Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century (Sonic Youth Records)
25th Anniversary Edition
Originally released 11/16/1999, SONIC YOUTH Goodbye 20th Century!!!
From our own, Rich Mudge, who begins w/ a reference to one of our favorite music writers,
“To sum up at a high level, Brian Turner’s excellent liner notes trace a musical path that the band and many including myself have followed: exploring the wilder and more individualistic side of sounds that congeal in the cesspool of ‘rock’ music through to exploring the same side of 20th century composition, Downtown NYC, Classical and Avant-garde.
The band’s interpretations of these pieces alternates between freewheeling and faithful with their unique take shining through. Featuring many of the players of the pieces (Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay, William Winant, Christian Wolff) makes it clear that these pieces are as much a part of the Sonic Youth musical DNA as anything they’ve absorbed.
They hype sticker states ‘A headphones classic’ and while that is a fine suggestion, listening over speakers the pieces move in a liminal space, almost like ghosts where you feel as much as hear them.
This sense of past/present/future colliding and mingling feels palpable. And this trajectory, the back-and-forth between [insert here] and avant, may be Sonic Youth’s most vital artistic contribution to experimental music.”
25th Anniversary Edition
Originally released 11/16/1999, SONIC YOUTH Goodbye 20th Century!!!
From our own, Rich Mudge, who begins w/ a reference to one of our favorite music writers,
“To sum up at a high level, Brian Turner’s excellent liner notes trace a musical path that the band and many including myself have followed: exploring the wilder and more individualistic side of sounds that congeal in the cesspool of ‘rock’ music through to exploring the same side of 20th century composition, Downtown NYC, Classical and Avant-garde.
The band’s interpretations of these pieces alternates between freewheeling and faithful with their unique take shining through. Featuring many of the players of the pieces (Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay, William Winant, Christian Wolff) makes it clear that these pieces are as much a part of the Sonic Youth musical DNA as anything they’ve absorbed.
They hype sticker states ‘A headphones classic’ and while that is a fine suggestion, listening over speakers the pieces move in a liminal space, almost like ghosts where you feel as much as hear them.
This sense of past/present/future colliding and mingling feels palpable. And this trajectory, the back-and-forth between [insert here] and avant, may be Sonic Youth’s most vital artistic contribution to experimental music.”
25th Anniversary Edition
Originally released 11/16/1999, SONIC YOUTH Goodbye 20th Century!!!
From our own, Rich Mudge, who begins w/ a reference to one of our favorite music writers,
“To sum up at a high level, Brian Turner’s excellent liner notes trace a musical path that the band and many including myself have followed: exploring the wilder and more individualistic side of sounds that congeal in the cesspool of ‘rock’ music through to exploring the same side of 20th century composition, Downtown NYC, Classical and Avant-garde.
The band’s interpretations of these pieces alternates between freewheeling and faithful with their unique take shining through. Featuring many of the players of the pieces (Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay, William Winant, Christian Wolff) makes it clear that these pieces are as much a part of the Sonic Youth musical DNA as anything they’ve absorbed.
They hype sticker states ‘A headphones classic’ and while that is a fine suggestion, listening over speakers the pieces move in a liminal space, almost like ghosts where you feel as much as hear them.
This sense of past/present/future colliding and mingling feels palpable. And this trajectory, the back-and-forth between [insert here] and avant, may be Sonic Youth’s most vital artistic contribution to experimental music.”