- Sonic Death
Infobox Album
Name = Sonic Death
Type = live
Artist =Sonic Youth
Released = 1984
Recorded = 1981–1983
Genre =No Wave ,Experimental rock
Length = 68:02
Label =Ecstatic Peace!
Producer = Sonic Youth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:clv8b5b4tsqg link]
*Mark Prindle rating-10|4 [http://www.markprindle.com/sonicya.htm#death link]
Last album = "Kill Yr Idols " (1983)
This album = "Sonic Death" (1984)
Next album = "Bad Moon Rising" (1985)"Sonic Death" is a
live album bySonic Youth , released in 1984.It contains live recordings from 1981 to 1983.Many of the songs on this album appear only as fragments, often with no breaks between.Most of the songs are taken from Sonic Youth's first 3 releases, "Sonic Youth", "
Confusion Is Sex " and the "Kill Yr Idols " EP.The album was originally released as a cassette on Thurston Moore's
Ecstatic Peace label and was later released in the cassette and CD formats byBlast First and SST. It is currently out of print.Because Sonic Youth use many different alternative tunings, but couldn't afford to travel with separate instruments for each tuning in the band's early years, members of the band can be heard changing tunings between songs.
Track listing
The album's cover has no track listing, and CD versions are either only 1 track, or 2 tracks (matching the 2 sides of the original cassette). The following is a list of songs that can be recognized clearly, with approximate times from the beginning of the disk:
ide one
#"The Good and the Bad" (fragment) – 0:00–5:05
#"She Is Not Alone" (fragment) – 7:16–10:31
#"The Good and the Bad" (fragment) – 12:21–17:02
#"The World Looks Red" – 17:02–19:15
#"Confusion Is Next" – 20:26–23:44
#"Inhuman" (fragment) – 23:44–25:16
#"Shaking Hell" (fragment) – 29:29–30:20
#"Burning Spear" – 30:21–33:39ide two
#"Brother James" (fragment) – 40:05–40:23
#"Early American" – 40:23–47:31
#"Burning Spear" (fragment) – 47:32–48:43
#"Kill Yr Idols" – 48:44–51:35
#"Confusion is Next" (fragment) – 51:36–53:05
#"Kill Yr Idols" (fragment) – 56:18–57:03
#"Shaking Hell" (fragment) – 58:45–60:20
#"(She's in a) Bad Mood" (fragment) – 62:46–63:40References
* Lawrence, Chris. " [http://www.sonicyouth.com/history/og-set.html Sonic Youth Discography] ".
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