posted 11-21-2002 12:26 AM            

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Originally posted by blackspatula:
David Wojnarowicz, 1983 Point Blank Records. Has anybody heard this record? Any good?

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never went out of my way to hear this record cuz for some reason (geographical?) i always associated them with bathos dribblers like Live Skull and Circus Mort.

But in '81 New York Rocker printed this in a live review...

"3 Teens Kill 4 are four of those art-school outcast types, each of whom looks like a different collection of body parts except that they're all gawky and one's a girl. They play the music now equivalent to this physiognomy; a few spare bass and guitar riffs repeated over a rhythm box, with a great deal of unison chant-singing, assorted bird calls, etc. and the liberal use of city and forest sounds via cassette. Mildly diverting, for a while, especially when they used the old Rufus refrain 'tell me something good' for one of their chants, but then the boom-click-scratch-chatter began to weigh on my eyelids. I noticed that they seemed obsessed with film directors (like some rock critics), one 'song' being about Luis Bunuel, of all people. Tell me what it means. When they closed with 'White Rabbit," I woke up. Call me conservative, but a good tune wipes out all this amateur conceptualism every time. Cute? Sure. But you either do this stuff better or you don't do it at all.

Thus ends tonights typing exercise.

BTW... No mention of the band (that I could find) in D. Wojo's memoirs (Close to the Knives).