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  • Опубликовано: 23 мар 2008
  • Denise Gallant created this video for the band Suburban Lawns in 1980.
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  • @summitwinetrail
    @summitwinetrail 12 лет назад +260

    I didn't even know it got on MTV. Thanks for remembering. They paid me all of $200 to make this video, so I am glad that so many people like it. That is rewarding.
    Denise

    • @Vibing
      @Vibing 4 года назад +8

      no way? if you actually made this video. Thank you.

    • @Pimp-Master
      @Pimp-Master 4 года назад +4

      MTV debuted in 1981, didn't it? So you can tell that this video preceeded it because there's no credit block made of white letters in the lower right corner.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад +15

      @@Pimp-Master Also the video is direct from my tape, the original video that I did. It was shown on a local LA show, I think in 1980 and at the Country Club in LA, which was packed to a lot of applause (I was amazed as they showed Tim Curry's professional video right before). Yes, this was all pre-MTV.

    • @Pimp-Master
      @Pimp-Master 4 года назад +5

      @@summitwinetrail I think you should start accepting that you helped create the visual aspect of proto-new wave.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад +3

      @@Pimp-Master Actually, this is what I created: ruclips.net/video/0VdLVwDwm7s/видео.html

  • @summitwinetrail
    @summitwinetrail 12 лет назад +18

    Hi Hadrian,
    Yes, I was there too. I was 32 then (I did the video Janitor) and my two sisters were about 16 and 18 then, with me. I LOVED this club too. I didn't care if I was 32, no one knew it and they did have the BEST of the 80s music all the time.
    Denise

  • @alexcncmacsalcar7324
    @alexcncmacsalcar7324 10 лет назад +37

    What a great song. This was when New Wave music was still punky.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад +2

      Yea, it was a very punk crowd that came to see them play live

  • @someguydino6770
    @someguydino6770 Год назад +7

    we followed this band , The Suburban Lawns along with The Minutemen and a bunch of others throughout the 80s. What was true then is still true now; it was "totally awesome" to see these bands live in small venues around Los Angeles!

  • @lordfarquad420
    @lordfarquad420 9 лет назад +89

    its like if blondie, devo, and klaus nomi made a band

  • @mcosgrove91010
    @mcosgrove91010 8 лет назад +18

    This song made me love New Wave. I'm so glad it came out when I was ready for it.

  • @v-town1980
    @v-town1980 8 месяцев назад +2

    Wacky and fun; thank you, early 1980s❤

  • @colintesla
    @colintesla 8 лет назад +36

    This is one of the best videos I've ever seen!

    • @robertterrell3065
      @robertterrell3065 4 года назад +1

      This "may" be my fav video of all. That's saying a lot. But this is a fantastic video :) The time period was the perfect ground for such videos, of course. That time has long since come and gone, it seems :(

  • @msgeek703
    @msgeek703 12 лет назад +2

    This was from 1980, people!!! Think back to the state of the art back then. Denise was doing things with video that nobody else was doing. A lot has changed in 31 years. A LOT.

  • @hackman55able
    @hackman55able 14 лет назад +6

    Classic song, was a staple on KROQ back in the 80's. Jamming video.

  • @vtaguy1
    @vtaguy1 13 лет назад +8

    I haven't heard this song in 30 years. It is so fantastic, I had tried to find it but never knew what it was called or who sang it. Thanks for posting and for the lyrics as well.

    • @weirdsider4412
      @weirdsider4412 6 месяцев назад +1

      hope you’re still here to hear it again!! 💐💛

  • @greggower8899
    @greggower8899 6 месяцев назад

    This band is tight. Great musicians and, of course, Sue.

  • @mavericdragon
    @mavericdragon 12 лет назад +3

    Wow!, I have this on cassette tape, from KTRU 91.7fm, here in Houston, Tx. A late night batch of jams, this being one, unknown, now re-discovered, by accident...Thank you.

