After being tipped off by Ed Wong, I tracked down three videos by Malcontent, a band from my Rutgers undergrad days. It’s tempting to think of them as the spiritual godmothers to Vivian Girls and Screaming Females (both from Rutgers!), mixed with the Slits and Shaggs. They lasted less than a year and never really progressed past the “joke band” stage…but heck, I liked ‘em a lot and so did many others. I even had them do a “Win A Date” contest on my WRSU show once during pledge week. I think they took the winner bowling at Edison Lanes; they were supposed to report back on my show, but I don’t think they ever did.
Scenes from the Court Tavern, 1985:
A Reggae Song
Ena Get Your Hair Done
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Sadly missing from the YouTube archives: “Life Really Sucks” and “Ed Wong.” You can still hear the latter on WRSU sometimes when Ed’s doing his show.
All from ivysilence‘s channel, whom I believe to be Cliff Livingston, guitarist about town and member of Dolphin Room and Lesser Koodoo. You have to check out his videos if you lived in 1980s New Brunswick – he’s also got live clips by Pleased Youth, Bedlam and Matt Pinfield’s band Opium Vala.
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