Sonic Youth’s ‘Live in Moscow’ is a snapshot of the indie rock greats at their peak. Read our review
still sounds like a concentrated show — and a pretty galvanizing memento of an important moment in the band’s career. Most of it is given over to nearly all of which took up a large chunk of the band’s set at the time, and the arrangements aren’t radically different from those on the album: Rivet-gun guitar still opens “Teenage Riot,” and the medley of “Hyperstation,” “The Wonder,” and “Eliminator Jr.
But by then, Sonic Youth had been playing these songs onstage for months, and the performances bristle with lived-in confidence; they’re clearly comfortable pushing each song a little further beyond what it was on record. “’Cross the Breeze” and “Kissability” sound especially emboldened, and Gordon’s curdle-the-milk screams turn “Eliminator Jr.” into a horror-film soundtrack.
Also heard are the band’s between-song wisecracks, which take on a newly perverse twist in this context — it’s possible that many in the audience didn’t understand English that well. So Lee Ranaldo introduces “Eric’s Trip” as “LSD in ’63,” and Moore announces “Silver Rocket” with “This song is aboutpersonally sending a bomb.
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