[Sam's Army]

Have you checked out the book called "Confusion is Next" about Sonic Youth's history? Really neat stuff. They were very detailed in terms of specific equipment, guitar string settings, etc for shows. Lots of times they would have seperate guitars with strings tuned (or de-tuned) the way needed to minimize time between songs getting ready.

Nothing can beat the freaky spookiness of Kim Gordon's vocals IMO. She reminds me of when I used to work in a crisis unit years ago.

[Xenalyte]

When her voice is bad, it's pretty bad (like on some of Experimental Jet Set), but when it's good it's haunting. I remember lying on the carpet of my friend's apartment with my head between two speakers, listening to "Shaking Hell."