Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were an influential post-punk group from New Yo… Read Full Bio ↴Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were an influential post-punk group from New York City, New York, United States, who formed part of the city's No Wave movement. Founded by one-time CBGBs waitress Lydia Lunch and saxophonist James Chance, the group was active from 1976 to 1979, releasing only a handful of singles.

Chance eventually left to form The Contortions and pursue his own equally abrasive musical direction. Both groups were featured on the seminal "No New York" LP, a showcase of the early No Wave scene compiled and produced by Brian Eno.

Infamous for playing ten-minute sets filled with thirty-second songs, they sought to take music beyond what Lunch saw as the traditionalism of punk rock. The group left behind little more than a dozen complete recorded songs with most of the surviving titles collected on the 18-minute career retrospective CD titled "Everything". However other studio versions of several songs exist alongside a few live recordings.

Lunch and Chance both went on to become cult figures of the New York underground music scene and the group has been cited as a significant influence on subsequent post-punk groups such as Sonic Youth and The Istics.

The band reunited in 2008 for a series of performances, with Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. The band continued to perform without Moore throughout 2009, including dates in Canada.

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Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Lyrics

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Baby Doll Little girl in your little girl world Dressed in baby gowns…
Burning Rubber The leaves are dead The door is always closed The garbage …
Crown of Thorns Die a thousand times A crown of thorns Thrown off the shel…
I Woke Up Dreaming My eyes are gript my fist are clenched My brain is…

Less of Me Retelity partners a from here to there and i toss you…
Orphans Little orphans running through the bloody snow Little orpha…
The Closet I'm in a closet and I can't breath Won't you just…

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