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Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
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From: rob@msc.cornell.edu
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Subject: Latest Sonic Youth discography [VERY LONG, PART 1]
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Message-ID: <1992Dec15.140720.21991@msc.cornell.edu>
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Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:07:20 GMT
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[This file contains both parts, concatenated.]
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Sonic Youth Discography, last updated 12/14/92
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Copyright 1992 by Rob Vaughn <rob@msc.cornell.edu>
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Any corrections, additions, or suggestions to the above address would be
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appreciated. There are several pieces mentioned at the end that I could
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use additional information on before adding them to the "discography
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proper". Bonus points for bootleg information, vinyl or CD only please.
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Hats off to Dave Datta for the discography archives. Thanks go out to the
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Sonic Crew for their comments, contributions, and support, in alphabetical
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order:
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Kurt Adam, Jens Alfke, Ludvig Borgne, Andy Bowser, Chaka, Stefano DiMera,
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Ben Drucker, John Exby, Michael G. Goldsman, John Haas, Eugene Hopstetter,
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Joshua Houk, Sam Hughes, Jim Kan, Thomas J. Lee, Gilles Lesventes,
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Joe Mahoney, Steve Norton, Aaron Oppenheimer, Paul Rank, Daniel Rench,
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Marten Sahlen, Martin Schmeil, Beth Ann Schaefer, Christine Sievanen,
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Richard Shapiro, Eric Sinclair, Wilson Smith, Robert Steinberger,
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Volker Stewart, Seth Tisue, Vinicius Vasconcellos, Johannes Waldmann, & woj
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"I'm kinda glad I was able to come out of one successful band and sort of
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get into another one. It kind of established me as... I don't know...
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I feel weird in a way because I totally, like, laid the groundwork for two
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bands and now I'm totally fucking broke."
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-- Bob Bert (and his ego), drummer for Pussy Galore
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Lineup
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Bass: Kim Gordon
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Guitar: Thurston Moore
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Guitar: Lee Ranaldo
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Drums: Richard Edson (1982),
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Jim Sclavunos (1983),
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Bob Bert (1983-85),
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Steve Shelley (1986-present).
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Current Info
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DGC will be re-releasing older Youth material from _Confusion is Sex_
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up to _Daydream Nation_, as well as Ciccone Youth material throughout
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1993. A *complete* discography (much better than this one) by Sonic
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insider and buddy Epic Soundtracks will be printed in an upcoming Sonic
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Death Fan Club letter, so join before this gets published or miss out
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forever. I am hoping to get permission to glean material from it to
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add to this.
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"[Sonic-Youth] was the best record that anyone from the New York scene
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had done at that point... it was so fuckin' great..." -- Glenn Branca
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Releases
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"Sonic-Youth"
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1982 - 12" EP/CS on Neutral (Neutral 001)
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1982 - 12" EP/CS on Zensor (ND 01)
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1987 - 12" EP/CS/CD reissued on SST (SST097)
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Songs: I Don't Want To Push It, The Good And The Bad, The Burning Spear,
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I Dreamed I Dream, She Is Not Alone
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Notes: Etched on SST version side one - "We love you dinasour" [sic], and
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on side two - "SST's gotta lotta nerve" [sic]. On the cassette
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version only, side one is all five of the songs and side two is the
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same but recorded backwards. There are no etchings on the Zensor
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release.
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"Confusion is Sex"
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1983 - LP/CS on Neutral (Neutral Nine)
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1983 - LP/CS on Zensor (???)
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1987 - LP/CS/CD reissued on SST (SST096)
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Songs: (She's In A) Bad Mood, Protect Me You, Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your
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Dog, Shaking Hell, Inhuman, The World Looks Red, Confusion Is Next,
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Making The Nature Scene, Lee Is Free
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Notes: Neutral was founded by Glenn Branca. Zensor was responsible for
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the European release. LGW was publishing company that screwed the
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Youth in the early days. Etched on SST version side one - "Birth of
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John Spencer or what?", and on side two - "Neutral, Zensor, LGW, -
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Rip us off you need to -".
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"Making The Nature Scene"
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1983 - 7" single on Forced Exposure (FE-001)
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Songs: Making The Nature Scene, I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick
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Notes: Giveaway from Forced Exposure magazine, now out of print. Rare,
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only 1246 copies were printed.
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"Kill Yr Idols"
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1983 - 12" EP on Zensor (Zensor 10)
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Songs: Protect Me You, Shaking Hell (1+2), Kill Yr. Idols, Brother James,
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Early American
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Notes: The first side is from "Confusion is Sex" and a live version of
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"Shaking Hell"; I think "Early American" isn't available elsewhere.
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"If you only have a certain amount of money to spend making a record, there's
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a sense of spontaneity, because you don't have time to go over everything
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until it's perfect. You can end up with a really bad record, too - it's
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more of a coin flip." -- Kim Gordon
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"Bad Moon Rising"
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1985 - LP/CS on Homestead Records (HMS016)
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1985 - LP/CS on Blast First (BFFP1)
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Songs: Intro, Brave Men Run, Society Is A Hole, I Love Her All The Time,
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Ghost Bitch, I'm Insane, Justice Is Might, Death Valley '69
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Notes: Etched on Blast First version side one - "It's a bird in the hand,
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it's a modern land - Sonics Rendsvouz" and on side two - "Prepare for
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the worst, hope for the best". There are no etchings on the Homestead
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version.
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198? - CD on Blast First (BFFP1CD)
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Notes: Blast First (founded by Paul Smith) became SY's European label at
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this point, and remain so at this time.
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Songs: Intro, Brave Men Run, Society Is A Hole, I Love Her All The Time,
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Ghost Bitch, I'm Insane, Justice Is Might, Death Valley '69,
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Satan is Boring, Flower, Halloween, Echo Canyon
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Notes: On the Blast First version of the CD "Halloween" is track 10, and
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"Flower" was set up as the lead-in groove (negative time) to that
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track. To play "Flower" you have to skip to "Satan..." and then
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jump to the end. Plus, for some reason, if you skip to track 10 and
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push play, some CD players hang and sit there forever doing nothing.
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"Death Valley '69"
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1984 - 7" single on Iridescence (I-12)
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Songs: Death Valley '69, Brave Men Run
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1985 - 12" EP on Homestead Records (HMS021)
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1985 - 12" EP on Blast First (BFFP2)
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Songs: Death Valley '69, I Dreamed I Dream, Inhuman, Brother James,
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Satan Is Boring
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Notes: Etched on side one of the Homestead version - "Raygun or Manson, its
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the same thing.", and on side two - "The S. Factor was ok on the day".
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"Flower/Halloween"
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1985 - 12" single on Homestead Records (HMS047)
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1985 - 12" single on Blast First (BFFP3)
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Songs: Flower, Halloween
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Notes: The BFFP-release is on clear orange vinyl. Etchings are side one -
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To Cody R and all sonic suns" and on side two "I am the boy who
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enjoys invisibility - James J." The SST version has "one edge
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ripped, the other slipped" on the side one label. Thurston is
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billed as "Thurston Sonic" on this release.
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"Flower"
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1985 - 7" single on Blast First (7BFFP3)
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Songs: Flower (Anti Fuckword Radio Edit), Rewolf (Special Natas Mix)
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Notes: Rewolf is a mix of "Flower" backwards (at very low fidelity).
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The anti-fuckword edit is very funny. It's just the song with a
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huge unpleasant beep over every "fuck", which is quite as obscene
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in its own way as the original song.
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"Halloween II"
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1985 - 12" single on Blast First (BFFP3)
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Songs: Halloween
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Notes: This is a one-sided 12" single with a Savage Pencil drawing pressed
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in the vinyl. Etched on the drawing side - "I am the boy that can
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enjoy invisibility" and on the music side - "Trick or treat master
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monster mix". Rare.
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"There is no greater example of freedom in modern music than Sonic Youth."
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-- Mike Watt, Minutemen and fIREHOSE
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"Evol"
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1986 - LP/CS on SST (SST059)
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1986 - LP/CS on Ecstatic Peace!
