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Brilliant f**king video mate !!

It sounds like they listened to _Fear of Music_ a few too many times.

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perfect

i dont see why this doesnt have more views. its quite original and cool sounding

I get the Izimbra vibes here. I missed my chance at seeing them when I ended up in the emergency room needing stitches from a broken beer bottle

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Only about 60 years ahead of their time.

Something

Reminds me of the minute men, anyone else remember them

Suburban Yawns. This music sucks. You can make this crap up as you go.

SUCH a badass band.. That drummer !! 🤯🤯🤯 Love Sue so much.. really all the musicians are just amazing

I wonder if Sue was An influence on Souixsie?

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The vocals here remind me of a female version of Scott Walker's later records

There weren’t many as fascinating as Susan McClane

I wish I knew this in 10th grade,,it was happening...wow...I never knew then

Lindo

Les Claypool obviously liked...

Wow - King Crimson groove is very well done. How this band was not in a bidding war after this is so sad & predictable. Su always knew about tissue to quotish her quip " Don't forget to wipe" It was only right for her to release her awesome piano album, retire & change her name to Fred Garvin. Minus the truss.

Kurt is an incredible guitarist . he speaks with the thing 🏄🏽‍♂

beautifl

yes

yes

Dont ask me how but siouxsie sioux and the banshees got me here.

So sweet 50 ish years later. Thanks friend's love you

What movie was she in?

Why is nobody dancing? I don’t get it

Only lcd soundsystem could pull it of !ļ❤

so glad i found this just in time for it to be my jam for december

Bravo!! Thanks for posting.

Feeling the I Zimbra vibe on this.

I wanna be Su's tissue.

That's incredible. Blown away

Very good, keep it up

Best set I’ve ever been to!

This is some crazy musicianship for a post punk band.

kept expecting it to turn into a Primus or King Crimson song.

She needs her bare feet tickled

You can't tell me Talking Heads and sub lawns weren't listening to each other in the early days!

like early king crimson fronted by a brilliant female singer....

Su was pretty, nice long hair ! hard to believe she is in her mid 60's, how time flies !

This is how I remember them...tight disjointed Jazz infused punk, super tight and mesmerizing fun

Wow

subscribing....just because of this one video

Su Tissue is the pseudonym of Sue McLane, who was at college in California in 1978, when she joined fellow art student William Ranson in the post-punk band Suburban Lawns. Su does not want to be contacted or involved in talking about the past. The Suburban Lawns song ‘Gidget Goes To Hell’ takes the idea and fascinatingly twists it away from the daddy-idealization to real girl dark teen fantasy - It’s about bunking off school, stealing Dad’s car, driving to the beach and surfing so well that everyone is in awe of her. But none of the boys stand a chance with her because she’s a bad-ass surfer. The film by Jonathan Demme shows the ending where Gidget is presumed eaten by a shark, with Gidget’s giblets washed up on shore cartoon-style. Sue McLane acts, sings and probably had a significant creative hand in this production. According to band-mate Frankie Ennui, Su was reluctant to have live shows recorded, but this was where she was at her most exciting. “You had to see Su do her thing live and in person, in front of a crowd, to really get the full, mind-blowing impact. So many contrasting ideas and emotions were being transmitted. What Su did was real. She really put herself out there, exposed and vulnerable, but aggressively sarcastic and in your face at the same time. Brave. Amazing. Disturbing.” They played LA venues like Masque and Whiskey a gogo. Having obvious musical skills (She went on to study piano and later released a solo piano album, ‘Salon de Musique’), Su sang, played keyboards and bass in the band. This level of musical flair, remember, was unusual for the time. Many of the women who had been drawn to punk were sparky beginners, and the music press were used to judging women in bands on their attractiveness, sexiness and beauty of their voices. “You see, the Suburban Lawns have this Sue Tissue character that soon joins them on keyboards, a very subdued looking girl with long black hair and a predilection for vinyl raincoats and boots. On keyboards she’s almost invisible but then she borrows one of the guy’s bass and steps up front and that’s when you start realizing that this chickie isn’t no wallpaper and that maybe there’s more to the band than first meets the eye. Not only does she play that borrowed bass with more nerve and mean rhythm than a funk pro but she spits out her backing vocals in a most unsubdued, unbacking manner. Something like tense abandon, except more so. But it’s only a bit later, when she finally decides to do her singing full time, giving back the bass and grabbing the mike stand as a drowning cat claws at a stick you offer it that your lame little heart KNOWS that this here is one of the fuckin’ toughest, most unique, most outstanding performing creatures you’re ever likely to see and hear, here or anywhere. If this sounds like jive to, buster, check it out and then tell me to my face that girl ain’t amazing. She may not be on your list of “in people” yet but you see her once and if you’re halfway alive she’ll make number 1 and you’ll just be another shivering fan before you can spell out Lene Lovich That’s a promise. When Sue Tissue sings, nothing else matters. I don’t even know if she’s got a great voice (their really good single doesn’t quite convey what’s it’s about) or if she’s sexy or anything, all I know is that you can’t keep your fuckin’ eyes off her, so strange is her presence, so surprizing is her way AROUND the songs.” -- 1979 live review in Slash magazine. The second self-released single Janitor features a not-that interesting mix-up between the word genitals and janitor - again attributed to Su Tissue, who coined the ‘Oh my genitals, I’m a janitor’ line that apparently made the song - again with an accompanying film. By 1981, Suburban Lawns had signed to IRS records and recorded an album ‘Suburban Lawns’. The support slots became more high-profile, including supports with Siouxsie and the Banshees, 999 and Bow Wow Wow, opening for U2 at Santa Monica and The Clash at Sacramento Auditorium. In some interviews with other band members, there are hints of disputes within the band where the principles of business and art are pitted against one another. To step up from being a reliable and entertaining support band to being a 1980s IRS hit-making success story always seemed to involve compromises and placing particular demands on women in bands. And not all women were happy to comply with the ‘whatever it takes’ view of musical success. This is where all we can do is speculate. From the outset, Sue McLane comes across as having artistic vision, musical talent and not wanting to compromise her privacy and principles for fame or money. According to band mate Chuck Roast: "Su had a really cool sense of style, unconventionally speaking - like those blow-up pants or a nice three-piece suit with some pumps, with nails driven into the soles … What you saw and heard from Su was unvarnished and uncalculated. It was an extension of who she was; very organic. She had a wicked sense of humor; a reluctant star. She once proclaimed in an interview with the LA Times that “interviews were obsolete”, which I found refreshing due to the fact that is what all bands wanted to do.“ Today, Sue is an attorney in Newport Beach and can be reached by dialing 1-800-INJURED.

I saw Ms. Su about 5 hours ago. Super secret location

Sue was obviously a Maya Deren fan

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Love this track and video. And, hot damn, that rhythm section.