  • @billymartin115
    @billymartin115 6 лет назад +3

    Great video by Denise Gallant. I love how Su is dressed like a ball and how on part 1:26 when she says ''expansion, contraction'' dressed like a ball, perfect timing

  • @KingOFuh
    @KingOFuh Год назад +2

    Su Tissue is the pseudonym of Sue McLane, who was at college in California in 1978, when she joined fellow art student William Ranson in the post-punk band Suburban Lawns. Su does not want to be contacted or involved in talking about the past. The Suburban Lawns song ‘Gidget Goes To Hell’ takes the idea and fascinatingly twists it away from the daddy-idealization to real girl dark teen fantasy - It’s about bunking off school, stealing Dad’s car, driving to the beach and surfing so well that everyone is in awe of her. But none of the boys stand a chance with her because she’s a bad-ass surfer. The film by Jonathan Demme shows the ending where Gidget is presumed eaten by a shark, with Gidget’s giblets washed up on shore cartoon-style. Sue McLane acts, sings and probably had a significant creative hand in this production. According to band-mate Frankie Ennui, Su was reluctant to have live shows recorded, but this was where she was at her most exciting. “You had to see Su do her thing live and in person, in front of a crowd, to really get the full, mind-blowing impact. So many contrasting ideas and emotions were being transmitted. What Su did was real. She really put herself out there, exposed and vulnerable, but aggressively sarcastic and in your face at the same time. Brave. Amazing. Disturbing.” They played LA venues like Masque and Whiskey a gogo. Having obvious musical skills (She went on to study piano and later released a solo piano album, ‘Salon de Musique’), Su sang, played keyboards and bass in the band. This level of musical flair, remember, was unusual for the time. Many of the women who had been drawn to punk were sparky beginners, and the music press were used to judging women in bands on their attractiveness, sexiness and beauty of their voices. “You see, the Suburban Lawns have this Sue Tissue character that soon joins them on keyboards, a very subdued looking girl with long black hair and a predilection for vinyl raincoats and boots. On keyboards she’s almost invisible but then she borrows one of the guy’s bass and steps up front and that’s when you start realizing that this chickie isn’t no wallpaper and that maybe there’s more to the band than first meets the eye. Not only does she play that borrowed bass with more nerve and mean rhythm than a funk pro but she spits out her backing vocals in a most unsubdued, unbacking manner. Something like tense abandon, except more so. But it’s only a bit later, when she finally decides to do her singing full time, giving back the bass and grabbing the mike stand as a drowning cat claws at a stick you offer it that your lame little heart KNOWS that this here is one of the fuckin’ toughest, most unique, most outstanding performing creatures you’re ever likely to see and hear, here or anywhere. If this sounds like jive to, buster, check it out and then tell me to my face that girl ain’t amazing. She may not be on your list of “in people” yet but you see her once and if you’re halfway alive she’ll make number 1 and you’ll just be another shivering fan before you can spell out Lene Lovich That’s a promise. When Sue Tissue sings, nothing else matters. I don’t even know if she’s got a great voice (their really good single doesn’t quite convey what’s it’s about) or if she’s sexy or anything, all I know is that you can’t keep your fuckin’ eyes off her, so strange is her presence, so surprizing is her way AROUND the songs.” -- 1979 live review in Slash magazine. The second self-released single Janitor features a not-that interesting mix-up between the word genitals and janitor - again attributed to Su Tissue, who coined the ‘Oh my genitals, I’m a janitor’ line that apparently made the song - again with an accompanying film. By 1981, Suburban Lawns had signed to IRS records and recorded an album ‘Suburban Lawns’. The support slots became more high-profile, including supports with Siouxsie and the Banshees, 999 and Bow Wow Wow, opening for U2 at Santa Monica and The Clash at Sacramento Auditorium. In some interviews with other band members, there are hints of disputes within the band where the principles of business and art are pitted against one another. To step up from being a reliable and entertaining support band to being a 1980s IRS hit-making success story always seemed to involve compromises and placing particular demands on women in bands. And not all women were happy to comply with the ‘whatever it takes’ view of musical success. This is where all we can do is speculate. From the outset, Sue McLane comes across as having artistic vision, musical talent and not wanting to compromise her privacy and principles for fame or money. According to band mate Chuck Roast: "Su had a really cool sense of style, unconventionally speaking - like those blow-up pants or a nice three-piece suit with some pumps, with nails driven into the soles … What you saw and heard from Su was unvarnished and uncalculated. It was an extension of who she was; very organic. She had a wicked sense of humor; a reluctant star. She once proclaimed in an interview with the LA Times that “interviews were obsolete”, which I found refreshing due to the fact that is what all bands wanted to do.“ Today, Sue is an attorney in Newport Beach and can be reached by dialing 1-800-INJURED.

