TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS – Teenage Jesus And The Jerks

During the late 1970s, after No Wave pioneer Lydia Lunch met saxophonist James Chance, she began setting her angry and disjointed poetry to anti-music, founding her ground-breaking band Teenage Jesus and The Jerks with Lunch’s shouted lyrics matched by her non-conventional use of electric guitar. The group’s self-titled debut EP is a fast and furious affair, produced by Robert Quine of the Voidoids/Lou Reed, with future Nick Cave drummer Jim Sclavunos on bass and Bradley Field on minimalist percussion; steeped in aggression and audacity, it’s an awesome disc that rebuffs punk’s easy cliches and refuses to be categorized. This reissue also includes the ‘Pre’ EP and the tracks from the legendary No New York compilation. Essential! A1 Freud In Flop A2 Race Mixing A3 Baby Doll A4 Burning Rubber A5 Red Alert A6 Orphans A7 Less Of Me B1 The Closet B2 Less Of Me B3 My Eyes B4 Burning Rubber B5 The Closet B6 Red Alert B7 I Woke Up Dreaming