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1986 - LP/CS on Blast First (BFFP4)
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Songs: Tom Violence, Shadow Of A Doubt, Star Power, In The Kingdom #19,
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Green Light, Death To Our Friends, Secret Girls, Marilyn Moore,
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Expressway To Yr Skull
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1986? - CD on SST (SST CD 059)
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1986? - CD on Blast First (BFFP4)
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Songs: Tom Violence, Shadow Of A Doubt, Star Power, In The Kingdom #19,
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Green Light, Death To Our Friends, Secret Girls, Marilyn Moore,
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Expressway To Yr Skull, Bubblegum
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Notes: "Expressway To Yr Skull" is also listed as "Madonna, Sean, And Me"
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and "The Crucifixion of Sean Penn." The LP release has a locked
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groove. Etched in the SST version side one - "Destroy all record
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labels", and on side two - "Everything turns black to blue". The
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"Starpower"
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1986 - 12" EP/CS on SST (SST080)
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1986 - 7"/12" on Blast First (BFFP7)
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1990? - CD3/CD5 on SST (SST080CD)
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Songs: Starpower (edit), Bubblegum, Expressway To Yr Skull (edit)
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Notes: Etched on the Blast First 7" version side one - "We tweek, we squeak,
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we freak" and side two - "We're not homos, we rock (!!!)" but this is
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crossed out and followed by "We're rough, we're tough, we've had
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enough". The 12" single is only etched on the B side - "Ganymedean
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slime molos We're rough, we're tough, we've had enough".
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"Walls Have Ears"
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1986 - 2xLP on Rough Trade (NOT 1 (BUT 2))
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Songs: C.B., Green Love, Brother James, Kill Yr. Idols, "Mad" Groove,
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I Love Her All The Time, Expressway To Yr. Skull, Spahn Ranch Dance,
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Blood on Brighton Beach, Burning Spear, Death Valley '69, Speed Jamc,
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Ghost Bitch, World Looks Red, The Word (E.V.O.L.), Brother Jam-Z,
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Killed & Kicked Off
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Notes: Limited edition live bootleg that has been pressed at least three
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times. The first pressing is around $110, second is $75 and the
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third $35. From the Bad Moon Rising Tour. "C.B." is Claude Bessy
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of Catholic Discipline (from the film "The Decline Of Western
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Civilization Part One" - remember the line "Zere iz noh such t'ing
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as new weve... it is all zee product of some lame cunt's
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"Sister"
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1987 - LP/CS on SST (SST134)
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1987 - LP/CS on Blast First (BFFP20)
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Songs: Schizophrenia, (I Got A) Catholic Block, Beauty Lies In The Eye,
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Stereo Sanctity, Pipeline/Killtime, Tuff Gnarl, P.C.H., Hot Wire
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My Heart, Kotton Krown, White Kross
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198? - CD on SST (SST CD 134)
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198? - CD on Blast First (BFFP20CD)
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Songs: Schizophrenia, (I Got A) Catholic Block, Beauty Lies In The Eye,
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Stereo Sanctity, Pipeline/Killtime, Tuff Gnarl, P.C.H., Hot Wire
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My Heart, Kotton Krown, White Kross, Master Dik (The Non-Beatbox
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Version)
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Notes: The official word from Steve Shelley on the blacked-out pictures on
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the album is as follows with my comments in brackets:
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"The Avedon photo [of the girl in overalls] is blacked out because
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Avedon threatened to sue. The Disney photo was blacked out by
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confused or paranoid SST workers."
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Some copies of the LP were released with black stickers over the
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pictures which were easy to remove. Later pressings have the
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pictures blacked out on the original artwork, but there were still
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a few unaltered and unstickered copies released as recently as 1990.
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I don't believe that the CD was ever stickered, but both blacked-out
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and original versions exist. The European Blast First CD comes with
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the picture of the girl blacked out and the Disney card intact, as
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it should be.
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The song "Schizophrenia" is tenuously based an experience Phillip K.
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Dick had with a woman who wore a golden chain with a fish symbol on
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it. The lyrics "I can't get laid 'cause everyone is dead" and
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"Only apparently, real to irreal" from "Stereo Sanctity" is from
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PKD's _Valis_ novel.
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"Sister Interview Disc"
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1987 - LP on Blast First (CHAT1)
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Songs: The Sister Concept, Schizophrenia, Sonic Song Structure & Method,
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The Forthcoming Vids, Tuff Gnarl, Da Noo Yark Scene, Food Favorites,
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Sonic Signoff
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Notes: Interview with the band by Byron Coley of Forced Exposure magazine,
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May 14, 1987, in the Sonic Home on Eldridge St. New York City.
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Somewhat short, very silly, Steve says two words, maybe.
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"I Wanna Be Your Dog"
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1987 - 7" single bootleg
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Songs: I Wanna Be Your Dog (with Iggy Pop) b/w Sister
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Notes: Etched on side one - "DOG", and on side two - "Cat." The date listed
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for the show is Town & Country 4 June 87. Says "Uncut Uncensored RAW
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Made in U.K." in lower right of back cover (with a distorted pic of
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Thurston). Front cover is a Sonic Youth portrait by Sav X.
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"Master Dik"
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1987 - EP on SST (SST155)
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1987 - EP on Blast First (BFFP26)
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Songs: Master=Dik / Beat On The Brat / Under The Influence Of The Jesus
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And Mary Chain / Ringo/He's On Fire/Florida Oil Drums/WestMinster
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Chimes / Chinese Jam / Vibrato/Guitar Lick/Funky Fresh /
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Our Backyard / Traffick
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Notes: Etched on the SST version side one - "Ciccone death rock dream tinkle"
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and on side two - "Humpy pumpy psychoacoustik frenzy".
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"Thurston Moore? Is that your real name? Do you like have a mother and
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shit?" -- Gibby, Butthole Surfers
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"Sonic Death"
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1988 - CS/CD SST (SST181)
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1988 - CS/CD Blast First (BFFP32)
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1988 - CS/CD Ecstatic Peace!
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Notes: Live tracks from 1981 to 1983. There are no song titles listed,
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nor are there breaks between most songs. Running time is about 65
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minutes. This was not pressed on vinyl to the best of my knowledge.
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"Daydream Nation"
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1988 - 2xLP/CS/CD on Enigma (75403-02)
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1988 - 2xLP/CS/CD on Blast First (BFFP34)
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1988 - CD on BMG Compact Disc (D-201076)
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1992 - CS/CD rerelease on Blast First/Mute in U.S. (???)
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1993 - CS/CD on DGC (???)
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Songs: Teen Age Riot / Silver Rocket / The Sprawl / 'Cross The Breeze /
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Eric's Trip / Total Trash / Hey Joni / Providence / Candle /
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Rain King / Kissability / Trilogy: (a) The Wonder; (b) Hyperstation;
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(z) Eliminator Jr.
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Notes: The album originally came in a gatefold sleeve with a poster, and
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|
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was released in the US under the Enigma label, which went under a
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couple of years later. Since then, the album has been difficult to
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find, and import prices on the CD often exceeded $25. Recently it
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has become available again through a licensing agreement with Mute,
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and will be reissued on DGC in 1993. The CD booklet has a different
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band photo than the album. Etched on side one - "Rock and Roll for
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president". The infinity symbol represents Lee Ranaldo (see Lee's
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"From Here To Infinity" LP for details.) Side two - "Star strangled
|
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|
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Bangles". The female symbol represents Kim Gordon, of course. Side
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three - "Destory all record labels, part 2 - high, end". The omega
|
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|
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symbol is Thurston Moore, which stands for Leo, his astrological sign.
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|
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Side four - "No sleep till Rhino". The devil drummer with the cross
|
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|
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up his butt is Steve Shelley, and is the design on the Sonic Death
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|
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Fan Club pin. The cover paintings are by German artist Gerhard
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|
|
Richter (born 1931.) "Providence" is based on a sound from an
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overheating amp that Shelley said was making weird noises due to
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something they put in it. The vocal is an answering machine message
|
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|
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from Mike Watt to Thurston, scolding him for losing guitar cables.
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|
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The part that says "...your memory just goes out the window..."
|
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|
|
is apparently a reference to memory loss from smoking pot. The
|
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|
|
comments make more sense if one assumes the subject is pot rather
|
||
|
|
than guitar cables.
