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Pain Teens

Pain Teens was an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood. The band used tape manipulation, digital delays, sampling, tape cut-ups and other effects in their music. They also included guitar, violin, marimba, saxophone, percussion, and many other musical instruments. The group was signed to King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label for their offbeat-yet-nightmarish psychedelic music—similar to labelmates Crust and Coffey's band, Butthole Surfers. Drummer Frank Garymartin and bassist Kirk Carr joined the band in 1990.

The Pain Teens broke up in 1995. Blood moved to New York City that year and began playing solo gigs on her ukulele doing 1920s tunes and original music, playing with guitarist Al Street and forming several groups, including The Moonlighters in 1998. The Moonlighters have released four CDs on their own label, ONLIEST Records, and their fifth CD Enchanted was released on WorldSound Records, a Seattle-based label, in July 2009. Ayers still resides in Houston, and has played with a number of other bands since, including Truth Decay and Walking Timebombs. He currently plays with Frog Hair. Garymartin briefly played with Helios Creed, and launched a hip-hop act under the name of Hundred. Kirk Carr died of cancer in May 2008.

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Peel seemed to have discovered the band in 1989 when he played tracks from their Case Histories album. He would play further material from the group on his shows and once met the singer, Bliss Blood, in 2000 in a record shop in New York City, where she gave him an album of her new band, The Moonlighters, a group which she formed after the Pain Teens split in 1995. Several tracks from the Moonlighters were played by Peel on his programmes. After Peel's death, it was later found out that he had three of the Pain Teens' albums in his Record Collection: P.

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Pain_Teens_-_New_Woman_(1989,_Noise_Rock_-_Industrial)

Pain Teens - New Woman (1989, Noise Rock - Industrial)

1989
1990
1991
1992
  • 23 May 1992: The Smell ('Death Row Eyes' 7") Sub Pop
  • 29 May 1992: Death Row Eyes (7") Sub Pop
  • 05 June 1992: 'The Smell (7 inch-B side of Death Row Eyes)' (Sub Pop)
  • 19 June 1992: The Poured Out Of Blood (album - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
  • 20 June 1992: Shallow Hole (album - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
  • 26 June 1992: 'God Told Me (LP-Stimulation Festival)' (Trance Syndicate)
  • 28 June 1992 (BFBS): Living Hell (CD - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
1993
1995
2000

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