Sonic Youth's second full-length LP 'Bad Moon Rising' was originally released on Homestead and Blast First in 1985, and was a big leap forward from debut 'Confusion Is Sex' and the 'Kill Yr Idols' EP.

Its original eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion and sullen vocals - all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy haze - ambles through a long, dark night before the feverish closer "Death Valley '69," driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic Thurston Moore/Lydia Lunch vocal duet, pounds the capstone into place.

Back in print on Goofin' Records, this reissue includes bonus tracks "Flower" and "Halloween," both from a 12" single of the same era.

The album is a fascinating examination of "the junction where hippie idealism [meets] the cold hard world," says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, "where Woodstock [meets] Altamont—Death Valley, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, musicians, murderers, heroes and villains."