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"Take Down the Flag." An anthem for office workers.

In Barbie's day, nobody could go home until the flag was taken down and folded properly. Copyright 1985.

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Barbie Army: Punk Rock Flashback Friday... An article by Andrew Duncan

" Amongst a sea of angular art punk, bro metal, and the Wax Trax! movement coming out of the Windy City, Barbie Army took 1960s girl pop and beefed it up with sardonic muscle."

Getting the Army back together

You—an alum of a certain vintage—saw the flyers stapled to billboards in Hutch Court, in front of Cobb, along 57th Street, mixed in with stickers blaring U.S. out of El Salvador and Impeach Bonzo. They advertised concerts at the Blue Gargoyle or Delta Upsilon. The band names

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Is "Ivan" the Most Country Barbie Army Song?

I ain't proud of what I've done. But what's a girl to do for fun?

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Barbie Army LP Back in Stock

Barbie Army's LP is available through Goodwill Records. Shipped direct from Germany! ORDER BARBIE ARMY LP [https://goodwillrecords.net/?s=Barbie+Army&post_type=product] Find Barbie Army T-shirts and other merch HERE. [https://barbiearmy.myshopify.com]

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Never before on YouTube: "The Mission" by Barbie Army music and lyrics by Tina Matlock

You say we ain't nothing but a ball and chain On the ankle of society

80s All-Girl Chicago Punk Band Barbie Army Reunion/LP Release Party

For Immediate Release 80s All-Girl Chicago Punk Band Barbie Army Hosts Reunion/LP Release Party New LP on Berlin’s NoPlan Records to be celebrated at Phyllis’s Musical Inn Friday, May 20 What: Chicago 80s all-women punk band Barbie Army will celebrate the release of their deluxe 20-song NoPlan

LP Release Party at Phyllis's Musical Inn Friday May, 20.

We are so excited about our new LP on Berlin's NoPlan Records [http://noplanrecords.blogspot.com]! Please join us Friday, May 20 for a fabulous LP release party at Phyllis's Musical Inn [https://www.facebook.com/phyllismusicalinn/], 1800 W. Division St. in Chicago at 8:30 p.m. Featuring the

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A new retrospective brings Barbie Army back to the front lines - Chicago Reader

I discovered Barbie Army’s music on YouTube in 2017, when their song “Don’t Wait” appeared in my recommendations.... I couldn’t stop singing “Don’t Wait.” I couldn’t get its lyrics out of my head .

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Barbie Army Merch Depot

Barbie Army Merch DepotFind t-shirts, mugs and merch for Barbie Army, 1 1980s Chicago all girl punk rock bandbarbiearmy [https://barbiearmy.myshopify.com/]

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"Rats on the CTA." The best song Barbie Army never recorded.

I got a one dollar wallet with a phone book in it. Fashion barrettes, and ladies hosiery. Tops, sunglasses, answers to the driver's test. Study Bibles, and plastic rosaries. Love on the train. Blood on the train. Sleeping drunks with dictionaries...

Fan Fiction

Half Way to St. Patrick's Day

It was the summer of 1987 in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side. Hyde Park smelled like oil and musty bricks and evaporating plants, as only Hyde Park could smell. The day before the midnight boat gig, I steered my ratty bike into the alley behind our 57th Street

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Back to Back

Our first show would be an all-ages punk cruise with No Empathy and Rights of the Accused. A tour boat would leave Navy Pier at midnight and dock at 7 a.m. Then, hours later we would play at Navy Pier itself for a giant bash called “Halfway to Saint

Fan Fiction

Surgery

‌Tiny magnetized chromium oxide particles had been shuffled, twisted and pushed around into a big mess. They needed to get back on a smooth track to pass their rates of vibration onto the magnetic tape head, and release the sounds recorded by some stranger to be a token of his

Fan Fiction

Missed Message

Later, as  we drove our band gear-filled station wagon north on Lake Shore Drive, I tipped the cassette into the player on the seat between us. “OK, wait, you have to listen to this. This is important,” I told Mary, my tampon earrings bumped against my neck like pendulums. But

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Boat Show

When we arrived at the restricted parking area near the pier, Tina was waiting near a streetlight. Her t-shirt said “ROTA,” and she was hopping back and forth in her high tops and ripped jeans with drumsticks in the back pocket. Beside her was Tina’s amazing CTA traveling drum

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Puketacular

We rolled our amps and carried guitars across a gangplank into the hull of the Spirit of Chicago. We followed a tiled hallway to a red carpeted lounge, set up with duct tape on the carpet to delineate the “stage.” There were only two mic stands, which meant we had

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Pier Pressure

At 7 a.m., the boat chugged back into the dock where whitefaced and sick looking kids stumbled over the gangplank and dispersed, shakily, into the hazy summer morning. But we still had another gig! It was halfway to St. Patrick’s Day on Navy Pier, as vinyl signs dotted

You're Done

Time stood still. The sky was pressing down above us. I felt alone on the stage, so far away from the other bandmates. I choked down a sense of dread and stared at the empty seats. I glanced over at Mary, in her tampon headdress. “Hi everybody. We’re Barbie

Mariachi Man

I looked up across the empty theater to see if anyone who knew us could vouch that we were in NO WAY singing about abortion. My eyes locked with the mariachi guy. Damn!  It was Sergio from Weeds! Sergio Mayora, proprietor of the coolest place to play in Chicago, was

Half Way to St. Patrick's Day

Page 1 of an amazing Graphic Novel written by a fan in Germany

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April 1: New LP coming from NoPlan Records, Berlin

Available April 1: New Barbie Army LP from NoPlan Records, Berlin: NOW BACK IN STOCK! $32 + Shipping Description: This is some exciting news here! Back in 1986 Barbie Army was making its first steps on Chicago underground scene. At all times an all-girl band, Barbie Army was a wild, loud