Wow I love this song so much. It almost made my 366 favorites of all time (see 2016 rev pancakes entrees for those). The 0:38 intro begs multiple rewinds, start again start again. It's a surf punk moment for the ages.
Things Your Mother Never Told You threads the needle between punk and new wave. It is an intense psychological trip through some of the messed up aspects of life that you had to find out for yourself. Relationships, drugs, love, marriage, loneliness, cruelty...no one is really prepared to deal with this stuff.
The verses start up with a bang, then move into slower sections of picked guitar and plunky bass. They are followed by couplet bridges that lead into the jackhammer guitar riff and sneering vocals of the chorus.
Following the third chorus, the music runs a coda through the intro before dissolving into a nightmare that ends with a guitar making a feedback noise that sounds like "mom".
Wayne (now Jayne) County was rock's first openly transgender singer. She was an influence on Bowie, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed, among others. She moved from New York to England in 1977 and formed Wayne County and the Electric Chairs.
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