Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising

"...BAD MOON RISING surrounds a catchy ditty about mass murder with mood music and dirge poetry..." - Rating: B
3 Stars - Good - "...more dynamically interesting, if still pretty squallish, and contained the rumbling, gargantuan 'Death Valley '69'..."
Ranked #42 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' "...BAD MOON RISING caught Sonic Youth in the midst of their ascent to becoming arguably the most influential band of the '80s..."
"...what's cool about Sonic Youth is their detatchment, the feeling that they're consummate art school poseurs contriving sullenness, self-loathing and rage. They don't mean it, maaan....all manicured noise and manufactured nihilism..."
Ranked #41 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...A string of hazy tranquil guitar fug culminates in Death Valley '69's twisted, Manson-inspired horror dialogue..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "BAD MOON RISING is obsessed with sex and power, specifically with how one informs the other. It is the band's most explicitly sexual album, and among its darkest."