ETERNAL YOUTH
Jun. 11th, 2009 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogThe Americans will be seeing this on Letterman tonight: Sonic Youth promoting their new album The Eternal.
Possibly not this song, and probably minus Jools Holland.
But you get the idea.
If yr wondering, that’s Mark Ibold (formerly of Pavement) on the bass. He’s in the band now. If that sounds incongruous, he was also in Kim Gordon’s side project Free Kitten.
FUN FACT: I’ve been an SY fan for (ZOMG) 23 years now, ever since their EVOL album. And I’m proud to say I managed to catch them live once in 1991 while they were promoting Goo. (Opening act: The Jesus Lizard. A memorable show, that was.)
I wouldn’t say they’ve ever really manage to top their heights circa 1986-1992, but I’ve always admired their sound, inventiveness and willingness to experiment and do things to guitars that should never be done to them. And I have to say their last couple of albums (Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped) are the best things they’ve done in ages.
The new album (their first after finally leaving Geffen) looks to continue that streak.
Still, I recognize SY isn’t for everyone. If you never saw the appeal when “Kool Thing” was in heavy rotation on the MTVs, there’s nothing here to change yr mind.
Teenage riot,
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Possibly not this song, and probably minus Jools Holland.
But you get the idea.
If yr wondering, that’s Mark Ibold (formerly of Pavement) on the bass. He’s in the band now. If that sounds incongruous, he was also in Kim Gordon’s side project Free Kitten.
FUN FACT: I’ve been an SY fan for (ZOMG) 23 years now, ever since their EVOL album. And I’m proud to say I managed to catch them live once in 1991 while they were promoting Goo. (Opening act: The Jesus Lizard. A memorable show, that was.)
I wouldn’t say they’ve ever really manage to top their heights circa 1986-1992, but I’ve always admired their sound, inventiveness and willingness to experiment and do things to guitars that should never be done to them. And I have to say their last couple of albums (Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped) are the best things they’ve done in ages.
The new album (their first after finally leaving Geffen) looks to continue that streak.
Still, I recognize SY isn’t for everyone. If you never saw the appeal when “Kool Thing” was in heavy rotation on the MTVs, there’s nothing here to change yr mind.
Teenage riot,
This is dF
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on 2009-06-11 01:01 am (UTC)I got into the Yoof in 1994, circa "Experimental Jet Set". We had no proper MTV in Australia (and still don't, but back then we did not have cable TV, period) and it took a lot of time for bands of this ilk to become accessible to us. Around 1992-1994--thanks to chiefly to the success of Nirvana--I discovered all of those seminal late 80s/early 90s bands: Sonic youth, the shoegaze movement, Primus...
Then of course Britpop came and fucked the dog.
-- JF