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...SONIC YOUTH'S LATEST ALBUM, Dirty, probably won't be very popular at Harvard. It's brash. It's loud. It's unconventional. And it sounds nothing like Steve Miller, James Taylor...
...Sonic Youth's new album is all about being young, loud, and free. The music--and that message--won't appeal to many people at Harvard. But Sonic Youth hasn't become one of America's most important bands of the past decade by trying to satisfy everyone...
...bland tastes aside, Dirty is one the best things to happen to music this year. The disc features fifteen songs of raw energy, biting political commentary and visceral passion captured superbly by Butch Vig, the producer of Nirvana's last album. It ranks with Daydream Nation as one of Sonic Youth's best releases...
...next song, "Sugar Kane," alternates Sonic Youth's trademark minor up-down chord progression with guitar free-for-alls--complete with requisite distortion and ample feedback. Moore's voice complements it all well...
Sitting in his studio in Devon, Parker, 55, speaks passionately about his work. "It's really miraculous when you think about it," he says, taking a shiny black record from its jacket. "These little shellac disks are like time capsules." He marvels at the amount of sonic information that was originally captured on the old records -- far more than the primitive playback techniques of the time were able to reproduce...