TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS LIVE 1977-1979

Label: Radiation Reissues – RADK7032
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: US
Released: March 1, 2024
Genre: Rock
Style: No Wave, Punk

Tracklist:
A1 – Less Of Me
A2 – My Eyes
A3 – Popularity Is So Boring
A4 – Orphans
A5 – Eliminate By Night
A6 – Freud In Flop
A7 – Burning Rubber
A8 – I Woke Up Dreaming
A9 – Crown Of Thorns
A10 – Baby Doll
A11 – Race Mixing
A12 – Don’t Talk About Love
A13 – No Morality
B1 – Instrumental
B2 – Baby Doll
B3 – Freud In Flop
B4 – Race Mixing
B5 – Crown Of Thorns
B6 – Red Alert
B7 – The Closet
B8 – Instrumental
B9 – Freud In Flop
B10 – Burning Rubber
B11 – Red Alert
B12 – Orphans
B13 – Eliminate By Night
B14 – The Closet

Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Lydia Lunch
Drum, Cymbal – Bradly Field
Bass – Gordon Stevenson (A1–A5), Jim Sclavunos (A6–A11, B1–B14), Reck (A12–A13)
Saxophone – James Chance (A12, A13)
Compiled, Edited, Mastered by Weasel Walter
Photography (Cover) – Eugene Merinov

Recorded At:
Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY (1977–1979)
CBGB’s, New York, NY
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON

Live 1977–1979 captures the raw architecture of New York’s no wave: dissonant, fractured, and unrepentant.
Fronted by Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks reduced punk to its nerve endings no melody, no mercy, only pure collision.
Across recordings from Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, and the Horseshoe Tavern, the band sounds like a system imploding from within, every note a provocation against structure and sentimentality.
Restored and compiled by Weasel Walter for Radiation Reissues, this document remains a vital artefact of sonic nihilism unpolished, unrepeatable, alive.