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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
Its a good selection of tracks, and putting tracks from all the Sonic's career and displaying them in glorious chronilogicless order is good in that it'll make a varied mix-tape/CD-R. However, I'm not sure whether just the singles is a good idea, I always disagree what tracks bands, even Sonic Youth, decide to release as singles, I feel a singles compilation rarely displays their best stuff. For example, Nevermind seems a bizarre single choice from NYC, I always think Renegade Princess is crying out to be a single, and a much better one at that. If this dude didn't dig Daydream maybe it'd be better to focus on a period of SY that he'd be more likely to connect with, so maybe the spacier Murray St. stuff or the heavier early No Wave stuff, I dunno. I really reckon theres something for everyone with this band, and having stuff from all their albums could be a bit confusing, I think it'd be better to pick a certain area to focus on.
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He liked Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyles Handcream when I played that when he was round a few weeks ago, he's got "hey hey little baby breakdown" stuck in his head, that was one of the first songs I was obsessed with last year when I started listening to them so it must be a good song as a starter, although you wouldn't think so with all the unusual noises that i would expect only an ear trained fan would appreciated.
I totally agree that selecting songs from all over SY's career would be confusing as I was very confused by Screaming Fields of SY and put it aside and decided to only concentrate on Goo onwards, but I picked it up again and became obsessed with Shadow of a Doubt, Starpower, and Death Valley 69 so I realised I do like their earlier stuff, I think it was just a bit too much to handle, and also, their 80's material isn't as accessible as their latter material (I found at first).
BTW, thanks Thin_ice for the link to that page, i've had a look, and it seems that maybe using singles isn't the best idea.