Message: 7 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:32:52 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Efr=E9n=20del=20Valle?= <efrendv@yahoo.es> Subject: Fwd: SY:murraystreet To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Cc: jasontors@yahoo.com

Hi,

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hello all, any thoughts on sonicyouth's newest? Just read a favorable review on pitchfork

No. I'd go for "Dirty", "Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star" and "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" first. However, there aren't two SY fans that will mention the same choices. So these are mine!

With 20+ years behind them, getting into SY takes some investment. As well as the above (yup, 'NYC Ghosts & Flowers' is a killer), the GREAT trilogy is the mid-80s sequence of 'Evol' (1986), 'Sister' (87) and 'Daydream Nation' (88). For me these are SY at their finest - amazing guitar reinventions, spooked, paranoid and surreal lyrics, songs crumbling into sprawling noise improvisations. I think these are due to come out in revised/remastered editions through Universal pretty soon. And I have totally fallen in love with Murray Street, especially "Disconnection Notice". Even SY's 'straighter' songs refuse to lie completely flat. They seem to have fallen into a pattern of saving the more songish, rocking material for the Geffen albums while using their SYR indie label as a depository for their more whacked out experimenta; impulses, including the fascinating double 'Goodbye 20th Century', which has got a load of Fluxus/chance operations/avant garde composition pieces on it and guests like William Winant, Christian Wolff and Ikue Mori. If anyone gets a chance to see them on their current Euro tour, they're performing a set that mixes new stuff with revisitations of 'Kotton Krown', 'Candle', 'Kissability', etc. And now: the Zorn content: does anyone in the UK remember the ITV 'South Bank Show' documentary on JZ and Sonic Youth (two separate half hour films)? Those were the days, eh? Rob -- _______________________________________ Rob Young Editor THE WIRE: Adventures In Modern Music 2nd Floor East 88-94 Wentworth Street London E1 7SA UK Tel 020 7422 5010 Fax 020 7422 5011 Direct line 020 7422 5012 http://www.thewire.co.uk _______________________________________