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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo
Yes, if you compare Nyc Ghosts & Eternal, Eternal belongs of course to Sy "common" albums. But if you compare RR & Eternal, I think Eternal is more experimental than RR. And SYR9 is naturally more experimental. So I think their direction was towards experimental. I really love also Eternal, there is just few mediocre tunes (What We Know, Thunderclap).
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Interestingly I think that it could be argued that Rather Ripped is one of Sonic Youth's most experimental albums because it is the most conventionally musical, using conventional strong structures, actual chords, and surprisingly rock and roll sounding lead riffs!! THAT is very radical experiment, especially from that crescendo of experimentation that was the A Thousand Leave through Sonic Nurse era...
Also, I think it can be argued that The Eternal is experimental in the sense that it combines a lot of elements of sounds and styles that Sonic Youth had experimented with over the previous 30 years.. if anything the more I reflect on it the more The Eternal feels like a perfect concluding record for them, because it feels like it synthesizes elements of ALL the different Sonic Youth eras.. The Noise era from 1981-1985.. the noisy college rockish era from 1986-1989.. the Geffen era from 1990-1995, the art-noise era from 1997-2005, and the conventional rock and roll era from 2006-2009.. Its a real composite record!