Just found this incredible footage of a somewhat mature Sonic Youth playing Teenage Riot on Jools a couple of years back. Just wonder what the famously jazz centric Holland thought of it- not a lot probably. The version is slightly shortened from the albums six plus minutes- but as with much Youth perhaps not the worse for a bit of editing.
It's one of those songs whose visceral engergy befits a live performance, and the two pronged guitar attack never sounded so awesome. It is also sung with slightly more clarity than on the album version leading to some interesting lyrical revelations. "Looking for a man with focus and a temper, who can open up a map and see between one and two", open up a mouth.....and see do you want it too? Anyone? No, thought not. Ahem. Just check out this footage of The Youth at their most melodic and disciplined (i..e their best) and stand in awe at THAT RIFF. Oh, and like them on facebook (how i found out about this video).
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