Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears FLAC

Sonic Youth Not Art Rock Avantgarde Indie Rock 1986

Genre:	Rock
Performer:	Sonic Youth
Title:	Walls Have Ears
Style:	Art Rock, Avantgarde, Indie Rock
Date of release:	1986
Label:	Not
Catalog Number:	NOT 1 (BUT 2)
Country:	UK
FLAC album size:	2567 mb
MP3 album size:	1843 mb

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Tracklist

1	Death Valley '69
2	Burning Spear
3	The World Looks Red
4	Speed Jamc
5	Ghost Bitch (w/ I'm Insane, unlisted)
6	The Word (E.V.O.L.)
7	Spahn Ranch Dance
8	Expressway To Yr. Skull
9	Green Love
10	"Blood On Brighton Beach"
11	I Love Her All The Time
12	C.B.
13	Kill Yr. Idols
14	Brother James
15	Killed + Kicked Off
16	Brother Jam-Z
17	"Mad" Groove

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
EWM 005	Sonic Youth	Walls Have Ears ‎(CD, Unofficial)	Experience In Word & Music	EWM 005	Unknown
A150	Sonic Youth	The Sonic Youth Sound Experience (Walls Have Ears) ‎(CD, Unofficial)	Aulica	A150	Italy	1993
not1	Sonic Youth	Walls Have Ears ‎(2xLP, Unofficial)	Not	not1	UK	Unknown
NOT 1 (BUT 2)	Sonic Youth	Walls Have Ears ‎(2xLP, Unofficial, Unn)	Not	NOT 1 (BUT 2)	UK	1986

Credits

Artwork [Inner Sleeve] – Savage Pencil
Lacquer Cut By – Porky
Performer – Bob Bert (tracks: C1-D4), Kim, Lee, Steve Shelley (tracks: A1-B3), Thurston
Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Bruce Rhodes
Presenter [uncredited] – Claude Bessy (tracks: A1)

Notes

First pressing, edition of 2000. Machine-numbered (bottom-right of rear sleeve).
Gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves. Full-colour printed labels.
Some unnumbered copies also exist, as do bootleg reissues.

This was the inaugural release on Not, which issued "official bootlegs" of Blast First artists, but was withdrawn after the band objected to it being released without their approval.

Tracks A1 to B2 recorded live at U.L.U (the University of London Union), Wed 30th October.
Track B3 recorded live at Brighton Beach, Fri 8th November.
Tracks C1 to D4 recorded live at The Palais De Dance, Hammersmythe, Sun 28th April.

Printed on spine:
this record is called ......... WALLS HAVE EARS ....... this record is called THE SONIC YOUTH SOUND EXPERIENCE ....... this record is called NOT 1 (BUT 2)

Printed on inner sleeve:
This record is called "This time, the last time + here's the next time"

A Wallz-have-earz production

Barcodes

Matrix / Runout (Stamped A): NOT 1 A-1-1-1-X1 A Porky Prime Cut
Matrix / Runout (Stamped B): NOT 1 1B # -1U-1-1 A Porky Prime Cut.
Matrix / Runout (Stamped C): NOT 1 CB̶-1U-1-1-X1 A Porky Prime Cut.
Matrix / Runout (Stamped D): NOT 1 D-1U-1-1-1 A Porky Prime Cut.

Companies

Pressed By – EMI Records
Recorded At – University Of London Union
Recorded At – Brighton Beach
Recorded At – Hammersmith Palais

Video

Manazar

This was indeed approved by the band - they regard it as an "official bootleg," similar to a few other SY releases floating around from the early days. It's possible that when they signed to a major label in the '90s they were pressured to aver otherwise, but if a band authorizes something at the time of its release, given the handshake-deal elements involved, it's legally dubious that it can subsequently make a copyright claim. In fact, I interviewed the band a little while after the LP came out - obtained autographs of each member on the sleeve - and they told me directly that they approved of it and loved it.

Brariel

You can hear one of the tracks left off Walls Have Ears "I Love Her All The Time" on Various - Impact! (Auto·Edit).I saw Walls Have Ears in HMV when it was released but, rather stupidly, passed it by.

Bolv

Bought mine in Virgin - still has the price sticker. It's the unnumbered version but otherwise identical to the numbered version with same matrix numbers. I don't understand why the numbered version can be sold here but not the unnumbered version which comes from the same stampers. Either both can be sold legally or neither.

Jeronashe

I was at the ULU gig, and it was a great set, and then they went into "Expressway To Yr. Skull" and we all lost our minds.

Qulcelat

This "partially unofficial" release was in fact sanctioned by the band themselves. I discussed this issue with the band back-stage 29-09-1988, where my copy was fully autograhed and includes a message by Kim Gordon saying: "Happy Pumpy Forever". The inner sleeve designs are by one of their preferred artists Savage Pencil. I can add scans/pictures of those if required.

Uttegirazu

This is a really transcendental recording which includes a recording of what was a particularly transcendental concert (for me). I always have found SY gigs to be extrememly varied (i've seen them at least a dozen times since 1982 or so) and I've seen a few that did not work out so well. It's the byproduct of the amount of improvisation that occurs on stage. The ULU gig was, for me, the introduction to the (then) new "melodic" SY and when they launched into "Expressway to Your Skull" lights well flashing behind my eyelids. This gig really changed my life and the recording and packaging of this LP is superlative, I'd have to give it a 6-out-of-5, but it maybe the flashback effect is clouding my judgement).