Sonic Youth - Dirty (4LP box set sealed) 2003

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Condition: brand new, still sealed!

Label: Goofin' Records Catalog#: GOO 05 Format: Box Set, Deluxe Edition
4 x Vinyl, LP, Remastered
Country: US Released: 2003

Tracklist

A1 100% A2 Swimsuit Issue A3 Theresa's Sound-World A4 Drunken Butterfly A5 Genetic B1 Shoot B2 Wish Fulfillment B3 Sugar Kane B4 Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit C1 Youth Against Fascism Guitar - Ian MacKaye C2 Nic Fit C3 On The Strip C4 Chapel Hill C5 The Destroyed Room D1 Stalker D2 JC D3 Hendrix Necro D4 Purr D5 Crème Brulee E1 Is It My Body E2 Personality Crisis Written-By - David Johansen E3 The End Of The End Of The Ugly E4 Tamra F1 Little Jammy Thing F2 Lite Damage F3 Dreamfinger F4 Barracuda G1 New White Cross G2 Guido G3 Stalker G4 Moonface H1 Poet In The Pit H2 Theoretical Chaos H3 Youth Against Fascism H4 Wish Fulfillment

When DGC Records signed Nirvana in 1991, one of DGC's A&R reps expressed the opinion that, with plenty of touring and the right promotion, the new act might sell as well as its labelmate and touring partner Sonic Youth. The surprise success of Nevermind upended previous commercial expectations for Sonic Youth (among other established alternative rock bands), and when Dirty was released in 1992, it was seen by many as the band's big move toward the grunge market. Which doesn't make a lot of sense if you actually listen to the album; while Butch Vig's clean but full-bodied production certainly gave Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's guitars greater punch and presence than they had in the past, and many of the songs move in the increasingly tuneful direction the band had been traveling with Daydream Nation and Goo, most of Dirty is good bit more jagged and purposefully discordant than its immediate precursors, lacking the same hallucinatory grace as Daydream Nation or the hard rock sheen of Goo. If anything, Dirty finds Sonic Youth revisiting the territory the band mapped out on Sister -- merging the propulsive structures of rock (both punk and otherwise) with the gorgeous chaos of their approach to the electric guitar -- and it shows how much better they'd gotten at it in the past five years, from the curiously beautiful "Wish Fulfillment" and "Theresa's Sound World" to the brutal "Drunken Butterfly" and "Purr." Dirty was also Sonic Youth's most overtly political album, railing against the abuses of the Reagan/Bush era on "Youth Against Fascism," "Swimsuit Issue," and "Chapel Hill," a surprising move from a band so often in love with cryptic irony. Heard today, Dirty doesn't sound like a masterpiece (like Daydream Nation) or a gesture toward the mainstream audience (like Goo) -- it just sounds like a damn good rock album, and on those terms it ranks with Sonic Youth's best work. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

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