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Of course I have heard GOO and Dirty. I have both of the deluxe editions as well as the originals. And there is noise on all albums! I know theat they have added a considerable amount of melody and pop songcraft to their work since their days as a No Wave band in the early 80's, but there is still noise freakouts and dissonance on a lot of their songs from almost all of their records. Te new album just doesn't please me. I'm not saying it's crap, I'm just saying it's sub par. The album feels rushed and thrown together. The band members spend so much time focusing on other things in theirlives (solo projects, side projects, small indie record labels, family) that the album just doesn' seem all that solid. It feels empty, hollow, and underdeveloped. but maybe it's just the way the album was mixed. I dont know, I wasnt around them while they were thinkning this stuff up. All I know is that in my opinion, Rather Ripped is one of the weaker albums Sonic Youth has ever made. It has the genesis of good musical ideas that fall flat. It's like the band wasn't trying all that hard to make a great album.
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