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Originally Posted by _slavo_
God, this is going to be the cheesiest thing ever, but I've spent the past 2 hours browsing on YouTube and watching Sonic Youth official as well as live videos ... and I once again I realized how great this band is and how important it has been for me in the past 10 years or so. I mean, fuck the last 2 albums, but there never was, is or will be a band capable of creating such compressed magic as they did in their music.
I love Sonic Youth.
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First: I love Sonic Youth of the bottom of my heart. I have loved the band since I heard Goo first time, but three last years my Sonic Youth interest has became even more passionate.
Second: Iīm very tired that everybody remember mention that "Rather ripped" and "the Eternal" sucks. Because I think theyīre really good, as good as the other albums. Ok, itīs very common, that band changes boring when it comes to certain age (this has happened for example Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis, the Who (little exception whoīs last album was quite good)). But this will not happen all the bands and I truly think it hasnīt yet happen to Sonic Youth (Itīs not happen also Nick Cave, Captain Beefheart, Jon Spencer and Tom Waits, I think Tom Waits last records are much better than his seventies records).
You have right to think that "The Eternal" sucks, but tell me why? I find the both last albums the same Sonic Youth-elements as the others: deadly beautiful melodies and the other hand very raw chaotic elements. And I think even they sound themselves, there is also something pure in their every album. So whatīs is matter in those albums? Is it a question of belonging into a group? When somebody found that "Sonic Youth isnīt cooool anymore" everybody must have the same opinion and nobody canīt say against it (maybe fearing to be called an old fart).
Ok, if you truly, in the bottom of you heart think that Rather Ripped and the Eternal sucks, donīt keep on mentioning it all the time. You have said your opinion million times. I have said mine also many times, so I wonīt say it anymore.