death valley 69 Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/death-valley-69/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Sonic Youth “Death Valley 69″ https://vinylfromthevault.com/sonic-youth-death-valley-69-1985-ep-homestead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sonic-youth-death-valley-69-1985-ep-homestead Wed, 29 May 2019 15:45:08 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/sonic-youth-death-valley-69-1985-ep-homestead/ Sonic Youth “Death Valley 69″ 1985 EP, Homestead Records/Blast First Records. First released as a 7″ single in 1984 and then included on Sonic Youth’s second LP Bad Moon Rising (1985), “Death Valley 69″ features no-wave artist Lydia Lunch on vocals along with Thurston Moore on vocals and guitar, Kim Gordon on bass, Bob Bert - who is [...]

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]]> Sonic Youth “Death Valley 69″ 1985 EP, Homestead Records/Blast First Records. First released as a 7″ single in 1984 and then included on Sonic Youth’s second LP Bad Moon Rising (1985), “Death Valley 69″ features no-wave artist Lydia Lunch on vocals along with Thurston Moore on vocals and guitar, Kim Gordon on bass, Bob Bert – who is currently touring as part of Jon Spencer’s Hitmakers band – on drums, and Lee Ranaldo on guitar. It is a dark, loud, powerful post-punk noise rock masterpiece. This was the first song I ever heard by Sonic Youth; a friend of mine had this EP in ‘85 and I listened to her copy obsessively after making a tape (our vinyl copy is a relatively new acquisition). “Death Valley 69″ is about the Charles Manson murders of 1969 which puts its sinister vibe into serious context. The B-side of the EP has the tracks “I Dream I Dreamed” (a no-wave shoegazer), “Inhuman” (industrial-tinged noise rock), “Brother James” (driving dissonance in minor, creepy as hell yet weirdly catchy) and “Satan is Boring” (all no-wave, really really creepy chanting, no discernible melody or beat).

 

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]]> 10303 Sonic Youth w/Lydia Lunch “Death Valley 69″ https://vinylfromthevault.com/sonic-youth-wlydia-lunch-death-valley-69/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sonic-youth-wlydia-lunch-death-valley-69 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:58:00 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=4017 Sonic Youth w/Lydia Lunch “Death Valley 69″ and “Brave Men Run (In My Family)” 1984. Iridescence Records. 7″ single but not at 45 rpm (as I discovered when a chipmunked Lydia Lunch shrieked at me for a few seconds before I turned the speed back to 33-1/3). According to Allmusic’s Stewart Mason, “The lyrics and title [to [...]

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]]> Sonic Youth w/Lydia Lunch “Death Valley 69″ and “Brave Men Run (In My Family)” 1984. Iridescence Records. 7″ single but not at 45 rpm (as I discovered when a chipmunked Lydia Lunch shrieked at me for a few seconds before I turned the speed back to 33-1/3).

According to Allmusic’s Stewart Mason, “The lyrics and title [to “Death Valley ‘69″] reference the fascination with Charles Manson that percolated through some elements of the ‘80s punk scene.” I guess I wasn’t a part of that scene, I thought Manson was for jaded and misled hippies.

Run-off groove etchings:

Side A: “We all sleep here” and “Turn me on, dead man”

Side B: “We went on down, there was no place else to go”

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