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Album Mon Sep 10 2012
Hear Sonic Youth Play Smartbar in 1985
On Aug. 11, 1985, Sonic Youth played a show at Smart Bar, back when it was on the top floor of the Cabaret Metro, in support of their album Bad Moon Rising. There was a four-track tape recorder hooked into the soundboard, and it picked up plenty of songs from Bad Moon Rising as well as "Secret Girl," "Expressway to Yr Skull" and "Kat 'N' Hat."
This incomplete concert recording has been floating around in bootleg circles (where it's known as Anarchy On/At St. Mary's Place) for some time, but the band announced today that it has mixed and mastered this blast from the past that most fans have never heard, and will release it as a double-LP, CD and digital download on Nov. 14.
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985 track list:
1. "Hallowe'en"
2. "Death Valley '69"
3. "Intro/Brave Men Run(In My Family)"
4. "I Love Her All The Time"
5. "Ghost Bitch"
6. "I'm Insane"
7. Kat 'N' Hat"
8. Brother James"
9. "Kill Yr Idols"
10. "Secret Girl"
11. "Flower"
12. "The Burning Spear"
13. "Expressway To Yr Skull"
14". Making The Nature Scene"