Teenage Jesus And The Jerks / Live 1977-1979 (Vinyl LP)
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Vinyl LP / Reissue
Ltd Edition – White Vinyl
1977/79-US
Format: Vinyl LP
#Ref: RRS217
Release date: 2022
Release notes
Visionary No Wave legend Teenage Jesus and The Jerks created a confrontational sound, with a shifting line-up as a platform for Lydia Lunch’s shouted vocal shocks, accompanied by her jagged guitar noise, non-melodic bass, and minimalist drums. This must-have live anthology is culled from six performances undertaken during their heyday, these atonal, in-your-face blasts somehow even more caustic than their studio work, rendering an aural assault not for the fainthearted. Benefitting from the presence of James Chance on select numbers, this uncompromising collection of staccato eruptions will get right up your nose – a must for all Jerks fans.
” Teenage Jesus and the Jerks began to formulate their visionary brand of aural catharsis sometime during the first half of 1977, amidst the sordid ruins of a then fully down-and-out Lower Manhattan. The mastermind behind this juggernaut of sonic libertinage was a barely pubescent but world-weary runaway who called herself Lydia Lunch. Influenced strongly by the Marquis de Sade and Henry Miller, Lunch shrewdly decided to graft the existential horror of her own writing onto harsh, atonal music after being exposed to the room-clearing live output of other contemporary rock-music deconstructionists like Suicide and Mars. With an agenda of conjuring nightmarish intensity in lieu of technical instrumental ability, Teenage Jesus instantly made the supposedly ‘nihilistic’ and ‘raw’ current wave of so-called Punk acts sound like slick, good-timey pop music by comparison. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, transliterated into a blatant mockery of the increasingly tired, basic rock-band format. ”
Tracklisting
SIDE A
1. Less of Me [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th May 1978]
2. My Eyes [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th May 1978]
3. Popularity Is so Boring [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th May 1978]
4. Orphans [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th May 1978]
5. Eliminate by Night [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th May 1978]
6. Freud in Flop [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
7. Burning Rubber [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
8. I Woke up Dreaming [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
9. Crown of Thorns [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
10. Baby Doll [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
11. Race Mixing [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th January 1979]
12. Don’t Talk About Love [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 8th August 1977]
13. No Morality [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 8th August 1977]
SIDE B
14. Instra-Mental [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
15. Baby Doll [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
16. Freud in Flop [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
17. Race Mixing [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
18. Crown of Thorns [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
19. Red Alert [Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, 17th April 1979]
20. The Closet [Live at CBGB’s, New York, 4th November 1978]
21. 822 [Live at CBGB’s, New York, 4th November 1978]
22. Freud in Flop [Live at CBGB’s, New York, 4th November 1978]
23. Burning Rubber [Live at CBGB’s, New York, 4th November 1978]
24. Red Alert [Live at CBGB’s, New York, 4th November 1978]
25. Orphans [Live at Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, 3rd August 1978]
26. Eliminate by Night [Live at Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, 3rd August 1978]
27. The Closet [Live at Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, 3rd August 1978]
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