Punk band the Insaints were perhaps more notorious for their controversial live shows -- which brought them to the attention of both the mainstream San Francisco Bay Area press and legal authorities -- than for their music. The controversy was largely the work of lead singer Marian Anderson, who performed and oversaw sexual acts on-stage. This led to an arrest for lewd public behavior in the early '90s at Berkeley's famous punk venue, Gilman Street. With the help of the New York City ACLU, Anderson won the resulting case after a year of legal fighting. But the group -- which formed in Modesto in 1988 and moved to the Bay Area in 1990 -- did release seven songs in 1993 on the MRR label, as part of a double 7" with Diesel Queens. The music, in keeping with the ethos of MRR, was fast, blurry, and corrosive punk. All of the group's output -- including four outtakes from the session for the split 7" release, and nine additional live and studio tracks from the early '90s that showed a slight shift in the direction of pop-punk and influences from the likes of Blondie -- found its way onto the 2004 compilation Sins of Saints. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide