lydia lunch worship thread

I gather it's not sold out. I'm thinking of going, but the likeliest suspect friends of mine all grimaced when I suggested going. Might go solo. Might stay home. She's also reading at Barnes & Noble on Astor Place tomorrow.

I'm sure you've seen her before but the one time I saw her was great, on spoken tour with Exene. I would go!

Yeah, I'm really on the fence. I've seen her before and she was great -- vitriolic, irascible, heroically hostile. But I've also seen her be woefully self-indulgent and annoying.

I've got a copy of Adulterers Anonymous, the poetry book of Exene and Lydia and the only thing I can say is that LYDIA's ALL CAPS RANTS make Exene look like a literary master. Should I find this and eBay it now? Or wait for the hour of her death?

And, no, while it would seem logical, I never collected the "poetry" or Henry Rollins.

I prefer the good stuff: Yeats, Jewel...the kid from Dahsboard Confessional...

What's odd is that I've had a copy of "Paradoxia" for ages (or at least since 2003 or so. They've re-released it and seem to be treating it like it's brand new. What up wit'dat?

I saw her in 1995 with Exene in Camden, London at the Jazz Cafe.

She'd clearly been for a look round Camden Market earlier as she started by slagging off all the 'fake alternative types' in the area. One guy in the audience took offence and started heckling back asking what the fuck she knew about Camden, and objecting to her attitude.

Sadly the sheep-like audience fell squarely behind Lydia.

'fake alternative types'

Surprises me that she'd ever use the word 'alternative' as such.

Absolutely fantastic show from Big Sexy Noise here in Glasgow last night! I loved it. Really fun - guitar player is great, endlessly moving and grimacing and even high-kicking, they have a really direct groove from such a stripped-down set up, and Lydia Lunch seems lovely.

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Big Sexy Noise @ Classic Grand by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr

"One guy in the audience took offence and started heckling back asking what the fuck she knew about Camden, and objecting to her attitude.

Sadly the sheep-like audience fell squarely behind Lydia."

my guess is that the crowd felt the guy was unnecessarily confrontational and made them feel uncomfortable when all they wanted to do was go on enjoying the show.

I find this clip of her getting in a fight with Joe Rogan kind of funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXUd7VxuSA

Also, I really like that album she did with Rowland S. Howard.

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how was the turnout for the glasgow gig? i was devastated to find i was away when she was playing.

It was ok for current times. it felt pretty quiet earlier on, but there was a decent (and enthusiastic) crowd by the time she came on.

no one's mentioned this then? http://www.amazon.com/Lydia-Lunch-Developing-Obsession-Satisfying/dp/0789324385

always liked the b-side of that Some velvet morning 12" I Fell In Love With a Ghost
as well as Der Karibische Western with Die Haut.

i didn't know about that book. i shall be pre ordering forthwith.

..as well as Der Karibische Western with Die Haut.

that song! one of the very best things ever created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXpaigknWpw

She has a cookbook out now...

Lydia Lunch: The Need to Feed: Recipes for Developing a Healthy Obsession for Deeply Satisfying Foods
Written by Lydia Lunch

Pub Date: September 11, 2012
Format: Trade Paperback
Category: Cooking - General
Publisher: Universe
Trim Size: 7 x 9
US Price: $35.00
CAN Price: $37.50
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2438-2
About This Book

Underground legend Lydia Lunch presents witty and provocative recipes for feeding your friends and lovers nourishing, deeply satisfying food while maintaining a hedonistic downtown lifestyle. Lydia Lunch earned her name from cooking up banquet feasts out of whatever ingredients were on hand for fellow starving artists and musicians, including Sonic Youth, Suicide, Henry Rollins, the Dead Boys, and the Butthole Surfers. In this book, she draws on her experiences and the celebration of a healthy obsession for foods that not only satisfy our craven desires but are also nutritious, delicious, and exactly what a body hard at work and play needs. This book serves as a provocative guide to setting the mood as well as the table for a rousing three-course meal—whether a quick pick-me-up after a long night, a party for a gang of pranksters, or a much-needed weekend detox to replenish the body after being depleted by glorious overindulgence. Written with sass and dripping with sexy personal asides from the racy author, this volume is an irresistible addition to every hedonist’s library.

