![]() ![]() The same goes for 1990’s “Kool Thing”, the fourth track here. Were “Bull in the Heather”, off 1994’s Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, and “100%”, the first single off Dirty, official MTV “buzz clips”? If not, they might as well have been. As I remember, the video for the third track, “Sugar Kane”, off 1992’s Dirty, showed up on MTV only occasionally, late at night, but the first two got a fair share of airplay. Hits Are for Squares starts off with a series of undeniable “hits,” if having a hit means getting a video on MTV during the ‘90s “alternative rock” era. Since this is more or less a “hits” album, are the Starbucks-visiting music-buyers the squares? Is this a purposely “square” album cover, a contrast to the cool-ness of the rest of their catalogue? The title, though, seems a potential jab at the target audience: Hits Are for Squares. It looks like a Starbucks advertisement, though it could just as well be one for another commodity: a suit, a cell phone, an iPod, New York City, or about any other lifestyle product, pictured or not. But it doesn’t look like a Sonic Youth cover, even with the city’s presence. It’s a photo taken by a friend of the band, photographer Stefano Giovaninni, whose photos were used for the inner sleeve of the band’s 2002 album Murray Street. ![]() The city glimmers outside the window beside him. His coffee and cell phone sit silently on the table. ![]() A young man in a suit sits in a Starbucks store listening to music through white earbuds. Note: Start times of scheduled Saturday morning preview segments of rage may vary in some states due to pandemic news updates.The photo on the cover looks more Starbucks than Sonic Youth. THE CARPENTERS - 'Superstar' THE BREEDERS - 'Cannonball' DEVO - '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' CAT POWER - 'Crossbones Style' BRYAN FERRY - 'Let's Stick Together' Tune in to the rage Sonic Youth special this Saturday August 21 from 10am and again from 11:45pm on ABC TV. Here are a few of the clips they picked over the years: Join us this weekend as we celebrate four decades since Sonic Youth formed by replaying all the best moments from their 19 rage hostings, plus all of the music videos we have in the vault. Sonic Youth became the trailblazers for artists like Beck, Sigur Rós, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement and most famously Nirvana, and 40 years later their mark on music remains indelible. ![]() It was an album that changed everything for alternative music, capturing the imaginations of millions by perfectly balancing underground, avant-garde and experimental artistic expression with a more accessible composition style, proving that indie bands didn't have to compromise on their art to achieve critical and commercial acclaim. Sonic Youth spent most of the 1980s steadily releasing albums and making their name in music, but their breakthrough moment finally came in 1988 with the release of their fifth studio album, Daydream Nation. Where no-wave ultimately got no-where, Sonic Youth began slowly shaping their own sound by harnessing all the chaos, noise and experimentation of no-wave but channelling it through a distinctly pop-driven songwriting approach that grew stronger with each progressive release. This weekend, we're taking the Express Way To Yr Skull to celebrate 40 years of Sonic Youth with a special all about the New York indie-rock pioneers.įorming in 1981, Sonic Youth emerged during the twilight of New York's ‘no wave’ scene, adopting the noisy, experimental and avant-garde aesthetic of underground bands like The Static and DNA but shying away from it's nihilistic 'boo-we-hate-everything' ethos. ![]()
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