NYC PUNK PINBACK Jimi LaLumia & The Psychotic Frogs Vintage Button Badge Rare 2.25" 1980 Johnny Thunders Death Disco New York Dolls
ARTIST / LABEL: JIMI LALUMIA & THE PSYCHOTIC FROGS
TITLE: JIMI LALUMIA'S ROCK & ROLL STRIKES AGAIN - DEATH TO ADULT CONTEMPORARY
SIZE: 2.25" APPROX ROUND
CONDITION: USED VINTAGE
COLORS: BLACK / YELLOW / RED
EXTRAS & DETAILS: ULTRA RARE VINTAGE 1970'S PUNK PINBACK.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US
DATE: 1980
- RARE ORIGINAL BADGE / BUTTON / PINBACK FROM 1979. A GREAT JIMI LALUMIA & THE PSYCHOTIC FROGS / PUNK / NYC / COLLECTABLE.
The Long Island punk band Jimi LaLumia & the Psychotic Frogs started the Death to Disco movement with the single "Death to Disco (Disco Sucks)," released on the Death Records label in 1977/'78. It sold in the neighborhood of 10,000 copies, becoming an international underground hit. "Death to Disco (Disco Sucks)" was the first ever punk record to be released on Long Island and have worldwide impact.
The single's B-side, "Wipe Out," recorded as an afterthought, is now featured on AOL Radio's surf channel, and has become an internet fan favorite. The song, first a hit for the Surfaris in the '60s, was included because the band didn't have any other original songs at the time.
Psychotic Frogs - Typically Tasteless In 1978, spurred on by the worldwide success of "Death to Disco," LaLumia & the Frogs cut four new tracks, again for Death, and labeled the release the Typically Tasteless E.P.. The A-side boasted two new original tracks -- "Mangle Me," an extended vendetta answering and threatening the band's critics, and "You'll Never Walk Again," a mean-spirited song inspired by a Frogs appearance on the Don Imus television show and "You'll Never Walk Alone," a Broadway tune that Jerry Lewis sang at the end of the Muscular Dystrophy telethon.
The B-side features a triple X parody of "Eleanor Rigby, (also included on Killed By Death comp #14)" and a cover version of Wayne(now Jayne) County's "F**ked By the Devil," which County had cleaned up while in England and recorded as "Paranoia Paradise." L.A. legends 45 Grave covered "F**ked By the Devil" in the '80s and credited LaLumia.
Typically Tasteless is considered the crowning achivement for The Psychotic Frogs, and cemented the band's reputation. The kissing nuns sleeve art -- by local artist Michael "Sport" Murphy, who later went on to front The Skels and release solo albums on the Kill Rock Stars label -- was a second choice, after a naked picture of James Dean in a tree with a hard on was rejected by record pressing plants. Typically Tasteless again sold thousands of copies, outstanding for an X-rated band in the pre-internet, pre-MTV era.
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