Sonic Youth - Expressway To Yr. Skull
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dangerous sonic hedonism
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I'm gonna cry
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wow wow wow wow
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sounds like something neil young would sing. (Neil young is quoted in saying this is his favorite song.)
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sounds just like the beatles or something
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beautiful
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@doppelgangerstudios Yea but now that SY has done it I can't without ripping them off. They're everything I want in my music and yet if I reflected that I wouldn't be making an original statement.....I love and hate them so much for that.
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I just like to think of this as rocknroll.
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Yeah, the best expressway!
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Really interesting seeing how everyone wants an interpretation. Killing the California Girls is a reference to the Beach Boys and pop music in general. Sonic Youth are an intertextual band--they refer to other works but also destroy them in the process, purposefully. This is a song about finding meaning in pleasure itself, outside of the psyche and the limits of ordinary space (three-way plane). I always took it as a surrealistic statement--a reach towards infinity.
doppelgangerstudios 2 years ago 14
my favourite sonic youth song, they still play it great.
rocknrollags 2 years ago 4