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Certain Songs #2355: Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing”

April 28, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Goo
Year: 1990

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There is, of course, a lot of backstory surrounding what was Sonic Youth’s first single and video for their evil major label. And my favorite detail is Bon Jovi, but we’ll get to that.

It’s not really surprising that as experimental noisemakers, Sonic Youth would like some of the harder-slapping hip-hop songs that were showing up in the second half of the 1980s, especially the big beats and loud guitars Rick Rubin added to those early Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and Beastie Boys albums. Not to mention how Public Enemy quite literally brought the noise on It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the other revolutionary album from 1988.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Goo, Kool Thing, Sonic Youth

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