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- From: jeanette@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com.mcm.hp.com (Jeanette Skelton)
- Subject: Re: Sonic Youth.
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:54:07 GMT
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- Jens Alfke (jens_alfke@gateway.qm.apple.com) wrote:
- :
- : Their best albums are "Bad Moon Rising" ('85) and "EVOL" ('86). I'd be
- : hard pressed to choose between them. "EVOL" is more accessible, coherent
- : and rockin', but "Bad Moon Rising" is an amazing spacy exploration of
- : guitar noise and song non-structures. It sounded like total
- : incomprehensible noise to me the first time I played it; every time
- : thereafter I'd like more and more of it. It took me a month to fully
- : appreciate it (well, all of it but "Justice Is Might"...)
- :
-
- I thought I was the only one who likes "Bad Moon Rising" more than
- "Daydream Nation"!
-
- Last summer I gave a ride to a friend of mine who has pretty conventional
- musical taste. He wanted to play the tape that was in the car stereo, which
- happened to be "Bad Moon Rising." After a few seconds of that, he asked
- "doesn't this just sound like noise to you?"
-
- Jeanette
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