summer 1999
(originally produced & home recorded by Bobby Burg, self released by Lou & Chris on their tape "In Chicago", summer '99; reissued on cdr by Lou Thomas on the album "94 East/Three", summer 2005)
personell:
Lou Thomas - vocals, lyrics, guitar
Chris Teret guitar, back up vocals
Bobby Burg - organ, back up vocals
Beth Hoeckel - tambourine
(more info on Lou & Chris can be found in the 40 pg. booklet of track notes that accompanies the double tape version of Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts)
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Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
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When you consider the very uniqueness of this group, why wouldn't you buy it? They really are a seriously spectacular live act as well as masters of the studio. Gavin Hellyer