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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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Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Sonic Youth is now Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley. Jim O'Rourke has left the band.

A few weeks before this record was released I visited the Sonic Youth website. Judging by the relative brevity of the songs and by the cover art, which reminded me of Fear's The Record, I assumed, full of hope, not hopefully, that Rather Ripped was going to be a punk record — an honest-to-god punk record.

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Sonic Youth - Hold That Tiger (live)

Recorded on the 14th of October 1987 at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago, Hold That Tiger is one of the best concerts committed to tape.

The majority of the songs are from the Sister album with a few taken from its predecessor, EVOL, and one from the EP, Kill Yr. Idols. As this was an especially fertile period in Sonic Youth’s development – indeed Sister is arguably Sonic Youth’s best album – the setlist here is, as you can imagine, pretty impressive.

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Sonic Youth - June 17th - The Enmore Theatre (e-mail conversation with Bluto.)

just quickly - what did you think of sonic yoof? i thought it was really good.

good enough to get a ticket to go the following night.

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A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording... By Amateurs...

or The Accidental Career... The Flaming Lips 1984-1990

The rather elaborate title refers to how The Flaming Lips vocalist, Wayne Coyne, explains his band's career — or that they managed to have a career at all.

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