SOUNDS Of The JUNK YARD Michael Siegel 1964 FOLKWAYS FX 6143 Noise SONIC YOUTH

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~ Michael Siegel ~
"The Sounds Of The Junk Yard "

Released 1964 by Folkways Records # FX 6143

Nice original copy of this highly desirable 1964 Folkways Lp with unbelievable field recordings of sounds from a Warren, Pennsylvania
junkyard recorded by Michael Siegel and highlights include the sound of
cutting apart an automobile engine with an acetylene torch, loading empty
fiber drums on a pick up truck, burning out a car, baling aluminum
chips and so on - this is true noise!

this LP is perhaps famous for 2 reasons: (1) Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth
wrote an article about "The Sounds Of The Junk Yard" saying how much of an
influence it was on Sonic Youth and that it did in 1964 what many bands later
on in the '80s attempted to do with instruments and on stage (the whole article
is below if you'd like to read it!); and (2) for its inclusion in the classic 1981
Lester Bangs essay in the Village Voice "A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise"
alongside A Taste of DNA, Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music" and more
(there is a link to this article below if you'd like to read it as well)

this is a Near Mint Condition copy that's been Fully Play Tested
and it Sounds Fantastic and this also comes with the insert booklet
that gives more information about the recordings

in case the player isn't embedded above, here's a link to hear a track from this Album:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16642615-511


~ contents ~


Acetylene Torch
Loading Pick-Up Truck
Removing From Truck
Loading On Truck   
Dump Truck
Paper Baler
Magnetic Crane
Steel Saw Cutting
Alligator Shear
Burning
Baling
Truck Unloading
Crane Loading
Hand Loading


~ credits ~


Produced by Michael Siegel
Design by Ronald Clyne
Cover photo by Michael Siegel


~ condition ~


Nice Near Mint Copy that's been Fully Play Tested
and it Sounds Awesome with no audible issues. the record
has Shiny Clean Vinyl with only the slightest signs of being handled
and the Cover has no writing, markings or seam splits and only
has the slightest wear to the outer edges and corners and
the Booklet is in Fantastic Condition as well

Displays & Plays Nicely!


~ Additional Information ~ 


Loud whooshing noises open the album giving the impression
of perhaps waves crashing. The noise is in fact that of a blow torch!
This interesting collection recorded by Michael Siegel enlightens the
listener on the sounds of a 1964 Junkyard in Warren, Pennsylvania

Liner notes include information on what each sounds is


~ Lester Bangs said this of "Sounds Of The Junk Yard" ~


"The Sounds of the Junkyard (Folkways): Recorded live, of course,
and quite a bit more soothing than you would expect, though with titles
like "Burning Out an Old Car" you know it can't miss."

The Bangs article:

http://music.iupui.edu/faculty/albright/BangsReview1.html


~ "Sounds of the Junk Yard" by Lee Ranaldo ~


In the very early '80s, after we'd all moved to NYC and begun
Sonic Youth, this record — Sounds of the Junk Yard — came to my
attention somehow. It was one in a series that the wonderfully
adventurous Folkways label was doing — in those great thick cardboard
album sleeves with liner notes, etc. — of natural sound recordings, made
possible by the advent of more portable recording technologies. There
was another one I had called Voice of the Satellites which was just
that — little blips, tics and bloops recorded from outer space —
another genuine sign of the times.

John Cage was quoted somewhere as saying that he'd rather
listen to the sounds coming in his window than the same record
over and over, and we listened to these recordings in that spirit. They
were nothing more than natural sounds that someone had chosen to put
a "frame" around, a kind of aleatory, found music, discovered on side-
streets, up in space, at construction sites and used-car lots. As such they
were quite revelatory to be found on discs in the local record shop.
Who would've bothered to record such things?!?

There's no doubt that the general huzz and clang of New York City
had been seeping its way into much of the music made here for quite
some time. In the early '80s the general noise level of the city was certainly
an inspiration, something to incorporate into the music we were beginning
to make. Sounds of the Junk Yard seemed super-relevant. Bands were
using scrap-metal percussion, electric drills and grinders in performance,
attempting to incorporate the insane noises of the city into
the most advanced rock music of the day.

The opening track here, "Acetylene Torch," seemed in exactly the
same ballpark as the music we were obsessing over at the time by the
German band Einstürzende Neubauten ("Collapsing Modern Buildings") on
their album Kollaps. (They even named a later record called Five on the
Open-Ended Richter Scale — equating their sound with the magnitude of
earthquakes!) Bands as diverse as Throbbing Gristle, Can, Test Dept, Swans,
Kraftwerk and, yes, Sonic Youth were incorporating sounds inspired
by the metropolitan soundscapes they were living amongst.

The tracks on this album still sound great to me. Tracks like
"Truck Unloading" and "Crane Loading" could have come off the first
Mars or UT album. Stray sounds, chaotic percussion and jarring climaxes
were inspiration for such No Wave bands then springing up around the city.
Why differentiate between melodic chord changes and random noise bursts?
"Burning" (great title) is as ambient as you wanna be, more glitched out than
Autechre. Had he ever heard "Alligator Shear," Aphex Twin might never have
happened! It also sounds like Japanese anarchists Hanatarash (c.f. Boredoms,
etc.) on a good night. "Steel Saw Cutting" presages American hardcore music
by about a decade. "Paper Baler" evokes Eric Gaffney rummaging around his
bedroom, trying to find the mic and bong just before heading out to record
The Freed Weed, the first Sebadoh record. (It was a cassette, actually.)

I found myself frequenting many construction sites around NYC,
early-version Walkman® in hand, recording pile drivers, truck horns, etc.
Glorious NOISE seeped into our mindsets back then, reprogramming
our synapses — it was all around us city-dwellers and, as this
record shows, at the junk yard as well.

Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth on this Lp:

https://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/289_200610.html

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