[lbo-talk] after SY retrocity...

[Mike Beggs]

Funnily enough, it was Sonic Youth's cover of the Stooges' Now I Wanna
Be Your Dog that first got me into them. Someone played it for me in
school and told me it was SY, but not the album. He moved overseas
soon afterwards so I couldn't ask, and I kept buying SY albums one by
one (which took a long time on a meagre after-school job wage) until I
finally found it on Confusion is Sex.

Don't write off Washing Machine by the way, it's a real step back to
the weird after Goo and Dirty (actually I like Experimental Jet Set a
lot too, just the subdued vibe of it). Plus it's got the 20-minute
Diamond Sea which still chills my spine.

Cheers,
Mike

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alan Rudy<alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, here's the question:  Why are there no Rock and Roll standards like
> there are in Jazz, Blues and Folk?
> Where did the idea that such things were "covers" - and therefore lesser -
> rather than "standards" - and therefore nods to greatness?
> Me, personally, I LOVE a good cover - Mark Lanegan's version of The Leaving
> Trains' "Creeping Coastline of Lights" comes to mind - but hate most cover
> bands (and most cover records, even Giant Sand's Cover Magazine [and they
> are my favorite band]).
> A
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