Marilyn Moore
Sonic Youth * Track #8 On EVOL
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Album EVOL
Marilyn Moore by Sonic Youth
Performed by
Sonic YouthWrited by
Steve Shelley & Lee Ranaldo & Kim Gordon & Lydia Lunch & Thurston MooreAbout
The eighth track on the 1986 Sonic Youth album, Evol, following Secret Girl.
Lydia Lunch wrote the second half of the song’s lyrics.
Marilyn Moore Lyrics
[Intro]
Hey
Hey
[Instrumental]
[Verse 1]
Sound asleep 'til night, 'til day
Frustrated desire turns you away
And turns you insane over and over
You get to a point to make it disappear
And you're always believing
And believing in fear
Over and over and over and over
And over and over, over again
Marilyn Moore
[Verse 2]
She's always a headache
The size of a tow truck
She's full of disorders
Depends what you're used to
She's talking of trances
Of truncheons in battle
Of bruises from bottles
That never get better
Bad baby bitching she screams at the door
Hammer in hand and head to the floor
Marilyn Moore
Marilyn Moore Q&A
Who wrote Marilyn Moore's ?
Marilyn Moore was written by Steve Shelley & Lee Ranaldo & Kim Gordon & Lydia Lunch & Thurston Moore.
Who produced Marilyn Moore's ?
Marilyn Moore was produced by Martin Bisi & Sonic Youth.
What guitar tunings are used for this song?
Lee uses CCD#GGD with a slide. Thurston’s tuning is not known, though it has been suggested that he uses either GGCCD#D# or GGCCA#A#.
What to the EVOL CD liner notes say about this song?
Begins with Thurston calling his cattle home and getting pissed when they don’t come home. Marilyn Moore is like Baby Doll in the movie poster. Housewife or sleazy woman on prescription drugs and welfare…who’s not getting any.
– Lisa Crystal Carver, 1993