This was one of my favourite songs when I was 13 and I still have the 10" concentric groove EP it's on. It was effectively the B side to '100%', the lead single from the Dirty album. Coming as it did a year after Nirvana's Nevermind, it felt at the time as though Sonic Youth were being lined up (despite their longevity) as the next big band for grunge kids to latch onto.
I can't help but think that the band had this at the back of their minds when they released the wilfully perverse Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star in 1994.
It is basically their fault, and the fault of the BBC for broadcasting a documentary about the Peel Sessions that featured Siouxsie and the Banshees, that I first started listening to the John Peel Show in January 1993.
There was a live concert from Sonic Youth on that nights show, plus a Peel Session from the Voodoo Queens. The Voodoo Queens session turned out to be much more important in the long term. That and the album tracks Peel was playing from the split Bikini Kill/Huggy Bear album Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah/Our Troubled Youth on Catcall (Liz Naylor's label).
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