I got an email from my friend Walker yesterday afternoon. He was walking in the East Village over the weekend and ran into the singer/songwriter Rachelle Garniez, with whom he’s friendly. She was with a woman who was in the band The Friggs named Palmyra Delran. Walker looked the Friggs up on Wikipedia. He found, he wrote to me, a prize-winningly unique line.
“The Friggs’ song “Bad Word for a Good Thing” appeared in both the films Jawbreaker and Fuck.”
I checked and am pretty sure he’s right. No other song can make that claim.
I happened to see Jawbreaker in a press screening before its opening in February 1999. The Friggs’ song has a good sound that Blondie got to 20 years earlier.
Another song from the Jawbreaker soundtrack is Imperial Teen’s winning confection Yoo Hoo, and it’s weird and vivid video, which is a lot more winning than I recall the movie to be.
You kind of had to be here. I’m reading a great oral history of 80’s Trenton punk palace City Gardens (free with Amazon Prime’s lending library and expensive as hell elsewhere – go Amazon Prime!) and I just – this morning – ran into The Friggs, a band I had never heard of. Weird.
In any case, it’s good to know that Walker was walking.