Sonic Youth

Related Content

• Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together
  November 2, 2011
• Art Rocker vs. Dweeb: Sorting Out Thurston Moore
  July 20, 2011
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011: Robert Plant, Thurston Moore, Broken Social Scene, and More
  August 10, 2011
• The Antidote to Watch The Throne: Why We Need Chuck D's "Notice -- Know This"
  August 17, 2011
• Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
  October 5, 2011

More About

• David Geffen
• Sonic Youth
• Thurston Moore
• Lee Ranaldo
• Hip-Hop and Rap

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Fifteen years after Sonic Youth's startling alliance with David Geffen paved the way for a new generation of altrockers with major-label muscle, the band's DGC debut, Goo, is back in the form of this two-disc set, remastered and stuffed with outtakes, demos, and assorted rarities. And while Goo has always paled in comparison to its seminal predecessor, 1988's Daydream Nation, it remains a bruising portent of things to come, as Thurston Moore's and Lee Ranaldo's brawny riffs blend seamlessly with Kim Gordon's bass to create a trademark sound that is alternately hypnotic ("Tunic") and hard-nosed ("Mary-Christ"). The album retains its freshness, though the once-groundbreaking concept of a rap-rock collaboration -- with Chuck D on "Kool Thing" -- now seems almost quaint. The bonus disc unearths a pair of lush instrumentals, "Can Song" and "Isaac," but early takes on "My Friend Goo" and "Titanium Expose" may interest only hard-core collectors.