Bad Moon Rising (album)
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| Bad Moon Rising | ||
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| Studio album by Sonic Youth | ||
| Released | 1985 | |
| Recorded | September – December, 1984 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 37:33 (original release) | |
| Label | Homestead Records | |
| Producer(s) | Sonic Youth, Martin Bisi, John Erskine |
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| Sonic Youth chronology | ||
 Sonic Death (1984) |
 Bad Moon Rising (1985) |
 EVOL (1986) |
Bad Moon Rising is the third album by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, first released on Homestead Records in 1985.
It is a concept album themed around death and insanity, typical topics for early Sonic Youth. Each side of the original release was a mostly continuous song cycle, without any breaks between the songs, except Death Valley '69, which is a separate song.
A video directed by Richard Kern, during which band members played both serial killers along with their gorily-hacked victims, and in which Kern interpolated footage from his film Submit To Me, was shot for Death Valley '69. More than a little thematically unclear, the video combines its Charles Manson iconography with stock war footage and sequences where the band joins hands in a circle like a bunch of blissed out hippies.
An image of Lung Leg from Submit To Me that Kern had used in the Death Valley video also appears as the cover for Sonic Youth's next album, EVOL.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Original release
- "Intro" – 1:12
- "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:57
- "Society Is a Hole" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:54
- "I Love Her All the Time" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 8:19
- "Ghost Bitch" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 4:24
- "I'm Insane" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 6:56
- "Justice Is Might" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:57
- "Death Valley '69" (lyrics/vocals Lydia Lunch and Thurston) – 5:12
[edit] Reissue
- "Intro" – 1:12
- "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" – 3:57
- "Society Is a Hole" – 4:54
- "I Love Her All the Time" – 8:19
- "Ghost Bitch" – 4:24
- "I'm Insane" – 6:56
- "Justice Is Might" – 2:57
- "Death Valley '69" – 5:12
- "Satan Is Boring" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 5:12
- "Flower" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:36
- "Halloween" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 5:12
- "Echo Canyon" – 1:08
All tracks except 10-11 were recorded and mixed at Before Christ Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.C. between Sept. and Dec. 1984.
Tracks 10-11 were recorded and mixed at Radio Tokyo, Venice, California in January 1985.
[edit] Credits
- Lee Ranaldo
- Kim Gordon
- Thurston Moore
- Bob Bert – drums
- Lydia Lunch – vocals on "Death Valley '69"
- Sonic Youth – producer
- Martin Bisi – engineer, producer (all tracks except 10-11)
- Ethan James – engineer (tracks 10-11)
- John Erskine – producer (all tracks except 10-11)
[edit] Releases
- 1985 - LP - Blast First/Homestead (BFFP L/HMS 016) - Released in US.
- 1985 - LP/CS/CD - Blast First (BFFP 1) - Released in UK.
- 1985 - LP - Torso - Released in DE.
- 1993 - CD - Geffen Records (DBCD 24512) - Released in US.
- 1993 - CD - Geffen Records (GED 24512) - Released in EC.
- 1996 - LP - Rough Trade - Released in UK.
Tracks 9-12 appear only on the CD releases.
Tracks 10-11 were also released as the Flower/Halloween single.
The Torso release and original vinyl Homestead release come with a lyric insert.
