Nicolas Jaar Releasing Teenage Jesus and the Jerks’ Live 1977-1979

Nicolas Jaar‘s imprint Other People recently reissued Lydia Lunch‘s 1990 spoken word album Conspiracy of Women. This fall, the label will release some early live recordings from her iconic no wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. 

Live 1977-1979 collects performances recorded at Max’s Kansas City and CBGB’s in New York, plus the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. According to Weasel Walter‘s press release, the album features “almost every known Teenage Jesus and the Jerks composition”. Find the tracklist below.

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were Lunch, Bradly Field, Jim Sclavunos, Gordon Stevenson, Reck, and James Chance. The band famously appeared on the Brian Eno compilation No New York. For a detailed history of the band, read Walter’s press release.

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Live 1977-1979:

01 Less of Me *
02 My Eyes *
03 Popularity Is So Boring *
04 Orphans 1 *
05 Eliminate By Night *
06 Freud in Flop @
07 Burning Rubber @
08 I Woke Up Dreaming @
09 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 ^

* recorded at Max’s Kansas City on May 17, 1978
@ recorded at Max’s Kansas City on January 17, 1979
# recorded at Max’s Kansas City on August 8, 1977
! recorded at Max’s Kansas City on April 17, 1979
% recorded at CBGB’s on November 4, 1978
^ recorded at Horseshoe Tavern on August 3 or 4, 1978

Watch the band perform “Race Mixing”:

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