Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69 Video

I'll gloss over Sonic Youth in this for now, as they got a mention not so long ago here, and instead concentrate on Lydia Lunch. This track takes me right back to 1988. I was stacking shelves in the local Lo-Cost for pennies to earn enough to go out and drink snakebite and black at Cardiff's infamous Square Club on a Saturday night. I have several memories from that store - first time hearing Spacemen 3, first trip to a punk discotheque and being given a Lydia Lunch compiliation by probably the straightest looking assistant manager, who's name evades me. I can't remember why he gave it to me, but I'm eternally grateful that he did.

The tape, Hysterie, featured sections from various parts of Lydia Lunch's career, an artist I'd never heard of at the time. Most notably, the tape completely turned me on to her first band, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, which showcases 18 mintues of the finest primal rock rage ever (talk about a short recording career.) The tape also as featured this great track, which by the way, was also my first ever exposure to Sonic Youth. The video's also notable for being partially made by cult underground shock film maker Richard Kern, and I've seen it about before, but it's great to see again and to be able to feature it here.

Posted by Dio Bach at 9:58 PM