Goo (album)
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| Studio album by Sonic Youth | ||||
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Publication |
June 1990 |
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| Label (s) | Geffen Records | |||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
49:23 |
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Nick Sansano, Ron Saint Germain, Sonic Youth |
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Goo is the sixth studio album by the noise rock band Sonic Youth and was released in June 1990. Goo was the band's first album on a major label: Geffen Records . On September 13, 2005, the album was re-released as an extended Deluxe Edition.
music
Tunic (Song for Karen) is about Karen Carpenter, the singer and drummer for the Carpenters , who died of anorexia in 1983. Gordon, who wrote the lyrics, sings about Karen, who meets Elvis Presley , Janis Joplin and Dennis Wilson in heaven . The text for Kool Thing is inspired by an interview Kim Gordon conducted with LL Cool J for Spin . Mildred Pierce is one of the first songs Sonic Youth wrote as a band. It is inspired by the film noir Mildred Pierce (German title: As long as a heart beats ) from 1945. In the video by David Markey, the star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood is shown by the leading actress Joan Crawford . Sofia Coppola plays the role of Mildred Pierce in the video.
Cover
The front and back of the cover show comic drawings by Raymond Pettibon . His inspiration for the cover was a newspaper photo depicting the couple Maureen Hindley and David Smith who testified as witnesses in a 1966 serial murder trial by the Moors Murderers . Bassist Kim Gordon writes in her 2014 autobiography, Girl in a Band , that the pair was based on the black and white cover of Badlands , Terrence Malicks ' first feature film . The cover is also a homage to the bands from the hardcore / punk scene who released records on SST Records , because they used Pettibon's drawings for their covers, for example Black Flag or Minutemen . Drawings by Raymond Pettibon were also used for the Maxi by Disappearer .
production
The tracks were recorded in 1989 at Sorcerer and Green Street Studios in New York City . Instead of having the album produced by U2 producer Daniel Lanois , as suggested by Geffen , Sonic Youth took over the production themselves together with Nick Sansano, who was also a sound engineer at Daydream Nation .
Track list
Original album:
| No. | title | text | singing | Duration |
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| 01 | Dirty boots | Moors | Moore, Fleming | 5:28 |
| 02 | Tunic (Song for Karen) | Gordon | Gordon, Mascis | 6:22 |
| 03 | Mary christ | Moors | Moore, Gordon | 3:11 |
| 04 | Kool thing | Gordon | Gordon, Chuck D. | 4:06 |
| 05 | Mote | Ranaldo | Ranaldo, Mascis | 7:37 |
| 06 | My Friend Goo | Gordon | Gordon, Moore, Mascis | 2:19 |
| 07 | Disappearer | Moors | Moore, Fleming | 5:08 |
| 08 | Mildred Pierce | Moors | Moors | 2:13 |
| 09 | Cinderella's Big Score | Gordon | Gordon | 5:54 |
| 10 | Scooter + Jinx | - | - | 1:06 |
| 11 | Titanium Exposé | Gordon, Moore | Gordon, Moore | 6:27 |
Deluxe Edition Bonus Title:
| No. | title | text | singing | Duration |
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| 12 | Lee # 2 | Ranaldo | Ranaldo | 3:31 |
| 13 | That's All I Know (Right Now) | Richard Hell , Tom Verlaine (Neon Boys cover version) | Moors | 2:20 |
| 14th | The Bedroom (Live) | - | - | 3:42 |
| 15th | Dr. Benway's House | - | - | 1:17 |
| 16 | Tuff Boyz | - | - | 5:39 |
Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc:
| No. | title | text | singing | Duration |
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| 01 | Tunic 8-track demo | Gordon | Gordon, Mascis | 6:44 |
| 02 | Number One (Disappearer) 8-track demo | Moors | Moors | 4:57 |
| 03 | Titanium Exposé 8-track demo | Gordon, Moore | Gordon, Moore | 4:43 |
| 04 | Dirty Boots 8-track demo | Moors | Moors | 6:37 |
| 05 | Corky (Cinderella's Big Score) 8-track demo | Moors | Moors | 7:49 |
| 06 | My Friend Goo 8-track demo | Gordon | Gordon | 2:31 |
| 07 | Bookstore (Mote) 8-track demo | Ranaldo | Ranaldo | 4:14 |
| 08 | Animals (Mary-Christ) 8-track demo | Moors | Gordon, Moore | 3:02 |
| 09 | DV2 (Kool Thing) 8-track demo | Gordon | Gordon, Moore | 4:17 |
| 10 | Blowjob (Mildred Pierce) 8-track demo | Moors | Moors | 8:52 |
| 11 | Lee # 2 (Instrumental) 8-track demo | Ranaldo | - | 3:30 |
| 12 | I know there's an answer | Brian Wilson , Mike Love , Terry Stuff ( Beach Boys cover version) | Gordon, Moore | 3:10 |
| 13 | Can song | - | - | 3:17 |
| 14th | Isaac | - | - | 2:36 |
| 15th | Goo Interview Flexi | Noise collage | - | 6:03 |
staff
- Sonic Youth
- Thurston Moore - vocals, guitar
- Lee Ranaldo - vocals, guitar
- Kim Gordon - vocals, bass
- Steve Shelley - drums
- Guest musician
- J Mascis - background vocals (tracks 2, 5 and 6)
- Don Fleming - backing vocals (tracks 1 and 7)
- Chuck D - Rap (track 4)
success
The album was moderately successful, reaching the US charts (number 96), the United Kingdom (number 32), New Zealand (number 22) and the Dutch charts (number 71).
criticism
The reviews were consistently benevolent. So the Rolling Stone spoke of a brilliant essay in refined primitivism .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dazeddigital
- ^ Mildred Pierce Video
- ↑ Moors Murderers ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Photo ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Girl in a band
- ↑ Moma
- ↑ Review in Rolling Stone
- ^ Goo at rollingstone.com
