Sonic Youth new album "Rather Ripped"

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!

So, if I already own the damn thing, it's perfectly legal to download it on Limewire, right?

Actually, isn't it "legal" to download anything, anyway? It's only illegal to upload stuff / share stuff, right?

(for example) Reena from the 1:56 - 2:12 mark. This is the same fuckin' guitar noise SY has made for years. It pops up on other songs on this new album, too.

There's nothing wrong with having a style. Hell, even I have a style and I don't mean to. It's just natural given anyone's limitations, etc., but it's kind of annoying to hear that same thing. I guess a similar comparison would be the rumbling muted E of speed metal.

TROLL

But seriously! That's like saying "let's build a house with no walls." A lot of bands can make all the noise they want and I can't tell them from Adam. When SY makes that noise, I know exactly who I'm hearing.

no one cares, TROLL

No one does. Troll. Suck it. :-P

Haha, okay, I guess I'll buy that. Did you really go check out which noise I was talking about? I don't see why SY has to refer back to it so often. I have a feeling it is not really intentional; it sounds like the same sort of vague repetition all guitarists are guilty of, but that pitch and everything! I've heard it!

Yeah, actually I've heard the song so many times I already knew exactly what you were speaking of. It's a SY songwriting crutch, sure, but it always works for me (not that it's actual "noise" we're speaking of here... just a strumming/chording technique).