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Sonic Youth

# Audio CD (July 21, 1992)
# Original Release Date: July 21, 1992
# Number of Discs: 1
# Label: Geffen Records
# ASIN: B000003TA9
# Also Available in: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record | Music Download

Track Listings
1. 100% 2:29
2. Swimsuit Issue 2:59
3. Theresa's Sound-World 5:28
4. Drunken Butterfly 3:04
5. Shoot 5:16
6. Wish Fulfillment 3:26
7. Sugar Kane 5:57
8. Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit 4:19
9. Youth Against Fascism 3:36
10. Nic Fit 0:59
11. On The Strip 5:42
12. Chapel Hill 4:47
13. JC 4:03
14. Purr 4:22
15. Creme Brulee 2:32

Amazon.com
A must-buy for any teen or twentysomething who considers themselves the least bit cool. With Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore swopping leads, it's a beautifully paced disc exploding with beatific beats, white-noise assaults and great, grungy pop ("Sugar Kane," "Chapel Hill"). --Jeff Bateman

Description
1998 Japanese reissue on Geffen of their 1992 album with 'Stalker' added as a hidden bonus track. 16 tracks total, also featuring the singles '100%', 'Youth Against Fascism' and 'Sugar Kane'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

posted by kanx1976 at 05:29

1 Comments:

kanx1976 said...: genius mixture of Sonic Youth's styles: their White Album

By C. Roark "tri-zeta" (from under the floorboards and through the woods...)

And EASILY THE BEST ONE FOR INITIATES!!!!

Sonic Youth, along with the Pixies, were one of the formative influences on everyone's faves- wunderkind- Nirvana. They were both touring together around the time this was coming out. Wow. SY even borrowed the producer (a little history: Butch Vig produced most of the sound-sculpted seminally influencial ((like it or not)) albums of the early 90's- he was the co-inventor of the Kevin Shields Sound"- that furious wall of distortion you hear on Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Loveless...) for this classic.

This was their 2nd release for DGC, and boy did they take advantage of that. You can hear the advancement of production values. Now- whether you want to hear sound qulaity on an SY album is totally up for debate. Whether you think that their brand of noise-rock should go for accessibility is also a debatable argument. I stand by this release, all of it a gorgeous, furious, precision-tuned masterpiece. I remember being 13, hearing 100% and thinking- I want an album that sounds like THAT- THE WHOLE THING!!! Lurchingly sanguine and Demented fuzzed out bassline and two gnomic guitars just wailing- keening with scraps of noise, fire, a maelstrom of sonic brutality pouring out of the desperate amps... Wow. That one track (which concerns the death of their friend, Joe Cole (see Hank Rollins book, "Now watch Him Die," his best easily) makes thIs worth picking up.

You may be bewildered by their approach- but what sounds like utter hell is truly a very finely crafted sculpture of sound. One that they are able to reproduce with fairly meticulous and faithful renderings- live. Each song sounds utterly different, conjures a variety of images and scenes for the mind's perusal. No sleeper tracks, save for the cover of 'Nic Fit,' which is les than 2 minutes long anyway...

(I wonder why this magic kinda subsided on subsequent releases like "Washing Machine" and "Jet set, Trash... their more recent releases also seem- not as magical. meybe it was just me- maybe it was the time. Who knows.)

The brooding, sumptuous tempest that is JC- another ineluctable reason to pick this up. You can't hate that song. It is one of the most amazing pieces i have ever heard and totally stands on its own. In it- all the random noise comes together into a whirring buzzsaw of delectable hell while Kim meanders, pensively, a beautiful tale that is completely impressionistic and always makes me feel swamped with loss...

All tracks winners. each and every one. These songs seem like children to me. Never grow up. I put this on and sink back into my headphones and BOOM! It's 1992 again and I'm 13 and pining for my best friend, hating her boyfriend, reading Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy, messing around with a guitar (thought I invented the e minor chord), up late at night writing bad psuedo Bryonic poetry... this Cd brings back to me the SMELL of my old room. How many Cds can do that? Invoke palpably the sense of your past?

Enough. Just get it. It will not disappoint.; 8 February 2008 at 05:31