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Theoretical Girls was a New York band formed by Glenn Branca and Jeff Lohn that existed from 1977 to early 1979.

Glenn Branca and Jeffrey Lohn were both songwriters for this band. The band did only about 20 shows (3 of which were in Paris). It released one single which had some attention in England where it sold a few thousand copies. The band was never signed by a record company.

The Theoretical Girls were among the most enigmatic of the late ’70s New York no wave bands, famous not so much for their music, since they released only one single during their brief existence, but because the group launched the careers of two of New York’s best known experimental music figures, composer Glenn Branca and producer Wharton Tiers. The latter played drums, the former guitar in the quartet, which also featured keyboardist Margaret DeWys and vocalist/guitarist Jeffrey Lohn, a classically trained composer who, like Branca and so many others in the no wave scene, wasn’t interested in working with popular musical forms until inspired to do so by the explosion of punk rock. The group’s sound was comparable to that of the other no wave bands working in Manhattan at the time, such as Contortions and DNA. Always confrontational and often funny in an aggressive way, the band’s sound consistently displayed the influence of American minimalist composers, ranging from sparse, clattering rhythm pieces that sound like immediate forbearers of early ’80s Sonic Youth to fascinatingly brutal, abrasive slabs of art-punk noise.

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no wave, post-punk, experimental, noise rock, experimental rock
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1	Lovin in the Red full track	53
2	Theoretical Girls (Live) full track	47
3	Computer Dating full track	43
4	No More Sex full track	37
5	You Got Me	34
6	Keyboard Etude full track	30
6	Europe Man full track	30
8	Electronic Angie (Short Version) full track	28
9	Chicita Bonita full track	25
9	Mom & Dad full track	25
11	Polytonal full track	21
12	U.S. Millie full track	20
13	Parlez-vous Francais full track	19
14	Theoretical Girls (Studio) full track	17
14	Contrary Mothion	17

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mwtr_paka wrote:
May 2009

brilliant

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wizarddick wrote:
April 2009

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

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johntardsbaby66 wrote:
March 2009

i saw the picture and i really had to listen to them for some reason.

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dethintwosec wrote:
March 2009

only for die-hard fans http://www.last.fm/group/1979+Post-Punk

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chaileywatts wrote:
March 2009

Anyone have any tracks of this they could send me? Sounds like it will be good

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Mofums wrote:
March 2009

I think Glen Branca had some sort of connection to both Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. Don't quote me though :p

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venusfurs wrote:
March 2009

i heard a member of this band was thurston moore's guitar teacher, anyone wanna clear this rumor up? it sounds likely or he was at least influenced by him.

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Wujek_Lemisz wrote:
March 2009

1, 2, 1, 2, 3.... 7 7 7!!!!!!!!

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Nickandroff wrote:
February 2009

Scum)

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LOSERMEAT wrote:
January 2009

agreed

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maulofsound wrote:
September 2008

if we don't talk about them, they won't exist.

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TeenageCreep wrote:
August 2008

glenn's the man!

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shrrredmaster wrote:
May 2008

i'd like a picture of the entire band instead of just glenn branca maybe

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[deleted-user] wrote:
May 2008

I was pretty disappointed to learn they were an all-male band.
samthebam wrote:
February 2008

Better than Lydia Lunch, I was going to slag them, but there is a coherency in the music going on which is interesting. Back to the lyrics and they are pure pish.

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kyknos wrote:
January 2008

What a nice footnote

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tothebarricades wrote:
January 2008

the band description is funny

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rafaeletc wrote:
July 2007

best band ever

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paul_g wrote:
June 2007

hoo

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[deleted-user] wrote:
August 2006

whoo