"J stands for juvenile, D stands for delinquent, I'm a little JD" ... The JD's of the 50s and 60s are like cult heroes now, but the JD's of today are the scum of society meant to be annihilated. The magic of James Dean, Marlon Brando and West Side Story's gone forever.
1. Ballad of a juvenile delinquent : Phil Johns
Youth of the streets... savage beatings, knives and zip-guns and slum-style sex learned in pool rooms and cheap hotels...
2. Juvenile delinquent: Ronnie Allen
...youth of the slums... kids with ducktail hairdos and tight pants who live on marijuana and the big H and glory in viciousness...
3. Juvenile delinquent: TV Slim
...youth on the rampage... kids hopped up on dope and the lust for violence, taught how to kill, rape, steal and destroy...
4. Teenage riot: Portuguese Joe
...once the seed of insubordination is sown, a child is doomed to lead a life of drug abuse, car theft, unnatural sex acts and the enjoyment of loud, raucous, brain-destroying rock 'n' roll music ...
5. Chickie run: Homer Dennison Jr.
These above words come from official US investigations relating the increase of JD crimes to rock 'n' roll music. "Under the guise of innocent music, this throbbing, animalistic, anti-social, violent sound soon takes over a young mind and never lets go its killing force". Is this for real???
6. Curfew: Steve Carl & the Jags
If they really think that a curfew would help to keep kids in line, they are so wrong again. It means they still don't understand kids. Nothing ever changes.
7. Gangwar: Gene Maltais
I end this list of 50s tunes with one of the post powerful and violent proofs of JD heroism: a gangwar! See movies like The Warriors
8. Doin' time for being young: James Intveld
Or see Cry-Baby by director John Waters and watch Johnny Depp lip-syncing James Intveld in a Jailhouse Rock pastiche...
9. Please, Mr.Jailer: Rachel Sweet
... and in the meantime Amy Locane is singing outside the jail to free her JD boyfriend. Traci Lords is standing next to her together with the rest of the high school hellcats...
10. High school hellcats: The Cramps
Yep, Cry-baby is still my fave movie and it's still a mystery why the Cramps weren't featured in the movie score. Their High School Hellcats is the best post-50s JD tune ever. It's also the name of a brilliant movie from 1958.