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Has any 3TK4 made it onto CD?
Discography? C/D, S/D, etc.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

saw em play live a couple times. maybe an ep or some singles?

of course their name came from a NY Post front page headline.

don't remember if they also had a song called "Headless Body Found In Topless Bar"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

3TK4 EP:

Side One:
Hold Up
Tell Me Something Good (Stevie Wonder song)
5/4

Side Two:
Crime Drama
Hut/Bean Song
Hunger

band members:
Jesse Hultberg, Julie Hair,David Wojnarowicz, Brian Butterick, Doug Bressler

Point Blank records 1982

I particularly like "Hut" and the Bean Song. Fairly classic.

Don't know about any other stuff or reissues.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

From the account of Wojanrowicz's onstage tape-play given in the new PBS documentary Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art, it seems that 3TK4 should be more canonical than they are. Or at least as ripe for reissue and rediscovery as Y-Pants or Grey. did they just have crappy timing, coming too late to catch the coattails of the NNY wave and DAM?

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

there was a great David Wojnarowicz retrospective at a Soho gallery a couple years ago and that EP must've been the background music.

don't think they played out all that much?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

the coattails of the NNY wave and DAM* were pretty short IIRC

*Destroy All Monsters?

(gotta run but I'll be back tomorrow and wd love to discuss this)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

looks like there was an LP reissue of the EP(+) on l'Invitation au Suicide/Lively Art:

3 Teens Kill 4 - No Motive - LP (1984)

Side One:
1- Circumscript
2- Hold up
3- 5/4
4- Crime Drama

Side Two:
1- Tell me something good
2- Hut
3- Bean song
4- Hunger

yeah, da Monstaz.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Mike Kelly was one of the talking heads in the PBS doc. That made me smile.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Tell Me Something Good (Stevie Wonder song)

stevie wrote it but never recorded it, as far as i know. he gave it to rufus, who turned it into a pop hit. did 3TK4 use a talkbox?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

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