My friend got this record recently, and I found this video shortly after. SL were from Long Beach, CA, and it seems like they were equally involved with both the SF and LA post-punk/ new wave scenes. Front woman Su Tissue seems so normal and twisted…. Woah! She’s looks so wholesome, but tightly wound. Definitely a different type of front girl than their contemporaries.
On New Wave Theater TV show in LA:
I can’t find a video of them playing on SNL, but if I do, I will add it.
For shits and gigs, I’m throwing their wikipedia page up bc it’s interesting:
The brainchild of CalArts students William “Vex Billingsgate” Ranson and (Minneapolis born) Sue “Su Tissue” McLane, Suburban Lawns formed in Long Beach, California in 1978 out of the ashes of previous incarnations Art Attack and The Fabulons, recruiting Huntington Beach natives Richard “Frankie Ennui” Whitney and Charles “Chuck Roast” Rodriguez, as well as John McBurney (aka “John Gleur”).
1979 debut single “Gidget Goes to Hell” (released on their own Suburban Industrial label) gained the band notoriety when its Jonathan Demme-directed music video was shown on Saturday Night Live.
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The lyrics of “Janitor” were derived from a real-life conversation between Sue McLane and friend Brian Smith. According to Brian, the two were conversing in a loud room when they first met:
“She asked me what I did for a living. I said ‘I’m a janitor,’ and she thought I said ‘Oh my genitals.’ [Richard Whitney] overheard this and wrote the song.”
After Suburban Lawns folded, Whitney and Ranson formed a new, short-lived band called The Lawns, while McLane attended Berklee College of Music, where she studied piano.
In 1982 McLane recorded a solo album, Salon de Musique. She also played the role of Peggy Dillman in Demme’s 1986 comedy movie Something Wild opposite Melanie Griffith, Jeff DanielsRay Liotta. and
A Suburban Lawns poster is seen in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, hanging on the wall in the bedroom of the character Damone
Su Tissue in “Something Wild”
