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. Filthy sounding riffs with solos that send a shiver down your spine and poetry for lyrics , play loud. 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. Comme l'avait fait Jimi Hendrix lors de la guerre du Vietnam en reprenant un hymne américain apocalyptique et décimé par les décibels des bombardements, Neil Young et le Crazy Horse vont reprendre des anciens morceaux de Young, ainsi que de nouvelles compositions issues de Ragged Glory et en faire un hymne dénonçant la violence de ce qu'il se passe là-bas. According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse!

However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with Muddy Track, but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour.

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The highlights for me are Love to Burn and Crime in the City, but there is not much here that falls down. The album includes Young's " Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.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. Young then showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. We were watching CNN all the time, watching this shit happen, and then going out to play, singing these songs about conflict.