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Originally Posted by kenning
4. Kool Thing. In part, this is a great song because it captured something of the times--I think you had to be there, but maybe not. Imagine a moment when Nirvana still really weren't even that good. Grunge did not exist. Public Enemy were the most transgressive thing white dweebs like us could find. Then Kim comes along and does that duet. The other reason it's a great song is that it once and for all made good on the Stooges/MC5/Ramones cock-rock punk influence that'd been looking for a home in SY's music for years. The riff bends into their signature tunings in a way that is unique. No one will ever play a note of this riff more convincingly.
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I totally agree about Kool Thing being some kind of symbolic coming-together of two major forces. As a song its sort of dated now but then it seemed somehow significant. Much has been made of the parallels between DDN and It Takes a Nation of Millions in that awful DDN book. But even though the case may be overstated, there was a definite sense at the time that PE and SY were in their own ways the two most vital forces in popular music.
I'm listening to Goo again right now, and have to say that I was probably too harsh in what I said about it before. It has this overall epic sense that isn't reducable to individual tracks, being somehow better than the sum of its parts. Still not a great album in my opinion, equally it's not the disaster I made it out to be.