lacquer cut by Porky
performer Bob Bert
performer Kim Gordon
performer Lee Ranaldo
performer Thurston Moore
photography by [photos] James Welling
producer John Erskine
producer, engineer Martin Bisi
producer, songwriter [all songs] Sonic Youth
Recorded At BC Studio
Mixed At BC Studio
Remixed At BC Studio
Manufactured By Rough Trade
Pressed By MPO
Distributed By Dutch East India Trading
This is the first pressing of Bad Moon Rising, made in UK and simultaneously released by Blast First in the UK and Homestead in the US. Subsequent US copies lose the custom labels, the Porky mastering, and the Blast First mention on the sleeve. Subsequent UK pressings change from Rough Trade to Mute on the back cover, but retain the Porky mastering (with HMS 016 crossed out).

Recorded/Mixed/Remixed: Before Christ, NYC, Sept-Oct 1984.

A Savage Conquest/Rough Trade Music.
Thanx to: Catherine Bachmann/Nicole Ceresole/Tom Dejesu - NYC/Althea & C. Wayne Gordon.

[On center label side A:]
All Songs Sonic Youth
1985 Savage Conquest/Rough Trade Music

[On center label side B:]
All songs Sonic Youth
Except Death Valley '69 – SY/Lunch
Savage Conquest/Rough Trade Music
1985 Blast First/Homestead Records

Cat# on center label: BFFP L/HMS 016 (USA)
Includes an illustrated lyric sheet, printed on one side only

Matrix / Runout: BFFP 1 A1 = HMS 016 A1 IT'S A BIRD IN THE HAND, IT'S A MODERN LAND - SONICS RENDESVOUZ. A PORKY PRIME CUT. MPO (Etchings side A)
Matrix / Runout: BFFP 1 B1 A PORKY PRIME CUT. HMS 016 B1 MPO PREPARE FOR THE WORST, HOPE FOR THE BEST. (Etchings side B)