Bad Moon Rising
 

I did a search and didn't see any of those"(random sonic youth album) is the best album ever and has changed my life" threads devoted to Bad Moon Rising so I thought I would create one

um. Well I think it's okay. But the album before it and the album after it are so much better than it. So. I don't know. I like the idea of the songs segueing into each other. And "Intro"/"Brave Men Run" is one of my favorite SY tracks. And "Halloween" is sexy as fuck. And certainly "DV69" is classic. But yeah I guess I don't listen to it as much as CONFUSION or EVOL becuz I find them to bar more solid LP's to my ears.

it's good, but it's not this good.

Bad Moon Rising is one of my least favorite SY albums...which still means that I really, really like it!

Thats not even fair, you might as well compare it to jesus or the beatles

Bad Moon Rising is one of my favorite SY albums.

i almost consider it a concept album. the songs are drawn out, and flow perfectly into each other like the album is jsut one long song with many different movements. its a really really coherent and seamless album, and i think it deserves more credit. i think this album really shaped where they were going and definetly set the stage for evol.

maybe just outside my top 5

I agree with this.

Absolutely my favorite.

It's my joint favourite SY album. I'm Insane is my favourite track. The riff which is played towrads its end and throughout Justice is Might is one of my favourite riffs ever.

I think it's one of the best to listen to straight through (obviously because the tracks go right into one another), but it's more than that. Ghost Bitch is the highlight for me, especially when the drums come in. I'm not the biggest fan of Death Valley '69... I'd love to see it live though. The four bonus tracks really help out (Echo Canyon not so much, but it's pretty cool to listen to it sped up). Satan Is Boring always puzzled me, yet I've been digging it lately. Flower and Halloween kick ass.

^^AND I was going to say I liked it more than Daydream Nation too.

It's a pretty awesome album. I've actually started liking it more than I did before. Halloween, DV69, and Intro are some of the best SY songs ever. I love how the songs all flow into one another and the cover is pretty sweet too.

My favorite musical recording by anybody, hands down.

its better than any of their 90's albums, and the 2000's excluding murray street. i really like this period of sy. it seems like a nice mix of their more dissonant earlier stuff, and the sound that they developed in the late 80's with evol, sister and ddn. that and i associate bmr with the gila monster gig. i can't think of a concert where the music suited the setting more.

i always wonder...who are those guys?...but yeah the word fuck: is love!

bob bert and friends... the archie pic is from this poster

^^^^ thanks Chris !

Bad Moon Rising is my favorite record by Sonic Youth, and actually my favorite record ever made by anyone. It took six months of frequent listens to me to realize its greatness, but once I understood it, I loved it to death

top 5 LP for me. sonic youth fantasticity. The fucking greatest skronkfest around. Bad Moon Rising is so fucking great. That and daydream nation are my two favorite SONIC YOUTH albums, with daydream in the lead

Bad Moon Rising may be their most TIMELES album, for I feel it will stil shock and astound twenty years from now, just as it still does today, even though it is nearly 25 years old right?\


Truly a scary scary album. Love it so muich.


SO I HAD TO HIT IT! HIT IT!!!!!

I've decided this to be the favorite album of mine.
Haven't listened to it in a while though.

Agree with this. The fugging bass in DV69 is sooooooooo gd creepy. I love it.

"brace men run" into "society is a hole" is so perfect. i never even realize BMR ends, and then thurston starts singing.

sooooo incredible

One of the best SY releases. The first SY i ever listened and it scared the shit of of me :D

yes, it's my favourite SY album.

*sung to the tune of "new day rising"*

Bad moon rising!

Bad moon rising!

Bad moon rising!

Bad moon rising!

Bad moon rising!

BADD MOON RISINGGG AHH

It's one of the most creative records I've ever heard. It's simply amazing that someone could think these tracks up. 10 outta 10 >>Perfect

I kind of wish they'd make another album like this.

I think a thousand leaves comes close, though it's obviously more stretched-out and "mature". It still evokes that autumny vibe to me.

This I agree with. Neither are near my FAVORITE SY album. But these are the two SY albums I play the shit out of during Autumn. (also obviously EVOL and a bit of Washing Machine)

It was my first sonic youth record a few years back (along with evol). Evol was just so immediately engrossing and BMR so tough to get into that I kind of forgot about it. this summer I forced myself to listen to it a couple times, and on the second listen through, laying in bed after a sonic youth show, when ghost bitch ended, I realized it was their best album. Not my absolute favorite, but their best. I'm actually scared of its subtle genius. Every listen through uncovers a new layer of soundscape and emotional dynamics.

i love this album, i love to listen to it in autumn, with it being Halloween etc :)

"Halloween" is one of those SY songs I could listen to over and over and over again.

great album and gila monster...what a gig!

bottom three i recon. signs ogf magic though. evol started it for me...

Bad Moon Rising, its their best album record!

definitely the album i listen to most these days. in fact i very rarely listen to any of their other albums now.

halloween gives me a boner.

My most listened to SY album for the past few months. Awesome, awesome, awesome.



Awesome.

This was my second Sonic Vinyl together EVOL and Dirty (I ordered from the musicshop also Sonic Death-cd, it came, but instead of Dirty I ordered Dirty Boots-ep, but somehow they sent me Dirty, that didn´t bother me, because I was going to buy it someday anyhow. I just bought Dirty boots later). You can imagine, in which one of these I was most excited about (I had Dirty already in cassette). But I liked Bad Moon Rising also already then. I think there´s already something that "burst out" in EVOL, but there is also something from Confusion. I have said earlier that all the first three albums (I count the first ep on this) have something different and that kind of things SY never did again. Bad Moon Rising is quite harmonic, even the noise in it just doesn´t hit you like it do in Confusion. In some net-pages it is described as a "masterpiece of american degeneration". I don´t know, is it correct description, but there is some very specific feeling that isn´t any other album. And I truly think, it has the best SY-cover (I made t-shirt of it, so shame I don´t have it anymore)!!! And it has also best finale song of SY lp:s (Death valley ´69). It´s also very strong entity. Although Ghost Bitch and Justice is might are not very strong songs, they fit in that albums´s mood very well and it´s hard to me think the album without them.