The musix is late 70s, early 80s, New York (Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club) Punk Rock, and according to Billboard, "It all sounds a bit decadent but it's great."

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Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead: Single
Artist: MARILYN

âDefinitely the title of the week!â
SOUNDS

âDevastating.â
NEW MUSIC EXPRESS

âA classic single, Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead, a song unmatched for sheer, self-conscious decadence⦠Baudelaire may have met his match in Marilyn.â
EAST VILLAGE EYE

"MARILYN, house chanteuse of the Mudd Club, has a cute singleâ¦.The Sex side is a sharp tongue-in-hollow--cheek-heavy-metal skulkâ¦the B-side is also quite charming. Marilyn solves the 1966 Rolling Stones problem with a great back-up chorus of eleven year old girls.
Glenn OâBrien, INTERVIEW

âMarilyn first sang Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead at the Mudd Clubâs Rock ânâ Roll Funeral for Jimi, Janis, Keith, Mama, Jim, and Marc in 1979. Steve Maas called her the next day and asked her to be the Mudd Clubâs exclusive performer. âI said yes,â she says, and went on to ride the Mudd Clubâs âcrest of instant fame.â She rode the stage for a couple of years, performing her songs in a crazed, lunatic style, her blond hair wildly teased and often glowing. She jumped, gyrated, slithered, bent, crouched and gesticulated to the deafening strains of a prerecorded band.â
Stephen Saban, SOHO NEWS

"â¦Marilyn has that combination that can't miss. If you see her before youâve heard her, youâre dying to find out what she sounds like. If you hear her before youâve seen her, youâre dying to find out what she looks like. You could call that a double--barreled mystique. Sex opens with a few bars from Chopinâs funeral dirge and goes into a hauntingly jaded tune conjuring eroticism and extinctionâ¦.The sleeve has a high contrast photo of Marilyn looking like nothing so much as the Angel of Death. When the Grim Reaper comes I hope she looks like her. These two tunes from [what Mudd Club owner Steve Maas calls] her 'songs of decadence and morality' series prove she's a major talent as well as a major personality."
EAST VILLAGE EYE

âA silver New Wave Peter Pan.â
TOPMAN

"TRIP INTO THE TONAL UNKNOWN: At 1 a.m. at the Mudd Club, a performance by the 5â9â icy platinum vision of MARILYN includes everybody's fave Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead. Now, this is real New York."
SOHO NEWS

"â¦.She signs off with a devastating 'Sex means nothing when you're dead, DOLLING! which is almost worth sitting through the whole song for. Take her home for tea with your mum."
NEW MUSIC EXPRESS

Marilyn, live from New York City, moving to the beat of Parisâ undergroundâ¦.Toward midnight in the Marais, Marilyn bursts onto the tiny stage of the Helium bar in a black mini-dress and fingerless, elbow-length gloves, and gyrates to her cult classic, Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Deadâ¦.Yet more than her music, lyrics, or dancing, it is a boundless New York energy that distinguishes Marilyn. As she puts it in So Disgraceful: âIâll take my life with all its strife. I want the shocks, knock off my socks, I sold my soul to rock ânâroll!â
Passion, The Magazine of Paris

PUNKS MOURN ROCK DEATHS
A black plastic wreath hangs on the glass-paneled door. Inside, a disheveled woman in a pale pink negli-gee is sprawled on a white bed. On her cluttered night table are a loaf of Wonder Bread and a bottle of Southern Comfort.
On the floor is a dummy of a woman shackled with a ball and chain. A rainbow of cheap bangles en-circles her arm, meeting a hypodermic needle. Dollar bills and votive candles sur-round the corpse. Above the entrance to the room, a white card reads: JANIS JOPLlN, DIED OCT. 4, 1970âShrine by Valerie.
The scene was the Mudd Club, the event a two-day rock-'n'-roIl funeral commemorating the untimely deaths of such youthful heroes as Janis, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Elvis Pres-ley, and Sid Vicious. The service featured a hearse, pallbearers, coffin, organ music, flowers, eulogies, hymns, and other, less than Episcopalian, enter-tainments.
This "ultimate funeral," held last week, exposed the avant-garde/punk audience to one titillating morbidity after another. Following rock 'n' roll's gray coffin in from the street, the mourn-ers moved inside to hear Andy Warhol's superstar Viva, Taylor Mead, poet--playwright Gary Indiana, and transvestite performer Jackie Curtis deliver eulo-gies and tributes for the de-parted souls, whom Indiana described as "the famed, the defamed, the defiled, the deadâdead from drugs, dead from ordering cole slaw. . . ."
Punk singer Marilyn, cast as the Angel of Death and armed with a huge hourglass, sang her ir-refutable lyric Sex means nothing when you're dead.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE



