And for those who need a punch in the face to get going this weekend, here's a 15 year-old Jay Reatard punching a guitar-shaped hole in the face of tomorrow with a scorchingly low-fi, full-throttle DIY, splash-splotter version of Chuck Taylor's All Star Blues.
Take it away Jay!
And don't dare miss Reatards brand new re-issue out now on Goner Records, "Teenage Hate". "Guitar, screaming, and pounding." That's how Jimmy "Jay" Lindsey credited himself in the liner notes of his first proper LP, 1998's Teenage Hate. He also billed himself as Jay Reatard, the pseudonym he would use on a staggering number of recordings until his death early last year. According to a transcript included with this deluxe reissue of Teenage Hate, Reatard was a name taken on one night not long before the material was recorded, during a live set comprised of Bay City Rollers covers. "After our first song some guy with a big green mohawk yelled out 'you guys are fucking reatarded [sic],'" he said. "So at the next garage party we played, I announced us as the Reatards kinda as a joke but the name fit so we kept it."
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