Harry Crews was a short-lived hardcore

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 / Thrash

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 / No Wave

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 band made up of Lydia Lunch

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 (guitar), Kim Gordon

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 (bass) and Sadie Mae (drums). Their one album, Naked in Garden Hills, released in 1989, was a compilation of live recordings at clubs in London, UK and Austria. The album was named after a novel by the author Harry Crews

Harry Crews

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, and songs such as Car, The Knockout Artist and The Gospel Singer were also named after Crews' novels. The song Bringing Me Down is introduced as a song about a snake festival, a subject Crews wrote about in the novel A Feast of Snakes. The band also performed Sonic Youth

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's She's In A Bad Mood and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks' Orphans.