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Suicide was an American electropunk and proto-punk musical duo, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They were an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate argues that Suicide "would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002 Read more on Last.fm
imagine that you have two friends. these guys are assholes and dangerous. one day they fell a telephone pole. one guy does a lou reed impression while the other one pees on the power lines. of course they go to a rubber room. after three years of cooking they decide have a talent show to convince the administrators that they are fit for society. they reason whatever got them in could get them out. this album is the set of songs they would play. first they show demonstrate how to court a nice girl. next they act out having a day job. act 3 has them in love (selling their own success from act 1). act 5 is a retrospective of their past behavior, showing they,like, really get it. act 12 is a victory dance. act 13 is them being led back to their rooms.
if you needed more proof that the boldest steps in music come from non-musicians, here you go.