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Song of the Day #3,171: ‘Kool Thing’ – Sonic Youth

sonic_youth_gooSonic Youth belongs in a category of classic bands that are just too loud for me to ever get into. I’ve heard nothing but praise for the work of (one-time) married couple Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon but the music I’ve heard is just too damn noisy.

1990’s Goo, the band’s sixth studio album, is one of their most acclaimed (along with its predecessor, 1988’s Daydream Nation. Even so, I don’t hear a lot on it that grabs me.

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Song of the Day #2,630: ‘Wish Fulfillment’ – Sonic Youth

sonic_youth_dirtyThis trip back to 1992 has resulted in the same experience on repeat — encountering an album by a band I know very well by name but not at all by sound.

Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore sound as familiar to me as The Lemonheads and Evan Dando, but again I can’t name a single song. I know that Moore sang backup on R.E.M.’s Monster, an acknowledgement of his band’s influence on the Athens alt-rockers.

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