  • @veggiemctaco1537
    @veggiemctaco1537 7 лет назад +15

    love! I'm obsessed with Su

  • @shawndriver1973
    @shawndriver1973 6 лет назад +1

    Denise Gallant for president 2020,you definitely got my vote,love the video

  • @asenath7766
    @asenath7766 2 года назад +1

    All the kids into vaporwave right now need to take note of this song.

  • @summitwinetrail
    @summitwinetrail 12 лет назад +1

    Yep! Missing persons were really cool people too.
    Denise

  • @markbrandus
    @markbrandus 8 лет назад +13

    80's New Wave. Janitor=Genital. Love Su Tissue's straight face.

  • @lefkytheshin
    @lefkytheshin 7 лет назад +3

    Ha! Love this band. It's like Devo and The Kids in the Hall had a kid together.

  • @dsmoen
    @dsmoen 14 лет назад +4

    Wow, I've really missed the Suburban Lawns. Finally found a copy of their album because I missed Green Eyes and Flying Saucer Safari more than I missed Janitor, and the latter's easier to find.

  • @bootsnbolts
    @bootsnbolts 9 лет назад +10

    excellent fucking job, denise! thank you!!!!

  • @risam4190
    @risam4190 4 года назад +1

    i love this band too much

  • @TheBriangtr
    @TheBriangtr 11 лет назад +4

    Brilliant, and very much ahead of its time. This was a real hands-on process in 1980, really clever editing.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад

      Thanks - reel to reel 3/4" Cuts only. The effects came from this:ruclips.net/video/0VdLVwDwm7s/видео.html

  • @tsartodd
    @tsartodd 7 лет назад +13

    they're a little bit Devo, a little bit Talking Heads, and a bit more Yoko Ono.

  • @Lavon1723
    @Lavon1723 11 лет назад +1

    Saw this band back in the day. I LOVE Sue Tissue! This is great POP!

  • @Carlux777
    @Carlux777 8 лет назад +7

    Love it!!!

  • @robertescher3082
    @robertescher3082 4 года назад

    WOW... My childhood... it's been ... since 1982... I was 14.

  • @MrDanchezify
    @MrDanchezify 8 лет назад +4

    Odyssey on Beverly and La Cienega! Boom boom boom!

    • @rodoza66
      @rodoza66 5 лет назад

      was there!

    • @robram2025
      @robram2025 5 лет назад

      Great club! Nothing like that for 15 yr olds these days really. Lol. Thank goodness!

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад

      Yes, Odyssey was the best! I pretended not to be 32 at the time. Also Club Lingerie and China Club, among others.

  • @PerspectiveEngineer
    @PerspectiveEngineer 12 лет назад +1

    That brings back the sugar rush of my early teens.
    We were so cool back then. Then MTV ruined everything. Even Devo. And the Police.
    But they still make my day.

  • @davidpatterson7934
    @davidpatterson7934 8 лет назад +8

    i love su tissue ! long beach!!

  • @murcuryvapor
    @murcuryvapor 13 лет назад

    Thanks for this...love this record.

  • @HDellamorte
    @HDellamorte 11 лет назад

    Thanks for posting this amazing video of this amazing band!

  • @millerlightning
    @millerlightning 12 лет назад

    Love it. Brings back memories

  • @Minordian
    @Minordian 11 лет назад +1

    absolutely awesome.

  • @radioactive144
    @radioactive144 14 лет назад

    This is great, the way I remember it. Thank you for posting.

