Behold, the Eye of Jupiter.



/link hotter than Grace Park

Holy Crap! That cover art looks like someone took a snow bunny and crushed it under there doc martins

nothing but blood and fur except fur and blood

Actually UO does come to mind when it comes to Sonic Youth in the context of clothing.

Loads of 'meh' in this news item.

"...Kim Gordon...unveils...clothing..."


As I scanned the headline those three words jumped out at me. Now I'm going to go outside for a while and walk in the rain, splash in the puddles, and then I'll try to find my mental floss.

I suppose the collective review editors of Pitchfork are grabbing a box of Kleenex and closing their office doors for a "personal" moment right now.

They will probably give the album as 9.4423949.

blah blah blah don't tune their guitar blah blah blah

Glitchwerks: I suppose the collective review editors of Pitchfork are grabbing a box of Kleenex and closing their office doors for a "personal" moment right now.

They will probably give the album as 9.4423949.


wow, that ruled. I wish I could have crammed THAT in the headline
+1


that's pretty much what I thought when I read from TFA : "if their last one, 2006's Rather Ripped, is any indication, this is going to rule"

yeah... calm down there, sparky

I guess I'm just not hip enough to get Sonic Yoot.

What other stores besides Urban Outfitters and Hot Topic where emos can accessorize?

They should have hung it up after Daydream Nation.

Knew we were going to see a new one this year, nice to finally have a release date. This year is shaping up pretty nicely in terms of music.

yay, sonic 'youth' (ahem).


/cues up "Teenage Riot" on the iPod

Psychic Ills review by Pitchfork

This recently caused a small fuss in some message forums. They basically wrote a scathing review and gave the album a 1.4. Now, I've never heard of these guys because let's face it, I spend all my time buying and listening to records from Hard Wax.

I was just amazed at how scathing the review is. I know not to take their reviews too seriously, but...wow, just wow.

I bought another Sonic Youth album, and it sucked. It's just noise.

Guy Innagorillasuit: They should have hung it up after Daydream Nation.

Rather Ripped is damn good. SYI,II,III,IV are off the beaten path. There is enough variability between mainstream and wayyyyy off to experimental land that they always keep relevancy.

Texas with a Dollarsign: I bought another Sonic Youth album, and it sucked. It's just noise.

For every band someone hates, another thinks it's awesome.

PC LOAD LETTER: For every band someone hates, another thinks it's awesome.

It was a line from Juno.

/Don't really care about Sonic Youth either way

I have the Goo album cover as a t-shirt. Then I checked out the band. Yeah I'm weird that way.

Glitchwerks: I was just amazed at how scathing the review is. I know not to take their reviews too seriously, but...wow, just wow.

Noise is frequently boring (this coming from a guy who has Neubauten and Coltrane's "Interstellar Space"), especially the drone stuff. There's a lot of Final I just can't listen to.

Perhaps the record landed in the hands of the wrong reviewer?

/what's hysterical is reading the Rolling Stone review of Bjorks cd DEBUT.

Texas with a Dollarsign: PC LOAD LETTER: For every band someone hates, another thinks it's awesome.

It was a line from Juno.

/Don't really care about Sonic Youth either way

and it's a dumb joke, because a lot of their songs have a great pop-sensibility.

/but when they just play noise, its frequently boring.

self destruction: I have the Goo album cover as a t-shirt. Then I checked out the band. Yeah I'm weird that way. a typical hot topic customer.

FTFY

/Loves Sonic Yout
//Rather Ripped was a great album
///suck it haters.

pope183: Holy Crap! That cover art looks like someone took a snow bunny and crushed it under there doc martins

nothing but blood and fur except fur and blood

It makes me think of cherry cheesecake.

/mmmmmmmm

Rolling Stone review of "Debut" (new window)

Months before the Sugar Cubes' first album debuted in the United States, a heavy buzz began to circulate about the group's lead singer, Björk. It was weird enough that the group hailed from Iceland, but Björk's eerie yelps, shrieks, girlish whispers and leather-lunged vocal acrobatics transported the band into another head space entirely. The word invariably used to describe Björk's synapse-bending vocals was feral. Songs such as "Motorcrash" and "Delicious Demon" were supercharged tours de force.

In concert, however, two things became abundantly clear about the Sugar Cubes: First, Björk could deliver the goods; second, the Sugar Cubes' stage act seemed dangerously close to bad performance art. On two subsequent albums, the Cubes abandoned their blunt rock attack for a trendy Euro-dance sound. Björk's vocals were lost amid the electronic clatter. People wondered if it wasn't time for Björk to light out on her own.

