lydia lunch worship thread

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?