One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
“One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.”
— Lee Ranaldo · Albums
The World Motivation
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
“One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.”
— Lee Ranaldo · Albums
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.
The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.
My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.
I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.
I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record.
I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.
I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.