Suicide – First Rehearsal Tapes (Staff Pick!)

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Collections: Electronic, New Arrivals, New wave : Post-Punk : Goth

Product type: New Vinyl

Vendor: Power Plant Records

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Title: Suicide – First Rehearsal Tapes
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1975, Electronic, Proto-Industrial, New York City, New York
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

  1. Studio Lore: Raw early-room recordings before “proper” sessions, capturing how their minimal setup was built to survive loud rooms and hostile crowds.

  2. Media Narrative: Early Suicide shows routinely provoked fights and walkouts; the duo became a lightning rod for punk-era “is this even music” backlash.

  3. Personal Struggle: Alan Vega grew up poor in Brooklyn and bounced between art hustle and day jobs, using performance as a way out of street-level survival.