Sonic YouthвЂs 1990 album Goo was a critical success and reached the highest album charting position of the groupвЂ™s career. Their sixth overall release, this was the first after signing their initial major-label recording deal with Geffen Records, which included complete creative control by the band.вЂњKool ThingвЂќ proved Sonic Youth was capable of delivering their abrasive sound in a radio-friendly package. Inspired in part by an interview that Kim Gordon did with LL Cool J for Spin, as well as her own progressive beliefs, вЂњKool ThingвЂќ peppers references to LLвЂ™s hit songs вЂњI CanвЂ™t Live Without My RadioвЂќ and вЂњGoing Back to CaliвЂќ in a subversive industry critique, assisted by none other than Public EnemyвЂ™s Chuck D, playing the hype man to GordonвЂ™s spoken-word invocations like, вЂњAre you gonna liberate us girls from white male corporate oppression?вЂќSonic Youth Goo Album Cover NEW & OFFICIAL T-Shirt Grey, feeling the music and seeing the bands perform is the biggest rush there is,First and foremost.sonic youth interview. In an interview two years ago, Thurston stated that his intention in starting Sonic Youth was to combine the bone-splitting intensity of Throbbing Gristle(Britains seminal and monolithic un-punk). Sonic Youths latest Geffen album, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, is a work of particularly seductive, disturbing menace.

A defining album for a new era, Goo challenged the idea of what a mainstream rock album could be without sacrificing the experimental, cacophonous tendencies that earned them a devoted cult following. (Pettibon was responsible for a number of iconic covers for Sonic YouthвЂ™s former label SST Records.)goo (deluxe box set) by sonic youth buy online at resident, the deluxe edition of sonic youths 1990 album goo. Includes 31 songs : the original album.NOTES 'Goo' was Sonic Youth's eighth album, and their first for DGC/Geffen. The album was their major label debut, and with arena rock staples like 'Kool Thing' and 'Dirty Boots' deep in its grooves, it allowed Sonic Youth to enter the mainstream world, destroy everything in their path, and emerge victorious, riding the top 10 charts to sonic stardom and glory. When Dirty first came out, it was an almost universal disappointment to anyone who'd listened to Sonic Youth beyond Goo - and amidst the cries bemoaning what a major-label contract had done to.

Its been unfairly judged, kind of like Metal Machine Music was back in the day, but that doesn't change the fact that when I want SY, it's the last album I'd reach for. I'd have been okay with it being their actual swan song, but there's good stuff on Rather Ripped and The Eternal that I think gets overlooked.NYC Ghosts is at the bottom b/c its so hard to revisit. Kim and Thurston are equals parts, and while it doesn't explore their more aggressive tendencies (like on Confusion is Sex) it's a late career boom that captures everything about their 90s alternative spin, and 2000s psychedelia while keeping the experimentation still intact.