Although I do have the complete back catalogue of Sonic Youth's main albums, I'm still a bit behind with the SYR series. This edition is interesting since it contains several John Cage compositions.
I love Sonic Youth's rock albums and have great respect for their support of avant-garde music — I used to see Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon at experimental shows in NYC all the time — but I've never been crazy about most of the SYR recordings or their other ventures into non-rock music. This disc especially is suprisingly bland considering the range of the composers they're tackling. I always just stick to their consistently great ouevre of edgy rock albums.
I'm an American living in Regensburg, Bavaria. Born in Munich I spent my first 10 years in Kirkwood, Mo. 1971 we moved to where I am now. Finished German school in 1981, afterwards studied philosophy and German literature and languages. 1982 I joined the management of the local film club's cinema Filmgalerie, and from 1991-2001 I co-owned an own arthouse cinema STALI (Stadtamhofer Lichtspiele). In between I also was partner of the cinema and music bookstore Angry Red Planet for a few years. In the 80s I co-founded the local industrial band and performance art group Lyssa humana that officially still exists, but currently doesn't perform (last time was for our retrospective exhibition in 2010) at the Kunstverein Graz. I was also member of the shortlived noise rock band Hammersmith. Since 2001 I work for the customer service of a large American online company.
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I love Sonic Youth's rock albums and have great respect for their support of avant-garde music — I used to see Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon at experimental shows in NYC all the time — but I've never been crazy about most of the SYR recordings or their other ventures into non-rock music. This disc especially is suprisingly bland considering the range of the composers they're tackling. I always just stick to their consistently great ouevre of edgy rock albums.
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