Sonic Youth new album "Rather Ripped"

adjective

Affectedly and self-servingly earnest

Doubly ironic that the sentence was written in a "and here's how you do it!" spirit...

This sounds right.

usage: The senses shown above are the chief living senses of fulsome. Sense 2, which was a generalized term of disparagement in the late 17th century, is the least common of these. Fulsome became a point of dispute when sense 1, thought to be obsolete in the 19th century, began to be revived in the 20th. The dispute was exacerbated by the fact that the large dictionaries of the first half of the century missed the beginnings of the revival. Sense 1 has not only been revived but has spread in its application and continues to do so. The chief danger for the user of fulsome is ambiguity. Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as "fulsome praise" is meant in sense 1b or in sense 4.

I could picture Christgau viewing a 20 minute track as evidence of some pretentious wankery.

When I hear the word "sandbagging" I think of someone or something that slows down proceedings - isn't that the common business or legal use? As in weighing down, preventing the natural flow? I've never been hit with a sandbag, although I guess Daffy Duck has...

Goddamn this English language of ours...

You really think so?

Ian, I have no idea what that means.

Here's another instance: Boring or not, 1998's A Thousand Leaves unquestionably marked a turn toward the quietude, ruminative structures, and general fuzz level always implicit in their unresolved tunings and Deadhead-manquéjams—tendencies tersely deployed on 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star and copiously indulged on Washing Machine's stunning 20-minute "The Diamond Sea."

Perhaps less interesting sounding, but more clear. Is Christgau advocating the avoidance of clear word choices in favor of more vague ones in order to pursue "objectivity"? Let's forget the pejorative-or-nay for a minute - is calling "The Diammond Sea" "fulsomely sandbagging" better than just flat-out calling it "exhilarating" or "stunning"?

I suppose so, but a favorite album is also ranked according to other extra-formalist concerns: time, place, autobiographical minutiae. I don't see Rather Ripped as my no. 1 album this year, even though it's a better album than SN.

apparently SY played 'rather ripped' in order from start to finish at CBGB's last night!

Except Lee's songs get worse instead of better ("Rats" is easily the weakest song on RR). I think the last song of his I loved was 1998's "Hoarfrost."

Soto done gone loco.

There are albums that sound awesome in the record store, and then sound alright at home.. which is most of SY's albums, but this is an exception. Rather Ripped sounded a bit weak when I heard the advance in the record store, but now that I'm playing it at home, alone, at high summer dusk, it sounds incredibly intimate, warm, and gentle.

It's a cool-out album.. a couple of tracks rock a little bit more than the rest, but nothing rocks more than even the more "poppy" songs on Daydream Nation, which some consider "mellow".

But, not as much as Wild Honey, it's a zone-into album as well.. not a play-at-a-party-or-in-public album. "Do You Believe In Rapture?" is really nice. "Sleepin' Around"... "Reena"... "Or" as well. Hell, pretty much the whole album. The rest is neither incredible, nor really bad... just really nice.

It's a cruise control album. Why not? :)

I'll rephrase this: not a play-at-a-nightclub album

Incinerate
What A Waste
Pattern Recognition
Do You Believe In Rapture
Reena
Rats
Sleepin' Around
Turquoise Boy
Jams Run Free
Lights Out
PCH
Pink Steam
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The Neutral
Shaking Hell
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Or

i too would have liked to have heard more old songs. but the new stuff rules, so i still enjoyed myself thoroughly.

short answer = yes. could he learn a few choice cuts though? it made me really miss jim o'rourke's performances with them (aside from nyc ghosts & flowers tour.)

They need to get a second Lee song in there, though!