Persons Unknown The Complete Recorded History
Artist POISON GIRLS
Format:CD Box Set
Label:COOKING VINYL
Catalogue No:CDCOOK955
Barcode:0711297925555
No of Discs:7
Release Date:27 Mar 2026
This limited-release seven CD box set brings together all of Poison Girls studio and live albums, plus all of the band’s singles released on the Xntrix, Small Wonder, Crass Records, Illuminated, and Upright labels. Also included are demo recordings of unreleased tracks from early in the band’s career, songs by spin-off duo That Famous Subversa, and live and home recordings from the final years of the band’s life—material that has never been released before. The box set includes a fully illustrated, full-colour 96-page booklet that contains an exhaustive set of song lyrics and a succinct history of the band written by Rich Cross. The box set includes materials remastered by Pete Fender and Richard Famous and is co-released by PM Press, Cooking Vinyl, Free Dirt, and Active Distribution.
Track Listing:
Persons Unknown (single)
Old Tart’s Song
Crisis
Ideologically Unsound
Bremen Song
Political Love
Jump Mama Jump
Under the Doctor
Reality Attack
Piano Lessons
Closed Shop
I Wanted the Moon
Revenge
Cat’s Eye
Ice Cold
Radio City
Reality Attack
Alienation
Statement
Another Hero
Hole in the Wall
Underbitch
Alienation
Pretty Polly
Good Time
Other
Daughters and Sons
Tender Love
State Control
Dirty Work
Promenade Immortelle
Persons Unknown
State Control
Old Tart’s Song
Bully Boys
Tension
Another Hero
Don’t Go Home Tonight
SS Snoopers
Other
Daughters and Sons
Fucking Mother
Dirty Work
Alienation
The Offending Article
Where’s the Pleasure
Lovers Are They Worth It?
I’ve Done It All Before
Whiskey Voice
Ménage Abattoir
Take the Toys from the Boys
Soft Touch
Take the Toys (reprise)
Velvet Launderette
Rio Disco Stink
Cry No More
Mandy Is Having a Baby
Statement
(orchestral version)
One Good Reason
Cinnamon Garden
Perfect Crime
(Rebels or Hooligans)
Tension (single mix)
Fear of Freedom
Where’s the Pleasure
Too Close for Comfort
Real Woman
Rio Disco Stink
Are You Happy Now?
Too Proud
Tell the Children
White Cream Dream
State Control
Tension
I’ve Done It All Before
Real Woman
Voodoo Pappadollar
Hot for Love
Riot in My Mind
Feeling the Pinch
Desperate Days
Too Close for Comfort
Rockface
No More Lies
Too Proud
State Control (banjo)
Are You Happy Now?
White Cream Dream
Are You Happy Now?
(remix)
Cry No More
Voodoo Poppadollar
Rockface
Price of Grain
Stonehenge
Jenny
Girls Over There
Let It Go
Cupid
Mirrors and Glass
Abort the System
All The Way
I Hate The West
Stranger
The Money’s Not Real
Seducer
The Force
Oh Boy
Hot Slots
I’ve Done It All Before
The Hook
Torture
Statement (Live 1995)
Persons Unknown (2015)