Young placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1987 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs, and later edited them down into the film's soundtrack. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback. Young's use of experimental guitar feedback was also inspired by Sonic Youth, the noise rock band who opened for parts of his live tours in 1990 and 1991. According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse!

The album includes Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects.Is there anything special with this copy, cause I can't find it listed with the "P" at the end of the catalog number? S'il fallait n'en retenir qu'une, cette version est depuis passée à la postérité comme l'une des interprétations live les plus marquantes du rock. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Filthy sounding riffs with solos that send a shiver down your spine and poetry for lyrics , play loud.

The tour coincided with the Gulf War, which had an impact on how the band played the songs, and influenced Young to make changes to the setlists, adding the violence themed songs " Cortez the Killer" and " Powderfinger".We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Can't stop listening to this collection of songs, too many amazing songs to review, its all been said by the other reviewers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Young then showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner.