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Leisure Class

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Alternative and Rock

Formed in Detroit in 1977 as Mr. Unique & the Leisure Suits, the band got their start as the opening act for The Mumps (featuring Lance Loud) and local favorites like Flirt and Destroy All Monsters. Their first release, the four-song EP, Mr. Unique and the Leisure Class (1983), received generally favorable, though puzzled, reviews from Ira Robbins in Trouser Press, and Dennis Loren in the Metro Times, who found "something to offend everyone." The band moved to New York, making their debut at CBGB in 1984, and evolved into Leisure Class, launching a musical and visual assault featuring, at various times, legendary writer Herbert Huncke, a custom-built two-story prison, impaled goat's heads, and Abraham Lincoln. In 2004, their (relatively) complete studio recordings were released in a limited edition double CD compilation, Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994. In 2005, the band was profiled on the National Public Radio show, Day to Day ("The Rise, Fall and Reunion of the Leisure Class"). Lead singer Dimitri Mugianis is the subject of the 2009 documentary film, I'm Dangerous With Love.

     
Popular Tracks   
I Love You More on Parents Night at the Leper Colony by Leisure Class
Young Gifted And White on Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 by Leisure Class
Green Hornet on Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 by Leisure Class
Thing Called Truth on Parents Night at the Leper Colony by Leisure Class
Zac on Parents Night at the Leper Colony by Leisure Class
Jesus on Parents Night at the Leper Colony by Leisure Class
Mr. Unique on Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 by Leisure Class
Trifle Boogie on Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 by Leisure Class
Punish Me on Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 by Leisure Class
Joy on Parents Night at the Leper Colony by Leisure Class

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
Parents Night At The Leper ColonyLeisure Class2010Album
Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994Leisure Class2004Compil.
Mr. Unique And The Leisure ClassLeisure Class1983Album
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