  • @billmorgancolorado
    @billmorgancolorado 6 лет назад +1

    The collision of surf music + nerds = new wave

  • @JackHodges
    @JackHodges 14 лет назад +6

    Wow very cool Denise! Thanks for putting it up. I've always wondered why Su stopped performing. I've seen a lot of great ones but none better than her. I wish there was more footage of her dancing on youtube, she was captivating.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад +4

      Hi, there is a documentary in progress of the band. I spoke to the person doing it in January.

  • @chetrok1
    @chetrok1 8 лет назад +2

    wow great job

  • @Filminformer1984
    @Filminformer1984 6 лет назад

    This is the best thing I’ll see all year.

  • @beachmom62
    @beachmom62 11 лет назад +1

    TOTALLY AWESOME!

  • @woodywoodham
    @woodywoodham 11 лет назад +2

    this is totally awesome and I love it.

  • @77kimbaa
    @77kimbaa 5 лет назад

    How freaking COOL...LOVE THIS

  • @drunvert
    @drunvert 9 месяцев назад

    I had never known the lyrics to who's your mother who's your father until the last week when I started binging on suburban lawns

  • @Hadrian34
    @Hadrian34 12 лет назад

    totally awsome!!!!

  • @ScottAln05
    @ScottAln05 15 лет назад

    Most excellent!

  • @stevie1der
    @stevie1der 10 лет назад

    its a great video that makes the song come alive...

  • @jaykay5580
    @jaykay5580 4 дня назад

    great guitar work

  • @bulletnose100
    @bulletnose100 4 месяца назад

    brilliant masterpiece!

  • @Punketeria1369
    @Punketeria1369 6 лет назад

    This is Great!!!

  • @PerspectiveEngineer
    @PerspectiveEngineer 5 месяцев назад

    Such a Joy

  • @mioffer1
    @mioffer1 8 лет назад +15

    Does creative rock have to mean anything ( apart from suggesting a new idea ) ? Sue Tissue sings about social change - about non-glamour, anti-nuclear & anti-traditional rock : What could be more challenging ? True Rock was always subversive. Backed by a healthy Rhythm section. Bravo !

  • @connerbradford6330
    @connerbradford6330 8 лет назад +1

    Beautiful like God

  • @masonhenson5946
    @masonhenson5946 6 лет назад

    i used to play this song when i cleaned up at night at neighbor's market convenient store on my old flip phone

  • @rodoza66
    @rodoza66 5 лет назад +1

    1000 light years from home...

  • @colinsumrall2540
    @colinsumrall2540 7 лет назад +1

    Pure creativity

  • @gadhaffi
    @gadhaffi 15 лет назад

    hard time sittin still here

  • @ARTSAVA
    @ARTSAVA 11 лет назад

    Very creative!

  • @JamesMajdali
    @JamesMajdali 13 лет назад

    this song... is so amazing. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunf

  • @sirreptitious8786
    @sirreptitious8786 2 года назад +1

    WE LOVE YOU, SU!! PLEASE COME BACK!! STOP HIDING FROM THE WORLD!! Oh, My Genitals!

  • @thegoat48
    @thegoat48 12 лет назад

    wow!! creative...

  • @lokikirottu8042
    @lokikirottu8042 11 лет назад

    Mikä loistava video! Suburban nurmikot ovat niin suuri bändi uuden aallon aikakauden 80-luvun alussa aikakausi. Kiitos jakaa tämän videon

  • @summitwinetrail
    @summitwinetrail 12 лет назад

    Thanks.
    Denise

  • @lilisigel
    @lilisigel 12 лет назад +1

    Strange song, I like it. :-)

  • @CabrilloDM134a
    @CabrilloDM134a 8 лет назад +4

    To CECTV: Yes I still edit videos, most notably the yearly NAMM Convention TEC Awards, which includes three documentaries on 'famous' people in audio/music. Most recently on The Record Plant history, Don Was (Rolling Stones Producer), and Skunk Baxter of Doobie Brothers. Favorites from the recent past were Slash (Of Guns & Roses), and Hal Blain (Of everything from the 1960's - most recorded person in history).

