Smart Bar

At the time of this show, Sonic Youth's second LPBad Moon Risinghad been out a few months. Explicitly designed as a fresh break for the band Moore and Lee Ranaldo devised guitar tunings which made much of their previous material unplayable it forms nearly all of the set's first half. Death Valley 69, perhaps their first crack at making beat-poet capital from pop culture mythology (see later songs like Hey Joni and Tunic), has a massive-sounding guitar intro that, for those present, may well have felt like the room was being sucked into a giant plughole. Gordon, subbing for LP-version guest Lydia Lunch, yowls with some menace. - Drowned In Sound

ITEM DETAILS:

Artist: Sonic Youth
Title: Smart Bar - Chicago 1985
Cat#:GOO016
Year: 1985 (2012)
Format: LP + CD

Track List:

1. Hallowe'en
2. Death Valley 69
3. Intro/Brave Me Run (In My family)
4. I Love Her All The Time
5. Ghost Bitch
6. I'm Insane
7. Kat 'n' Hat
8. Brother James
9. Kill Yr Idols
10. Secret Girls
11. Flower
12. The Burning Spear
13. Expressway To Yr Skull
14. Making The Nature Scene