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a b Christgau, Robert (October 24, 1995). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl". MTV. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014 . Retrieved July 6, 2014. We tend not to follow through on these urges though, as tempting as they may be. In the end, our loved ones and our responsibilities – and a fair amount of fear of the unknown – keep us rooted in our assigned times and places. The thought of starting over simply becomes a bit too much to take on, so we sigh, indulge in entertainment, or food, or illicit substances (to each their own), and our head hits the pillow in the hopes of a better tomorrow. a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Washing Machine – Sonic Youth". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. Excellent record, but before we get to that I'd just like to throw it out there that you guys don't know what the hell you want. Some of the people who go apeshit for "The Diamond Sea" (even though, let's be honest here, that cut doesn't really have anywhere to explore after the nine-minute mark and just turns into some pleasant-but-not-really-mind-blowing noise ambience from thereon) are the same people who outright dismiss A Thousand Leaves, which was like a whole album of "Diamond Sea"s — with ideas that actually kept coming through the long song lengths! I daresay Washing Machine might have the more favorable reputation because it's not a very challenging album: most of the songs are fuelled, rather slowly, by mechanical three-note hooks and throbbing one-chord crescendos, and though that isn't a bad thing by any means (and it usually works quite poignantly in these songs) it isn't as impressive as the damn-near symphonic interplay of Leaves. "Washing Machine" and "The Diamond Sea" are terrific achievements of guitar interplay, but compare their noisy catharses to the noisy catharses of "Wild Flower Soul" or "Karen Koltrane" and they seem almost phoned-in.

a b "Sonic Youth". Ultratop.be. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012 . Retrieved July 14, 2014.Second CD is exclusive material from France Inter recorded at Elysee Montmartre in Paris, France on September 12, 1995. What do you make of the, by now, completely expected but sexually primal vocals of Kim Gordon? They're an acquired taste to be sure. It was so great to be out of NY recording somewhere else. Things were relaxed there . We ate a lot of barbeque from Payne's. I can't believe the record ever got recorded. It's one of my favorite's. Coko was about 8 months old. She met her first Elvis impersonator there. - KG"

a b c d e f g h "Washing Machine". Sonicyouth.com. Archived from the original on August 31, 2012 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. Kot, Greg; Leland, John; Sheridan, David; Robbins, Ira; Pattyn, Jay. "Sonic Youth". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. Every person on earth has, at some point, wanted to be someone else. We’ve all had one or more of those days – the ones that make you want to drop all of your emotional baggage in a deep, deep lake and abscond to a place where you become an unmeasured quantity; no history, no relationships by which to be defined, no preconceived notions that expose your bullshit and describe you to a T. At this point in history, the NYC stalwarts had enjoyed nearly a decade of ever-flowing goodwill from both critics and audiences. They had released eight albums since the early eighties, and had not made a major misstep. The band had exactly the right mix of street cred, je ne sais quoi, and authentic cooler-than-thou attitude to transform them into a four-headed juggernaut relatively early in their career. And yet, they toyed with the idea of becoming someone else. a b c d Browne, David (September 25, 1995). "Washing Machine". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014.a b c d e Davis, Erik (December 1995). "Sonic Youth: Washing Machine". Spin. Vol.11, no.9. pp.118–119 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. That A Thousand Leaves was void of “classic song ideas” might have fueled some critics’ disdain for it in ’98, but much of the record has aged well in the past 20 years. “Sunday,” an undeniable gem that marries Sonic Youth’s dual tendencies toward melody and experimental spinouts, was an early single, paired with a Macaulay Culkin-starring music video directed by Harmony Korine. “Sunday” also received the commercial radio treatment, its original five minutes chopped to three. The truncated version sadly omits the song’s most interesting passage: a mess of squeals and gasps from Moore’s and Lee Ranaldo’s guitars around the three-minute mark. As their gnarled instruments unspool, Moore deadpans: “With you, Sunday never ends,” just before the lights dim and the song is snuffed out. a b c "Sonic Youth". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on July 9, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2013. a b "Washing Machine". charts.nz. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019 . Retrieved July 14, 2014. Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea". MTV. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014 . Retrieved July 6, 2014.

a b "Washing Machine - Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014.

a b Ali, Lorraine (September 24, 1995). "Fall Album Roundup". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014 . Retrieved June 7, 2014. Outside this emphatically on-brand excursion, Thurston Moore seethes with defiantly snarky tough love ( Junkie’s Promise), but also coos sweetly ( Unwind). Lee Ranaldo slays in his semi-featured role as a vocalist (the dreamy Saucer-Like and the nebbish spoken word tough-guy-ism of Skip Tracer). Kim Gordon offers breathy declarations ( Becuz), and punkish snarls ( Panty Lies), while also displaying a well-calibrated fragility to embody a teen girl through the sprechgesang plea for an honest relationship with her mother ( Little Trouble Girl). Washing Machine is the follow-up to Sonic Youth's 1994 DGC album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. [1] After Experimental Jet Set, the band decided to take a hiatus from performing live and concentrated on numerous side projects. Band member Kim Gordon played with Julia Cafritz of Pussy Galore in Free Kitten, drummer Steve Shelley performed with Jad Fair in Mosquito, guitarist Lee Ranaldo played with free jazz drummer William Hooker and singer and guitarist Thurston Moore released his first solo album, Psychic Hearts. [1] Moore and Gordon also had their first child, Coco. According to Moore, their daughter had provided a different perspective for the band: "I'm more focused and level-headed. There's a sublime awareness factor of your spiritual place in the world. I feel more at ease with myself... Babies are little Buddhas. They're completely great". [1] Though not executed quite as extremely as on the previous 2 albums, Lee and Thurston's guitars are once again isolated to their own speakers -- Lee is in the left, Thurston is in the right. a b c d e Moon, Tom (October 19, 1995). "Washing Machine". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012 . Retrieved June 7, 2014.

This is a bait of a record which is able to hook anyone forever to the heavenly machinery of these noise jacobites. Never before had they combined the poetics of the most immense electricity and the industrial aggression. The refreshing and dream breeze against the unchained tempest.For more information on songs (including lyrics, who played what, when the songs were first and last performed, and other trivia), please visit the Song Database. Kot, Greg (September 29, 1995). "Sonic Gold". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved June 26, 2016. Recorded between Jim O’Rourke’s departure and Mark Ibold’s arrival, Rather Ripped is perhaps the only one of Sonic Youth’s late-period albums with Kim Gordon primarily on bass guitar. And it has held up well as the most popular and immediate album of the band’s last decade, with propulsive yet melodic songs like “Incinerate” and relatively few extended instrumental passages. “Dig the way SY’s oddly tuned guitars chirp and chime where they used to gnash and grind,” wrote Tom Sinclair in an Entertainment Weekly review that compared the album’s sound to The Byrds. Tantalising overreach, the catchiest hooks this side of Murray Street, and a heaped helping of ‘Kim Power’– Washing Machine is one of Sonic Youth’s more underplayed, but underrated works