[np] steely dan rules o.k! (was: --New Sonic Youth)

calbert at tiac.net calbert at tiac.net
Wed May 17 15:09:28 CDT 2000


F
Yeah, but you have to like the line with which Cousin Dupree is 
dissed by his niece.....something like "the shabby architecture of 
your soul"....

not bad for a couple of BU rats.....

love,
cfa 
> 
> s~Z schrieb:
> 
> > >>>New Sonic Youth lp is very creepy--<<<
> >
> > Yeah. A great antidote to that new Steely Dan crap all the people currently
> > reading M&D and IJ are listening to.
> 
> 
>       uhh, this lead guitar of becker in "west of hollywood" ... couple of great 
>       songs ... especially "almost gothic" [nice booklet photo, too], "jack of 
>       speed" & "what a shame about me" (sic!) ... to me this steely dan sound   
>       simply breathes that dark american elegance i sometimes call 
>       "pynchonesque" ... two against nature ... deliciously toxic ...
> 
>     kfl  //:: ps: the only work of sonic youth which, in parts, reached me was 
>          "daydream nation" [1988]. the rest leaves me cold.
> 
> 
> 





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