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Social Climbers was involved in the downtown New York City no wave scene along with DNA, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Teenage+Jesus%22">Teenage Jesus</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0Q3CpdEaWZuOi3lLYH9piU">the Contortions</a>, but they were still one of the lesser-known art rock bands of the ‘80s. Singer/guitarist Mark Bingham moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Manhattan in the mid-'70s and started playing guitar in various ensembles with <a href="spotify:artist:0eiyrB0ET8AbrR5s6rrLJr">Glenn Branca</a> (who would later form <a href="spotify:artist:1O3MQVAkY13BpomkVr6z7d">Theoretical Girls</a>). Bingham met bassist Jean Seton Shaw, and organist Don Connette (A. Leroy) and they formed a trio called Social Climbers in 1979. The music they made was agitated post-punk with aspects of disco funk, held together by weird lyrics and mechanical rhythms made out of a backbeat from a Korg drum machine. Their career was short-lived, and by 1982 the members of Social Climbers went their separate ways. In 2011, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Drag+City%22">Drag City</a> reissued their one and only album, a self-titled record originally available as three 7” singles, on CD with two bonus tracks. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi
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