NYC Ghosts And Flowers Music Cd

Youth Sonic - NYC Ghosts And Flowers

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NYC Ghosts & Flowers      Artist : Sonic Youth      List Price : $9.98 USD        Your Price : $7.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-05-16      Studio : Interscope Records      Label : Interscope Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (62 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for NYC Ghosts And Flowers      Sonic detour.      Rating:      After the band's instruments, amps, and gear were stolen in the middle of their 1999 tour, Sonic Youth released its most avant-garde album to date, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, an album haunted by the likes of beat poet William S. Burroughs, Lenny Bruce, D. A. Levy, Branca, Patti Smith, The Stooges, and The Velvet Underground. They are all here in spirit. Better known for "making the most startlingly original guitar-based music since Jimi Hendrix" (The New York Times), NYC Ghosts & Flowers takes an experimental detour into avant-garde lyrics and free-form verse. Sonic Youth's label also deserves a standing ovation for having the courage to release this far from mainstream album. Tracks include: 1. Free City Rhymes (7:32) 2. Renegade Princess (5:49) 3. Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) (5:37) 4. Small Flowers Crack Concrete (5:12) 5. Side2Side (3:34) 6. StreamXSonik Subway (2:51) 7. NYC Ghosts & Flowers (7:52) 8. Lightnin' (3:51) G. Merritt     Customer Reviews for NYC Ghosts And Flowers Cd      Ah, yes...      Rating:      Whatever the other reviewers said, especially those paid for thier opinions, I LIKE this album. I really LIKE this sound. I think the world needs more beat poetry, and that there are too many faux-beat poets publishing books and not enough faux-beat poets doing it like this. This is fun. Serious authors on NPR waste Fedral funding that's already in danger. We should have more songs with overlapping vocals, repetetive sounds and intimations of death. Jim O'Rourke should produce more bands. And to all you who said this album was painful or bad, I've taken off a star for you. Now, is it a good album? Yes, certainly. However, bear in mind it is just that. It is a good album, not great, not the best, but one of my favorites. Editorial Reviews for NYC Ghosts And Flowers Audio Cd      Amazon.com      It's either a blessing or a shame that the risks Sonic Youth take don't really matter any more. No longer the groundbreakers, or the train spotters they've played in the past, they are now a band like any other. They play for the sheer joy of sound, the kinetics of experience. There's no other reason left to do it--which must be incredibly liberating, and more than a little sad. NYC Ghosts & Flowers is marked by the same yearning calm that defined its predecessor, A Thousand Leaves. The hooks are conspicuous in their absence, as if to say the battle may be over, and we're better off having lost. The notable exception to this brilliant game of implication is "Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?)," an obvious indictment of the decade-defining "alt-rock" phenomenon SY partially inspired. It's only fitting that this track sounds lost amid an album far too wrapped in its own interior explorations to bother stating the obvious. Sure, you could say that NYC Ghosts & Flowers is the group's best record since Daydream Nation--what's a new Sonic Youth album without such an assessment?--but to do so would deprive them of their greatest achievement. No longer fashionable or influential, Sonic Youth persist in the strength of their own passions. They matter to themselves. To hell with everyone else. --Matt Hanks