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|
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"Silver Rocket"
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1988 - 7" single on Forced Exposure (FE-012 on vinyl, FE-014 on cover)
|
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|
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Songs: Silver Rocket / You Pose You Lose / Non-Metal Dude Wearing Metal Tee
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Giveaway from Forced Exposure magazine, now out of print.
|
||
|
|
Cover by "Paquito Bolino." Rare.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
"Teenage Riot"
|
||
|
|
1988 - 7" flexi by The Catalogue (CAT064)
|
||
|
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|
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|
|
Songs: Teen Age Riot
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The Catalogue is an English monthly magazine that addresses the
|
||
|
|
British indie record business. The flexi appeared with an
|
||
|
|
interview with the band in one of the issues (specifics unknown.)
|
||
|
|
On the back side is an exclusive Savage Pencil illustration.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
"Providence"
|
||
|
|
1989 - 7" single on Blast First (BFFP48)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Providence (stereo) / Providence (mono)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Promo only in Europe. Limited availability in US.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
"Candle (Edit)"
|
||
|
|
1989 - 12" EP on Enigma/Blast First (EPRO-193)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Candle (Edit) / Intro* / Hey Joni* / Flower+ / Ghost Bitch+ /
|
||
|
|
Conversation
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Songs 2 & 3 recorded live at the Roxy, Los Angeles Late Show on
|
||
|
|
19 November 1988. Songs 4 & 5 recorded live on Solstice, Los Angeles
|
||
|
|
21 December 1985. All "tapes from the Rollins Tape Vault".
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
"Warpower"
|
||
|
|
1989 - 7" single bootleg (German?)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Teenage Riot (live Hamburg 1989) b/w
|
||
|
|
Starpower (live Baton Rouge 1986)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The correct name for this should have been "Wattpower" (after Mike
|
||
|
|
Watt of fIREHOSE fame.)
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
"Speak No Evol"
|
||
|
|
1989 - 7" bootleg single (Italian?)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Corporate Ghost / Ruben's Beard / Major Label Chicken Feed / Clippers
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Also says "Maida Vale Studio March 1989." One side of the single
|
||
|
|
has "Addicted to Kim" engraved on it, the other has "Birmingham
|
||
|
|
Loves You" engraved. All the songs are instrumentals.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Killer"
|
||
|
|
1989 - LP bootleg (German?)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Intro by Iggy Pop (Detroit 1974) / I Wanna Be Yr Dog (live with
|
||
|
|
Iggy Pop 1987) / White Kross (live 1987) / I Got A Catholic Block
|
||
|
|
(live 1987) / Kill Yr Idols (live 1987) / I Love Her All The Time
|
||
|
|
(live 1985) / The World Looks Red (live 1985) / New Speedway Boogie
|
||
|
|
(1987 radio special) / Death Valley '69 (Flaming Lips with Thurston
|
||
|
|
Moore 1987) / Silver Rocket (Videomix 1989) / The Bridge (Lee Ranaldo
|
||
|
|
studio track 1985) / Fucking Youth Today Thurston Moore studio 1982) /
|
||
|
|
Within You Without You (BBC studio 1986) / The Closet (original by
|
||
|
|
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks by Harry Crews, live Hamburg 1988) /
|
||
|
|
European Son / (original by Velvet Underground, Thurston Moore studio
|
||
|
|
track 1988) / Brother James (live 1985)
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
==============================================================================
|
||
|
|
"One of the advantages of having Sonic Youth on a major label is that
|
||
|
|
suddenly we're a legitimate alternative to Whitesnake. But we would never
|
||
|
|
want to be a forced alternative. In other words, we would never, ever
|
||
|
|
tailor our tastes to be an obvious pop option." -- Thurston Moore
|
||
|
|
==============================================================================
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Goo"
|
||
|
|
1990 - LP/CS/CD on DGC (24297-D2)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Dirty Boots, Tunic (Song for Karen), Mary-Christ, Kool Thing, Mote,
|
||
|
|
My Friend Goo, Disappearer, Mildred Pierce, Cinderella's Big Score,
|
||
|
|
Scooter + Jinx, Titanium Expose'
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The European release included a 7" with first 3000 printed. Side
|
||
|
|
one - "Kool Thing (8 track demo version)" and side two is the
|
||
|
|
flexi disc interview.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Kool Thing"
|
||
|
|
1990 - EP on DGC (24297-D2/D4G)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Kool Thing / That's All I Know (Right Now)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1990 - 12" single promo on DGC (PRO-A-????)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Kool Thing / Kool Thing (8-track demo version)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1990 - EP/CD import on Geffen (GEF 81cd-7599-21616-2)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Kool Thing / That's All I Know (Right Now) /
|
||
|
|
Dirty Boots (Rock and Roll Heaven Version)/
|
||
|
|
Kool Thing (8-track demo version)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Guest vocals on "Kool Thing" by Chuck D of Public Enemy. The import
|
||
|
|
is German, made in France.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Disappearer"
|
||
|
|
1990 - 12" EP/CD5 on DGC (24297-D2/21623-2)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Disappearer (edit) / Disappearer (8-track demo version) / That's All I
|
||
|
|
Know (Right Now) / Dirty Boots (8-track demo version/long version)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1990 - 12" single promo on DGC (PRO-A-4172)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Disappearer (edit) / Disappearer (LP version) /
|
||
|
|
Disappearer (8-track demo version)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1990 - CD promo on DGC (PRO-???)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Disappearer (edit) / Disappearer (8-track demo version) / That's All I
|
||
|
|
Know (Right Now) / Dirty Boots (8-track demo version/long version)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The CD comes with a fold-out booklet with 8 Pettibon drawings. Add
|
||
|
|
that to more of his drawings on the front cover, back cover, inside
|
||
|
|
flap and CD itself, and there's 12 in all. It's the most elaborate CD
|
||
|
|
single packaging I've seen. CD-only promo version comes with a black
|
||
|
|
velvet cover, and was given away to radio stations.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Dirty Boots"
|
||
|
|
1990 - 12" EP/CD on DGC (DGCDS-21634)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Dirty Boots (edit) / White Kross (live) / Eric's Trip (live) /
|
||
|
|
Cinderella's Big Score (live) / Dirty Boots (live) /
|
||
|
|
The Bedroom (live and previously unreleased)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Domestic release, 30+ minutes of music.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Sonic Youth Interview Soundsheet"
|
||
|
|
1990 - flexi-disc single on DGC (EV-106-610-00-1 ST)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Real short interview with the band, includes a funky picture with
|
||
|
|
the clearest picture of Kim Gordon I have ever seen (she looks like
|
||
|
|
a fucking elf in this shot). Brief and obscure explanations of some
|
||
|
|
of the songs on "Goo."
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Kooler Thing"
|
||
|
|
1990 - 7" single bootleg
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Bookstore (Mote) / Lee #2 / Dirty Boots
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Bootleg from the Goo LP outtakes. "Bookstore" became "Mote" for the
|
||
|
|
album. Cover has original photograph used for Ray Pettibone's
|
||
|
|
"Goo" cover artwork.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Goo (8-track demos)"
|
||
|
|
1990? - LP bootleg
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Tunic / Number one / Titanium Expose / Dirty Boots / My Pal Goo /
|
||
|
|
Bookstore / Animal Song / Du II / Blow Job / Notorious Rockin' Lee
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Nice gatefold sleeve, nice photos that look hand-colored. Around $18.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Moo"
|
||
|
|
1990? - CD bootleg from Germany on Handmade Records
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Tunic / Number one / Titanium Expose / Dirty Boots / My Pal Goo /
|
||
|
|
Bookstore / Animal Song / Du II / Blow Job / Notorious Rockin' Lee
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: One source claims it's identical to the "Goo (8-track demos)" release
|
||
|
|
mentioned above, except on CD. Another claims it's both that and
|
||
|
|
the "Blowjob" bootleg mentioned later, and possibily more. Seen for
|
||
|
|
around $25-28. I'm still looking for more details.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Personality Crisis"
|
||
|
|
1990 - 7" single bootleg
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Personality Crisis / Disappear / Beat on the Brat / Red Vinyl
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Personality Crisis"
|
||
|
|
1991 - flexi 7" in Sassy Magazine (DGC ???)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Personality Crisis b/w Dirty Boots (edit)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The issue in which this appeared is not known to me. It does have
|
||
|
|
an official DGC catalog number, and is limited to 1000 copies. It
|
||
|
|
is different than the bootleg with the same title released in 1990.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Anarchy on St. Mary's Place"
|
||
|
|
1991 - CD bootleg from Germany on Youth Records (YTH-082)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Halloween / Death Valley '69 / Intro / Brave Men Run / Madonna /
|
||
|
|
I Love Her All the Time / Ghost Bitch / I'm Insane / Instrumental /
|
||
|
|
Brother James / Kill Your Idols / (Piano) / Flower /
|
||
|
|
Express Way to Your Skull
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Live material, with _Goo_ promo pictures on the cover. Going for
|
||
|
|
around $25-28. The correct name should be "Anarchy on St. Mark's
|
||
|
|
Place" according to Steve Shelley.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Blow Job"
|
||
|
|
1991 - CD bootleg from Germany on Youth Records (YTH-086)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Tunic / Number One / Titanium Expose' / Dirty Boots I /
|
||
|
|
Dirty Boots II / Corky / My Friend Goo / Bookstore / Animal Song /
|
||
|
|
Dull / Mildred Pierce / Notorious Rockin' Lee
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: 8 track demos for _Goo_. Going for around $25-28.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Hold That Tiger"
|
||
|
|
1991 - LP bootleg on Goofin' Records
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Intro / Schizophrenia / Tom Violence / White Kross / Kotton Krown /
|
||
|
|
Stereo Sanctity / Brother James / Pipeline/Kill Time /
|
||
|
|
Catholic Block / Tuff Gnarl / Death Valley '69 /
|
||
|
|
Beauty Lies In The Eye / Expressway To Yr Skull /
|
||
|
|
Pacific Coast Highway. Encore: Loadmouth /
|
||
|
|
I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You /
|
||
|
|
Today Yr Love Tomorrow The World / Beat On The Brat
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Live bootleg, offered through Forced Exposure. Excellent quality.
