Reatards – Teenage Hate LP

“Having seen Jay Reatard on the periphery of the leather-boy rock circuit a couple of years ago, I had gotten the impression that he was an arrogant shit. A real ‘Little Lord Punkleroy,’ he was. It seemed that the short path from aping the Oblivians in his bedroom to actually playing alongside of them had given him an undeserved license for haughtitude. Well, after hearing this release, I now grant him the right to be as shitty to me as he wants to be. He may ignore my ass around the club all night, because this record just spews aching beauty. It is easily the most blistering pizzunk to dribble down the leg of the raspy whore that is the ‘Memphis scene’ in a long while.

“The liner notes lack any trace of irony and spill more pubescent bile than a crippled maid cleaing up after one of Roman Polanski’s ‘hot tub ’n’ cognac’ parties. It all starts to make sense when you think of the Goner CEO’s fascination with the low-rent vitriol of The Jerry Springer Show. But this has truth, whereas Jerry has spectacle. The guests on the show—tanning bed lesbians and domestic abuse Olympians—all seem to reflect a bovine uniformity. The Reatards, while nipping from both the Oblivian and Wiper jugs, maintain a unique, strangled articulation. If ‘Ruckenraoul’ is remotely near the neighborhood of your daily thought processes, there is absolutely no reason not to rush out and get this… through three red lights, even.”

—Quentin Sebago (a.k.a. Dave Dunlap, from his original review of Teenage Hate in Cimmaron Weekend magazine)

• Deluxe reissue of Jay Reatard’s first LP with a bonus album of two early four-track demo sessions

• Some tracks feature Greg Cartwright of The Oblivians and The Reigning Sound

Label: Goner Records – 64Gone

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: Jun 3, 2022

Genre: Rock

Style: Punk

Tracklist

Teenage Hate

A1 I'm So Gone

A2 Stayce

A3 I Love Living

A4 When I Get Mad

A5 C'Mon Over

A6 Out Of My Head Into My Bed

A7 You Fucked Up My Dreams

A8 It Ain't Me

A9 Down In Flames

B1 I Gotta Rock N Roll

B2 Memphis Blues

B3 Quite All Right

B4 Fashion Victim

B5 Old News Baby

B6 Not Good Enough For You

B7 Ollie Vee

B8 Not Your Man

B9 I Can Live Without You

The Reatards

C1 Black September

C2 Chuck Taylors All Stars Blues

C3 I Lie To

C4 Memphis Blues

C5 On The Go

C6 Give It To Me

C7 Carot Belly Bunny Blues

C8 You Build Me Up Just To Bust Me Back Down

C9 Your The One

C10 When I Get Mad

C11 Get The Fuck Outta My Home

Fuck Elvis, Here's The Reatards

D1 You Build Me Up Just To Bust Me Back Down

D2 You Ain't No Fun No Mo

D3 I Lie To

D4 Give It To Me

D5 C'Mon Over

D6 Not Your Man

D7 Your Old News Baby

D8 Crazy Man

D9 Action Woman

D10 I'm Down