But is the second disc worth more than a cursory listen? Not really, at least beyond the covers. Hearing Kim Gordon grunt her way through Alice Cooper's "Is It My Body" or flatly drone above the acoustic shambles of the New York Dolls' "Personality Crisis" is a pleasure to which I'll gladly return, but once the insight is absorbed from blueprints of "Wish Fulfillment", "Youth Against Fascism" and "Drunken Butterfly", among others, they don't make for the most compelling of repeat visits.
It's also worth re-examining the subject matter of these songs because, as Byron Coley points out in the liner notes, Dirty marked the first record where Thurston, Lee and Kim made direct statements with their lyrics instead of using a Beat-like detachment to throw smoke clouds over their true targets. Even among the less confrontational tracks, there are still so many more great songs on Dirty than a lot of people ever realized. The four B-sides that accompany the original tracks on the first disc are enormous finds, too-- especially the LP bonus track "Stalker" that shows how only Sonic Youth could conjure the Sex Pistols covering Lynyrd Skynyrd.
They might be a little rougher around the edges, but each of these tracks is as good as anything that made it onto Dirty proper. The only thing that really stands out as worthy of true criticism now is the tendency toward mining and repackaging some of the older material that becomes visible through the cracks of this reissue. Several other tracks have that familiar vibe to them without borrowing outright from previous songs, showing that even if they weren't entirely catering to the new ears Nirvana's success was sending their way, they were at least taking it into consideration on a semi-conscious level.
Of course, we should be clear about one thing: there's no chance of Dirty usurping Evol , Sister or Daydream Nation on my list of favorite Sonic Youth records, and even this degree change of heart won't make me apologize for all the shit I've talked about it over the years.
New White Kross - Guido - Moonface - Poet In The Pit - Theoretical Chaos - Wish Fulfillment - EAC 1. Exact Audio Copy V0. May EAC extraction logfile from Deluxe Edition 2 CD set features 35 tracks including b-sides and previously unreleased versions. Sonic Youth's second major-label album, produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines.
Dropping the deliberate obscurantism, Philip K. While Sonic Youth diehards may complain that 's Dirty is the first of their albums to receive the deluxe reissue treatment -- complete with an extra disc of B-sides, unreleased rehearsals and demos, and, of course, liner notes with essays by Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley, among others -- its place in the band's discography as their relatively most commercial, and commercially successful, album makes it a financially savvy starting point and whets the appetite for the eventual Daydream Nation, Sister, Goo, and other reissues that the Dirty deluxe edition will hopefully spawn.
That's not to say that the band doesn't sound passionate on Dirty, however. Actually, the emphasis on pop structures and melodies provides the perfect setting for some of Sonic Youth's most explicitly political statements -- by appearing on an album that was originally released in the twilight of one Bush administration and reissued during another, the aforementioned "Youth Against Fascism" sounds both retro and eerily prescient.
The more mainstream approach also allows the band to explore love and lust in surprisingly straightforward ways, such as the sexy "Purr" and "Sugar Kane" as well as Lee Ranaldo's beautiful, dysfunctional love song "Wish Fulfillment. Most of these come from the B-sides, which have a looser, slightly more open feel than Dirty itself.
Ranaldo's "Genetic" is easily the poppiest song from the sessions and arguably one of the most heartfelt songs the band has ever recorded, and sounds more akin to Dinosaur Jr. Gordon's prominence in the sessions continues with the garagey "Is It My Body" and the deadpan cover of "Personality Crisis"; while neither is quite on par with her star turns on the album proper, they're notable for the lively, off-the-cuff feel that radiates from Gordon and the rest of the band.
The practice sessions offer another kind of intimacy, giving a fly-on-the-wall perspective on Dirty's creation, for better or worse; individually, previously unreleased instrumental jams like "Lite Damage" and "Dreamfinger" reveal the band beginning to really jell creatively, but -- by their very nature -- are undeveloped and start to sound a little tedious back-to-back, though it's tempting to think of what they might have become were they more fully fleshed-out.
The demos of the songs that made it on to Dirty, however, are fun for fans to pore over, offering treats like "Barracuda," an unleashed instrumental version of "Drunken Butterfly" that probably owes its working title to the striking resemblance the song's main riff owes to Heart's song of the same name.
The multiple versions of "Wish Fulfillment" are almost a mini-course in how to put a song together, ranging from the riff-and-drum-machine demo "Little Jammy Thing" to a song-sketch of Ranaldo's vocals and guitar to "Guido," a full-band rehearsal instrumental that finds the group tinkering around with a near-final arrangement.
And while Sonic Youth didn't put any live material from the Dirty era on the reissue, loose, raw performances such as "Moonface" aka, "JC" on the album , "Theoretical Chaos" "Swimsuit Edition" , and "Youth Against Fascism" have a spontaneity that's the next best thing to hearing them in concert.
One minor flaw in the deluxe edition is how the bonus material is divided between the discs; due to the time constraints of CDs, it was probably inevitable that some of the B-sides had to go on the first disc with Dirty itself, but it would have been ideal to have the album stand on its own and keep the extra songs on disc two.
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