|
||
|
|
59 minutes of music in "Galacto Fidelity". Produced by Albini.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
==============================================================================
|
||
|
|
"I really like playing with this band and I really like the things we're
|
||
|
|
doing now. I think the drums are something different in this band, but I
|
||
|
|
think a lot of people don't notice that, or maybe they do and just don't
|
||
|
|
say anything." -- Steve Shelley
|
||
|
|
==============================================================================
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"All Fall Down"
|
||
|
|
1991 - 7" single bootleg
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Psycho Mafia, Rowche Rumble, My New House
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"Four Tunna Brix"
|
||
|
|
1991 - 12" EP bootleg on Goofin' Records
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Rowche Rumble, Psycho Mafia, My New House, Victoria
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Bootleg, covers three and four songs by The Fall, respectively.
|
||
|
|
"Victoria" is actually a cover of The Fall who are in turn
|
||
|
|
covering The Kinks. Taken from the Peel Sessions on 10/19/88.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Bad Mood"
|
||
|
|
1991 - 2x7" bootleg on unknown label
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Making the Nature Scene / World Looks Red / Bad Mood /
|
||
|
|
Brother James / Kill Your Idols
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Live in Sweden, 1983. Beautiful gatefold sleeve with full color
|
||
|
|
promo pictures (though a couple are with Steve Shelley.) The sound
|
||
|
|
quality is passable.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Sonic Death #1302 Live at the Continental Club"
|
||
|
|
1992 - CD from Sonic Death Fan Club
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Tom Violence / Shadow of a Doubt / Starpower / Secret Girls /
|
||
|
|
Death To Our Friends / Green Light / Kill Yr Idols / Ghost Bitch /
|
||
|
|
Expressway (cut) / World Looks Red / Confusion (indeed)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Live at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas, April 12, 1986. The
|
||
|
|
liner notes read "This was the first live show of the songs from
|
||
|
|
EVOL, at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas. The next day we
|
||
|
|
would sputter through a set for New Music America in Houston,
|
||
|
|
outdoors like a sideshow act on some sort of weird float, our music
|
||
|
|
vanishing amongst the tall ugly bldgs downtown, in broad daylight.
|
||
|
|
This night, however, things felt pretty good, despite borrowed amps+
|
||
|
|
drums (thanks to Furniture) and a set of (almost) all new songs-
|
||
|
|
untried, stepping off the cliff. Our future soundman Terry Pearson
|
||
|
|
was part owner of the Continental at the time, and he did the house
|
||
|
|
sound for this and hundreds of other gigs there. The original
|
||
|
|
cassette recording was made by Austin film-maker Bill Daniels;
|
||
|
|
Wharton Tiers transferred it to digital; the end music is by Steve
|
||
|
|
Fitch (Summer '86) and came with the tape. -LR 91"
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"Sonic Life"
|
||
|
|
1992 - booklet (ISBN 88-7226-050-7) and 7" single (SCONC 020)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Shaking Hell (live) / Little Jammy Thing
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: An official band-acknowledged release by Guido Chiesa, a buddy of
|
||
|
|
the band. The booklet contains lyrics, interviews, pictures, a
|
||
|
|
partial discography, and biographical information. It is soft-bound
|
||
|
|
and the size of a 7" record with cover, and sells for around $20.
|
||
|
|
It is published by Materiali Sonori Exports, 52027 San Giovanni V.No.
|
||
|
|
Italy. The first song was recorded live at Vera, Groningen in The
|
||
|
|
Netherlands. The second was recorded on 8/8/91.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
"100%"
|
||
|
|
1992 - CD5 on DGC (DGCDM-21735)
|
||
|
|
1992 - 12" on DGC (DGCT11)
|
||
|
|
1992 - 10" on DGC? (DGCV11) on orange vinyl.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
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Songs: 100% / Creme Brulee / Genetic / Hendrix Necro
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Andy Wallace. The vinyl is a European-only release, most likely
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illegal in the U.S. due to parallel import agreements. The European
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version of the CD5 is identical except that it comes in a digi-pak
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"Dirty"
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1992 - 2xLP/CS/CD on DGC (DGC/DGCC/DGCD-24485, DGCD-24493)
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Songs: 100% / Swimsuit Issue / Theresa's Sound-world / Drunken Butterfly /
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Shoot / Wish Fulfillment / Sugar Kane / Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit /
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Youth Against Fascism / Nic Fit / On The Strip / Chapel Hill / JC /
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Stalker (LP-only bonus track) / Purr / Creme Brulee
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limited edition 50,000, which is quite a lot, actually) comes with
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a transparent amber CD tray with an off-color graphic visible under
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it. "Swimsuit Issue" does mention every single model in the latest
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"Youth Against Fascism"
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1992 - 7"/12"/CD5 on DGC (???)
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1992 - 7" promo on DGC (???)
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Songs: Youth Against Fascism (Clean Version) / Youth Against Fascism
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(Album Version) / ???
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"The Mira Tapes"
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1992 - CD bootleg on ???
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Songs: ???
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ALL RELEASE DATES FOR THE ENTRIES BELOW ARE UNKNOWN.
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????????
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19?? - 10" bootleg on clear red vinyl.
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Songs: Brother James / Kissability / Candle / Silver Rocket /
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Non Metal Dude Wearing Metal Tee
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Notes: Dedicated to Al Flipside. There's absolutely no info written
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anywhere on the record except "Sonic Youth" on the cover and the
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titles on the back. The cover is very nicely done, though, especially
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for a boot. The sound is okay, but a bit muddy.
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"Come & Smash Me"
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19?? - 7" single bootleg
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Songs: Come & Smash Me b/w Hallowed By Thy Name
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Notes: Bootleg also known as "Hallowed Be Thy Name."
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"Demos"
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19?? - 7" single bootleg
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Notes: Bootleg. I'm seeking more details on this one.
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"Overkill Yr Idols"
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19?? - 7" on Forced Exposure (???)
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Songs: ???
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Notes: Don't know what's on this but it's always expensive ($100+).
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"Expressway To Yr Skull"
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19?? - 7" on ???
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Songs: Expressway To Yr Skull / ???
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"Teen Age Riot"
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19?? - 7" on Blast First (???)
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Songs: Teen Age Riot / ???
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--
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Rob Vaughn, Fugitive Systems Guy
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Mat. Sci. Center Computing, Cornell University
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rob@msc.cornell.edu - rob@crnlmsc2.bitnet
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Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
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From: rob@msc.cornell.edu
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Subject: Latest Sonic Youth discography [LONG, PART 2]
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Message-ID: <1992Dec15.140806.22055@msc.cornell.edu>
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Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:08:06 GMT
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Side Projects/Compilations
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The Coachmen "Failure to Thrive"
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Thurston Moore
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1979 - LP/CD on New Alliance (NAR035/NAR CD 035)
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Songs: Thurston's Song / Girls are Short / Household Word /
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Radical Lifestyle / Stay In My Room
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Notes: The band is Thurston Moore, J.D. King, Bob Pullin and Dan Walworth.
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J.D. does most of the vocals.
