Sonic Youth - Sister
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Artist: Sonic YouthEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-10-11
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
- Schizophrenia
- Catholic Block
- Beauty Lies In The Eye
- Stereo Sanctity
- Pipeline/Kill Time
- Tuff Gnarl
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Hot Wire My Heart
- Cotton Crown
- White Cross
- Master-Dik
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Free Music Review: I wish I could appreciate this more...
Hit: 2 Stars
Although I have had a stereotyped view of "alternative" music for many years, Sonic Youth have undoubtedly been (close to) the most acclaimed band of the past 25 years, with David Keenan viewing this album as the best of the 1980s. "janitor-x"'s viewpoint of Isn't Anything and Loveless and pale imitations of Sonic youth eventually made me want to check them out even though - from my brother's record collection - I had found them unlistenable more than once in the past because of the seemingly tuneless guitar noise.
EVOL, however, contained a number of very impressive songs that were, as "janitor-x" said, very soft, and I expected more in that direction when I purchased "Sister". Apart from "Schizophrenia" ad "Pipeline/Kill Time", however, there is little of what I had hoped for. Rather, the songs here are like so much awful punk/pop that came to dominate the radio around a decade after I was born, only with much more guitar feedback. Even "Tuff Gnarl", which for a time almost reminded me of one of the 1990s best songs, "Storm", actually turns out to be guitar feedback with much less emotion than I had hoped for. "White Cross", in particular, seems to be a song that paved the way for an incredible amount of terrible pop-punk during the 1990s and beyond. It has none of the qualities I found on listening form my brother's record collection. "Catholic Block" and "Beauty Lies In The Eye" do not lack melody but the vocals really ruin them because there is so little energy or drama in them - which simply does not fit the music. Maybe I was in the wrong mood to appreciate this record when I bought it - I somehow enjoyed EVOL much more.
Whilst I have definite respect for Sonic Youth - as so many reputable writers have shown they did a great deal to pave the way for some great music in the 1990s that revived the passion in rock - "Sister", at least as I judged it, is simply an impossible record for me to listen to. The guitar feedback really, as I see it, is almost analogous to the extremely glossy production of so many more mainstream bands of the 1980s that I once liked but now hate. Both can actually achieve a great deal used wisely, but more often than not, they disguise a lack of emotion in the playing.
Sister Poster
Having successfully balanced atonal freak-outs with rock song structure on their previous release, EVOL, Sonic Youth went further towards convention with this concise, "all rock" (their words) album. Recorded on old tube equipment instead of then-emerging digital technology, the album's 10 songs have an impressively warm, cozy vibe even as they tear up the pavement underneath. "(I Got a) Catholic Block," "Pacific Coast Highway," and a vicious cover of Crime's "Hot Wire My Heart" are propelled by the newfound power of drummer Steve Shelley, who doesn't let the band's arty self-consciousness inhibit the songs' natural drive. --Rob O'ConnorAlternative Rock Music CDs
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