Sonic Youth re-release ‘Dirty’

[Bucky Ramone]

From Pichtfork:, looks cool :

Sonic Youth Sets a Date with Dirty
In the midnight hour, she cried Moore, Moore, Moore

Will Bryant reports:
DGC’s overhaul of the Sonic Youth back catalog will get underway March 4th, with a 35-track expanded reissue of the band’s Butch Vig-produced 1992 album Dirty. This double-disc do-over includes most of the period’s b-sides, from the "100%", "Drunken Butterfly", "Youth Against Fascism" and "Sugar Kane" singles, as well as "Stalker", which was exclusively available on the two-slab vinyl version of Dirty. The bonus disc unearths covers of Alice Cooper’s "Is It My Body" from a Sub Pop singles club seven-inch, and the New York Dolls’ "Personality Crisis" from a Sassy flexidisc (remember rooting through your sister’s magazines looking for those?), as well as an early instrumental version of "Shoot" entitled "The End of the End of the Ugly". Dude, I never knew SY collaborated with Billy Corgan!

The real cash-bait here are the dozen painstakingly reconstructed eight-track rehearsal tapes recorded by the band before the proper Dirty sessions: unfinished epics and half-baked notions like "Poet in the Pit", "Theoretical Chaos", and "Little Jammy Thing" abound, but embryonic versions of "Youth Against Fascism", "Wish Fulfillment" and "Stalker", which all differ radically from the final versions, should convince fans to trade up for the set.

In addition to bonus jams, the reissue comes packed with a 28-page booklet featuring essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and rock-crit Byron Coley, plus– we presume– plenty of outtakes from that photo session where people you have no desire to see naked cavort with cute little bunny rabbits. Just about the only thing not included (presumably due to space constraints) is the brilliant acoustic version of "Purr"; Youth obsessives are advised to hang on to their "Sugar Kane" and/or "Youth Against Fascism" discs for that one. Tracklist:

Disc one:
01 100%
02 Swimsuit Issue
03 Theresa’s Sound-World
04 Drunken Butterfly
05 Shoot
06 Wish Fulfillment
07 Sugar Kane
08 Orange Rolls, Angels Spit
09 Youth Against Fascism
10 Nic Fit
11 On the Strip
12 Chapel Hill
13 JC
14 Purr
15 Crème Brulee
16 Stalker
17 Genetic
18 Hendrix Necro
19 The Destroyed Room

Disc two:
01 Is It My Body [Alice Cooper cover]
02 Personality Crisis [New York Dolls cover]
03 The End of the End of the Ugly
04 Tamra
05 Little Jammy Thing*
06 Lite Damage*
07 Dreamfinger*
08 Barracuda*
09 New White Kross*
10 Guido*
11 Stalker [alternate version]*
12 Moonface*
13 Poet in the Pit*
14 Theoretical Chaos*
15 Youth Against Fascism [alternate version]*
16 Wish Fulfillment [alternate version]*

* previously unreleased

As previously reported, 1990’s Goo and Pitchfork’s Top Album of the 1980s, 1988’s Daydream Nation, are also set for double-disc renovations in 2003, though release dates have yet to be determined.

[SG]

Looks cool though I`m tired of these reissues because they`re trying to get people who already own the album to buy it again I might buy it anyway though

[jeremiah]

yeah I hate it too –

*opens wallet*

LOL – it is a must have

I wonder if they are going to have the ‘dirty’ artwork that was on the limited edition copies (under the cd?)

thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!!!!

[K7 Rides Again]

This has nothing to do with SY, but does deal with re-releases. Pavement also has a re-release out of Slanted & Enchanted. 2nd disc contains some never b4 released stuff, and I think some b-sides+some live stuff. May be worth checking out!

[everyonelovesjaron]

The Pavement rerelease is fantastic. Definitely worth the $$.

[Long Distance Drunk]

i’m kinda bummed they are releasing one of the ones i have replaced the tape with cd first. now i have to hold off if i see daydream nation in the used record store for awhile but yeah, the pavement is way better than it has any right to be….

[Author]

Posts