Aunt Sally

As short-lived as they were inventive, Osaka, Japan's Aunt Sally stretched punk's creativity to its limit. Though they were heavily inspired by the Sex Pistols, the band's musical range was wider and wilder. On their lone 1979 album Aunt Sally, they incorporated nursery rhymes, pop standards, and an avant-garde sensibility into punk's brash D.I.Y. aesthetic, resulting in a subversive style that was entirely theirs. Not long after the album's release, the band called it quits, but Aunt Sally's leader Phew took this inventive spirit in even more challenging directions as a solo artist in the decades that followed.