One of my all-time favorite artists.
No band could ever sound like them.
My Top Albums are:
Bad Moon Rising
EVOL
Daydream Nation
Sister
Bad Moon Rising (1985)
Is an album of inspired contradictions. Chilling yet pastoral, artful yet politicized, it documents a band at odds with its own impulses and the culture that spawned them. You can hear Sonic Youth struggling to define their identity in a medium that turned its back on such pursuits long ago. The album closer, "Death Valley '69" (with vocal contributions from Lydia Lunch) is the group's most rewarding dalliance into straightforward rock to date and a promising sign of things to come. But the song is epilogue to a conflict between posture and
innovation. Over the next three years--climaxing with 1988's Daydream Nation--Sonic Youth would pursue the latter of these impulses with peerless results. But Bad Moon Rising is arguably their first essential release. It marks a crucial turning point in the band's history--the moment when an experiment became an institution. --Matt HanksFavorite Songs:
Sonic Youth – Expressway to Your Skull
Sonic Youth – Death Valley '69 (w. Lydia Lunch)
Sonic Youth – I Love Her All the Time
Sonic Youth – Brave Men Run (in My Family)
Sonic Youth – Green Light
Sonic Youth - I Love Her All The Time 01/05/85 Live at Gila Monster Jamboree
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