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- Date Released: October 10, 2002
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Sonic Youth Recordings - Smells Like Records / Revolver
An exhilarating live band at the peak of their powers
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We Say...
In 1986, Sonic Youth was one of the most exhilarating live bands you could see. Their show was an electric firestorm, with all the lunging, flailing and hammering of a massacre in a Hollywood mansion, an intoxicating, ecstatic violence imbued with the same splattering creative force of the neo-expressionist art then ruling the band's native downtown Manhattan.
Originally a fan-club-only release, this recording documents the dawn of Sonic Youth's intense three-year peak — an April 12, 1986, show at the Continental Club in Austin, TX, when the band debuted songs from their epochal SST debut, EVOL. By now SY were both subverting and following rock and pop conventions, veering into a more song-like direction while making almost raga-like music full of cataclysmic dissonance and out-and-out noise. It's remarkably well recorded for mid-'80s indie-rock and while classics like "Starpower" and a cyclonic "Expressway to Yr Skull" are more visceral than the recorded versions, it's early material like "Kill Yr. Idols" and "World Looks Red" that really explodes with the fearsome chaos that marked the band's exhilarating wild years. -
They Say...
Released by Sonic Youth through their fan club, this official bootleg functions as a wonderful document of the band's mid-'80s era just as they were beginning their slow rise to prominence in the underground rock scene. The featured show occurred on April 12, 1986, at the Continental Club in Austin, TX, where the band first debuted the songs from their EVOL album. The stronger songs from EVOL such as "Tom Violence," "Expressway," "Shadow of a Doubt," and "Starpower" show up here in beautiful fashion, making this live recording a wonderful supplement to the studio album. Since Sonic Youth's studio albums all tend to house a strange tone totally unique to that particular album, these raw performances have a much different feel from the original versions. Furthermore, the band plays a few of their older classics such as "Kill Yr. Idols" and "World Looks Red." Though you might finish this record hungry for more, its 11 songs stand as arguably the best artifact from the band's mid-'80s in terms of sound quality, surpassing Hold That Tiger, another well-circulated live album from the band's following tour in 1987.
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| 01. |  |
Tom Violence |
5:38 |
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| 02. | |
Shadow of a Doubt |
3:38 |
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| 03. | |
Star Power |
4:58 |
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| 04. | |
Secret Girls |
4:27 |
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| 05. | |
Death to Our Friends |
4:05 |
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| 06. | |
Green Light |
3:26 |
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| 07. | |
Kill Yr Idols |
3:13 |
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| 08. | |
Ghost Bitch |
6:06 |
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| 09. | |
Expressway to Yr. Skull |
8:10 |
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| 10. | |
World Looks Red |
2:49 |
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| 11. | |
Confusion (Indeed) |
2:21 |
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11 Total Tracks, 48:51 Total Length
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