| "Dirty Boots" | ||||
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| Single by Sonic Youth | ||||
| from the album Goo | ||||
| B-side | "White Kross (Live)", "Eric's Trip (Live)", "Cinderellas Big Score (Live)", "Dirty Boots (Live)", "The Bedroom (Live & Previously Unreleased)" | |||
| Released | April 1991 | |||
| Format | 7"(promo only), 12", CD single | |||
| Recorded | November 3, 1990 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | DGC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley | |||
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"Dirty Boots" was the third and final single from Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo. It was released in 1991 on DGC.
All of the live tracks were taken from a concert recorded on November 3, 1990 at University of California, Irvine's Crawford Hall in Irvine, California.
The music video for "Dirty Boots" was directed by Tamra Davis. The video features a boy and girl who meet and fall in love at a Sonic Youth concert. At the climax, both the boy and girl get onstage and kiss passionately while the band continues to play; both the boy and girl are then escorted by bouncers into the audience via stage dive. The video was shot in a now-defunct New York City club called Beowulf. The girl was played by Lisa Stansbury of Neptune, New Jersey. The band selected her for the video after seeing her dance at a Dinosaur Jr. show at Maxwell's in Hoboken.