would love to see the food network lateral

I already know how to make apples with lace, which appears to be the cover recipe, but I still want to read it.

hmmmm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfkUmns9Vo
think it's about the time of Honeymoon in Red cos a song from that is played as s/trk. Not sure if Some Velvet Morning/I Fell In Love With A Ghost is from same time or a bit earlier but I do think that features Genevieve McGuckin who's present here while Honeymoon doesn't as far as I recall.

http://thequietus.com/articles/13483-lydia-lunch-favourite-albums

right around Notorious B.I.G. this takes an unsettling turn, ramping up to a blurb on the Bo$$ album that spends most of its time talking about Miley Cyrus while doing an impression of black gangsterdom and pretty much ignores the album that the blurb is supposed to be about

so, you have Lydia Lunch saying shit about Miley Cyrus while doing pretty much exactly the kind of thing that made a whole bunch of (mostly black) people irritated with Miley Cyrus

sorry if this post isn't worshipful enough of Lydia Lunch for this thread but I tend to fall out of adulation mode when people start referring to themselves as "whiggers"

“You can take a whigger out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of this muthafuckin' whigger.”

jesus.

also one of her favorite records is by the black keys.

big vindication for me here, I've hated her stuff forever and back in my goff days she was pretty unavoidable and people dug her and I'd be like "no don't you see she sucks bad"

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i remember reading her review of that union carbide prod album in forced exposure way back when. you could always tell which reviews were hers at a glance because of JESUS ALL FUCK ME CAPS STOOGES. anyway, yeah, great record.

i didn't realize that the other half of teenage jesus was vincent gallo

he wasn't and they wren't a duo.

thank you, Serious Cat

THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEARD xp

if yr talking about the band, he isn't on any of their recordings.

allegedly

Murder rap is one of my favourite genres of music. I don't think there's any murder rap around at the moment

that was where I started going "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" but I didn't expect the turn that happened

I've always had a place in my heart for Atomic Bongos. Always reminds me of Butt Bongo Fiesta. That's about it though.

ach, i love her anyway. saying ridiculous things and annoying people is her raison d'être. she has made a ton of great records, is a most entertaining live performers and is surprisingly sweet in real life.

she exemplifies a particular strain of loudly transgressive moron. like if you made a papier-maché performance artist out of a stack of re/search books.

Atomic Bongos and the one with Rowland S. Howard are classics, but yeah she always struck me as not being, how to put this, the brightest black crayon in the goth box

Have you heard her current thing, the Big Sexy Bloozehammer thing? It's as painful as a George Thorogood opening act at Rockoberfest. Which pains me especially cause I love the Gallon Drunk guys who are backing her. But as aero says, it's hardly a case of the might having fallen. Amazed at the company she's been able to keep.

Bit rich for ILM to be down on talking about Miley considering the 10,000 post thread on that subject. And if she wants to call herself a Whigger let her. God, ILM has become so fucking sanctimonious lately. It's Lydia Lunch folks. There is no vindication to be had from her "unsettling" you poor saps since being unsettling is her thing.

everything but reading comprehension, apparently

good to know Lydia Lunch has always expressed vaguely racist Mandingo-worship tendencies though, I didn't know this about her

Well, now you know that I guess.

but yeah she always struck me as not being, how to put this, the brightest black crayon in the goth box

f**k this. really!

f**k spelling it whigger on that william henry harrison shit anyway

Xp Why is that? No troll

"some comedian"

the video of her artist talk at some art museum in Detroit was pretty good -- I think she's funny, sometimes unintentionally. I know very little about Louis CK but the part about him being a voyeur feels kinda key to the whole thing

Lydia Lunch hates Christmas.

she exemplifies a particular strain of loudly transgressive moron. like if you made a papier-maché performance artist out of a stack of re/search books.

