Sonic Youth - Smart Bar, Chicago 1985 (Live Recording) (Music CD) available on January 31 2015 from Base for 10.79
Smart Bar Chicago 1985 available on November 07 2014 from Amazon for 9.00
UPC bar code 787996801629 ξ1 registered September 27 2014
UPC bar code 787996801629 ξ2 registered November 07 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Pop Audio
Manufacturered by Goofin'
Product weight is 0.11 lbs.
Record Label: Goofin' * Catalog#: GOO 016 * Country Of Release: NLD * Year Of Release: 2012 In the fall of 1985, Sonic Youth were touring the States following the release of their Bad Moon Rising LP. This show at Chicago s Smart Bar was recorded on 4-track cassette and consists of live versions of most of the songs from that album, early performances of Secret Girl and Expressway to Yr Skull (later to be released on Evol) and a rare, never-before-released live rendition of Kat n Hat. Mixed and mastered by the band from the original tape source, this single-CD / double-LP edition includes liner notes by Gerard Cosloy and Sonic Youth engineer Aaron Mullan, plus unpublished photos by Pat Blashill and Steven Koress.
It's a pretty decent recording of Sonic Youth from 1985. The crazy, seemingly out-of-tune wailing of the guitars is juxtaposed against traditional structure and melodies. The energy of the band is strong throughout and its evident that this is a moment in time when SY was about to become really flippin' good. Fidelity is not perfect, nor does it need to be. If you are a Sonic Youth fan, you will understand this. Liner notes are brief, few pics from the gig. Does what it sets out to do. Can't wait to hear wh..
I first heard Sonic Youth (about two decades ago) after seeing the R. Kern video for "Death Valley '69".As I became more interested in the band I of course learned not only of their albumsbut of the whole scene around them and the bands influenced by them. Also (in their later years)I happened to see them live multiple times. And I did hear an odd recording (a bootleg recordingwhich is the origin of this album) which captured the: tour but appeared to have some unknown songs. Unfortunately as the indie rock..
