Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
It was Leipzig in 2003/4. I was under the misguided assumption that I was in love with someone but that didn't turn out well and in the wreckage, this album truly was a saviour. In the sense that it kept me together as an 18 year old still reeling from the hurt and rejection from it all. Americans tend to glorify getting in a car and driving all the way until their petrol and money runs out - I had a more European experience. Yes the money ran out but mine was done with train journeys across Germany and The Netherlands. When the Intro and Brave Men Run In My Family comes on I could feel a connection to the lyrics, the sense of adventure I was having, the fact that I was on my own and fleeing my life in Dublin, Ireland like I'd always wanted to at that age and the foreboding sense that doom was around the corner. Society Is A Hole practically spoke to me in the chorus "Society is a hole it makes me lie to my friends," which had the added irony that I didn't really...