Offset lithograph on the vinyl cover.
30.5 × 30.5 cm
The record is included in very good to excellent condition.
The Raymond Pettibon Collection, MoMA
Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus (David Zwirner Books).
See the highlighted image for Pettibon's credit.
The most iconic of all Pettibon's music-related images and one of the most famous record covers of all time, the cover is an off-set illustration of Pettibon's design inspired by a paparazzi photo of Maureen Hindley and her first husband, David Smith, witnesses in the case of Mori killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, driving to trial in 1966.
Goo is the sixth studio album by American alternative/noise rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990, by Geffen Records.
A remastered double CD and 12" vinyl version was released on September 12 and 13, 2005, including demo versions and b-sides.
Recordings
On June 26, 1990, the album was released accompanied by the single and its video clip Kool Thing. During filming Kim Gordon had intended to harness an IMI Uzi machine gun, but Geffen prevented her from doing so, as the video clip was to go into rotation on MTV. Kim Gordon called the video "the most embarrassing moment of her life."[5] The second single was Disappearer, whose video, released in December 1991, was shot in Toronto.
Tour
In August 1990 the band embarks on a tour of North America, accompanied by Nirvana. Kurt Cobain's band. Afterward, they move to Europe and again to North America, supported this time by Mudhoney. In January 1991 they start again as the opening band of Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Smell The Horse" tour. Afterward, they play date in Japan and return to Europe again supported by Nirvana.
Title and cover
Raymond Pettibon for the cover was inspired by a photo taken by a paparazzo in 1966, depicting Maureen Hindley and her first husband David Smith while driving to testify against her sister Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, implicated in the so-called "moors murders". Pettibon adds the sentence, "I stole my sister's boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road." ("I stole my sister's boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road.").
On the back, another illustration in the same style depicts a woman wiping a man's face with a handkerchief, reassuring him by saying, "Nothing...Lipstick, and a little blood." Top right, above the tracklist, is Goo's logo in green accompanied by an imprint of lips made up with lipstick. In the lower right corner, however, there is a small drawing that invites you to destroy the Parents Music Resource Center ("Smash the PMRC").
The beloved and hated the cover of "Goo" caused quite a stir and Pettibon himself had the opportunity to shoot at zero, declaring to have been "used", having never received payment for his work.
In this and all of Pettibon's covers, it's easy to see pop culture as one of his sources of inspiration, impossible to argue briefly, I'll just mention Andy Warhol's Orange car crash. For Pettibon comic book design is a very strong and direct means of communication, naked and raw, often accompanied by short posters written freehand, he screams his punk blood to the world. He violently dissects the American culture deviated and hidden by hypocritical and bourgeois institutions, brings to light sexual depravity, religious perversions, the putrid political mud. His art is a message against authority, as a whole his works are a detailed and angry photograph of contemporary society.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Pettibon gained a leading role in the contemporary art scene.
In the 1990s he exhibited his most famous covers and works at MoMA in New York and in numerous major galleries and museums around the world.
The cover of Goo remains a milestone in rock design, many artists have made "cover of the cover", replacing Myra and her husband with the most disparate characters.
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