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Formed by underground music gurus Lydia Lunch and James Chance in 1976, Teenage Jesus flourished in an underground scene that eschewed the commercialization, triteness and idiocy of punk, dominated (particularly in the USA) by bands that, despite being decidedly marginalized, in some ways just wanted to have fun and get wasted on a Saturday night. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks was not about having fun. It was about nihilism and confrontation, about ripping mainstream society to shreds and dancing on its grave. The music, if you will, was more of a means to an end, almost a metaphor for how at odds the members felt with mainstream society, and it was this forceful message preached by this new prophet (the "Teenage Jesus") that has spoken to the past three decades of disillusioned youths. These 21 tracks taken from their brief time together (1977-1979) represent the bulk of their recorded material, including the band's earliest material, their first single ('Orphans' / 'Less Of Me', 1978), their second single (B'aby Doll' / 'Freud In Flop' / 'Race Mixing'), songs from the 'Pink EP', produced by Robert Quine of the Voidoids, songs that appeared on the legendary 1978 'No New York' compilation, etc.
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