  • @dutchblaine
    @dutchblaine 3 года назад

    100s of 1000s miss Su.

  • @Dereck89
    @Dereck89 12 лет назад

    X is a great band! Haven't heard of the others, but will check them out soon :)

  • @jasonodonnell7636
    @jasonodonnell7636 6 лет назад +6

    Strange weirdo awesome shit!

  • @mixhaelslater7900
    @mixhaelslater7900 5 лет назад

    Awesome

  • @rconn
    @rconn 10 лет назад +2

    Yay!

  • @TheWendyHourbt
    @TheWendyHourbt 11 лет назад +1

    adore)

  • @CW2SCOGG
    @CW2SCOGG 11 лет назад +3

    This is absolutely great stuff...I will NEVER forget hearing this on Rodney on the ROQ and then buying the record based off that....back in 1980 KROQ! Ah the early 80-'s brings back so many memories....I agree with Ian Findley, the only two decent alt acts that MTV could take any credit for back then were Buggles (Video killed the Radio Star) and Flock of Seaguls (I Ran). The rest of MTV was pure shite...Suburban Lawns were too GOOD for MTV

  • @stumppuppettheatre
    @stumppuppettheatre 15 лет назад +1

    JANITOR: [Lyrics from the album.]
    All action Is reaction Expansion Contraction
    Man the manipulator Under-water Does it matter
    Anti-matter Nuclear reactor Boom boom boom boom
    Who's your mother? Who's your father?
    I guess everything's relative [2x]
    I'm a janitor Oh my genitals
    I'm a janitor Oh my genitals
    Oh my genitals I'm a janitor
    (repeat)

  • @atimnie
    @atimnie 6 лет назад +2

    If you took equal parts Bow Wow Wow, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa at his weirdest, and Devo's fashion sense, add an extra dash of weirdness, Suburban Lawns is what you'd get.

    • @KingOFuh
      @KingOFuh Год назад +1

      Zappa said that he did not think much of new wave, but he did like Suburban Lawns

  • @BaxterVon
    @BaxterVon 3 года назад

    YES

  • @raspbeari1
    @raspbeari1 8 лет назад +2

    does anyone remember poetry sit ins.. when teachings were considered gifts?

  • @freetofu
    @freetofu 7 лет назад

    The visuals are so modernistic!

  • @nickthelick
    @nickthelick 3 года назад

    I do love the wordplay she does in this song...
    "Everything's irrelative" and "Everything's a relative"
    And "I'm a janitor, oh my genitals..." too of course! 😊

  • @ThirdDimensionalBeing
    @ThirdDimensionalBeing 7 лет назад +2

    Oh my Janitals, oh my janitals,

  • @hesolex7674
    @hesolex7674 Год назад

    Now they're talking!

  • @rbykwon
    @rbykwon 2 года назад

    Fire

  • @Jeff63a
    @Jeff63a 14 лет назад +3

    @Video4dvd - That is not the story at all. This is what actually happened:
    The lyrics of "Janitor" were derived from a real-life conversation between Sue McLane and friend Brian Smith. According to Brian, the two were conversing in a loud room when they first met:
    "She asked me what I did for a living. I said 'I'm a janitor,' and she thought I said 'Oh my genitals.' [Richard Whitney] overheard this and wrote the song."

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад

      Nope, They told me it was inspired by the story in the papers, but both can be true.

  • @groov539
    @groov539 12 лет назад

    1980.. When you think about it, this video was way way ahead of it's time. In 1980, this video was so bizarre it was considered freakish.

  • @jabbabbabba
    @jabbabbabba 11 лет назад

    Saw them at Alpine Village in Torrance / Carson

  • @Stevenimich
    @Stevenimich 15 лет назад

    That's good shit!

  • @gumby2412
    @gumby2412 14 лет назад +1

    tHEY just don't make em like they use too...THANKS for the post!!!
    KROQ Flash backs are the BEST!!!!