She did, and Debut is the utterly disappointing result. Rather than sticking to rock & roll, Debut is painfully eclectic. On "Come to Me" and "Venus as a Boy" Björk adds not just a string section but an entire orchestra from India. It's more intrusive than galvanizing. Likewise, on the jazz standard "Like Someone in Love," Björk is accompanied by a harp - not the kind Little Walter played. Only on the opening track, "Human Behavior," do we get a glimmer of what the fuss was all about.

Producer Nellee Hooper (Sin&233;ad O'Connor, Soul II Soul) has sabotaged a ferociously iconoclastic talent with a phalanx of cheap electronic gimmickry. Björk's singular skills cry out for genuine band chemistry, and instead she gets Hooper's Euro art-school schlock - and we do, too.

You can almost replace all instances of "Sugarcubes" with "Radiohead" and "Bjork" with "Thom Yorke" and have a review for his last record.

I'm only joking, of course.

When I think of Sonic Youth I think of clothes.

jerkobson: self destruction: I have the Goo album cover as a t-shirt. Then I checked out the band. Yeah I'm weird that way. a typical hot topic customer.

FTFY

/Loves Sonic Yout
//Rather Ripped was a great album
///suck it haters.

Ah no you diiiin't!!! British. We don't do Hot Topic. Just browse the ebay t's is all. Damn it. Gonna go burn the t-shirt in spite.

I remember being astounded that Sonic Youth was still touring when I saw them open for the Flaming Lips a couple years ago.

Glitchwerks: Psychic Ills review by Pitchfork

This recently caused a small fuss in some message forums. They basically wrote a scathing review and gave the album a 1.4. Now, I've never heard of these guys because let's face it, I spend all my time buying and listening to records from Hard Wax.

I was just amazed at how scathing the review is. I know not to take their reviews too seriously, but...wow, just wow.

it was well-deserved. I DL'd the album because I liked the album cover and the term "psychedelic" was thrown in. It is probably one of the most spot-on reviews I've read from Pitchfork.



Glitchwerks: I suppose the collective review editors of Pitchfork are grabbing a box of Kleenex and closing their office doors for a "personal" moment right now.

They will probably give the album as 9.4423949.

I take Pitchfork reviews with a grain of salt, but even they'll knock the band down a few pegs. Though, admittedly, I get the impression from the review that the reviewer doesn't really care much for SY in the first place.



either way, i question anyone's taste in music if they dislike Daydream Nation.

Murray Street, Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped constitute possibly the best three album stretch by any band who has been around longer than 20 years.

Of course, the three albums before that stretch ranged from "Meh" to "Ugh" to "Hang it up, clowns, you've lost it", so who knows what the next one will bring?

H31N0US: I guess I'm just not hip enough to get Sonic Yoot.

Did you say "yoot?"

m0llusk: When I think of Sonic Youth I think of clothes.

I have that shirt. It's awesome.

Glitchwerks: Rolling Stone review of "Debut" (new window)



Rolling Stone are hypocrites, they change their reviews over time. I have a "rolling stone album guide" from the late 70s and all first 4 or 5 black Sabbaths released at the time all have one or 2 stars review with really bad critique....

I keep and cherish this book as evidence of their bullshiat



Ironpendragon: I remember being astounded that Sonic Youth was still touring when I saw them open for the Flaming Lips a couple years ago.

*OPENING* ??? Blasphemy! (i Like the lips too)

As much as I love Sonic Youth, I have to admit I enjoyed Wolf Eyes a lot more when I saw them live. Interesting choice for an opening band.

Murray St. remains one of my favorite headphone-listening albums of all time. Sound-wise, there's just so much going on. Instruments and sounds wander around, almost aimlessly. Lost. Then they suddenly change course and veer into oncoming instrumental traffic, smashing into one another in glorious collisions of sound and explosions of feeling. Then they fall apart, torn away by unseen forces.

And then I weep uncontrollably. Trembling.

I probably should stop listening to that album while riding the bus.

Sonic Elderly.


hehehehehehehehehehehehe

Tremolo: m0llusk: When I think of Sonic Youth I think of clothes.

I have that shirt. It's awesome.

That was a great tour.

X-Girl, Kim's prior clothing line did well and was actually pretty innovative/influential. Since the retailer (X-Large) is no longer around, Urban Outfitters is pretty much where I would expect the new line to appear.