I’ve got to be missing something……. Sonic Youth – Dirty – 1992 (Amazon – iTunes) I do admit, from the opening strains of 100 Percent, it really feels like Sonic Youth has traveled well afar from their noise-only early days. Then the most amazing thing happened. I woke up. And Continue Reading
Music Reviews
Listening Post: Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
I saw them in concert in 1979. My mom took us. Radio City Music Hall. To this day I have no idea why. I know the hits, of course, and that includes The Flame. I really don’t know much else except that for a while they were known as the Continue Reading
Listening Post: Sonic Youth – Goo
After Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth finds itself with a big time record deal. What do they do with it? Sonic Youth – Goo – 1990 Buy it(iTunes Amazon) After almost a decade of headscratchingly embraced ear scraping followed by brilliance, SY was courted to DGC and came up with their Continue Reading
Listening Post: Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Daydream Nation is considered an underground 80s classic. A true masterpiece. Is it? Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation – 1988 (iTunes – Amazon) About three minutes into Teen Age Riot I had a thought: Did Thurston Moore, et al, take a good hard look at the vomitorium of dischord they Continue Reading
Listening Post: Sonic Youth – Sister
The critics say that this is the first masterpiece by SY. Are they right? Okay. I didn’t get the memo. Because Sister made my ears hurt. I don’t think it really helped that I was listening to it in the car. I don’t think Sonic Youth is meant to be Continue Reading
Listening Post: Sonic Youth – EVOL
Sonic Youth delivers an album with, let’s call them songs. Why not? Sonic Youth – EVOL – 1986 (iTunes – Amazon) I’m not sure if someone had a little sit-down with Thurston and the gang but the first thing you notice from the opening strains of “Tom Violence” is that Continue Reading
listening Post: Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising
When I was in college I had a short lived, Spinal Tap inspired punk band: Yeast Infection. We consisted of an ambient noise inducing guitarist (who is now an esteemed newspaper editor), a pair of dating male and female vocalists; the woman (an investigator of hate organizations now) would wail Continue Reading
Listening Post: Sonic Youth – Confusion is Sex
When I was in college I had a short lived, Spinal Tap inspired punk band: Yeast Infection. We consisted of an ambient noise inducing guitarist (who is now an esteemed newspaper editor), a pair of dating male and female vocalists; the woman (an investigator of hate organizations now) would wail Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Star Wars Party
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Star Wars Party – 2005 (Buy It) I guess Meco’s just going to limp to a conclusion here. The proceedings are just so dulled down, so barely alive. Meco was 66 when Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – The Complete Star Wars Collection
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – The Complete Star Wars Collection – 2000 (not available) Well, after nearly 20 years, it took another Star Wars movie to get Meco onto another album. And it’s all his own production Continue Reading