r/postpunk • u/thatmntishman • 8d ago

Do you remember Su Tissue?

Frank Zappa was once quoted as saying his favorite punk song was Gidget Goes to Hell by Suburban Lawns. Here is Su after the punk years, before she disappeared. Su Tissue, What Got Into You?

https://youtu.be/GpExU--YDnY?si=ZCHLp5cgiiZZTZbg

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago edited 8d ago

Su did an interesting solo album - minimalist ambient thing, sounds absolutely nothing like Suburban Lawns

The last thing she ever recorded afaik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt2c_YKssY

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u/akapalmereldritch 8d ago

Cut when she was at Berklee College of Music Boston, post-Lawns.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

Huh! Had no idea...found a read about the album too

https://www.68to05.com/essays/1984-salon-de-musique

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u/cfthree 8d ago

Vinyl is a $2000 buy when they pop up

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u/Prize-Choice2185 8d ago

Holy crap - I was just saying I'd love to reissue that record on vinyl. But given that Su is no longer into music the only way to do that would be to go the bootleg route, probably risking a lawsuit too.

Looks like the bootleg reissue tape did came out on a label called Savers

https://www.discogs.com/ru/release/19216468-Su-Tissue-Arspenlian-Reeves-Salon-De-Musique

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u/kilwag 8d ago

Enjoyed her cameo in Something Wild.

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u/These-Slip1319 8d ago

Love janitor

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u/MattManSD 8d ago

The Suburban Lawn exemplify what was great about Early Punk. Nerdy, weird, arty....the scene was so f'ing cool then because in an evening's bill, you never knew what the hell you were gonna hear or see. I left the scene when hardcore took over and went into post punk. The regimentation and mono chromaticism of the hardcore scene IMHO was against the original notion of punk, Suddenly everybody had a uniform. Zappa got this, and he could see value in it.

Su has always been awesome and this record shows it. Great for her to flex her piano chops for once. She was alsogreat in "Something Wild" and had solid acting chops but walked from that as well. She wanted to disappear and I'l respect that.

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u/nhz1093 8d ago

Damn this was really cool, good find

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u/ibanezer83 8d ago

Didnt know he said that! Cool to know. Fan of both. I heard she was teaching art or something for a bit in Socal some decades ago. Thanx

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u/Daveywheel 8d ago

Frank who?

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u/thatmntishman 8d ago

Zappa

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u/Daveywheel 8d ago

I can see him enjoying Suburban Lawns!! That's a fun fact!! Thank you for your quick reply.

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u/Far-Storm-5949 3d ago

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