Teenage Jesus & the Jerks Shut Up and Bleed cd

cd
2008/1977-78
new
While the Contortions were slick & greasy, Mars was poppy, & DNA were art nerds, TJ&J was just stripped raw as a fish. Primitive, jagged, acerbic shrieks of fury with zero musicality to tone 'em down. The band was around for 3 straggling years, never issued an album, & sports both the best snare non-drumming of all time, as well as a guitar sound made to knife you in the eye. Early member James Chance had to bow out in order to get the relatively together Contoritions going under his sax maniac stance, but not before shredding like he just dragged Ayler out of the East river on a few tracks here. TJ&J bassist Jim Sclavunos became the drummer for both Beirut Slump & 8 Eyed Spy (Lunch's next two bands before going solo), and then went on to Sonic Youth's 'Confusion is Sex', Nick Cave, & the Cramps. This disc collects some live TJ&J cuts at CBGBs that didn't make it onto the badly titled 'Everything' cd, as well as the complete recordings of Beirut Slump, who only put out a single at the time. Tracklisting: Red Alert, Orphans, Burning Rubber, The Closet, Less of Me, Freud in Flop, I Woke Up Dreaming, See Pretty, Baby Doll, Race Mixing, Crown of Thorns, Staircase, Less of Me, Tornado Warnings, My Eyes, Case #14, I Am the Lord Jesus Sidewalk, Burning Rubber, Try Me, The Closet, Eliminate by Night, I Woke Up Dreaming, Roll Your Thunder, No Morality, GI Blue, Popularity Is So Boring, Red Alert.