![]() It's difficult to think of any band having Sonic Youth's combination of creative freedom and prominence. However catchy it may be, the guitar work flirts with atonality this drives many a would-be listener to stick in their ear plugs (literally?) (Getting Butch "Nevermind" Vig to produce Dirty didn't help, either.) But relative to SY's musical approach and their place in the rock world, "accessible" is a relative term, and it doesn't add up to Top 40. Which failed, despite this being among the band's more accessible songs. Kool Thing-and its associated photo shoot-were an obvious (and perhaps slightly desperate) effort by Geffen to put Sonic Youth on the pop charts. OTOH there's so much irony in this song, it can tie your head in knots. And in his cameo in Kool Thing-during the part Kim is delivering the most explicitly political lines in the song-Chuck is cheering her on. Chuck D is politically outspoken personally and in his music. music/staying-koolsonic-youth-survives-a-major-label/ Reason:Ĭhuck D as a representative of an apolitical attitude? That makes no sense, either in general or in the context of this song. music/staying-koolsonic-youth-survives-a-major-label/ “Kool Thing” is littered with LL Cool Jay references, such as the voice of Chuck D representing the rapper’s careless attitude towards the political realm. ![]() I don’t believe Gordon knew exactly herself where she was headed with the political themes listed in the song, but I believe in the interview she meant to associate herself with the fight of the Black Panthers against the white male – which turned out to be a movement that left women uninvited, (as women are weak and inferior and have half the size of brains that men do and were put on this planet to make sandwiches and stuff and do laundry and you know, other non-man things – to put it as a white male oppressor would). As we should all know, LL Cool Jay came back with one of his most known singles “Mama Said Knock You Out” an epic masterpiece. Essentially the interview was a ridiculous idea, the two did not get along, and the song was meant to mock LL Cool Jay, who had recently released the 1989 album “Walking With a Panther” – for which he was booed on stage by fans for its pop-sellout nature. “Kool Thing” was inspired by an interview that Kim Gordon had with LL Cool Jay when she was writing a piece for the music-magazine Spin. When you're a star, I know that you'll fix everything I just want you to know that we can still be friends I just want to know, what are you gonna do for me? Hey, Kool Thing, come here, sit down beside me This featured Neil Grant, Raymond Prior and Mark Hughes.Kool Thing let me play it with your radio They released a mini-album in 1992 on Creation Records called greatest Hits Vol. He has been in Bellshill scene bands with members of Teenage Fanclub, Soup Dragons and The BMX Bandits. Joe was previously a member of The Groovy Little Numbers, and recorded for 53rd and 3rd Records of Edinburgh. ![]() The vehicle for the pop genius of Joe McAlinden. Superstar is Frond & Wand from Melbourne, Australia.Ģ. Superstar’s music is, unaccountably – unusually – exactly what it is. ![]() It seems indebted to all manner of classic 1980s MOR, but there’s no ironic distance here, like you’d expect from a modern band plumbing those depths. It’s very adult, very sentimental, and all about “feelings”. Maybe it’s just me, but some of Superstar’s music is deeply sad, somehow, in its uncomplicated textural splendour. Maybe it’s just me, but some of Superstar’s music is deeply sad, somehow,… Read Full Bio ↴ 1. ![]()
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