Sonic Youth-Kill Yr Idols (1983)


 

Artist: Sonic Youth


Label: Zensor

Format: 12"

Cat:  Zensor 10

Year of Release: 1983

Country and Year of Edition: Germany First Pressing Superimposed Sleeve

Sell Price: $59.22

Sell Date: 2/1/24

Condition: VG/G+ superimposed cover, 1" x 3" tear upper left corner, pen on label to designate sides

Discogs Last Sold  1/12/24 VG+/VG  $45.65 Cover has the upper right corner damaged. Vinyl in EX condition.

Low: $25.00 VG/VG+  A small scuff causes periodic crackle in the first minute of track A1. Otherwise I would've rated it VG+. Jacket has bumped corners, wear on edges & corners, 1/4" diameter cutout hole in upper left of front cover (and lower right of back cover, because of how the graphics are positioned).

Median: $67.50

Average: $71.17

High: $163.04 NM/Generic  9/27/21 NOTE: THIS IS A PROMO VERSION, WHITE LABEL (no artwork) RARE Pick-up possible at shop 544

Current low price: $75.98 NM/VG Germany

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 680/762

Where Sold: Philadelphia, PA

Time It Took To Sell:  8 years

Where and When Bought:  Worcester Al Bums $3.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

This has been sitting in the return box in my room since the last time it sold for $29.99 in 2019.   Turned out I nearly doubled the price getting almost $60 this time around.  This has happened to me quite a few times where a particularly persnickety customer returns a perfectly good record for reasons that are borderline and return request delivered with passionate hyperbole.  As if I wouldn’t take the return on my dime.  Then I listen and conservatively lower the grade on the relist and flip it for more money.  It took 5 years, but it was a win for thereversecollector after the slowest month on record.   This still sold below the median (I did a recent blanket 10% price drop to counter glacial sales), so those 5 years it had been around significantly increased the value of the record.

As far as Sonic Youth goes, this companion German 12" EP release incorporates several tracks from 1983's Confusion Is Sex as well as a couple direct to 2-track recordings of "Brother James" and "Early American."  The Confusion tracks are all stone cold classics.  The sort of tracks that reminded me why I liked SY so much in the first place.  "Shaking Hell" is included here with 2 parts and has always been one of my favorite Kim Gordon vocal performances.  Really all these tracks are classics.  Bob Bert and Wharton Tiers recorded SY invented a genre splintering off No Wave much the same way P-Funk's output became it's own category outside Funk and Disco.

While I always thought Evol and Sister were the bands absolute peak in 1986-7, you really can't deny the Bob Bert years of 1982-1985 as excellent across the board. Branca guitars klang and vocals drone with assertion and authority.

This one will shake off your flesh.

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