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Sonic Youth - The Eternal
At the height of grunge, Sonic Youth awed me tremendously with a dismissive guest singles round-up for a now defunct UK music-monthly. “I’ve heard this riff a few times before…” sneered Thurston, or maybe Lee, and finally chose some now-forgotten band (60 Foot Dolls?) as the pick of the litter. Who are these walking riff-encyclopaedias? I wondered, at the time. Do they have riffs I’ve never heard before? Unsure where to start with The Youth, I did what thousands of other teens did, circa grunge, and grabbed their current record Experimental, JetSet, Trash and No Star as my first purchase… which wouldn’t make sense until I heard it seven years later under the influence of extraordinarily potent skunk. »
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