James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself

From the "No New York" compilation (1978).

Pat Place: "The most significant thing I remember about those sessions is that he said, 'Why don't you go in and warm up?' We warmed up with 'Can't Stand Myself,' which we'd never played before. And Eno recorded the warm-up and that's what came out. That was the first time we'd played it, and he got it, and that was it."

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[classof77]

"HEY JODY? CAN YOU STAND YOURSELF!?"

"When I get in the place / There won't be nothin left of the human race"

Absolutely nuclear shit, could flatten a city block.

IMHO one of the top five or six covers ever.

[TheStrangeSound]

3:43 bes sax freak out ever

[WarGoatForestWolf666]

@kingofcrunk1010 I fucking know. "Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes." There is plenty of good music nowadays.

[kingofcrunk1010]

@grahamlaur

No Wave was probabaly the peak of radicalism in rock. If you want to hear some crazy rock music from today check out Won James Won, Zs, and Locrian.

[grahamlaur]

@kingofcrunk1010 I was exaggerating. There are some decent bands today. But I still think radicalism is gone from rock.

[kingofcrunk1010]

@grahamlaur

not another "there's no good underground music anymore" people

[water0xFF]

jazzcore :P

[grahamlaur]

@TheStrangeSound I wouldn't call it a freakout... he's more or less playing notes. But I agree that it's awesome.

[grahamlaur]

I have a love/hate relationship with this music. I love it because its raw funk and the purest American underground. I hate it because of my envy of the people who lived through this scene: this sort of "music on the edge" is dead and will probably never be experienced again.

[Jewclops]

Awesome.

[NewWaver80014]

@DenyVoidDead James still records every once in a while - the group is pretty much long gone (several members/associates are now deceased).

[DenyVoidDead]

I just found out about these guys and have just gotten into new wave, its trully one of the most brilliant/brutalest types of musici mean damn dude , does this band still or is no wave still around?