Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears (Limited Edition)

Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band's story, Sonic Youth's The 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, humor and audio vérité. 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, with Paul Smith of the newly-founded Blast First label acting as an overseas diplomatic envoy for Sonic Youth through their SST years. This 2LP set brims with primitive classics like "The Burning Spear," "Death Valley 69," and "I'm Insane," with segues and live guitar changes oozing together threaded by Madonna tapes and vocal loops off the board.

Tracklist

1. C.B.
2. Green Love
3. Brother James
4. Kill Yr. Idols
5. "Mad" Groove
6. I Love Her (All the Time)
7. Expressway to Yr. Skull
8. Spahn Ranch Dance
9. "Blood on Brighton Beach"
10. Burning Spear
11. Death Valley '69
12. Speed Jamc
13. Ghost Bitch
14. World Looks Red
15. The Word (E.V.O.L.)
16. Brother Jam-Z
17. Killed and Kicked Off