You Grew Up On Night Flight, Right? Boom Boom Boom Boom*

Suburban Lawns - "Janitor"

Charlie Buckholtz, previously mentioned here as the East Village rabbi from Silver Spring, MD who grew up with Sedar Chappelle (and brother David), was recently the focus of a PBS feature. He sent me the above video from New Wave Theatre (he has a book coming out about the show and its host Peter Ivers) which I think I've played at least 25 times since receiving it. Wow. I feel so uncool that I had never seen or heard of the Suburban Lawns before. To gank a comment from the YouTube page, Sue Tissue had the potential to be a female Ian Curtis. Download two more of their songs here. A video for "Gidget Goes to Hell" was shot by Jonathan Demme and shown on SNL in 1980, probably the only thing worth preserving from that season.

*Like most suburban youth in the 80s, my friends and I first saw "Another State of Mind" on USA's Night Flight. Someone taped it and it was passed around like that Playboy with Suzanne Somers. It remains a mystery to this day, but somehow Marc Browne erased the audio from the VHS tape. Unless he was routinely jerking off with a magnet, that kind of thing just wasn't possible in those days.