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Walls Have Ears - Silver Vinyl - Sealed

SONIC YOUTH Walls Have Ears (2024 limited edition 17-track double album 2-LP pressed on Silver Vinyl, the legendary live double album of Sonic Youth raging through the UK in 1985 remains one of the era's fiercest examples of the band blowing minds night after night! Gatefold picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)

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$56.69, £44.99  
Product Availability In stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 25th November
Release Date 9th Feb 2024
Release Year 2024
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Goofin Records
Complete Stock List Go to Sonic Youth
Product Catalogue No GOO-023
Music Genre Grunge, Rock
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears appeared / disappeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humour and audio verité. It’s now issued for the first time officially under the band’s auspices.

The ’85 shows were the second time the band appeared on UK soil, Brits now getting juiced to the mythos of the emerging guitar-slinging American independent underground; an art / punk band from NYC sporting casual attitudes and tees sporting Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Prince made some good press copy on top of their bludgeoning stage appearance. Paul Smith of the newly-founded Blast First label acted as an overseas diplomatic envoy for Sonic Youth through their SST years as well as issuing their classic 1988 Daydream Nation outside the USA. However the Smith-produced ‘bootleg’ of their ’85 UK gigs surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before EVOL was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group’s dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release’s deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after Daydream.

In this 2LP set brimming with primitive classics like ‘The Burning Spear,’ ‘Death Valley 69,’ and ‘I’m Insane’ (uncredited on sleeve), segues and live guitar changes ooze together threaded by Madonna tapes and vocal loops off the board (somewhat a necessity for distraction until the band had a full fledged stage crew to prepare guitars). The first two sides of Walls are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. SY tear it up especially on one trash-fi excerpt of ‘Blood On Brighton Beach’ (actually ‘Making The Nature Scene’) from a legendary outdoor gig November 8th where [Thurston] Moore, [Kim] Gordon and [Lee] Ranaldo’s guitars treble-blast dissonant shockwaves over the black-stoned beach of Quadrophenia fame.

The record’s second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London’s Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums, again featuring some molten takes on ‘Brother James,’ ‘Flower’ (listed as ‘The Word (E.V.O.L.)’), and others. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet’s throttling march out into the world.”

Side A
1. C.B.
2. Green Love
3. Brother James
4. Kill Yr. Idols
5. “Mad” Groove
6. I Love Her (All The Time)

Side B
7. Expressway To Yr. Skull
8. Spahn Ranch Dance
9. “Blood On Brighton Beach”

Side C
10. Burning Spear
11. Death Valley ’69
12. Speed JAMC
13. Ghost Bitch

Side D
14. World Looks Red
15. The Word (E.V.O.L)
16. Brother Jam-Z
17. Killed And Kicked Of

DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist Sonic Youth
Product Title Walls Have Ears - Silver Vinyl - Sealed
Product Information Sonic Youth Walls Have Ears - Silver Vinyl - Sealed USA 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info
Artists Related To Body/Head, Ciccone Youth, Dim Stars, Free Kitten, Glenn Branca, Harry Crews, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Rudolph Grey, Swanic Youth, Text Of Life, Thurston Moore, Velvet Monkeys
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