“Providence” consisted of a piano solo by Moore recorded at his mother’s house using a Walkman, the sound of an amp overheating and a pair of telephone messages left by Mike Watt, calling for Moore from a Providence, Rhode Island payphone, dubbed over one another.
[Interlude]
Watt here
I'm downstairs from your window
At a pub phone booth, if you're up
I get tense
*Beep*
Thurston, Watt! Thurston!
I think it's ten thirty, we're calling from Providence, Rhode Island
Did you find your shit?
You gotta watch the mota, Thurston
Your fucking memory just goes out the window
We couldn't find it in the van at all
We wondering if you looked in that trash can
When we threw out that trash, man
Was the bag in your hand, did you dump it?
Call later, bye
Providence was written by Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon & Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley.
Providence was produced by Sonic Youth & Nick Sansano.
Sonic Youth released Providence on Tue Oct 18 1988.