk only in the sense that it defied pop conventions and gender expectations at nearly every turn. In the process, the band inspired myriad off-shoots of punk and D.I.Y. music--from Riot Grrrl to twee pop to Sonic Youth and Nirvana. The Raincoats' albums remained out of print for many years until, at the insistence of Kurt Cobain, their first three albums were reissued on Geffen in the mid-1990s.

Top Tracks

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• Adventures Close To Home

• Don't Be Mean

• Fairytale In The Supermarket

• No Side To Fall In

• You Ask Why

Discography

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• Looking in the Shadows

  DGC / Geffen

  1996

• Moving

  Second Wind Records

  1984

• The Kitchen Tapes

  ROIR

  1983

• Odyshape

  We Three

  1981

• The Raincoats

  Geffen Goldline / DGC

  1979