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Various "Just Another Asshole, Number 5"
|
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|
|
Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Miranda.
|
||
|
|
1981 - LP on Just Another Asshole Magazine (???)
|
||
|
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|
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|
|
Songs: Shift (Lee) / The Fucking Youth Of Today (Thurston) /
|
||
|
|
untitled (Kim Gordon and Miranda)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Album comes with a rubber-stamped die cut white-sleeved label.
|
||
|
|
45 seconds each by around 80 NYC artists including Remo Scha, Glenn
|
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|
|
Branca, Shelley Hirsch, Z'ev, Rhys Chatham and others.
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|
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|
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Glenn Branca/John Giorno "Who You Staring At?"
|
||
|
|
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo
|
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|
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1982 - LP on Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS 025)
|
||
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|
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|
|
Notes: Thurston & Ranaldo play with Glenn Branca.
|
||
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|
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|
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|
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Various "B Movie Soundtrack"
|
||
|
|
Richard Edson.
|
||
|
|
1982 - Soundtrack LP on Neutral
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Songs: ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Various scores from the films of Beth and Scott B., composed by
|
||
|
|
themselves, Adel Bertei, Richard Edson, Jeffrey Lohn, Bob Mason and
|
||
|
|
John Lurie.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Noise Fest"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
||
|
|
1982 - Cassette(?) on Zg Music Number 5 (C-82)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Collection of 29 NYC bands recorded in June '81 at White Columns
|
||
|
|
Gallery including SY, Jeff Lohn, Mofungo, Ut, Y Pants, and more.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Glenn Branca "Symphony #1"
|
||
|
|
Thurston Moore
|
||
|
|
1983 - CA/CD on ROIR
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Glenn Branca "Symphony #3"
|
||
|
|
Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo
|
||
|
|
1983/92 - LP on ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Re-released in 1992. Neither Lee nor Thurston play on Symphony #8,
|
||
|
|
regardless of claims otherwise.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Speed Trials"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1984 - LP/CS on Homestead (HMS011)
|
||
|
|
|
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|
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Songs: Sonic Youth - "Dig This!"; The Fall - "Tempo House" / "Smile";
|
||
|
|
Beastie Boys - "Egg Raid on Mojo"; Live Skull - "I Was Wrong";
|
||
|
|
Lydia Lunch - "Me and Main Kelly on a Bender"; Carbon - "YTYKYD";
|
||
|
|
Swans - "Weakling"; and Toy Killers - "Victimless Crime."
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Bob Bert was on drums. Recorded May 4-8 1983, released 1984. Liner
|
||
|
|
notes say that a video of this is available, any ideas?
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Lydia Lunch "In Limbo"
|
||
|
|
Thurston Moore
|
||
|
|
1984 - LP/CS/CD on Doublevision (DVR5)
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Chemical Imbalance #4"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth, The Chant, June Brides, Broken Talent
|
||
|
|
198? - 7" single compilation on Chemical Imbalance (CI04)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: "Marilyn Moore" by Sonic Youth, "Water Wiggle" by The Chant,
|
||
|
|
"This Town" by The June Brides, and "Soap Opera Girl" by Broken Talent
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Impact (Auto Edit)"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1985? - 12" on ???? (INS[T]2)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: I Love Her All the Time
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Recorded live at the Hammersmith Palais 4/28/85.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "You Bet We've Got Something Against You"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1985 - LP on Cathexis Recordings/Pleasantly Surprised (PS014)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: World Looks Red
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Recorded live at the Hammersmith Palais March 1985.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "SubPop 100"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1986 - LP/CS compilation on SubPop (SP10)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Kill Yr. Idols
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth "Tuff Titty Rap"
|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth
|
||
|
|
1986 - 7" single on New Alliance (NAR030)
|
||
|
|
198? - 12" single on SST
|
||
|
|
128? - 12" single on Blast First (BFFP8T) co-release with Mute.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Burnin' Up b/w Tuff Titty Rap / Into the Groovy
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Ciccone Youth is Moore, Gordon, Ranaldo, and Shelley with Martin Bisi.
|
||
|
|
"Burnin' Up" by Greg Ginn, Mike Watt, and Ethan James. Initially
|
||
|
|
released on Mike Watt's New Alliance label. New Alliance edition has
|
||
|
|
etched on side one - "Gonna have to fight" and on side two - "Don't
|
||
|
|
be afraid to pogo, don't be afraid to relate". On the Blast First
|
||
|
|
version side one - "It's a tuff titty" and side two is the same as
|
||
|
|
the 7" version.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
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||
|
|
"I was actually thinking, for this next tour, of getting an instrumental
|
||
|
|
track of `Fools Gold', playing it through the PA, and playing wild on top
|
||
|
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of it." -- Thurston Moore.
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||
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|
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|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Various "A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1986(7?) - LP on Giorno Poetry Systems Records (GPS 035)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Halloween
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Various "NME's Hat-trick"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
Feb. 1987 - 7" flexi single with NME magazine (GIV-5)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: White Kross (unreleased live version from Florida 1986)
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Lee Ranaldo "From Here -> Infinity"
|
||
|
|
Lee Ranaldo
|
||
|
|
1987 - LP/CS on SST (SST113)
|
||
|
|
1987 - LP/CS/CD on Blast First (BFFP9)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Time Stands Still / Destruction Site / Ouroboron / Slo Drone /
|
||
|
|
New Groove Loop / Florida Flower / Hard Left / Fuzz/Locusts /
|
||
|
|
To Mary / Lathe Speaks / The Resolution / Sav X / The Open End
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Lee goes crazy with locked grooves and a Savage Pencil-etched,
|
||
|
|
marbled album. Not as he ultimately intended, but good nonetheless.
|
||
|
|
There's also raised lettering and art on the album cover. The
|
||
|
|
Blast First version is etched - "Electricity comes from other planets
|
||
|
|
Fuck the future".
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
From the liner notes - "There's a reason for everything that's ever
|
||
|
|
been right. Today we look up & can see. Some singular moment comes
|
||
|
|
close to going around again. I hope you will drop the diamond in a
|
||
|
|
groove and let it ride awhile. (Sonic Life/ Sept 1986/ Los Angeles)."
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1987 - CD on SST (SST CD 113)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Time Stands Still / Destruction Site / Ouroboron / New Groove Loop /
|
||
|
|
Florida Flower / Hard Left / Fuzz/Locusts / To Mary (X2) /
|
||
|
|
Lathe Speaks / The Resolution / King's Ogg
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: From the liner notes - "This compact disc version contains tracks
|
||
|
|
taken from the original master tapes, as well as from the L.P.
|
||
|
|
version, in situations where the tracks were created directly in the
|
||
|
|
mastering studio and no tapes existed. Some new tape loops have been
|
||
|
|
cut to replace certain lock grooves which, due to the chance nature
|
||
|
|
of the process, I wasn't altogether happy with."
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Swanic Youth "Swanic Youth"
|
||
|
|
Mykel Board of MRR and Peter Holsapple of the dBs and R.E.M.
|
||
|
|
1987 - 7" single on Seldboard World Entreprises (OL455)
|
||
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|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Sonic Yoot / Swan Jovi
|
||
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Hilarious parody-put-down of Sonic Youth, The Swans, and Bon Jovi.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Mini Plot"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
||
|
|
1988 - CD3 on SST (SST CD 234)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: I Am Right (Goofy Mix)
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Credit by Brewer-Biaza. A Sacharine Trust cover perhaps?
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Martin Bisi "Creole Mass"
|
||
|
|
Lee Ranaldo.
|
||
|
|
1988 - LP on New Alliance (NAR 040)
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth "The Whitey Album"
|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth.
|
||
|
|
1988 - LP/CS/CD on Enigma (7 75402)
|
||
|
|
1988 - LP/CS/CD on Blast First (BFFP28)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Needle-Gun, (silence), G-Force, Platoon II, MacBeth,
|
||
|
|
Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby, Burnin' Up (orig. demo), Hi! Everybody!,
|
||
|
|
Children Of Satan/Third Fig, Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu,
|
||
|
|
Addicted To Love, Moby-Dik, March Of The Ciccone Robots,
|
||
|
|
Making The Nature Scene, Tuff Titty Rap, Into The Groovey
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Sonic Youth and friends get crazy, "Burnin' Up" covered by Mike Watt.
