Sonic Youth new album "Rather Ripped"

last good cover, last good album! *runs really fast from delusional sy fanz. never to return. i promise*

I mean, I don't dislike the covers (or titles) of Bad Moon Rising, Dirty, Jet Set, A Thousand Leaves, or Sonic Nurse, to name a few, but I don't think of them as "good" cover art/titles, either.

http://img186.exs.cx/img186/4378/sonicyouthnyc2jh.jpg

although I have to admit, the way the "u" in Youth is directly below the "n" in Sonic as almost a mirror image is really striking, they should totally use that font for a logo on other stuff.

"A Thousand Leaves" is the every defintion of "crappy Photoshop job".

does surrealism own the copyright on images of the human eye or something? I think you're bringin' your own baggage to the table g

Well, haven't they made a point of having different artists do the covers of the records rather than repeating the same people?

Sister has a great cover.

I actually think NYCGF was one of their better covers, not that they have many great ones. (S: Daydream Nation).

ha! tis true ... again, scott makes me happier.

Goo
Daydream Nation
Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star
Dirty
Evol
Sonic Nurse
Sister
Confusion Is Sex
A Thousand Leaves
Rather Ripped
NYC Ghosts and Flowers
The Whitey Album
Murray Street
all of the SYR records in a tie, though I like the red one best
Bad Moon Rising
Washing Machine
Sonic Youth EP

beta--was kim gordon a total ice queen when you were eating olives with her? or was she nice to you? i got the chance to hang out with sonic youth backstage once, maybe four years ago. kim was very distant and basically ignored me, thurston was nice enough, jim o'rourke (guess he's not still in the band) was friendly, and i didn't see much of steve. the nicest person in the band was lee ranaldo, who even offered to write my wire article for me when i was feeling stressed out about it. i saw him some other time at a gallery and had a funny conversation with him about "le corbusier concrete lollipops" (i still have one somewhere, in a box!)

thurston gave me an impromptu lecture on strange old improvisors when i 1st met him...but they have all been quite nice to me when i have met them. & xpst

I see M. Perpetua posts here, august company indeed!

I've never ever ever heard of any anecdote involving Lee in which he was anything less than super nice and awesome.

only member of the band I've met was Steve, a few times, including an interview, and he's definitely a nice, low-key bro.

I always keep hoping that someday there's a Sonic Youth album where Lee does a full third of the singing.

the only good ones are Daydream, Goo, Sonic Nurse, and Evol. Sister and Bad Moon were alright on vinyl but the detail is lost on CD. the other covers are all worse than this one.

I always thought it was sort of a funny twist, too -- usually the concert t-shirt has the cover of the album on it, whereas here the cover of the album has the concert t-shirt on it. I'm sure everyone who bought the shirt in summer '95 assumed that when the album was released a couple months later, it would just be the logo from the shirt on that solid blue background.

yeah, that has been the word on the street

Jaymc has a really good point about the album/t-shirt reversal, and now it's making me like the cover more again.

the Jet Set cover is debateable, but if we're talking about the whole packaging, I did like that goofy thing they did where it was a bunch of different cards instead of a booklet in the CD case with alternate covers. I used to shuffle it to a different cover all the time, usually the b&w one of Steve or the one w/ Kim over the green background with the horse.