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SONIC YOUTH - Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities
| PitchFork |
| Assembling a "non-album" collection can be tricky. It requires songs interesting enough to be worth hearing, yet not so interesting that you wonder why they were ever discarded. It's even trickier with a group like Sonic Youth, who've created so many outlets for their unofficial adventures-- solo records, collaborations, the self-released SYR series-- that a disc of leftovers seems redundant. Maybe that's why the band went 25 years without releasing one....full text |
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| Slant Magazine |
| Now that my initial enthusiasm for Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped has waned a tad, I'm sorta-not-really crushing on the under-hyped, contract-fulfilling b-sides comp The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities. Made up of only songs that will entice diehard fans, The Destroyed Room is a record that also seems custom-made to annoy diehard fans. There are no cuts from before 1994, and the import-only tracks from Rather Ripped (e.g. the noisy "Helen Lundeberg" and "Eye Liner") are suspiciously absent....full text |
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| Sputnikmusic.com |
| A Sonic Youth b-sides and rarities album would seem to be a curious proposition for anyone besides the well initiated and most adventurous among us. Not a conventional rock n roll band by any standard, this highly influential Alt/Indie group has spent the better part of 25 years churning out tunes that range from experimental to noise pop to alternative jams, and "music" that can often only be described as dissonant and weird. With occasional stabs at the mainstream (for Sonic Youth, at least) that left long time fans crying foul while not gaining them any new ones, its been a long road for this now middle aged group of noise makers....full text |
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