Germ Free Adolescents

The third single from the album, released on EMI International in October 1978 with Age on the B-side. It reached the top 20 in the UK. Pitchfork's Jenn Pelly describes it as a dubby, surreal waltz and a postmodern love song, in which he is a germfree adolescent and cleanliness is her obsession.

Pelly traces two of its lines, deep frozen like the ice and the S.R. way, to a promotion for Gibbs S.R. toothpaste, the first television commercial broadcast in England, in 1955. Jon Savage counted the title track among the new additions to the band's early live set when the album came out. The Guardian's 2011 tribute named it, with The Day the World Turned Day-Glo, among the most memorable songs of the punk era.