Washing Machine
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (September 26, 1995)
# Original Release Date: September 26, 1995
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: Limited Edition
# Label: Geffen Records
# ASIN: B000003TBS
# Also Available in: Audio Cassette | LP Record | Music Download
Track Listings
1. Becuz 4:42
2. Junkie's Promise 4:02
3. Saucer-Like 4:25
4. Washing Machine 9:33
5. Unwind 6:02
6. Little Trouble Girl 4:27
7. No Queen Blues 4:33
8. Panty Lies 4:15
9. Becuz Coda 2:19
10. Skip Tracer 4:12
11. The Diamond Sea 19:37
posted by kanx1976 at
03:25
1 Comments:
underrated, often forgotten classic
Having bought several Sonic Youth (based on constant advice to get into their stuff) at the same time, I was blown away at just how good and amazing their materail is, as well as different each time around. While WM may not be the most innovative or lyrically powerful as other SY albums, it sets a mood which seems to give a modern touch to 60s suburbia or something, with a good mixture of the beautiful and the deranged...it's almost like it's through the eyes of a lost teenager running through a neighborhood at night, half hopped on LCD.
The most transcendant tracks are "Unwind" (very emotional even naysay blissful poetry about kites caught in the stars becoming morning), "Little Trouble Girl" (60s soul inspired flow through the eyes of a coming-of-age girl, features great back vocals from Breeders frontwoman Kim Deal and a few others), "Skip Tracer" (definitely owes some inspiration to Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Renaldo poetry at its finest), "Saucer-Like"(easy going tune about extraterrestrials flying through the cities in "a wonderful vision"), and ofcourse the brilliamt 20 minute epic "The Diamond Sea", pshychadelic lyrics and music that is the transcender of all transcenders. The rest are just as awesome, the title track has Kim Gordon talking about taking her baby down the pop machine and "spinning round like a washing machine, never saw the devil look so **** clean", it also has spacy freak-out guitars (but since that seems to be an SY trademark, I won't even mention it anymore). "Panty Lies" is an intense tale of alienation which resembles unusually that old Jetsons pop song in chorus, "No Queen Blues" and "Becuz" are just plain rocking, and "Junkie's Promise" will send a chill of truth down any (...) addict's spine without being too judgemental. There's also the unnamed track 9 which is filler but it's nice to get something a little softer after such good rock. Washing Machine is a lost classic which every fan should have, a suburbian adventure I must say.
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