Lydia Lunch - This Side of Nowhere

One of my favorite songs. "This Side of Nowhere" by Lydia Lunch, from the album "13.13". Of the "No Wave" genre.
Dead still the hour in the middle of the day
Dead still the horror in the middle of the day
Pulling at your collar, pulling at your hair
You've got to find a way to get out of there
What do you do when your legs won't run
When you want to scream
but you can't find your tongue
Middle of nowhere, middle of the night
You've got to find a way to get out of there
Take it from strangers and see what you get
What do you want...well I bet that you get it
Ride past the highway hiding forever
I'm sleeping on this side of going nowhere
Slow down the clock in the middle of the night
Close off the world in the middle of the night
Pitch black murder in the dead of the night
You've got to find a way to get out of there

[@pranksterj0009]

13.13 really feels like Lunch's best to me. Transitional no wave into goth rock was just so seamlessly done on this record.

[@Mytelevisionispresident]

Totally. I feel like this album is so neglected and it's absolute perfection.

[@dannyfernandez1851]

This is such a hidden fucking gem

[@stevenroby1667]

listened to this album on home copy cassette while walking around downtown Detroit during major building deconstruction at 3 in the morning high as hell if this wasn't perfect background for a dark industrial decaying city great memories

[@xemnasvii]

the world's collapse is an orgasm of nature

[@Rep0007]

lol... alrighty then

[@user-tk4gr9zo7t]

This would be perfect for a neo western goth punk movie. Perhaps set in the 80s, during or around Halloween.

[@Rep0007]

So sullen black haired women with eyeliner and cowboy hats... exploring the LA underground at 3 AM? Okay we'll get Martin Scorsese to direct and produce.

[@Beerlejuice]

It should star Steve Buscemi!!!

[@valentinesdate9461]

William dafoe

[@JJONNYREPP]

Lydia Lunch - This Side of Nowhere 27.2.23 2223pm time for your lydia to star in a road movie, then? i like that notion - b+w film - not digitally shot - with her crossing some cuddy state line due to her murdering someone and meeting a whole heap of oddball freaks as she gives the law and the revenge squad sent out to git her the slip etc etc etc... you know how such things go - you should write the synopsis.

[@Beerlejuice]

​@@JJONNYREPP Maybe I will

[@birdsofafeatherR]

this is one of the finest punk albums ever made. or "no wave" or whatever you want to call it.. lydia and the nyc scene paved the way for.. lets just say alot. thanks for posting, im sorry that people are offended but if they are.. why are they listening to it?

[@ralphhilton-bc9yf]

This album is incredible

[@mocatmon]

13.13 is her finest album.

[@thisisnotclever]

Amazing album. Nothing more to say.

[@liquidcyberpunk]

wow,they dont make music like this anymore >__

[@chipironhomemulti-services5165]

oh my, i love it , perfectly dark...beautyfull

[@spike3953]

so good

[@mattnorman8897]

Beautiful!!

[@edwardsixx1086]

Original goth girl

[@STdoubleDs]

awesome song thanks for posting :)

[@SkeeterNYC]

Word! Probs because this was her best band since Teenage Jesus.

[@adrianlee3497]

Courtney Love, Patti Smith, Joan Jett and a few others "took a page" from Lydia's book...and some I don't even think realize it.

[@ouroboro266]

lol no

[@seriousbismuth2173]

@@ouroboro266 lol yes..😐

[@ouroboro266]

@@seriousbismuth2173 no

[@peterruark645]

Pretty sure Patti came first. Lydia just took it further.

[@RominaLux]

13.13 is awesome

[@joecvetetic5675]

I told nice guys at the deli to CK out 13 13..it still packs a punch .and at 60.. still smoking!!

[@matteoravazzolo3019]

Dead still the hour in the middle of the day Dead still the horror in the middle of the day Pulling at your collar, pulling at your hair You've got to find a way to get out of there What do you do when your legs won't run When you want to scream but you can't find your tongue Middle of nowhere, middle of the night You've got to find a way to get out of there Take it from strangers and see what you get What do you want...well I bet that you get it Ride past the highway hiding forever I'm sleeping on this side of going nowhere Slow down the clock in the middle of the night Close off the world in the middle of the night Pitch black murder in the dead of the night You've got to find a way to get out of there

[@joeyrider]

love 13.13

[@left4deadlover123]

There's no such thing as proper lyrics. Music is art, art is expression. Nothing has to be "right"

[@MagosYCONJUROS]

that´s right

[@vitordarksider]

Maybe with the lyrics, but with the instruments....

[@dia.6213]

Lydia Lunch and The Dining Room of Deadbate

[@lucianofigueiredo4877]

Muito sinistro😆😆😆

[@dennisrockbottomskelly7948]

SHE'S not a 'PUNK'....bUT SHE'S THE 'pUNKIEST' PERSON i HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED.. aMazINg ! RB/etcetcetc

[@baklava24]

just what i was thinkin

[@thunder_heads]

When was this recorded

[@captainsmokey4068]

1981

[@left4deadlover123]

Oh right! I misread that. Apologies "waynehugstress".

[@Rankinbacca]

OK, out of sight.... all night long....

[@Zeropadd]

😎

[@will548]

I'm guessing that wayne means proper in the English way, just meaning good.

[@concalo]

her music makes me want to smoke some ****.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Cloves? Menthols?

[@jamesmusings7169]

mackerel?

[@lamingojohnsoniv5150]

e.e Who let her do vocals?

[@crux6331]

+LaMingo Johnson i like the riffs but im not really feelin her voice, like nails on chalkboard.

[@jamescrock2213]

you'll come back

[@QuadMochaMatti]

LaMingo Duringo Badabingo Flamingo.

[@Mytelevisionispresident]

Queen of Siam is overrated

[@Brewzerr]

Yeah, because it was such a huge top 40 smash hit album. Who’s doing all this ‘rating’ anyway?

[@robleahy5759]

Now she is an academic receiving federal funding. And no, heroin is not a preservative.

[@concalo]

loool you don't have much musical culture don't you?