― adam, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:24 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adam otm

you know that she is interviewed and written about in re/search books, right?

anyway, she is not a moron.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/21/lydia-lunch-no-wave-music-writing-workshop

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks AT NYC’S
TRANS-PECOS DECEMBER 11

FEATURING LYDIA LUNCH,
WEASEL WALTER, TIM DAHL

Plus Live 1977 to 1979 album coming out Nov 27th

I liked 8 Eyed Spy the best of her projects that I have heard

that walter,tim,bob,lydia lineup is fucking killer live.

lol I was so fucking wasted at that show-- if you ever end up back stage, DO NOT HAVE ANY OF THE COGNAC IN HER TOUR RIDER!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/arts/music/lydia-lunch-war-is-never-over.html?fbclid=IwAR0-TOYZH_6ko0XN-mA890EgHaV9tj7ipfJEZfN7yu5GYvgLhhwG_OaBWq0

I'm interested in the documentary.

lol

Proud owner of the ‘Queen of Siam’ LP, which I love unreservedly. Just obtained a CD comp of 8-Eyed Spy, a project of her singing over an intense and good backing band. Their cover of Beefheart’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” is wonderful; their cover of “I Want Candy” is completely skewed and ridiculous but likable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

Never knew she had this podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmDJJZ2maz

As usual they don't link to the actual channels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg31WhxRgmQ
All the rest are interviews

guess i now need to dig out the Stinkfist cd ep ...
not so sure i have ever listened to it all the way through.

Before I ever heard any solo LL I read about the killing a cat with a shovel boast so I never really bothered after that

she's not a nice person

she's not a nice person

Shocking, truly.

Proud owner of the ‘Queen of Siam’ LP, which I love unreservedly. Just obtained a CD comp of 8-Eyed Spy, a project of her singing over an intense and good backing band. Their cover of Beefheart’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” is wonderful; their cover of “I Want Candy” is completely skewed and ridiculous but likable.

Wait, Beefheart's Diddy Wah Diddy? A fine cover, but when did the cap'n get to own this one?

My bad! I guess I heard the Beefheart one first, or somehow forgot that Bo Diddley did it before, or some other excuse

I listened to one episode of this, had Wolf Eyes on. Yeah, it was kinda just uncomfortable and cringe-y more than anything. The repeated horndog come-on’s directed to the band were blech. Show might be unlistenable if it weren’t for the cohost mediating and directing things along. But… it’s Lydia Lunch, so I guess none of that’s surprising.

I enjoyed her set when she came through a few years ago.

She was a bit like that in the Thirlwell interview and she's lived with him for 7 years

The best episodes of her podcast are the ones where the guest knows how to work with her and throw back, otherwise she'll just steamroller through it all until she gets bored. I recall that episodes with Byron Coley, Martin Rev, and Jerry Stahl were great.

Ran across this interview with her on the Women of Rock Oral History Project YT channel. It's worth the time, especially if you thought The War Is Never Over doc was good, but not great. She's more funny, honest and open here than I've seen in other interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwvQx2Wzas

Kino Lorber just put The War Is Never Over on their YT channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDa55EslRA

Unexpected line-up of Lydia Lunch and David J at the Monty Bar in downtown LA last night. Difficult and mostly negative vibes - the guitarist backing LL wasn't really paying attention to her words and playing the wrong kind of riffs. She was getting pissed (in both meanings), but from out of nowhere she broke into Bowie's "Time" and when she got to the "Time, he flexes like a whore" verse it was kinda brilliant and transcendent in a fractured way. She should record it.

David J came on with a band and played two songs: a destructo cover of The Birthday Party's "Deep In The Woods" and a straight-up glam cabaret version of "Alabama Song." Thank you good night?