Sonic Youth made their first moves toward ock with EVOL, a stunningly fluent mixture of avant-garde instrumentation and subversions of ock & roll. The band benefits greatly from the addition of structure, which gives its aural experiments a firm grounding, but the addition of drummer Steve Shelley is essential to the group's new, dangerous edge. With the added propulsion, the fearless rush of "Expressway to Yr Skull" (aka "Madonna, Sean and Me") and the near-pop of "Green Light" are undeniably powerful as are the eerie textures of "Shadow of a Doubt."
I have loved music for a long time, I probably romanticized every adolescent moment or emotion while locked in my room with a Teac CD player plugged into my JVC boom-box (with the Bass Boost). So when I neared completion of high school, what better way to commemorate the accomplishment than with a quote from an idolized rock band that combined total cool with some hazy personal statement of lif...
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For a windy but sunny Sunday, here's Sonic Youth's cover of "Bubblegum" by Kim Fowley. (Fowley, mainly a record producer, has quite a story himself: he did probably the first rock song about LSD, called "The Trip," recorded the 1972-73 sessions by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, founded The Runaways after having met the teenaged Joan Jett and Sandy West, and much more. He's also said of...
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