REVIEWS:
So Disgraceful: EP
Artist: MARILYN & THE MOVIE STARS

âIt all sounds a bit decadent, but itâs great!â
BILLBOARD, Album Pick of the Week


âOutstanding!â¦.Beg, borrow, or steal this record!
â¦This band dazzles and numbs the senses at the same time. It's sensuality complete. Marilyn's absolutely the best dancer in New York and she knows it and she shows it, performing frenzied gyrations that defy gravity, all the while singing, I'm gonna make you scream, I'm gonna make you dream, I'm gonna drive you wild, I'm gonna be your child, I'm gonna make you yell, I'm gonna give you hell!
Romper Room is the appropriate title of a tune that catalogs the affected man-nerisms and personalities that make up the NYC underground. She's part of it and laughing at it at the same time.â
EAST VILLAGE EYE


âSome very funny and weirdly original dance musicâ¦a surprisingly tasty electrodance groove with a flesh-and-blood rhythm section.â
TROUSER PRESS

âCommand performances of So Disgraceful and Luftpause are called for on the dance floor.â
AQUARIAN

âMarilyn, live from New York City, moving to the beat of Parisâ undergroundâ¦.
Toward midnight in the Marais, Marilyn bursts onto the tiny stage of the Helium bar in a black mini-dress and fingerless, elbow-length gloves, and gyrates to her cult classic, Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Deadâ¦.
Yet more than her music, lyrics, or dancing, it is a boundless New York energy that distinguishes Marilyn. As she puts it in So Disgraceful: Iâll take my life with all its strife. I want the shocks, knock off my socks, I sold my soul to rock ânâ roll!â
PASSION, The Magazine of Paris

âI do have fun sometimes. I canât help myself. There I stand in this or that venue being characteristically cynical, judgmental, and/or just plain untoward, when suddenly, without warning, I find Iâm enjoying myself. I donât let on, though â I keep my face expressionless. I do, after all, have a reputation to preserve. (Marilyn, however, somehow saw though the guise long ago when she wrote âand crimson Stephen Saban whoâs not really all that boredâ in her song Romper Room. Best song on the disc, I say in all humility.)â
Stephen Saban, SOHO NEWS


BIO:

Marilyn is one of the underground stars of the fabled Mudd Club. The night after the Rock ânâ Roll Funeral Ball, she became the only act featured there regularly when Steve Maas, the clubâs brilliant owner, offered her an enormous sum to appear exclusively at the Mudd. At that funereal gala, Marilyn appeared in black silhouette with a Miss America banner draped across her body. Only instead of the usual beauty queen drivel, Marilynâs banner said Death. Armed with a two-foot hourglass, she sang Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead. Evidently, Steve liked what he saw.

Before striking out on her own, Marilyn had been the lead singer of Kongress, a band formed by Otto von Ruggins and Von LMO, who had already left to form his own band when Marilyn arrived.

Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead, Marilynâs first single, became an instant cult classic when it was released in 1980. Then came the EP So Disgraceful, released by Marilyn & the Movie Stars in 1982, which charted on Billboard. âIt all sounds a bit decadent but itâs great,â is what Billboard had to say about So Disgraceful. Marilyn & the Movie Stars featured Webster Smith on synthesizers, drummer Hari Viderci, who also played for the Sickfu*ks, and bassist Tommy Victor, who went on to form Prong.

She played the lead in Mark Kehoeâs 1982 film, Destroy All Blondes. Marilyn also turned her mordant wit to writingâabout subatomic particles, outer space, high-risk adventure, and the likeâfor New York newspapers and magazines, which came as a bit of a surprise to those who figured this blonde nightclubber had nothing between the ears.

Marilyn then went to Paris to perform and spent the next several years appearing in France, Switzerland, and Italy. She returned to New York to pursue her writing. Along with working for the rights of pedestrians and cyclists in New York, sheâs active in the civil rights movement for Irelandâs men, women, and children still under the thumb of the British invaders who have oppressed that country for the last 800 years.

In 2002, Marilyn appeared in Ned Amblerâs movie Illusions of Broadway, singing her incomparable I Survived. (No relation to the Gloria Gaynor song). She stars in Ned Amblerâs movie Astin Valentinewhich opened March 2, 2004 at Film Anthology Archives in New York City.

Her recently released compilation CD, Sex Means Nothing When Youâre Dead, has all the original versions of the songs she recorded in the early 80s.

For more info, plus video and photos, visit her website: www.MarilynNYC.com