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth "Into The Groovey"
|
||
|
|
Ciccone Youth
|
||
|
|
1988 - 12" EP on Enigma (???)
|
||
|
|
1988 - 12" EP on Blast First (BFFP8)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Into The Groovey, Tuff Titty Rap
|
||
|
|
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|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
"Gettin' loose with the Pussy Galore, crackin' jokes like a Thurston Moore,
|
||
|
|
pedal hoppin' like a dinosaur... Breaking down the barriers like Sonic
|
||
|
|
Youth, they got what they wanted, maybe I should get what I want too...
|
||
|
|
Gimme indie rock!" -- Sebadoh, "Gimme Indie Rock"
|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
|
|
Lydia Lunch "Honeymoon In Red"
|
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Thurston Moore.
|
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1988 - LP/CS/CD on WidowSpeak Productions [WSP12/WSP12 CD]
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Songs: Done Dun / Still Burning / Dead In The Head / Fields of Fire /
|
||
|
|
Come Fall / So Your Heart / Dead River / Three Kings
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
1988 - 12" on WidowSpeak Productions [WSP???]
|
||
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|
||
|
|
Songs: The Crumb / Done Dun / Dead River
|
||
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Lydia Lunch with Thurston Moore on side one b/w L. Lunch and the
|
||
|
|
Honeymoon in Red Orchestra. Track one features and several were
|
||
|
|
mixed by Clint Ruin and was recorded in NYC in 1987. The last
|
||
|
|
two tracks feature and many were (co)written by Rowland S. Howard
|
||
|
|
and were recorded in Berlin 1982. Some lyrics were cowritten with
|
||
|
|
Lydia by Nick Cave under various aliasies (Her Dead Twin, Drunk
|
||
|
|
Cowboy Junkie.) The CD contains one extra track not listed above.
|
||
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|
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|
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|
Various "Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1988 - LP/CS/CD on NME Presents (NME PEP LP1000/NME PEP CD100/NME PEP MC 100)
|
||
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|
||
|
|
Songs: Within You Without You
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: For a benefit in aid of Childline. It's a great version (clocks at
|
||
|
|
5:03), and the Fall doing "A Day in the Life" make the album worth
|
||
|
|
seeking.
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Moe Tucker "Life in Exhile After Abdication"
|
||
|
|
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo
|
||
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1989 - LP/CS on 50 Skatillion Watts (MOE 7-1)
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Songs: Chase (Kim - bass, Lee - guitar, Thurston - guitar) /
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Pale Blue Eyes (Kim - bass (and backing vox) /
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Bo Diddley (Kim - bass (and backing vox), Steve - drums) /
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Talk So Mean (Kim - bass)
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Various "Gigantic"
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Sonic Youth.
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1989 - CS compilation on Melody Maker (???)
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Songs: Teenage Riot (special video mix)
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Various "Melting Plot"
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Sonic Youth
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1989 - LP/CA/CD compilation on SST (SST249)
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Songs: I Am Right
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Various "The Bridge"
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Sonic Youth
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1989 - LP/CS/CD compilation on Caroline Records (1374/KAR002)
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Songs: Computer Age (Neil Young cover)
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Various "Every Band has a Shonen Knife who Loves Them"
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Sonic Youth
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1989 - 2xLP/LP/CS/CD compilation on Giant Records (GRI6036-2)
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Songs: Burning Farm (Shonen Knife cover)
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Notes: Compilation also includes songs by Frightwig, Redd Kross, L7,
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White Flag, Big Dipper, Lunachicks, Das Damen and many others
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(23 tracks in all.)
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"Q: Are you still thought of as underground/alternative/weird in New York?
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A: No, we're a fucking institution."
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-- Kim Gordon (Melody Maker, April 1 '89)
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Split "Halloween/Touch Me I'm Sick"
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Mudhoney/Sonic Youth
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1989 - 7" single on SubPop (SP08)
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1989 - 12" single on Blast First (BFFP46)
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1990 - 12" single on SubPop (SP08-2)
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1990 - ? single on Glitterhouse (GR 56) in Germany.
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Songs: Halloween, Touch Me I'm Sick
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Notes: Double cover, rumored value $100-$300 (bullshit), 3000 printed.
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The 12" single is identical to 7", 5000+ printed, value $10-$30.
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Various "Nothing Short Of Total War (Part One)"
|
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|
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Sonic Youth
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1989 - LP/CS/CD compilation on Blast First (BFFP13)
|
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Songs: Sonic Youth - "Come And Smash Me Said The Boy With The Magic Penis" /
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|
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Head of David - "Bugged" / Ut - "Fire In Philly" / Sonic Youth -
|
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|
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"He's On Fire" / Big Black - "Kerosene" / Sonic Youth - "Magic Wand" /
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Rapeman - "Dutch Courage" / Dinosaur Jr. - "Bulbs Of Passion" /
|
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Lee Ranaldo - "Scratchy Heart" / Ciccone Youth - "****" /
|
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UT - "Evangelist" / Head of David - "Snake Domain" / Big Black -
|
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|
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"He's A Whore" / Big Stick - "Devil's Jukebox" / Head of David -
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"108" / A.C. Temple - "Sheikh" / Rapeman - "Just Got Paid Today" /
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Band of Susans - "Throne of Blood" / Aresenal - "Little Hitlers" /
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Butthole Surfers - "Jimi"
|
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|
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William S. Burroughs "Dead City Radio"
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Sonic Youth
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1990 - LP/CS on Island Records (Island 422-846 264-2)
|
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Notes: Spoken word LP dubbed over music, some written for the album, some
|
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pulled out of the archives of the NBC orchestra, ca. 1955.
|
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|
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|
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|
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Various "Fast 'N' Bulbous - A Tribute To Captain Beefheart"
|
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|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
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|
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1990 - LP/CS/CD on Imaginary Records (ILLUSION 002 LP/CD)
|
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|
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Songs: Electricity
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Various "New York Eye and Ear Control"
|
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|
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Thurston and Don Fleming.
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1990 - LP/CS/CD on Matador Records (OLE 006-1)
|
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Songs: Rudolph Grey - "The Hall"
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Notes: Recorded New York City 1990, produced by Ecstatic Peace.
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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Various "DK Pulser number 1"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
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|
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1990 - CD3 compilation on DK Pulser, no number
|
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|
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1992 - CD5 compilation on Danceteria (DK1CD1)
|
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Songs: Su nioj
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Notes: Five minutes of instrumentals except some "join us" screams at the end.
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|
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Recorded during the _Daydream Nation_ sessions. Some backwards tapes
|
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|
|
at the beginning. "DK Pulser" is a french magazine which has very
|
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|
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episodic periodicity. Reissued by Danceteria as a 5" CD without the
|
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|
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original magazine but with the same tracks.
|
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|
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Harry Crews "Naked In Garden Hills"
|
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|
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Kim Gordon.
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1990 - LP/CS/CD on WidowSpeak Productions [WSP24/WSP24 CD]
|
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1990 - LP/CS/CD on Blast First (BFFP38)
|
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|
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|
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Songs: Man Hates A Man / Distopia / Gospel Singer / Knockout Artist /
|
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|
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(She's In A) Bad Mood / The Way Out / Bringing Me Down / Car / S.O.S.
|
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Notes: Kim Gordon, Lydia Lunch, and Sadie Mae. Harry Crews, the band,
|
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|
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toured Europe from Sept. 1 till Sept. 24, 1988. The album was
|
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|
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recorded live at the Mean Fiddler, London and in Vienna, Austria by
|
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Vienna Radio.
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|
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|
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Borbetomagus "Barefoot In The Head"
|
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|
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Thurston Moore.
|
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|
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1991 - LP/CS on Forced Exposure, CD on Shock.
|
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|
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|
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Notes: Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich of Borbetamagus with Thurston Moore.
|
||
|
|
Liner notes from "Thomas Pynchon", which Seth says "is, 10 to 1 odds,
|
||
|
|
either Jimmy Johnson or Byron Coley." My guess is the latter.
