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ghetto girl
12+ albums
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In 1985, ghetto girl began recording ‘songs’ on a 4-track cassette recorder she had bought, using her $39 Casio portable keyboard, a cheap-ass Radio Shack reverb box, a $5.00 microphone, and any other found objects that made sound. During that period, she was much more interested in experimenting with sounds rather than songwriting. Influenced more by Laurie Anderson and Chris & Cosey than by the Beach Boys and the Beatles, she created sonic collages into which she mixed her own acid-damaged poetry as well as found sounds and the marijuana-stimulated ad lib ramblings of her friends. One of her most frequent early collaborators, her friend Mairi Gl’amour came up with the name ghetto girl (no caps, please), which evolved from one of their favorite phrases from that period, “get it, girl!” (from whence came g.i.g. entertainment international). For the next few years, ghetto girl evolved as an artistic entity consisting of herself and anyone else who would let her commit his or her talents to tape. And a definite ghetto girl aesthetic emerged as well: quick and crude, but with all the magic and fleeting brilliance of first takes, twangy out-of-tune guitars laid over a poppers disco beat, and a peculiar lyrical style that paid little attention to gender pronouns or shifts in person. In her willful ignorance of traditional song structure, ghetto girl truly did create some amazingly trippy “music for stoned queers” as she then characterized her music. The “second era” in ghetto gir
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THE Best OF 2008 1st Half
all alone in her world - ghetto girl 1989 - 1994
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GAG
she's not at home in the ghetto
all alone in her world: ghetto girl 1989 - 1994
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Not a Baby Anymore: Stereo Masters #1
out of one body and into another
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Dressing Up As Therapy: Stereo Masters #2
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Suburban Boy
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all alone in her world- ghetto girl 1989 - 1994
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Acid Trax
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NINE SINGLES Box Set - disc 2