One of the best things you’ll ever read about any band, but caution! may be totally incomprehensible if you know squat about Sonic.
EVOL” href=”http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2005/01/evol.html” target=”blank”>Vinyl Mine on Sonic Youth’s EVOL
As for me, the first time I listened to this record — it was my roommate’s very favorite album, I thought I’d give it a try — she’d gone out, I was alone in the house — Put it on the turntable real loud — It echoed down the hallway, filling the house — I made dinner — Puttered about — Loud, loud, louder — Drooooone — and — Droooooone — and after about a half hour I realized — that the same two tones had been modulating over & over — filling the old building overlooking empty Haight Street on a wet winter night — Deee-DOOOOO — Dee-DOOOOO — what the fuck? — I went into the living room — It was a goddamn lockgroove — I’d been listening to a lockgroove for how long? — Dee-DOOOOO — I let it play a little longer before I gave up.
That was one of the most unexpected, most _feeling_ moments I ever got in my listening life.
Sadly, the lockgroove is not part of the CD release; instead it fades out after a while. Worse, it’s followed by a particularly onerous “Bonus Track.” (A gift that does not give.) Can’t SY re-release this puppy and just let the lockgroove run until the CD capacity fills?
[Soundtrack]
Sonic Youth – Shadow Of A Doubt.mp3
Vinyl Mine seems to be on a roll. Jim’s s also got a mighty fine write-up on Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance, too.
