Best Albums Ever: Sonic Youth "Bad Moon Rising" (1985) - Noise Rock, - New-Wave, Post-Punk, Hard-Core, Experimental Rock
Sonic Youth - "Bad Moon Rising"
Bad Moon Rising is the second studio album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released in March 1985 by Blast First and Homestead Records. The album is loosely themed around the dark side of America, including references to obsession, insanity, Charles Manson, heavy metal, Satanism, and early European settlers' encounters with Native Americans.
Released to strong reviews from the underground music press, Bad Moon Rising was the band's first album to combine experimental material with transitional pieces and segues. The album was preceded by the single "Death Valley '69", which did not chart in either the US or UK (the track was re-recorded for the album and released again as a single in June 1985). The album was named after the 1969 song Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, rounding out the core line-up. Jim O'Rourke (bass, keyboards, guitar) was also a member of the band from 1999 to 2005, and Mark Ibold (guitar, bass) was a member from 2006 to 2011.
Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth have been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings while preparing guitars with objects like drum sticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' timbre. The band was a pivotal influence on the alternative and indie rock movements.
Released March 1985
Recorded September–December 1984
Studio Before Christ Studios, Brooklyn, New York
Genre
Noise Rock, - New-Wave, Post-Punk, Hard-Core, Experimental Rock
Length 37:33
Label Blast FirstHomestead
Producer
Sonic Youth, Martin BisiJohn Erskine
Sonic Youth followed their first full LP, Confusion Is Sex, with a pitch-black, punishing take on Americana titled after, of all things, a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. The newly reissued Bad Moon Rising is their most explicitly sexual album, and among their darkest, exploring the collision of America's obsession with death with the hopeful ecstasies of the hippie generation.
Compilation of the five members of Sonic Youth during their final lineup: Thurston Moore (2010), Kim Gordon (2010), Lee Renaldo (2010), Mark Ibold (2009), Steve Shelley (2004).
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