Late 70s/early 80s Dallas rockers, the Nervebreakers. I have an issue of Ugly Things around here that has a great band retrospective but I couldn’t find it today. So, no interesting anecdotes.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [1980]
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The Nervebreakers are a mid 70s-early 80s Texas punk band considered by many to be the first of their kind in the Southwest. Opening the first Dallas shows for the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash.
Releasing an EP and 2 singles on Wild Child Records in the late 70s including “My Girlfriend is a Rock”, a hit in San Francisco, Sacramento and Boston and later covered by the Angry Samoans among others. Backing up Texas psych legend Roky Erickson for a series of shows resulting in the Roky Erickson and the Nervebreakers Live at the Palladium in 1979 album released by French label New Rose Records. A full length album We Want Everything was recorded in 1980 shortly before the Nervebreakers‘ initial breakup, and eventually released over a decade later on vinyl by Ryan Richardson’s Existential Vacuum Records — Get Hip Records
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My Girlfriend Is A Rock [1980]
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My girlfriend is a rock
My girlfriend is a rock
I made her out of solid stone
So I'd never be alone
My girlfriend is a rock
We walk around the block
She walks good for a rock
All the neighbors stop and stare
I guess cause she ain't got no hair
But that's okay for a rock
Everybody asks me how she is in bed
Does she feel cold
Does she feel dead
I just tell 'em that she's all right for me
But she is a little bit heavy
My girlfriend is a rock
My girlfriend is a rock
I used to have one made of wood
But she wasn't very good
I like 'em made of rock
We like to sit and talk
She talks good for a rock
All the neighbors stop and stare
Can't understand what she's sayin' there
They don't understand rock
Yeah you oughta see her in the swimming pool
She swims pretty good as a general rule
But she doesn't swim, no, quite as good
As a girl made out of wood
My girlfriend is a rock
She looks like a piece of chalk
Or maybe alabaster
I guess you'll have to ask her
She really likes to pogo with her feet
She dances pretty good for a piece of concrete
What the heck, she's just a rock
My girlfriend is a rock
You know it's only rock
It's only only rock
It's only rock rock
My girlfriend is a rock
They don't understand rock
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Hijack The Radio [1979]
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Stones cover. Nervebreakers’ third single, from 1981.
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I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys [1981]
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