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"One night Johnson, Coley and I were sitting in the backyard with a bucket
|
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|
|
of fresh sangria and a few bongloads of some very righteous boo. I'd
|
||
|
|
brought out a box of my live Sonic Youth tapes and we were arguing about
|
||
|
|
Ranaldo's tongue vectors in the third quadrant of 'Society is a Hole' [Folk
|
||
|
|
City, NYC 12/1/82] when one of T. Moore's downstrokes caught our attention.
|
||
|
|
We ran the tape back and listened to the passage a few times. The subtly
|
||
|
|
monstrous and mindless GUSH with which T. Moore hit the 'E' chord made it
|
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|
|
obvious that his playing was not coming out of a complete spiritual void.
|
||
|
|
This was a real revelation. It meant that he was capable of actually
|
||
|
|
unclenching his brain and loosing demons of soul creativity."
|
||
|
|
-- Thomas Pynchon (sic) from "Barefoot In The Head"
|
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|
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|
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|
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Dim Stars "Dim Stars"
|
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|
|
Richard Hell, Don Fleming, Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley.
|
||
|
|
1991 - 3x7" single on Ecstatic Peace! (E#11) distributed by Forced Exposure
|
||
|
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|
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|
|
Songs: The Plug & Dim Star / Christian Rat Attack / You Gotta Lose (Pt. 1) /
|
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|
|
You Gotta Lose (Pt. 2) / You Gotta Lose (Pt. 3) /
|
||
|
|
You Gotta Lose (Pt. 4)
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Notes: Christian Rat Attack was originally done by a band called Stickmen
|
||
|
|
with Rayguns and appeared on a compilation album called _Cottage
|
||
|
|
Cheese From the Lips of Death_.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Sub Pop June/July Singles Club Single"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
1991 - 7" single on Sub Pop (SP121)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: These Immortal Souls - "Luney Tune" / gumball - "Under My Wheels" /
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth - "Is It My Body" / Laughing Hyenas - "Public Animal #9"
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Guitarrorists"
|
||
|
|
Kim, Lee, and Thurston.
|
||
|
|
1991 - Compilation CD on Caroline (???)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Blues For Space Girl (Thurston) / Kitten (Kim) / Here (Lee)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: There are 26 songs total, A-Z.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Lucky Sperms "I Am The Man"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth and Mike Watt.
|
||
|
|
1991 - 7" on Ecstatic Peace (E#15)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Walking the Cow / Tomorrow Never Knows / Glass Onion
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Recorded on Jan 19, 1987 at Fun City NYC. There is a Pettibon
|
||
|
|
drawing on the front. Side one credits: S - drums, W - guitar,
|
||
|
|
bass, speil. Side two credits: S - drums, W - basses, speil,
|
||
|
|
K - tambourine, L - guitar, T - nada. Side one is etched with
|
||
|
|
"T. Moore vs. T. Motolla", and side two with "Ecstatic Bummer."
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
Various "Gioventul Sonica - 11 Young Bands Play Sonic Youth's Songs"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth tribute album
|
||
|
|
1991 - Electric Eye (EEHSLP020)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Star Fuckers - "Death Valley '69" / Killbrains - "Tunic" /
|
||
|
|
Redrum - "Silver Rocket" / Third from the Sun - "White Cross" /
|
||
|
|
Headspring - "Catholic Block" / Neumann - "Stereo Sanctity" /
|
||
|
|
Welcome Idots - "Star Power" / Subterranean Dining Rooms - "Mote" /
|
||
|
|
Carnival of Fools - "Shadow of Doubt" / Saint Luka - "Teenage Riot" /
|
||
|
|
Pagen Easter - "Kill Yr Idols/Kool Thing/Shakin' Hell"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The label address is Electric Eye; CP 144; 27100 Pavia, Italy.
|
||
|
|
Distribution by Helter Skelter; Piazzale Delle; Provience 8 00162 ROMA;
|
||
|
|
Phone - "06/429348; Fax - "06/428525-
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Fortune Cookie Prize-A Tribute to Beat Happening"
|
||
|
|
Kim, Thurston, and Epic.
|
||
|
|
1992 - Compilation LP/CD on Simple Machines (CD007)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Black Candy
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Epic is Epic Soundtracks.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Mirror/Dash
|
||
|
|
Thurston and Kim.
|
||
|
|
1992 - 7" on Ecstatic Peace (E#12)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Electric Pen / Gum
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: The cover has someone that looks a lot like a teenage Thurston
|
||
|
|
holding a gun, while the back of the 45 has a picture of said
|
||
|
|
Thurston getting "shot." The inside of the jacket has two leather-
|
||
|
|
clad cowboy/cowgirls and "Mirror/Dash" scrawled in pen.
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
T. Moore/Wm. Hooker Duo
|
||
|
|
1992 - LP on Ecstatic Peace (E#20)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: ???
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Mosquito
|
||
|
|
Steve Shelley, Jad Fair and Tim Foljohn.
|
||
|
|
1992 - 7" on ERL Records (ERL009)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Down / Pretty Lil' Thing / Fat Man Walks / Oh No, Oh Yes, Oh No
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: A sticker on the front says "Warning, pesky locked groove."
|
||
|
|
Side A says "Oh no not another mosquito" and side B "My house is
|
||
|
|
full of them."
|
||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
|
Dim Stars "Dim Stars"
|
||
|
|
Thurston, Steve, Richard Hell, and Don Flemming.
|
||
|
|
1992 - LP/CD on Ecstatic Peace???
|
||
|
|
1992 - LP on Paperhouse Records (paplp 014)
|
||
|
|
1992 - LP in Germany on EFA (04902-08) / City Slang (LC 6853)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: She Wants To Die / All My Witches Come True / Memo To Marty /
|
||
|
|
Monkey / Natches Burning / Stop Breakin' Down /
|
||
|
|
Baby Huey (Do You Wanna Dance) / The Night Is Coming On /
|
||
|
|
Downtown At Dawn / Try This / Stray Cat Generation / Rip Off
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Sentridoh "Losercore"
|
||
|
|
Steve and Lou Barlow.
|
||
|
|
1992 - 7" Smells Like Records (SLR-68)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Losercore / Really Insane
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Smells Like Records is Steve Shelley's own label. Side A has the
|
||
|
|
engraving "Lost virginity, thus" and Side B has "dear blue."
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Kitten
|
||
|
|
Kim and Julie Cafritz.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: No releases out at this date.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Freedom of Choice" compilation
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
||
|
|
1992 - 2xLP/CS/CD on Caroline Records (???)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Sonic Youth - "Ca Plane Pour Moi" / The Muffs -
|
||
|
|
"Rock and Roll Girl" / Erectus Monotone - "Destination Unknown" /
|
||
|
|
Redd Kross - "How Much More" / Tiny Lights - "5'1" / Mudhoney -
|
||
|
|
"Pump It Up" / Das Damen - "The Wait" / Finger - "Tainted Love" /
|
||
|
|
It's OK - "Wishing" / Yo La Tengo - "Dreaming" / White Flag -
|
||
|
|
"Wuthering Heights" / The Connells - "I Got You" / Big Dipper -
|
||
|
|
"Homosapien" / Polvo - "Mexican Radio" / Hypnolovewheel -
|
||
|
|
"Antmusic" / Chia Pet - "Don't You Want Me?" /
|
||
|
|
Permanent Green Light - "Hero Worship" / Superchunk - "Girl U Want"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: All proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. This is a cover of a
|
||
|
|
new wave song made in the late 70's by Plastic Bertrand, bubblegum
|
||
|
|
punk star from Belgium I believe.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Richard Hell "3 New Songs"
|
||
|
|
Richard Hell, Thurston, Steve, & Don Flemming.
|
||
|
|
1992 - 7" on Overground (Over 24)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: The Night is Coming On / Baby Huey (Baby Do You Wanna Dance?) /
|
||
|
|
Frank Sinatra
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Black vinyl edition limited to 3000 copies.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Burning Leaves - The Third Fall of DGC"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth.
|
||
|
|
1992 - promo CD on DGC (???)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Given away at 1992 CMJ to all attending and bands playing.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
ALL RELEASE DATES FOR THE ENTRIES BELOW ARE UNKNOWN.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Heaven and Hell, Volume 3"
|
||
|
|
Lee.
|
||
|
|
199? - LP/CD on ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Stephanie Says
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Velvet Underground tribute album.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Outlaw Blues" compilation
|
||
|
|
Kim & Thurston, Lee.
|
||
|
|
199? - ???
