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{Download PDF} Goodbye 20Th Century: a Biography of Sonic GOODBYE 20TH CENTURY: A BIOGRAPHY OF SONIC YOUTH PDF, EPUB, EBOOK David Browne | 464 pages | 02 Jun 2009 | The Perseus Books Group | 9780306816031 | English | Cambridge, MA, United States SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century - Wikipedia He was also in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth from until their breakup, mainly on bass but occasionally playing guitar. It was the band's first album following the departure of multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke, who had joined as a fifth member in It also completed Sonic Youth's contract with Geffen, which released the band's previous eight records. The discography of American rock band Sonic Youth comprises 15 studio albums, seven extended plays, three compilation albums, seven video releases, 21 singles, 46 music videos, nine releases in the Sonic Youth Recordings series, eight official bootlegs, and contributions to 16 soundtracks and other compilations. It was released in on DGC. The song was dedicated to the band's friend Joe Cole, who was killed by a gunman in The lyrics were written by Thurston Moore. It featured songs from the album Sister. It was released on vinyl in , with a CD release in Apparently, the actual tape of the live recording was sped up to fit vinyl, but was not slowed down again for the CD release. It was the eighth release in the SYR series. It was released on July 28, The album was recorded on July 1, at the Roskilde Festival. The album title is in Danish and means "Other sides of Sonic Youth". For this album, the band sought to expand upon its trademark alternating guitar arrangements and the layered sound of their previous album Daydream Nation The band's songwriting on Goo is more topical than past works, exploring themes of female empowerment and pop culture. Coming off the success of Daydream Nation , Nick Sansano returned to engineer Goo , but veteran producer Ron Saint Germain was chosen by Sonic Youth to finish mixing the album following Sansano's dismissal. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. May Learn how and when to remove this template message. Sonic Youth. Robert Bertelli , better known as Bob Bert , is an American rock drummer. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Goodbye 20th Century by David Browne. This is a richly detailed portrait of an iconic band and the times they helped create. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Goodbye 20th Century , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Do I need to know all of these facts about Sonic Youth? Of course, I do. Would I like some opinions about them and their music? Some analysis of their musical appeal and their cultural importance? Some reasons to vindicate my 30 year old passion? Of course, I would. Am I alone in craving opinion and analysis? Would I be just as passionate, if nobody else liked them as much as I do? Still, did this book give me the opinions and analysis I craved for? Did it give me just one outrageous opinion? Just a teeny weeny hint of how much David Browne loves the music of Sonic Youth more than the detail of their career trajectory? David Browne is a man with a focus and no temper. Am I just going to crank up some Sonic Youth, listen to it through my headphones and not write a review of this book? Well, yes, yes, no. I assumed that an open tuning was just the guitar strung normally, but no chords were being shaped by fingers being placed on the frets. Therefore, if the guitar was strummed, it would make no particular chord, so the music it created might be dissonant. I read everywhere that the music of Sonic Youth was dissonant, sometimes just noise, and I assumed that this was the explanation. But I was wrong. An open tuning can be set so that without placing your fingers on any frets, you would play a chord when you strummed all of the open strings. You are automatically within a chord or key. This makes it relatively easier to create melodies within that key by using your fingers on the frets. I detected melodies, light and shade, and I liked it. Music is a relationship between notes. All notes depend on how you resolve them, how they form a consonance with other notes. Their music creates a sense of pleasure, even when they utilise dissonance. This is the song from the start of my review. The first is the full version with an extended feedback instrumental at the end. The second is just the song without the feedback. It seems to be better synchronized as well. However, the extended version of this song has everything. It really is that good a song. On the flight back to Brisbane the following day, I realised that the band were on the same plane. I introduced myself to Thurston and Kim, and said how much I enjoyed the show. Thurston asked me for some advice about bookshops in Brisbane. He was looking for poetry, and I was able to send him off to two shops that might have what he was looking for. IanHeartKim Dream 9: Kim looked so hot and smart on the plane, and I promised to email her if they ever broke up as a couple. Of course, I've been tempted to follow up on my promise, since I learned that they had actually parted company. I'm older than Thurston, but younger than Kim. I don't know if this matters. To be honest, I'm afraid I mightn't be brainy enough for her. No other woman has ever fallen for my intellect before, so why would she? After a lot of cogitation and other big words, I drew a picture of Kim instead and I placed it in a prominent place in my Sonic Youth shrine. I figure they must be really smart, if they can afford the rent. I hope you like my drawing. You're the only one I've showed it to. I'm not very good at fingers, but neither is Matt Groening. The tits are all right if you don't mind me paraphrasing Lisa Cholodenko. Another classic, also in the vein of "Sweet Jane". Until finding the live version of "Teenage Riot" on YouTube, I probably would have said this was my favourite Sonic Youth song and possibly one of my top three songs of the nineties. A more atmospheric use of feedback and effects on a seven minute live version of a song from their album, "Washing Machine". The alternative studio versions were 19 and 25 minutes long. The band formed in and existed continuously until at least November, , when Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon broke up their personal relationship, which was as old as the band itself thirty years. Sonic Youth were a big influence on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana and were instrumental in getting them a deal with DGC Records David Geffen Company Records in , only to see them eclipse their commercial success almost immediately with "Nevermind". They almost seemed to be too individualistic to be swept up in the wave that brought some bands a modicum of commercial success. The band always seemed to be one generation older, one step ahead and one step to the left of their peer group. There is no explanation of the term "Alternative Nation" in the book. How widely was it ever used on the street? Was it just a commercial label for a TV show about the music? Does it imply that there was a nation of indie fans within the USA? However, within the body of the book, it soon becomes clear that the band stood part from the rise, and the rise occurred without them. Their fortunes stood opposed to the rise of the other bands. They missed out. They were in the slow lane and they were overtaken. When you speculate on their total record sales and the income they could have generated from sales, you have to question how a band of at least four members could survive financially in Manhattan. The main sense of "accomplishment" is the simple fact that they [have] stayed together for so long, despite not making much money. Most, if not all, other bands would have fallen apart from the financial pressures, especially once band members got married, bought a home and had kids who needed to be raised and educated. Ultimately, Sonic Youth fought for the right to make their music exactly the way they envisaged it for the whole of their career. Unlike punk musicians before them, there was an expectation that they could make a living out of their creativity. Unfortunately, as popular culture and commerce changed around Sonic Youth, fewer and fewer people cared enough about the music the band wanted to make to spend money on acquiring it. To the extent that any popular culture is an act of communication, they communicated with less and less people. However, one way or another, the band and their audience went separate ways. They pushed the envelope and nobody was there to fill it full of cash and return it to the sender.
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