Song of the Day 11/7: Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, “Out of Control”

In honor of Trump’s meltdown on the stand in his fraud trial yesterday.

Wayne County, who became Jayne County more than 40 years ago, was involved with Andy Warhol in the New York avant-garde scene and formed a proto-punk band in the early ’70s that influenced David Bowie and the glam rock trend. Her penchant for scatological and sexual material – her best-known song is titled “(If You Don’t Wanna Fuck Me, Baby) Fuck Off!!” – precluded commercial success, even after she moved to London and recruited a new band she dubbed the Electric Chairs. This song was on their first LP, “Electric Chair 1977.” They released two more, the last in 1979, before disbanding while County underwent gender reassignment surgery. None of their albums was ever released in the U.S.