lydia lunch worship thread

she sounds a bit like Bea Arthur in person

the bo$$ bit reads better if you imagine her saying "they gotta go down" in a keanu reeves lord custos voice.

I'm not arguing that what she said wasn't cringeworthy in its use of racist language -- I think we can agree there, crut? Dan?

What I am arguing is that by her selections she is trying to position herself as still culturally relevant and engaged and not a 50-something year old female musician that is best known for things she did about 30 years ago so who gives a shit now? And it is totally in character for her not to pick her top whatever indie albums on some indie blog, because she doesn't want to be "corny indie," and being into "hardcore" rap is a great way to signify that you aren't corny indie -- this is something ilx can relate to.

Is the problem what she likes or how she talks about what she likes?

how she talks about what she likes

It does make me happy that she gave props to Carla Bozulich and Weasel Walter, musicians I think are great and am friends with -- so you can all take my defense with that in mind

it sounds more like an older person trying to sound "relevant" than anything else

sarahell otm. the rap write-ups made me cringe (not to mention the black keys as "the best of junior kimbrough"), but the pathos of age keeps me from getting too worked up about it.

haha, i had the thought, "I wonder if Lydia would like Chief Keef," which then reminded me that I am also getting up there in years so

You guys know that all those rap albums are ancient. Almost 20 years old.

no one is saying that she was successful at her quest for Carlesian relevance

blogito ergo sum

i'm not questioning whether she honestly likes rap - obv she does! - i just think the voice she uses in her Bo$$ anecdote is gross, and the word "wigger" is gross (otoh i'm getting very minor lols from imagining her saying it with an aspirated "wh")

Anybody read Paradoxia? I thought it sounded interesting, some people say she makes herself sound like a terrible person.

This video is creeping me out:

http://vimeo.com/100276935

What is this all about?

She kinda looks good without a nose. Often, when I contemplate the pleasure that certain faces give me, I ruin the moment by thinking how arbitrary the configuration of faces is: two eyes above a nose above a freaky hole of lips and tongue and the horrorshow of teeth. We find it all lovely, of course, but it's easy to put yourself in the shoes of an alien who would find it pretty grotesque! Nevertheless, watching this video, I realise I am OK with moderate adjustments to the standard template.

What is this all about?

she's hitting on some comedian called Louis CK of whom I've never heard

"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?