On the band's 1987 European tour, they extended the song, adding five or six minutes of white noise at the end this coda was later named "Broken Eye". The last song on the album, "White Kross", was the oldest song on the album and was featured on an NME 7". "Kotton Krown" (or "Cotton Crown") was the first Gordon and Moore duet, although Moore usually sang it alone during live performances. For the eighth song on the album, the band covered Crime's song "Hot Wire My Heart". Mike Watt covered the song on his album Ball-Hog or Tugboat? with Sonic Youth members Moore, Ranaldo and Steve Shelley performing it with him. "Tuff Gnarl"'s working titles were "Sea-Sik" and "Smart and Fast", but the band ultimately decided to call it "Tuff Gnarl", inspired by the line "He's running on a tuff gnarl in his head". "Pipeline/Kill Time", sung by Ranaldo, was written on April 5, 1987, although several lyrics were not included in the final song. Another was "Beauty Lies in the Eye", which used three or four guitars. The band used acoustic guitars on some songs on the album for "melodic" purposes, one of the first being "(I Got A) Catholic Block". Both tracks from the single were later issued on the DVD portion of Screaming Fields of Sonic Love. The A-side featured their cover of " I Wanna Be Your Dog" with Iggy Pop. "Sister" was the original title for "Schizophrenia", and a live recording of the song from Jat The Town and Country Club in London was released on the B-side of a bootleg 7" single under the title "Sister". Some of the lyrics on "Schizophrenia" were originally written for early song "Come Around" ("Your future is static, It's already had it/But I got a hunch, it's coming back to me"). The album features aggressive noise songs such as "White Kross" and "Catholic Block", as well as a menacing noir ode, "Pacific Coast Highway", although it also featured more traditional song structures. Music and lyrics Īccording to Sputnikmusic's Adam Downer, Sister deviated from the frenetic sound of Sonic Youth's previous music in favor of a refined style of noise pop that would typify the band's subsequent work. "Sister" was also the original title for "Schizophrenia", and Thurston Moore often introduced it as "Sister". The original titles for the album were Kitty Magic, Humpy Pumpy and Sol-Fuc, but it was named Sister as a reference to Dick's fraternal twin, who died shortly after her birth, and whose memory haunted Dick his entire life. Sister was in part inspired by the life and works of science fiction writer Philip K. Sister is a loose concept album (like its follow-up Daydream Nation). Sister was recorded to 16-track in March and April 1987 with Walter Sear at Sear Sound, entirely on analog tube equipment, giving it its characteristic "warm", vintage feel. During the tour of the album, the band began writing material for a new album ("White Kross" had been written earlier, circa May 1986). Sonic Youth released their third album, EVOL, in May 1986. Left to right: Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon. In the years following, however, it received much critical praise, with several publications naming it as one of the best albums of the 1980s.īackground and recording Sonic Youth in a 1987 publicity photo from the press kit for Sister. Like Sonic Youth's previous records, Sister was not successful at the time of its release. The album furthered the band's move away from the no wave genre towards more traditional song structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach. It was released in June 1987 by SST Records. Sister is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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