Whores Moaning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whores Moaning
Whores Moaning cover
EP by Sonic Youth
Released February 1993
Recorded 1992
Genre Alternative Rock
Label Geffen
Producer Butch Vig, Sonic Youth

Whores Moaning is an EP by Sonic Youth released on February 1993. It was released exclusively in Australia to coincide with 1993 tour dates in Australia and New Zealand. The name of the EP is a reference to Nirvana's Australian tour EP Hormoaning, released a year previously.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sugar Kane"(edit) - 5:03
  2. "Personality Crisis" - 3:50
  3. "The End Of The End Of The Ugly" - 4:12
  4. "Is It My Body" - 2:53
  5. "Tamra" - 8:53

Basically the "Sugar Kane" single with some tweaking, it features the radio edit of "Sugar Kane", "Personality Crisis" from a Sassy Magazine flexi-disc (recorded July '90), a prototype instrumental of "Shoot" from December 1991 called "The End Of The End Of The Ugly", "Is It My Body" from the Sub Pop Alice Cooper tribute (recorded April 1991), and the lengthy instrumental "Tamra" from November 1991.

[edit] Singles chart

Year Single Chart Peak
1993 "Whores Moaning" Australian Singles Chart No. 44

[edit] Cover artwork

The artwork is a photocopy of one of Kurt Cobain's dolls by Kevin Kerslake. The back features a drawing by Cobain.

Languages