Sonic Youth-Sonic Youth (1982)


 

Artist: Sonic Youth

Title: Sonic Youth

Label: SST

Format: CD

Cat #: SST CD 097

Year of Release: 1982

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 3/21/22

Sell Price: $9.99

Discogs Last Sold: 3/1/22 $5.00

Low: $3.95

Median: $8.00

Average: $7.96

High: $10.88

Current low price: $9.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20

Have/Want: 693/202

Where Sold: Lancaster, OH

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums New around $14.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

15 minutes before the midnight hour on a Monday night at the end of February, a screenshot of the Spotify song list to the first Sonic Youth EP was sent to me.  Attached was the comment ""This record is seriously underrated. People would rather listen to "Goo" instead?"  A green vomit emoticon followed.  Then a second text came "David Geffen ruined them!!!!"

Neither sender, nor receiver would know that in just 3 weeks, the first CD reissue (with nary a bonus track) would sell thus giving The Reverse Collector (TM) a right to issue forth commentary on the aforementioned SY debut release.

Prior to SST Records and Homestead Records before that, Neutral Records was home to Swans, Rat at Rat R and yes the first two Sonic Youth albums as well as Jules Baptise, David Linton and Remko Scha.  Some would argue Greg Ginn, not David Geffen ruined or at least ripped off Sonic Youth while putting them in front of more bodies.  The band themselves took the catalog that was on SST starting in 1987 and moved it onward to Geffen.  This album first appeared there in 2006 for a fancy remastering/bonus track campaign that started with other albums.

Underrated says my drunken friend and he is right.  Not the individual songs in my mind.  Each of the five are crucial tracks known cold.  However underrated is in this case due to the EP length and what came after it.  Not quite the twin towers of Evol and Sister.  Not as profane as "Halloween" or obliterating all to waste like "Death Valley 69."  

Sonic Youth is kinder and gentler.  Even the expletive of my favorite song, "I Dreamed I Dream" seems embryonic.

Fucking youth.


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