Live In Yugoslavia 1985/1987

by Sonic Youth

supported by

lajuergens8 First saw them in 1990, 15 times after that up until the end. Changed the way I thought about most everything. Sonic/Life indeed...

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$12 USD or more

1.	Halloween (Live) 05:17	buy track
2.	Brother James (Live) 03:08	buy track
3.	Kill Yr. Idols (Live) 02:35	buy track
4.	Into The Groovey (Live) 02:51	buy track
5.	I Love Her All The Time (Live) 06:08	buy track
6.	Schizophrenia (Live) 04:24	buy track
7.	Expressway To Yr Skull (Live) 06:21	buy track
8.	Pacific Coast Highway (Live) 04:01	buy track
9.	Stereo Sanctity (Live) 03:21	buy track
10.	Tom Violence (Live) 03:00	buy track
11.	White Kross (Live) 03:51	buy track
12.	Hot Wire My Heart (Live) 03:53	buy track

about

Originally released as a bootleg cassette on FV Založba, a tape and vinyl label best-known for their “Hardcore Ljubljana” LP from 1985. They released many more live tapes from the 80’s LJU: Henry Rollins, Swans, Nick Cave, NoMeansNo, etc.
Radio Student (now Radio Študent) broadcast the concert(s) and promoter Igor Vidmar recorded the shows with Borut Berden.
Monika Skaberne who still runs FV found the master cassette.

credits

released June 5, 2020

Front of House sound by Carlos van Hijfte
Originally broadcast by Radio Student
Recorded by Igor Vidmar and Borut Berden
Songs 1-5 recorded at Dom Svobode, Šentvid on October 5,1985
Songs 6-12 recorded at Festivalna Dvorana, Ljubljana on June 24,1987

Digital transfer by Igor Mihovilović (Guranje S Litice) October 2019
Remastered by Jeremy Lemos June 2020

Thanks to Monika Skaberne and Igor Mihovilovic

license

about

Sonic Youth New York, New York

Sonic Youth Archive is a home to SY recordings including official, unreleased, self-released and stray SY recordings.

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Sonic Youth

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Sonic Youth recommends:

Invisible You
by J.P. Shilo

with Mick Harvey, Kim Salmon and Steve Shelley Sonic Youth
go to album
Countless Centuries Fled Into The Distance Like So Many Storms
by Lee Ranaldo

solo lee Sonic Youth
go to album

If you like Sonic Youth, you may also like:

In/Out/In
by Sonic Youth

supported by 62 fans who also own “Live In Yugoslavia 1985/1987”

Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
go to album
Wylde Ratttz
by wylde ratttz

supported by 41 fans who also own “Live In Yugoslavia 1985/1987”

Such a great work of love. I'm grateful to all who participated in this and long live The Stooges! Jay
go to album
Head Cleaner
by Hayes Noble

Hayes Noble's version of indie rock blends the blown-out textures of shoegaze and the energy of punk with catchy songwriting. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2023
go to album
Fist In The Air
by CHERUBS

Fuzzy Austin trio follow up their first album in 20 years, released in Spring 2015, with a stomping new EP of noisy rock & roll. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2016
go to album