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Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities

From the outset The Destroyed Room sounds, more than anything else, like something that would be found on the SYR series. After all, of the eleven tracks, only three have vocals, and, even then, one of those, an outtake from Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star, lasts only a little over a minute. (To qualify, that particular track, "Razor Blade," is as sweet as the liner-notes suggest.)

The second track with vocals, "Blink," recorded in 1999 for inclusion in a French film, is also very sweet — albeit in a folkish/droning way — and interesting in that it sounds very much like a Yo La Tengo song. The final non-instrumental, and the reason I suspect quite a few people will have purchased this record is the almost 26-minute long version of "The Diamond Sea." I'm not sure if this particular version, the unedited take of what ended up on the Washing Machine album, has ever been released, whether as a b-side or for download, but it is quite spectacular, and certainly worth owning.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities

Whatever one might think of Nick Cave there is no doubt that he is a gifted songwriter and an amazing performer. B-Sides & Rarities is a 3-CD box set that brings together, funnily enough, all of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ B-Sides & Rarities.

When Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds hit their stride the results are breathtaking: the acoustic version of “The Mercy Seat,” for example, is chilling in its intensity; the epic “O’Malley’s Bar,” which sees the narrator of the song brutally slaughtering the occupants of the aforementioned O’Malley’s Bar is guiltily hilarious; “Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum” sees eerie violins out-eeried by an eerier narrative; etc...

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Crass - Best Before... 1984

Dedicated with much love and much respect to [-o-].

Though the title suggests that this is a "best of" album it is in fact a collection of b-sides, singles and rarities.

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