Sonic Youth

Honestly, I haven’t been listening to much music lately. Depressing, I know, but true: I just haven’t really been thinking about it whenever I’m doing work in my room, which is pretty much all the time, so that basically limits my listening time to when I’m in the car. And as my CD burner isn’t working so well, I only have a few albums in there…basically, all I’ve really been listening to for the past couple weeks is Wilco. Which is great, don’t get me wrong; I love Wilco to death and I don’t think I could ever get sick of them, but it’d be nice to hear something new every once in a while.

I was thinking about this last night, when I decided to finally play some music on my computer – and I decided that Sonic Youth was the perfect study music. I mean, in my opinion, Sonic Youth is pretty much perfect for anything – loud and banging and jarring when you want it to be, but if you turn down the volume it’s the perfect melodic white noise. Ah, you gotta love feedback. They were really the best act at Bonnaroo that I saw. It was amazing - even though I was there alone, and pushed into the middle of the crowd, and didn't know most of the songs. Am. Az. Ing. That down there's one of my many blurry/distant pictures from the show.

And then just now I remembered this thing, which I haven’t used in ages, and thought that maybe I should try again. So, I am, and here’s some Sonic Youth for you. In a while (if I keep this up) I’m sure there’ll be a huge Wilco post at some point, but right now, this is what’s good. So here are some of my favorite SY songs of the moment (in chronological order, of course). Please steal and enjoy.





Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your Dog (Obviously I had to have at least one cover...Confusion is Sex, 1983)

Kool Thing (Goo, 1990)

Sugar Kane (Dirty, 1992)

Pattern Recognition (Sonic Nurse, 2004)

Do You Believe In Rapture (Rather Ripped, 2006)