Sound of Impact

{{Short description|1987 live album by Big Black}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sound Of Impact | type = live | artist = Big Black | cover = Big Black Sound Of Impact.jpg | alt = the text “ You got it all, Dad! We're gonna hit! (SOUND OF IMPACT.)” on a blank white background | released = {{start date|1987||}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = * Noise rock * post-hardcore | length = 50:51 | label = Blast First | producer = Big Black | prev_title = The Hammer Party | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = Headache | next_year = 1987 }} {{music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5|}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Sound of Impact |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sound-of-impact-mw0000882687 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=13 July 2020}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=sound+of+impact+big+black+1987&pg=PA2601|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|via=Google Books}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Sounds'' |rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/big-black-iyou-got-it-all-dad-were-gonna-hit-sound-of-impacti-brace-not-2-but-i-head-of-david-iultramonti-brace-not-3|title = Big Black: You Got It All, Dad! We're Gonna Hit! (Sound of Impact) (Brace NOT 2 BUT I)*****; Head of David: Ultramont (Brace NOT 3)***. By Jack Barron : Articles, reviews and interviews from Rock's Backpages}}</ref> }} '''''Sound of Impact''''', also known as '''''You Got It All, Dad! We're Gonna Hit! (Sound of Impact.)''''',{{refn|group=nb|A quote from the cockpit voice recording of North Central Airlines Flight 458.<ref>[https://www.dementlieu.com/users/obik/bigblack/discog/soundofimpact.html Big Black, from pre-history to present: Sound of Impact]</ref>}} is a live album by the American post-hardcore band Big Black.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCPH4iyQf3MC&q=sound+of+impact+big+black+1987&pg=PT199|title=How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005|first=Richard|last=King|date=April 3, 2012|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571278329|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cokemachineglow.com/records/bigblack-soundofimpact-1986/|title=Big Black: Sound of Impact | Records|website=Cokemachineglow}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/19954-noise-rock-1986-big-black-sonic-|title=The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986|website=The Quietus}}</ref> It was released in limited edition in 1987. The band did not include its name anywhere on the album.<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=sound+of+impact+big+black+1987&pg=PA194|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=July 13, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Critical reception== ''Alternative Rock'' wrote that the album captured a "typically brutal" live performance.<ref name="auto"/>

==Track listing== #"Ready Men" #"Big Money" #"Pigeon Kill" #"Passing Complexion" #"Crack Up" #"RIP" #"Jordan, Minnesota" #"Steelworker (Short Fragment)" #"Cables" #"Pigeon Kill" #"Kerosene" #"Bad Penny" #"Deep Six" #"RIP" #"Rema Rema"

==Personnel==

*Dave Riley: Bass Guitar *Santiago Durango: Guitar, Backing Vocals *Steve Albini: Guitar, Vocals *Roland: Drums

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Category:Big Black albums Category:1987 live albums Category:Blast First albums