Confusion Is Sex
The first full album, cut in a Chelsea basement with Sclavunos on most of the drums.
Sonic Youth, 1983
- Released
- 1983
- Recorded
- 1982-83
- Studio
- Wharton Tiers' basement studio, Chelsea
- Label
- Neutral
- Producer
- Sonic Youth, Wharton Tiers and John Erskine
- Length
- 35:40
Recorded over 1982 and 1983 in Wharton Tiers' basement studio in Chelsea and released on Glenn Branca's Neutral label. Jim Sclavunos drummed on most tracks, with Bob Bert on Making the Nature Scene and the Stooges cover. Lee Ranaldo played bass on Protect Me You, and Michael Gira wrote the lyrics to The World Looks Red. Entertainment Weekly's Chuck Eddy called it the band's funniest, hardest-rocking and most underrated album.
Track listing
- (She's In A) Bad Mood5:27
- Protect Me You5:16
- Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover)3:28
- Shaking Hell4:01
- Inhuman3:49
- The World Looks Red2:35
- Confusion Is Next3:39
- Making the Nature Scene2:58
- Lee Is Free3:22
Personnel
- Thurston Moore vocals, guitar
- Kim Gordon vocals, bass, guitar
- Lee Ranaldo guitar, vocals; bass on Protect Me You
- Jim Sclavunos drums
- Bob Bert drums on Making the Nature Scene and the Stooges cover
- Michael Gira lyrics to The World Looks Red
More from Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth (1982), Bad Moon Rising (1985), EVOL (1986), Sister (1987), Daydream Nation (1988), The Whitey Album (as Ciccone Youth) (1988), Goo (1990), Dirty (1992), Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994), Washing Machine (1995), A Thousand Leaves (1998), NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000), Murray Street (2002), Sonic Nurse (2004), Rather Ripped (2006), The Eternal (2009)
Sources
- Confusion Is Sex, Wikipedia
- Sonic Youth, Confusion Is Sex (master release), Discogs