Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Race Mixing (live in NYC 1979)

from 'Kill Your Idols'

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• Teenage
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• Lydia
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• Mixing
• live
• NYC
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• Idols
• 1979

[Guttersaint]

Lydia a socialite backed by her "daddy lawyer"? HA! What comedy!  You obviously know nothing about la Lunch.

Maybe an ANTI-SOCIALITE backed by poverty is more like it, you idiot. Look around you and subtract the number of artists who sold themselves to major labels, then you're finally left with Lunch who left them all in the dust. She leads, and baby, you just follow. She is more visionary than you'll ever understand....

[sansfutur]

No wave still sounds pretty distinct from any of those releases you mentioned.

[00bilz]

@Rankmoistmeat

Swans in their No Wave days weren't pretentious at all though.

[pamicocci60]

@copingwithdowns I met her once, she was actually pretty nice.

[Rankmoistmeat]

Teenage Jesus were the only No Wave band that weren't a 100% pretentious and crappy.

[copingwithdowns]

@fasolplanetarium Oh Lydia Lunch is for sure as a person an idiot...No doubt about it.

[mediattackrecords]

no wave has great jazz avante garde music concepts i figured them out along time ago actually

wait till you here the new WE

[hashfromplan9]

hendrix was involved in music long before Lou Reed became a hired songwriter he clearly is nd was a pop songwriter despite his claims of being avant-garde hendrix did more in 3 years than Lou had done during his entire career w/ the velvets so they did Sister Ray that wld mean something had i not known of the Fluxus movement not 2 mention Cage et al nd Lou's solo career is hysterically inconsisnt, w/ Lou sitting out guitar duties do 2 w/e hendrix nd reed were both popular with college age demos

[MrBuk86]

@hashfromplan9 Lou Reed (w/ the Velvets) & Hendrix released their 1st albums the same year. Besides, Lou was a little more atonal than Hendrix I believe, but two different scenes & artists anyway. 

[ihasch]

@davepx-No Wave is actually very backward looking. The beatnik bands like the one Debbie Harry and Charlie Nothing were involved in in 1966 did the same thing. You can also mention the noise experiments of the early Velvet Underground. So the idea that this is new has never seemed valid and seems like special pleading. What it reflects is the beatnik mentality that permeated the entire punk scene. These bands were capable of decent music when they tried.

[fasolplanetarium]

@copingwithdowns In a way I agree. Teenage Jesus was no doubt a good band, but it only emerges from the rest of the No Wave bands because it was one of the four on Eno's No New York compilation. Suicide, DNA, James Chance and even MARS surpass Teenage Jesus in almost every regard. Lydia Lunch also tends to complain a lot about things that she hasn't thought through very well too. I like the music, but some of her ideologies are undeniably uneducated and plain stupid.

[fasolplanetarium]

@bezgin So there can only be one new thing at a time? Yeah, VU was indeed incredibly innovative. So was Neu! and krautrock in its entirety. This doesn't render No Wave a redundant genre. According to your logic, VU and Neu! and Can et al were nothing new because, oh, you know, there's Tchaikovsky and Buddy Holly and stuff.