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)