Sonic Youth live Chicago 1987

[@ScottishTeeVee]

1 of almost 3000 music videos on this channel, all taken from my videotape collection. If you enjoy this channel, then help keep it going via Go Fund Me at gofund.me/f91033fc

[@talkingmudcrab718]

From the description: *"the audio is a little overloaded / distorted, the image is very dark..."* It's _perfect._

[@70x4]

Hold that tiger!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for being here so fast and getting the first comment.🏆

[@noelwhite6650]

This is where Hold That Tiger came from !. Insane to actually get to see it after listening to it.

[@robertgillen979]

34:40 Death Valley 69. For those who care.

[@DianaAmalletaLune]

SY 's first live show in Japan was at Shinjyku LOFT of Tokyo in 1988, i was there💖💖

[@ScottishTeeVee]

You very lucky person. Thanks for watching and commenting

[@outdoor_kat]

I can't think of any other bands that sounded like this in 1987. Progenitors.

[@davidbyers3429]

I am in the audience 😊

[@rigocolas]

Awesome!

[@ronnieka3309]

So cool, the sound and lights are just capturing the right mystique! Would have loved being there.

[@chazzanschutz6096]

Awesome find again! Christ im getting old. (Was a Junior in high school when this came out, and had just discovered SY). Also, for a 'primitive' 80's cam-corder, this sounds amazing!

[@johntbd]

Steve Albini introduction!

[@anyanikolaeva9619]

Such legends! ♥️

[@mond000]

Intro - 0:00 Schizophrenia - 0:39 Tom Violence - 5:13 White Kross - 8:05 Kotton Krown - 11:16 Stereo Sanctity - 15:11 Brother James - 18:52 Pipeline/Kill Time - 22:21 Catholic Block - 26:11 Tuff Gnarl - 30:17 Death Valley '69 - 34:05 Beauty Lies In The Eye - 39:04 Expressway To Yr. Skull - 41:48 Pacific Coast Highway - 46:28 Loudmouth - 51:36 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You - 53:41 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World - 55:17 Beat On The Brat - 57:20

[@magiccat4316]

Amongst the beautiful noise is some stunning drumming by Steve Shelley.

[@ScanianNPM]

What a raw energy Brother James! ❤ Whole concert is super, thanks for uploading!

[@hunterdavis3003]

This is so great!

[@Buffalohump77]

Top footage mate. 🎱

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@Buffalohump77]

@@ScottishTeeVee When I was a kid at school here in South Africa in '85 I got Bad Moon Rising. I used to study that album cover like it was the holy grail. That Halloween scarecrow and the band pic on the back. You have to understand to us NYC was like the far side of the moon. We couldnt even get Levi's jeans in ZA. They just looked like the coolest motherfuckers on the planet.

[@briann2541]

Just been listening to Sonic Youth after they were an answer on Monday's University Challenge. Not to be confused with Musical Youth! 😂

[@ThirstyEye]

sorry to peach, but my faves- EVOL, Bad Moon Rising, Washing Machine, and A Thousand Leaves. Sister good as well, of course.

[@anteaterattack]

A lot of folks don’t “get” SY imho. The sound they were capable of was transcendent; like a whole different scale of emotional frequency.

[@rigocolas]

I agree, can feel similar to a gong sound bath, in a meditative way

[@djefferson5669]

55:15 Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World

[@horroroffab]

WOW they were on fire !🤩

[@WalterSobchak1000]

Was that Steve Albini introducing them? Thanks for the video

[@tonyk.1784]

Came here to say this.

[@BGNOLA]

He had to get back to his CP collection

[@Xcalator35]

OMG!! It IS Steve Albini!! I was baffled because in the 'Hold that Tiger' record from this performance, Thurston introduces; 'Vic Bondy, ladies nad gentleman' (that bit is not included in this video). Vic Bondy was the singer for the Chicago hardcore band Articles of Faith; he and Steve had a feud going on at the time...The whole 'Hold that Tiger' record is full of these decieving things. Like the cover depicts the band Pussy Galore, not Sonic Youth!!

[@eliashopstadius9172]

​@@Xcalator35 with their ex drummer Bob Bert

[@WhereTheyLay]

Awesome.

[@Horsemanray]

Incredible. I've owned this album for over 20 years.

[@myoyj]

so cool, rest in peace steve

[@BGNOLA]

I wish the Baton Rouge LA '86 show was videotaped, though I cant stand SY now

[@MOUBARRET]

👁El ojo

[@thedoc1210]

wow

[@chrishoffman6537]

That’s Steve Albini doing the introduction

[@ScottishTeeVee]

It certainly is

[@ageispolis6960]

RIP

[@trickfall8752]

Amazing

[@maplesalt1482]

Yeah, I've been looking for this for about 7 years. Shows how sped up Hold That Tiger is. Are those scanlines a filter?

[@JClaus1221]

It's sad to think that Creed's "Higher" is actually derived from "Schizophrenia".

[@cloudedleopardeffects5010]

What?? That can't be true lol

[@bighill8272]

Noise annoys. Too many crime being committed against my eardrums here.