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“(I Got A) Catholic Block” by Sonic Youth
From the album Sister (1987)
“(I Got A) Catholic Block” by Sonic Youth appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1987. It was first released in 1987 on the album Sister. Its best result is #37 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #223 alternative song of 1987.
"(I Got A) Catholic Block" comes off Sister, the fourth Sonic Youth album, which SST put out in June 1987. The band wrote and produced it themselves, with Bill Titus engineering, and for the first time the lineup from the previous record, EVOL, held together: Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo on guitars, Kim Gordon on bass, Steve Shelley on drums, with Gordon and Moore both singing.
Sister was written on tour and cut early in 1987, a loose concept record steeped in the life and work of Philip K. Dick, and it pushed further down the road EVOL had opened, out of no wave and toward songs with real structure while keeping the experimental streak. It didn't sell at the time, but the critics were on its side, and it has since been counted among the best albums of the '80s.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 37 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987 | 50 |
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