Seemingly inspired by both The New York Dolls and Jabbers-era G.G. Allin, New York City’s Wayne County & The Electric Chairs played trashy rock ‘n’ roll crammed through a punk filter as their gender-bending frontman spewed hilariously vulgar lyrics that both celebrated and made fun of being flamboyantly gay. Though they purportedly formed in 1974, their eponymous debut album didn’t surface until 1978. The Electric Chairs opens with the '50s spoof “Eddie & Sheena” before the driving “Bad in Bed” better sets the tone with hard-swinging guitars and Wayne County’s androgynous vocals spitting out emasculating insults. “Out of Control” sounds like smarmy, Kim Fowley–influenced pulp-punk, while “Max’s Kansas City” pays homage to the legendary nightclub and the mid-'70s punk scene while namedropping the Dolls, Patti Smith, The Ramones, and The Heartbreakers (among others). Following a few more albums, Wayne would travel to Europe and return from Berlin as transgender rocker Jayne County, who inspired the musical and movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch.