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I don't listen to Sonic Youth nowhere near as much as I used to in the past and maybe some day I'll stop listening to them completely. But I think they'll no matter what always be one of my favorites. I think they were the perfect first band to really get into for me. Sure before then I'd been aware and enjoyed certain radio accessible bands like Led Zeppelin or the Who.
But then to hear this band that jammed screwdrivers under their strings and played these really weird chord progressions and at times just made really vibrant noise at the very least excited me a whole lot. The music was dark, thunderous, dissonant, and also extremely beautiful and intoxicating.
Sonic Youth has one of the most distinguished and memorable discographies on record I think. And they're one of the fewer bands that I can think of that regularly um, not reinvent themselves but just explore a bunch of different ways of executing their music. I mean, NYC Ghosts and Flowers is almost the polar opposite of Dirty and both of those records are wonderful.
Yeah, amazing band, just amazing.
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