Sonic Youth makes moving music, no matter how weird people might think it is. The band went off a beaten path back in the early 1980s and luckily stayed on that path all the way to their own amazing music island.
Still, no band sounds like Sonic Youth, even after 30 years. Kim Gordon (bass) still has those simple lines that pace the music so well. Moore and Ranaldo still cut like razors. Shelley on the steady sticks.
Has there ever been a better opening track than "100%"? Only, to go into a churning number like "Swimsuit Issue?" It's like Gordon is crawling in your head, looking for help. Dirty is just one of the band's 15 interesting albums.
That was 1992, the second album after a masterpiece called Daydream Nation, that boosted Sonic Youth with wider appeal. Goo was even a great follow up to Daydream. How can a band to that? By changing the dynamic next time.
"Whereas we were just an anarchy band, and really into being loose, anything goes," Moore once said in "Our Band Could Be Your Life."
Sonic Youth retained the anarchy symbol and kept experimenting with its music. Most of it was mesmerizing.
"Our feeling is that the guitar is an unlimited instrument and for the most part people have not taken it to full advantage," Ranaldo said in the same book.
I'm guessing that the members of Sonic Youth did???
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