[lbo-talk] Let's Argue About Sonic Youth's "Retro-necro reverence"!

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 15:46:48 PDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Rebecca Hill<redbecca7 at earthlink.net> wrote:


> Too bad the Stooges' reunion was lame.

That may be true of the new albums but I saw them in Sydney a couple of years ago and it was about the second best show I ever saw. I agree about the Don't Look Back shows. I saw SY do Daydream Nation and it was pretty cool. I have to say though that I think the fact Daydream Nation's the best-known SY album is an instance of the phenomenon of a band building critical acclaim with earlier awesomeness which builds hype for the next big album - which gets all the kudos. Of course Daydream Nation is great but I do prefer the earlier Evol and Sister, and actually, as it happens, the later Washing Machine.

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