Sonic Youth - Goo
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Artist: Sonic YouthEdition: Music CD
Format: Deluxe Edition, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Dirty Boots
- Tunic (Song For Karen)
- Mary-Christ
- Kool Thing
- Mote
- My Friend Goo
- Disappearer
- Mildred Pierce
- Cinderella's Big Score
- Scooter + Jinx
- Titanium Expose
- Lee #2
- That's All I Know (Right Now)
- The Bedroom
- Dr. Benway's House
- Tuff Boyz
- Tunic
- Number One (Disappearer)
- Titanium Expose
- Dirty Boots
- Corky (Cinderella's Big Score)
- My Friend Goo
- Bookstore (Mote)
- Animals (Mary-Christ)
- DV2 (Kool Thing)
- Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)
- Lee #2
- I Know There's An Answer
- Can Song
- Isaac
- Goo Interview Flexi
Free Music Notes for Goo
Free Music Review: New word for Orwell: Doubleplusgoo!
Hit: 5 Stars
This would be album number six (depending on your counting method) by the Greatest American Rock Band of the last 25 years. This particular edition is a super-deluxe two-disc reissue of the album. whether you're a fan of the original version or a curious newcomer, this is definitely the version to get, unless you have budgetary concerns, in which case the original will do just fine. Still, my motto is: "if you're going to go for it, go all the way!" I realize that's a moronic cliche, but in a country in which morons like Kevin Federline are more famous than Sonic Youth, sometimes it's rewarding to dumb down. I'll save the lecture about the ethical implications stemming from this for later. Now's the time for "Goo."
"Goo" found the band at the apex of their "pop culture can be fun" phase from the late 80's/early 90's, when they started dressing more fashionably (well, at least Kim Gordon did) and started storming MTV and the then-burgeoning alt-rock radio format. It's also no coincidence that "Goo" was also the band's official major label debut ("Daydream Nation," which was released by the indie Enigma, had major label distribution). Thus begun their long association with DGC, an album that at one point was rumored to be called, um, a slang term also known as a "Lewinsky." The music was also getting slightly poppier as well. Of course, for Sonic Youth, "pop" meant taking a standard verse-chorus-verse structure and slathering it with their trademark oddly-tuned and feedback-spewing guitars. They also embraced pop-cultural themes, or at least those that resonated with them. The album's lead single, "Kool Thing" reflected Kim's post-feminist fascination with the male bravado of hip-hop. LL Kool J is referenced ("Kool thing/walking like a panther") and Public Enemy's Chuck D does a calculatedly brief guest vocal. Then there's "Tunic (Song For Karen)," about the late pop idol Karen Carpenter, who died from complications from anorexia. Rather than being a snide hipster mock-fest, it's sympathetic to her life and situation. Later on, the band would record a cover of "Superstar" that was surprisingly restrained and touching (alas, it's not included here, but you can find it, along with videos for every "Goo" song, on the DVD collection "Corporate Ghost," which makes a fine companion to this release). Elsewhere, you'll find "Dirty Boots," one of Thurston's most accesible rockers, and the classic Hollywood inspired throwaway "Mildred Pierce" (the video for which features A-list director Sofia Coppola years before her big breakthrough). Lee Ranaldo's "Mote" is surely one of his best songs, and was to be the only one of his tracks to make the finished album.
Which is part of the reason disc two is so essential. Here you'll find an unfinished Ranaldo track, as well as "I Know There's An Answer," a shockingly reverent Beach Boys cover. Most important of all, however, is the original 8-track demos the band recorded for "Goo." These have been heavily bootlegged by fans--if internet file-sharing services had been around at the time, this material would have been swapped around like Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine." What you have here is essentially an alternate version of the entire album in a much more raw, and rowdier, form. Although the songs are mostly the same as the ones on the final product, these live-in-the-studio takes ooze more feedback and grit, and the vocals are more tossed-off and almost buried in the mix. This, my friends, is the real "dirty." To be honest, and speaking as a huge slobbering Sonic Youth junkie, I kind of prefer this version, which in sound quality also compares with what I consider the band's best work, "Sister." The one (very slight) drawback is the track order, which is completely different than the "official" version. I guess that's only a problem if you're an anal retentive freak like yours truly, and CD'S are, of course, programmable.
The deluxe package also includes an expanded booklet with photos not in the original package (check out Thurston rockin' a Roland Kirk t-shirt!) and an essay by music critic/SY friend Byron Coley. Sorry kids, no lyrics, but those are, as always, on the band's extensive and very cool web site. While the price may be a bit high (compare, if you will, with the just-as-overloaded reissue of Pavement's classic "Slanted & Enchanted"), the reward is well worth it. So is the hearing loss you'll experience when you play it as loud as it should.
Goo Poster
Sonic Youth's Goo, a landmark album in the history of alternative rock, receives the Deluxe Edition treatment with digital remastering and the addition of rarities and unreleased recordings. The two-CD Goo - Deluxe Edition, expands the original 1990 album with outtakes, b-sides, rehearsal recordings, demos and the audio from a tongue-in-cheek promotion-only interview flexi disc. Sonic Youth's eighth album, Goo was the band's first to receive major label distribution, and first to find a place on Billboard's Top 100 Albums chart. Goo reached more ears than any earlier SY album, including those of Neil Young...who invited the band on tour with Crazy Horse. Along with the Top 10 Modern Rock hit "Kool Thing," guesting Public Enemy's Chuck D, Disc One of Goo - Deluxe Edition presents "Tunic," "Disappearer," "Titanium Expose," "Dirty Boots," "Cinderella's Big Score," "My Friend Goo," "Mote," "Mary-Christ," "Mildred Pierce" and "Scooter + Jinx." Added are two previously unreleased tracks, a vocal take of "Lee #2" and "Tuff Boyz," plus the rarities "That's All I Know (Right Now)" (a cover of the proto-punk Neon Boys song), a live version of "The Bedroom," and "Dr. Benway's House," the band's contribution to William Burroughs' Dead City Radio album. For Disc Two, previously unreleased instrumentals "Isaac" and "Can Song" join a cover of the Beach Boys' "I Know There's An Answer" recorded for the Smiles, Vibes And Harmony compilation and the promotion-only Goo interview flexi disc. Also heard are 11 demos, highlighted by extended versions, a pre-Chuck D "Kool Thing" and near-nine-minute "Blow Job" (aka "Mildred Pierce"), actually one of the first SY songs ever written. The demos were widely bootlegged before the band issued them via their fan club. They are heard remixed and remastered for the first time on Goo - Deluxe Edition.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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