Lizzie Borden: Headbanger?
Founded in L.A. in 1983, theatrical glam-metal band Lizzy (with a Y) Borden put out its first EP the next year, the pointedly-named Give ‘Em the Axe.” They have several albums to the Borden name, most recently 2018 s My Midnight Things. They seem to have been lumped in with ‘80s hair-metal, but Lizzy Borden is more of a shock-rock band that revels in horror tropes, with songs like “Love You to Pieces,” “Bloody Tears,” “Catch Your Death” and “Lovin’ You is Murder.” Lizzy Borden is still touring today.
‘Miss Lizzie B was a problem kinda kid’
They’re not the only ones to pay tribute to Lizzie in song. In 1961, folk group the Chad Mitchell Trio released the novelty song “Lizzie Borden” as a single and on the album “Mighty Day on Campus,” telling their version of the story with wicked wordplay and black humor. “You can’t chop your papa up in Massachusetts,” they sing, “you know how nei
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