Sonic Youth continued into its third decade and the new century, putting out a studio album every two years. She doesn’t sing, but calls the lines out in a single, clear pitch while the instruments grumble and rage in support. However, Bob Bert, who would stay with the band for a couple of years, played drums on “Making the Nature Scene.” This is one of Gordon’s songs, a cry of resistance against society’s systemic disunity. Their sound was sometimes referred to as “no wave,” a dissonant, atonal reaction to the tropes of first-generation punk.Īll the songs on the debut are by either Gordon or Moore, except for a cover of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” Edson left to pursue an acting career, so most of the drumming is done by Jim Sclavunos. The band’s first LP, Confusion Is Sex (1983), certainly fits the bill.
His vision was to assist the more experimental side of the post-punk movement, particularly noise rock. Ranaldo’s former bandmate Glenn Branca, who happened to be starting a label called Neutral Records, jumped at the chance to sign Sonic Youth as one of his first artists. Eventually they gave the drumming job to Richard Edson. They recruited guitarist Lee Ranaldo and took turns playing drums at gigs. They changed their name every few months by the time they’d settled on Sonic Youth, the couple had moved in together. Soon he met punk singer Kim Gordon, and the two of them started a band.
In 1977, when he was 19, aspiring guitarist and songwriter Thurston Moore left his family home in Connecticut and moved to New York City to join the punk scene there. That makes them an ideal subject for Off the Charts, as a band that enjoyed steady popularity and influence while staying just this side of superstardom. They never had a Top 10 album, but Sonic Youth amassed legions of devoted fans during its nearly three decades together.
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