'I Love Her All the Time' features extensive prepared guitar by Ranaldo and the use of one chord, with a noise section in the middle like many of the album's songs, it focuses on texture and rhythm rather than melody. Sonic Youth's use of transitional pieces in the album was inspired by their live shows, which featured either Moore or Ranaldo tuning guitars for up to five minutes while the other played slow transitory guitar riffs or prerecorded sound collages. The song begins with a single riff repeating for a minute, before Gordon murmurs, 'Brave man run in my family/Brave men run away from me.' The riff fades into the album's third song, 'Society Is a Hole', 'a one-chord hymn to big-city anomie'. The album begins with 'Intro', a short instrumental featuring several guitars, described by Michael Azerrad as 'a melancholic, meowing slide line playing off a delicate stack of crystalline arpeggios.' 'Intro' segues into the next song, 'Brave Men Run (In My Family)'. The album's cover is a photograph by artist James Welling of a scarecrow with a flaming jack-o'-lantern as its head.īad Moon Rising 's style has been described as noise rock, no wave Īnd experimental rock. Bisi had recorded early rappers and local avant-garde musicians such as John Zorn, Elliott Sharp and Bill Laswell. Background Īfter a period of intense songwriting, the band entered producer Martin Bisi's BC Studio – implicitly, 'Before Christ Studio', which is how the band credited it on the album – in Brooklyn, New York in September 1984. They retreated to the rehearsal room, retuned their guitars and changed their equipment so that they were unable to play their old songs, and began writing new material. When they returned to New York, the queue at CBGB for the band's concerts went around the block.īy mid-1984, Sonic Youth were playing almost weekly in the city, but its members started to realize that there was little future in their musical approach Moore later said, 'it was getting to the point of overkill'. The New York press largely ignored Sonic Youth (as well as the noise rock scene in the city), until after a disastrous London debut in October 1983 that actually received rave reviews in British papers Sounds and NME. Bob Bert rejoined Sonic Youth after the Confusion Is Sex tour in mid-1983. Idols in 1983, several drummers joined and left the band. As Sonic Youth released a number of albums and EPs to increasing critical acclaim, including Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr. The band signed to Glenn Branca's Neutral Records, releasing the Sonic Youth EP in March 1982. Sonic Youth was formed in New York City in 1981 by guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and bass guitarist Kim Gordon. The album was named after the 1969 song ' Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The album was preceded by the single ' Death Valley '69', which did not chart in either the US or UK (the track was re-recorded for the album and released again as a single in June 1985).

Released to strong reviews from the underground music press, Bad Moon Rising was the band's first album to combine experimental material with transitional pieces and segues. The album is loosely themed around the dark side of America, including references to obsession, insanity, Charles Manson, heavy metal, Satanism, and early European settlers' encounters with Native Americans.

Bad Moon Rising is the second studio album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released on March 29, 1985, by Blast First and Homestead Records.

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