Teenage Jesus & The Jerks- Live 1977-1979

Label: Radiation Reissues

Reissued 3/1/2024, Originally released  2015

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.

Track listing:

1. Less Of Me 
2. My Eyes 
3. Popularity Is So Boring 
4. Orphans 1
5. Eliminate By Night 
6. Freud In Flop 
7. Burning Rubber 
8. I Woke Up Dreaming 
9. Crown Of Thorns 
10. Baby Doll 
11. Race Mixing 
12. Don't Talk About Love 
13. No Morality 
14. Instrumental 
15. Baby Doll 
16. Freud In Flop 
17. Race Mixing 
18. Crown Of Thorns 
19. Red Alert 
20. The Closet 
21. Instrumental 
22. Freud In Flop 
23. Burning Rubber 
24. Red Alert 
25. Orphans 
26. Eliminate By Night
27. The Closet