As if to assert their Downtown identity, the album opens with the somnambulant churn of “Tom Violence,” a song inspired by Television’s Tom Verlaine, which narrates a classic renegade pose. Sonic Youth was subterranean subway clangor windowless bohemia a fast-walking stomp on a sidewalk grate the hallowed doors of Trash & Vaudeville a secret. This ultimately showed how unmistakably East Village the Sonic Youth camp was. Sonic Youth began to fuse with lawless West Coast punk: Minutemen and Black Flag versus sadistic cops and sun-bleached strip-mall banality.
EVOL, the band’s sordid third LP, released in 1986, was their first of two pivotal albums for SST.
This clip from Weatherman ‘69-shot and directed by the band’s SST Records comrade and eventual art world fixture Raymond Pettibon-remains a shining document of Sonic Youth’s anarchic era on that L.A.
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