  • @roshXdaXfrosh
    @roshXdaXfrosh 15 лет назад

  • @RainPoetry
    @RainPoetry 9 лет назад +96

    I miss smart, edgy, progressive music that was also..weird.

    • @girlnoise6286
      @girlnoise6286 5 лет назад

      Exactly..

    • @kylecrutcher4588
      @kylecrutcher4588 5 лет назад +6

      Not to be sn old fart, but these kids today, their music sucks.

    • @rjwusher
      @rjwusher 4 года назад +1

      Deerhoof?

    • @holidaycomplex
      @holidaycomplex 4 года назад +6

      @a w clearly he's not looking for great new music because we've got plenty

    • @alphawhale8471
      @alphawhale8471 2 года назад

      DLMIC, Coneheads, eggpunk.. check it

  • @dutchblaine
    @dutchblaine 10 лет назад

    You rock ZOX

  • @GrandmasDay32
    @GrandmasDay32 7 лет назад +3

    The Guitarists doing the DEVO jerk move.

  • @Pimp-Master
    @Pimp-Master 9 лет назад +2

    I wonder what Denise thought about New Wave Theater's visuals for Suburban Lawns on that show? They may have used a bit of this video. The band had a great sense of humor; I interveiwed most of them in '80. Su wouldn't talk to me.

    • @Pimp-Master
      @Pimp-Master 9 лет назад

      Video4dvd Who am I? ...just a still-lonely girl band groupie from the 80s--check out the July 4, 2015 reunion of the Pandoras in Oakland, Ca.--in other words nobody. But thanks for the non-smarmy answer!

    • @CabrilloDM134a
      @CabrilloDM134a 8 лет назад

      HI, Thanks for asking. I did not see New Wave Theater's visuals for that show. I did know NWT people fairly well at the time. If they used it, that is cool. However, I am still upset at Richard Blade for using it behind HIM during a whole show and then never giving me any credit at the end, which I specifically asked for if they played the video. All those things counted when being that poor starving artist. EG: I got paid all of $200 for that video,while also paying $25 an hour for editing time in a studio. I did stay friends with their manager, Ike Ikelkraut till he died about 8 years ago.

    • @davidgonzales720
      @davidgonzales720 7 лет назад +1

      CabrilloDM134a
      You made a really great video! Thanks!

  • @Ibpace
    @Ibpace 6 лет назад +1

    هههههههههههه أحب الأغنية

  • @SweetSweetWaldo
    @SweetSweetWaldo 9 лет назад +3

    He's going to get in trouble with those guys.

    • @lefkytheshin
      @lefkytheshin 7 лет назад

      SweetSweetWaldo Sat through that movie just to see Su act. Timid, sweet thing she was.

  • @Pimp-Master
    @Pimp-Master 4 года назад

    Denise, do you remember the great ABC, late night video program, "Goodnight LA?" My gosh, that was a great show. Loved it intensely.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад +2

      Not really. I did work at NBC 1977-79, so I saw a lot of Midnight Special, Johnny Carson and the Gong show, ugg!

  • @danielangelfizz5539
    @danielangelfizz5539 4 года назад

    🔍 🎧 ❤

  • @OrpheusIsThe1
    @OrpheusIsThe1 11 лет назад +1

    She is singing I'm a janitor, Oh my genitals, I'm a janitor, Oh my genital, Oh my genitals, I'm a janitor. I found live video with all the lyrics subtitled.

  • @gatrnation2
    @gatrnation2 12 лет назад

    Takes me back to my youth. "Oh my genitals, I'm a janitor."

  • @Dissappointment
    @Dissappointment 12 лет назад

    awesome.
    Southwest Parker Chicken Call...
    Bukk AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

  • @mikejohnson693
    @mikejohnson693 7 лет назад +2

    this looks like the work of knox harrington, the video artist.

    • @summitwinetrail
      @summitwinetrail 4 года назад

      I don't know knox harrington. I did the video - Denise Gallant. ruclips.net/video/0VdLVwDwm7s/видео.html