Oh Bondage Up Yours!

The band's first single, released by Virgin in September 1977 with I Am a Cliché on the B-side. Poly Styrene wrote it soon after seeing the Sex Pistols for a second time in 1976. It opens with a spoken line, some people think little girls should be seen and not heard, that breaks into a scream of the title. Lora Logic plays saxophone on it. It did not chart and the BBC banned it, though a Welsh BBC music programme broadcast it.

Styrene described it as a call for liberation. She said it meant she would not be bound by the laws of consumerism or by her own senses, and that the line about chain stores and chain smoking means people are tied to such activities for someone else's profit. She insisted it was closer to an anti-consumerist jingle than a feminist song. Pitchfork's Jenn Pelly notes that Styrene's diary, put on her website in 2005, traces the lines to Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution and to images of suffragettes chained to railings.

A version taped on 2 April 1977 at one of the band's earliest public performances was released on The Roxy London WC2 that June, and the attention it drew led to the Virgin deal. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 120 on its 2021 list of the 500 best songs. It was not on the original Germfree Adolescents and was added to the 1991 reissue. Logic left in 1977 and went on to form Essential Logic.