
Glenn Branca – Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet) Joy Division – Atmosphere The Fall – Totally Wired A veteran of New York No Wave band Theoretical Girls, Glenn Branca wanted to merge classical music with rock. Rather than taking the ELO route and laying strings over Beethoven-inspired prog rock, he took ten guitarists, including Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore (who'd go on to form Sonic Youth) plus assorted other musicians, and formed a kind of orchestra. "Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar" was [...]