Raw Sex, Pure Energy - "Stop the War". Neneh Cherry got her start as a backup singer in 1979, with the New York pseudo-ska-punk band the Nails. After that, she did more band hopping than an Los Angeles stripper and was involved in more spin-offs than Mary Tyler Moore.

Let's look at the run-down:


1981: After making contact with Britain's the Pop Group, touring with cohorts the Slits [who toured with Neneh's dad in '78], and doing a song with Ari Up for New Age Stepper's first album—Action Battlefield, she has a brief stint as a cleaning girl in New York. Word arrives from ex-Pop Group members Bruce Smith and Gareth Sager; they are looking for a lead singer for their newly formed band, Rip Rig & Panic.

1982: Neneh sings lead for an RR&P spin-off band—Raw Sex, Pure Energy. Their EP, Stop the War included the track heard here, a protest against the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

1984: RR&P splinters and forms Float Up, another one-song wonder.

1985: God Mother and Country, "Foot on the Rock." Phbt.

1986: The The, "Slow Train to Dawn," from Infected.

1988: A few smaller projects eventually birth Raw Like Sushi, her solo debut album.

I think you can take it from here.

I really oughtn't be trite and say, "Hey, listen to this song. It is extremely pertinent to our present political and global climate," but—

Hey, listen to this song. It is extremely pertinent to our present political and global climate.