L. Bangs ([info]lbangs) wrote,
@ 2009-06-25 09:23:00
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Current music:Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket

I Can Feel Very Clearly / But No Longer See
I finally finished it last night, and now [info]lilbrigid has a one-disc Sonic Youth sampler to ready her for the concert next month.

I agonized and finally worked it to the following track list. Song title is followed by the album where the tune made its debut, and any title after that is the actually disc I used as a source. If the two albums are different, it is because I think the second has a sonically superior version... I'm a nerd.

1) Death Valley '69 - Bad Moon Rising ( Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground )
2) Shadow of a Doubt - EVOL ( Screaming Fields of Sonic Love )
3) Into the Groove(y) - Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album ( Screaming Fields of Sonic Love )
4) Schizophrenia - Sister
5) Catholic Block - Sister
6) Teen Age Riot - Daydream Nation ( Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground )
7) Silver Rocket - Daydream Nation
8) The Sprawl - Daydream Nation
9) Kool Thing - Goo (Mobile Fidelity gold disc of Goo )
10) 100% - Dirty
11) The Diamond Sea - Washing Machine
12) Incinerate - Rather Ripped
13) Malibu Gas Station - The Eternal

Thanks to long songs, the compilation is over 76 minutes but merely 13 tunes long...

Before you complain too much, let me tell ya, that was tough. I determined it had to be chronological to give a sense of the band's evolution, and I wanted to include the few major singles the outfit has scored. Additionally, it had to flow like a good album. Give it a shot - it can drive you bonkers, especially if you already live in the neighborhood!

I'm off...




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[info]gybefan2000
2009-06-25 07:07 pm UTC (link)
After seeing this I'm kinda agonizing over what my own choices would be. "100%," "Death Valley '69" and "Incinerate" are definitely good ones, among others. Their songs drag on forever, though, so hard for mixes! I need to listen to THE ETERNAL again, only having heard it once.

going to the Cain's show?

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[info]lbangs
2009-06-25 07:26 pm UTC (link)
I've done so many artist compilations before, but this one may have been the toughest. At one point, I had a 13-song list with at least five different titles ready to burn only to change my mind at the last moment. I spent entirely too long on this!

Yup, we'll both be at the Cain's show, and then we'll be there at the Elvis Costello concert the following month...

Death Valley '69 is such a fun to kick the disc off with. How nice that it was actually released near the start of their career... (It does drive my co-workers nut, though, when the double vocals start up.)

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

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