Originally Released on:
SISTER
also appears on:
- Hold That Tiger (live '87)
- MIX TAPE #3 (live '90)
- Buy Early Get Now pre-order promo mp3 (demo)
- Rarities 3 (demo)
- 05/22/87 "LIVE AT CITY GARDENS 1987"
- 06/21/87 "LIVE IN TORINO 1987"
- 11/03/90 "LIVE IN IRVINE 1990"
- 03/05/93 "LIVE AT THE WARFIELD 1993"
- 11/15/95 "LIVE IN AUSTIN 1995"
- 06/24/06 "LIVE IN DALLAS 2006"
- Underground Rhythm & Noise (live '87)
- Good Feeling (live '87)
- Submerge Yourself in Sound (live, '90)
Line-up:
Thurston - guitar/vocals
Kim - bass/howl
Lee - guitar
Steve - drums
Lyrics status: confirmed
I got a catholic block
Inside my head
I let it go to work
Bring it all back home
It serves you right
And I can motor down
You got to earn your freedom
Get it on my own
I just live forever
There just is no end
I just trust the oppression
Like I trust your friends
I got a catholic block
Inside my head
I let it play around
Iron to gold
Come back to me a while
I got a catholic block
It's around my head
I got a catholic block
And it's blood orange red
I got a catholic block
Do you like to fuck?
I got a catholic block
I guess I'm out of luck
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Track length: 3:26
First Known Performance: 04/23/87
Last Known Performance: 12/30/10
NOTES:
- Marks the first use of an acoustic guitar melodically on a Sonic Youth album (played by Lee). I say "melodically" because he did use one on Ghost Bitch, but for drastically different results.
- The photograph below is a scan of an early scratch set of lyrical ideas for this tune (w/ one line from Cotton Crown).
- The title and very early lyric are referenced on a June 1983 document made during SY's first European tour.
- A bell sound almost resembling a toy music box can be heard
at 2:41.
- Resurfaced in live sets in 2003, last played in '96.
- Jim O'Rourke played guitar on this song while he was in the band.
ALTERNATE VERSIONS:
- "BUY NOW GET EARLY" free mp3 - DEMO - 6:35
An extended instrumental demo given away to those who pre-ordered The Eternal.
- On "Underground Rhythm and Noise" and "Good Feeling" - LIVE - ?
Recorded live on 06/04/87 at the Town and Country in London, England.
- On "Hold That Tiger" - LIVE - 3:55
Recorded live on 10/14/87 at the Cabaret Metro
in Chicago, Illinois. Segued into from "Pipeline".
- On "Submerge Yourself in Sound" and "Mix Tape #3" - LIVE - 3:46
Recorded live on 11/03/90 in Irvine, CA @ Crawford Hall. Same gig as 'Dirty Boots' EP.
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