Sonic Youth spin-off Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album was a bit disappointing when it came out ( i mean, you expect a little slack from Sonic Youth but this was positively unfurled) and even though the Robert Palmer cover worked pretty well, it was a kinda obvious moves. The single, on the other hand,
was something else entirely and it's still a classic.
Thurston and Madge's intertwining vocals make both of them sound like they can sing a bit (well, maybe not Thurston and maybe not sing) and the song seems to transcend it's sources to become a thing of wonder; full of light and electricity and joy.
Definitely a gestalt happening here that means the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts.
Nowadays, you sometimes get this with a really good bootleg - Jimi Hendrix and Beyonce's 'Foxy Lady', The Strokes and Christine Aguilera's 'A Stroke of Genius' - but back then you never got it at all.
Entirely unrelated, this article documents a new trend in drug taking; buying experimental psychedelic compounds over the internet from mainstream drug 'research' companies. It's probably incredibly unsafe, almost certainly a bad idea and very possibly the stupidest thing ever but... well, wasn't this pretty much how LSD was discovered in the 50s?
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I seem to remember buying this on the same day as Abba's 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme' covered by the Leather Nun.
(Anyway 96.2% A-E - that 'point two' matters.....)
ah The Leather Nun...always looked better on paper than on record but maybe i'll post about them in the future...certainly they're long forgotten... and as for A-E (was that psych? or overall?)...either way, I win
(100% for Psych, 99.5% overall)
Ah well.....
Back to more important things....can't we have some Brilliant Corners ?
Heh... sounds like karaoke...
The Japanese katakana on the obi of the record actually reads Sonic Youth, not Ciccone Youth. Sorta thought that was funny.
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