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Kim & Thurston - "Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence" /
|
||
|
|
Lee - "Mama You've Been On My Mind"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: A tribute to Bob Dylan.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Smiles, Vibes and Harmony: A Tribute To Brian Wilson"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
19?? - LP on Demilo Records (DM0004-1)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: I Know There's an Answer
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Includes J. Mascis on tambourine/vocals and Don Fleming on vocals.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Good Feeling"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
19?? - LP on 53rd and 3rd (AGAS3)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: (I Got A) Catholic Block (live)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Track noted as recorded June 1987 at Town & Country.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "EMMA Presenteert"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
19?? - LP on M.A. Draje Records (001TM4)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Brother James
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: EMMA is an independent/squat concert hall. No idea whether the track
|
||
|
|
was actually recorded there.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Various "Vera Groningen: Beauty in the Underworld"
|
||
|
|
Sonic Youth
|
||
|
|
19?? - LP on VERA Records (001)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Broken Eye
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Notes: Recorded live at Vera Groningen (a club in the Netherlands) on
|
||
|
|
06/11/87. Tracks at 3:55. Great and noisy.
|
||
|
|
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|
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|
|
The Ex "Joggers and Smoggers"
|
||
|
|
Thurston, Lee
|
||
|
|
19?? - 2xCD on Ex Records (Ex040/041D)
|
||
|
|
19?? - 2xCD on Fist Puppet Records, Holland (Fist 005-CD)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Songs: Gentlemen / Tightly Stretched
|
||
|
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Notes: Distributed by Cargo in North America.
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Various "Communicate Live at the James Poly"
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19?? - ???
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Songs: Kill Your Idols (live)
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Various "Love Doll Superstar"
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19?? - ???
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Songs: Hallowed Be Thy Name
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Various "Prehistoric Hits with Sonic Youth, Nirvana, L7, and STP"
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Sonic Youth.
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199? - clear vinyl 7" bootleg on unknown label
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Songs: Sonic Youth - "Cotton Crown (live '87)" / Nirvana -
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"Amway Queen (studio '89)" / L7 - "Fast & Frightening (live '90)" /
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STP - "Yo Jackie Yo (demo '90)"
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Various "All Guitars"
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Lee.
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199? - LP on ???
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Songs: ???
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Notes: Sounds like "Me & Jill," with "From Here --> Infinity" as the
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backing music.
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"As far as I'm concerned, I was just as happy being where I was last year at
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this time when Sonic Youth wasn't on a major label... This deal with Geffen
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is very much a wait-and-see-what happens sort of deal - because we will
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absolutely not be dictated to by Geffen. We signed because we had complete
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artistic control, and if any problems do arise... let's just say that I'll
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firebomb Geffen's offices to get thrown off the label if I have to. Who
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fuckin' cares?" -- Thurston Moore
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Videos
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"Goo"
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1991 - VHS on DGC
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Songs: Dirty Boots, Tunic (Song for Karen), Mary-Christ, Kool Thing, Mote,
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My Friend Goo, Disappearer, Mildred Pierce, Cinderella's Big Score,
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Scooter + Jinx, Titanium Expose'
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Notes: I'll fill this in later when I have time.
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"1991: The Year The Punk Broke"
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1992 - VHS on DGC (???)
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Songs: ???
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Notes: A self-made documentary film of their 1991 European tour with
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the likes of Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, with a guest
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appearance by the Ramones. Thurston does most of the filming and
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babbling, which is interspersed between live footage of the bands.
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Dave Kendell even makes an appearance with Courtney Love.
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Missing Information
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I could use more detailed information on the following, such as dates,
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catalog numbers, and song listings:
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A 1986 Peel session that's never been bootlegged on vinyl or CD. I have
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an excellent tape copy now. John Peel also recently mentioned that there
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was a Sonic Youth LP reissued in Estonia and played a track off it.
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A Sonic Youth "Live in Japan" bootleg was put out by Supernatural,
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a shady Japanese label. The label went under a few years back, taking the
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SY live in Japan LP with it. The record is so rare that Steve Shelley doesn't
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own a copy. It might be possible to locate the record by contacting Kenji at
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Timebomb in Osaka, Japan. Time bomb is a great record store specializing in
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non-Japanese "underground" music. The fax number is 011 81 6 213 5079. If he
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does have it, I'm sure it will cost a small fortune. Don't bother asking
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Forced Exposure if they have it. They don't.
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Thurston was in a band called Even Worse for a while (early 80s).
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Don't know too much about them, except for a few songs that I remember
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hearing on KZSC back then (incl. one called "We Suck" that was kind of funny.
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Female Vocals.
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Information about Lee Ranaldo's collaboration with the dutch band
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Plus Instruments.
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John Peel mentioned a new LP release by a German band DIE HAUT and played a
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track `Intoxication' off it, with Kim Gordon singing.
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Could you tell me if any of SY members (maybe Kim or Thurston) have played
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with the belgian band Thick Pidgeon. I think there is some connection because
|
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of the Miranda name on the Kim Gordon track. Miranda could be the singer of
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Thick Pidgeon.
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A documentary on the "NY music scene" called something like "Put Some Blood
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|
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in the Music" that I saw on PBS a while back. It was about an hour long,
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and the second half was all Sonic Youth, _Daydream Nation_ period (the first
|
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|
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half was John Zorn, and there were short segments on the Ambitious Lovers
|
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|
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and Hugo Largo). It was mostly interviews with the band, other
|
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New York scene people (Branca, Lydia Lunch, Kramer, etc.) talking about SY,
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and some performance footage.
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|
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Hey Rob, here's some more Sonic Youth info for ya. Also, check out the
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new Ajax records catalog, they're selling a couple new SY-related 7"s,
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|
|
like some of the stuff Kim and Thurston performed at the Knitting Factory
|
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|
|
during the last NMS.
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Guitar Tunings
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Guitar tunings for selected songs from Michael G. Goldsman. Tunings listed
|
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|
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from lowest to highest string. Key: ^ = tune up, ! = tune down
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Kool Thing, Mary Christ, Death Valley '69:
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F#, F# (unison), F#, F# (unison octave above), E (below 3'rd string), B
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Silver Rocket, Candle, Cinderella's Big Score:
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|
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A, C, C (Unison), G, G#, C
|
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|
|
Teenage Riot:
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|
|
G, A, B, D, E, G
|
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|
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|
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|
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Tunic, Teenage Riot:
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|
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G, G, D, D, G, G (all 3 pairs unison)
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|
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The Wonder, Hyperstation:
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|
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G, G (unison), C#, D, G, G (unison)
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|
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|
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|
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Mote:
|
||
|
|
G, G, D, D, F, F (all 3 pairs unison)
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
Kissability, Eric's Trip, Hey Joni
|
||
|
|
E, B, E, E (unison), A, B
|
||
|
|
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|
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|
|
Dirty Boots:
|
||
|
|
E, !E (unison), !B, !B (unison), !E, !F#
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Dirty Boots, Tunic, Titanium Expose, My Friend Goo:
|
||
|
|
E, !G, D, G, !E, !D
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Cotton Crown, The Wonder, Brother James:
|
||
|
|
^G, !G, D, !D, !Eb, !Eb (all 3 pairs are unison)
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Cross the Breeze, Disappearer:
|
||
|
|
^C, ^C (unison), ^E, ^B, !G, !D
|
||
|
|
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|
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|
|
Schizophrenia:
|
||
|
|
^F#, !F#, ^G, G, !A, !A (all 3 pairs are unison)
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Expressway to Yr Skull:
|
||
|
|
E, !G#, ^E, ^G#, !E, !G#
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
||
|
|
Fan Club and General Information
|
||
|
|
================================
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"sonic death is the sonic youth fan club and it's official! by joining you
|
||
|
|
will receive a years membership and a special welcome kit. this kit
|
||
|
|
contains a cd of a show that took place in austin in 1986, a button and a
|
||
|
|
tri-annual sonic death news-letter. the newsletter will give you the news
|
||
|
|
and the chance to get limited edition recordings and merchandise available
|
||
|
|
only to members. so send as some bucks and we'll get you happening!
|
||
|
|
continue rockin', love
|
||
|
|
sonic youth"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Annual membership rates
|
||
|
|
USA $15.00 Canada and Mexico $20.00
|
||
|
|
Other foreign $25.00
|
||
|
|
Visa + Mastercard accepted
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Send to Sonic Death
|
||
|
|
PO Box 1588
|
||
|
|
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
|
||
|
|
Fax (201) 748-7628
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
This is the address given at the end of the "Goo" video. You can assume
|
||
|
|
that all mail sent here will be read by Steve Shelley, who sometimes
|
||
|
|
even responds (schedule amnd patience permitting, I'm sure.)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Sonic Death
|
||
|
|
Box 6179
|
||
|
|
Hoboken, NJ 07030
|
||
|
|
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|
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|
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--
|
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|
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|
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|
|
Rob Vaughn, Fugitive Systems Guy
|
||
|
|
Mat. Sci. Center Computing, Cornell University
|
||
|
|
rob@msc.cornell.edu - rob@crnlmsc2.bitnet
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