What city is on the Bad Moon Rising cover
 

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i think its new york. he said ... unimaginatively.

really? it could be new york, it's just not a recognizable place from the buildings.

I thought it was a bit of open ground just by the bowery. but i could well be wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, you can see the Chrysler building and Empire State building on the left side of the scarecrow in the distance.
The two pointed ones.

I always assumed it was Hoboken, it looks that grim.. but Tokolosh is right, there's the Empire State and Chrysler buildings.

Wherever it is, its still one of the most perfect pictures ever taken

oh yeah, i see them!

ad yes its a fantastic photograph. sonic youth's best album cover.

well its my second favourite album cover after Daydream Nation. That Richter painting is one of my favourite paintings. I would like to see SY return to making iconic, haunting album covers again.

its brooklyn.

is it? are you sure? are those buildings in the background the chrysler and empire state buildings?

its brooklyn for sure, not manhatten.

i wonder if someone could find a picture of those three main buildings to the right of the cover



there's got to be some NYC boardies who will recognize those buildings.
Doe's anyone know the story behind the cover?

i dont see it in that picture but i definitely believe you

no.

did i mention that this was a really good question? something ive always wondered but completely neglected to ask. and yeah this is probably their greatest cover. no offence richard ;)

no, i don't see them in that picture either. :confused:


you're a new yorker, do you know where that shot was taken?

i don't know where the shot was taken. but do i look out the window at the empire state building every day, and it ain't in that picture.

my buddy is working as a photo assistant to the photographer who took that shot. i forget the dude's name at the moment. he's in LA now, UCLA photo dept. head i think. our other friend studied photo w/ barbara ess from Y Pants too. so in the kevin bacon game, i am three degrees seperated from SY i guess...

James Welling right?

One of my all time favorite album covers, and my all time favorite SY cover. I have a poster of it.

I really want that Bad Mood Rising poster, where can you get them?

I won it in a lot of about 10 old sonic youth posters on ebay, along with goo, sister, evol, daydream nation posters...It's only the second one I've ever seen. It's possible that it's a bootleg since the resolution isn't the best, but I'm not complaining.

its not from the picture i posted but its mentioned in the confusion is next book that it was brooklyn.

awesome thanks. i read it when it came out but gave it away shortly after.

yeah, thats him. damn, are all those poster of the album covers, or are they other images? i really like the DDN promo poster w/ the drifter guitar on it. i bid on one of those but didn't get it...

Yes!

I always thought the idea of a scarecrow with an exploding jack o'lantern head on the outskirts of NYC was a very comic-book idea. It reeks of Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, etc.

it reeks of AMERICA

I haven't listened to Bad Moon Rising for a while. Maybe it's time to put it on the plate and spin the black circle.

it's nyc. lee said that in many interviews.... i think