Mildred Pierce ~ Sonic Youth

From the album: Goo
First Known Performance: 08/16/90
Last Known Performance: 04/23/01

NOTES:

Working title: "Blow Job?"
One of the first songs Sonic Youth ever wrote. In fact, it's in standard tuning. Lee mentions it in a 1984 Forced Exposure interview: "We've got other songs, like 'Mildred Pierce,' that could be strictly commercial."
Thurston's scream on the LP version is actually lifted directly from the original demo (released on the "Goo Demos" CD).
Name taken from the Joan Crawford film "Mildred Pierce".
Performed live in August 1990 specifically for the Dave Markey directed video. Sophia Coppola also appears.
Ignored for the next 11 years, Mildred Pierce randomly made its third known appearance on 4/23/01.
The demo version, "Blow Job?", is over 8 minutes long.
On the Corporate Ghost DVD commentary, Dave Markey talks about a one-off band he threw together with Thurston to do covers, and one of the songs Thurston suggested was a very early Sonic Youth tune called "Mildred Pierce", and that they did play it live. Following this, Sonic Youth brought the song back for the Goo sessions.