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The Raincoats were a dynamite early '80's band (famously beloved by Kurt Cobain) that had an enormous impact on everyone who heard them. Rather like the Go-betweens from the same period, they wrote some magically distinctive and unforgettable songs, and worked around their musical limitations to brilliant effect. Check out Gina Birch's freakily perfect bass-line on this track. I mean, seriously: Check. It. Out. The Raincoats were also part of a feminist post-punk/pop wave that believed utterly in the power of a single song to raise consciousness, be a manifesto, and thereby change the world for the better. 'No-one's Little Girl' (1983) isn't as shattering as Rhonda Dakar's 'The Boiler' or as funny as the Marine Girls' 'Marine Girls', but it's a bona fide classic that's working the same side of the street as those two. And it *needs* to be on youtube, This video fills that gap. [Note: Since I uploaded this vid. NOLG has popped up elsewhere on youtube.] The images are from Alfred Hitchcock's brilliantly sinister and subversive classic, _Strangers on a Train_ (1951), which was adapted from Patricia Highsmith's first novel. Hitchcock burned her slightly by buying the film rights to the novel anonymously and very cheaply (and by using Raymond Chandler to adapt the hell out of it. Chandler in turn hated Hitch and his wife Alma Reville's extensive prodding and re-writing, and he never worked in Hollywood again!). Highsmith was indeed no one's little girl, and sold the film ...