County, Wayne & The Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You

NEW VINYL LP ON SPITTLE 2021

180 GRAM VINYL.

Jayne/Wayne County's most audacious album is also, though it's not something said every day, among the most important albums of its age. Released in 1979 just as the new wave was teetering on the brink of some kind of bold step forward, Things Your Mother Never Told You was one of the sudden shoves which sent it sprawling into its destiny. Electro-punk starts here. Producer David Cunningham takes only a portion of the credit; in years to come he would lead the Flying Lizards into the realm of heavily stylized electronica and even scored a few hits for his pains. But County's songs match his ambitions all the way, from the harsh, grating soundscapes behind "C3"'s muttered imprecations to the soft-spoken paranoia of "Waiting for the Marines," and onto "Berlin," the song that put into words everything David Bowie (among others) tried to convey about that city via image and insinuation. It's not all electro-art smarts, of course.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County_%26_the_Electric_Chairs

Tracklist

Side Us
Wonder Woman     
Wall City Girl     
Boy With The Stolen Face     
Un-con-troll-able     
Things Your Mother Never Told You     

Side Them
Berlin     
C.3.     
Midnight Pal     
Waiting For The Marines     
Think Straight