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Fifth Column is an All-girl Experimental Post Punk band from Toronto , which came about during the early 1980s . Originally the group had been known as '''Second Unit''', but they took the name ''Fifth Column'' after a military manoeuvre by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War , in which Nationalist insurrectionists within sieged Republican Madrid , called 'the fifth column', would aid the four columns (north, south, east and west) outside the perimeters. The name of their first full-length recording ''To Sir With Hate'' was a play on the theme song from the British school film, To Sir With Love , performed by Lulu . A song from this LP, "The Fairview Mall Story" was based on true events concerning media publication of the names of men arrested after being entrapped by police and was instrumental in paving the way for the emergence of the Queercore scene. Independent-minded, they released their recordings, including their second full length recording ''All-Time Queen Of The World'' themselves. In 1992 they released a single, "All Women Are Bitches", on the Independent Record Label K Records . Despite being controversial and receiving little airplay, the recording was voted "Single Of The Week" in the U.K. music publication Melody Maker . Their last full-length recording, ''36-C'', was also released by K Records. The band's latest release was in 2002, on the Kill Rock Stars compilation, ''Fields And Streams''. The band performs live in the film named for them, ''Fifth Column'', directed by experimental Toronto filmmaker John Porter, and in '' She's Real, Worse Than Queer '' by Lucy Thane. All of the members of the most recent line-up, and some previous members, appear in the G.B. Jones ' movie '' The Yo-Yo Gang '' for which the band recorded the theme song. As well, bassist Anita Smith is interviewed in Scott Treleaven 's ''Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary'' and the music of Fifth Column is featured in the film. In 2004 the song "All Women Are Bitches" was covered and Sampled by the band Lesbians On Ecstasy and, in 2005, by Kids On TV . ALBUMS
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