Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Other than Pearl Jam, who else is there?
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tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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tragabigzanda wrote:Probably their most divisive album?
Is it just all the spoken word and general absence of vocal hooks that turns people off? Musically, it's pretty on point, and very much in their language.

I wonder if, to an extent, the 0.0 review it got from Pitchfork kind of saddled it with a reputation that came to precede it for a while. I was certainly conscious of that review before I'd heard the album, and I remember being surprised upon hearing the record how relatively conventional of a SY record it was, given its outlier reputation.
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That's fair. I also got the album for $2 in 2013, so the stakes were pretty low. I was expecting a completely unlistenable, pretentious mess, and I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, no arguments that it's a fair bit more impenetrable than something like Daydream Nation or A Thousand Leaves, but it certainly didn't live up to its reputation as this totally off-brand thing with no conventionally pleasing qualities.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Here you go Kreng. Pretty quick and off the cuff, but it hits all the major periods.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Z6Cy ... l1u4jIvfod

Schizophrenia
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
'Cross the Breeze
Rain On Tin
Bull In The Heather
Androgynous Mind
Catholic Block
Death Valley '69
Papercup Exit
Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)
Incinerate
Shadow Of A Doubt
Turquoise Boy
Karen Revisited
The Diamond Sea (extended version)
Thanks! Will check this out
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I don't have speakers on the computer I used to post that video, so I just watched it in silence. It's really fun imagining the music to this. Please, nobody tell me what it sounds like yet.
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Trag, do you think this would this be a good thing to sub out in the baby's room if the white noise machine is on the fritz?
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
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Damn, you got a great kid on your hands.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Damn, you got a great kid on your hands.
ha, not a fan?
Let's take it to the SJW thread so Burt can weigh in.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:
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Mickey wrote:Damn, you got a great kid on your hands.
ha, not a fan?
Let's take it to the SJW thread so Burt can weigh in.
Could we do the standup comedian thread instead?
I feel like that kind of conceptual ghettoization is not going to produce the full board meltdown I'm wanting this to provoke
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Sonic Youth Kim Gordon is fuckin amazing.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
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