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Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy
You mean in comparison to Red Krayola, Velvet Underground, the Monks, Beefheart......?
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You're saying that assuming that Sonic Youth are experimental for their day so the comparison is incorrect right? But Sonic Youth are hardly experimental in comparison to loads of other rock bands, and then there's all that Noise Music, and there's loads of Jazz that's a lot more experimental than Sonic Youth, and none of these genres compare to the experimentation done and still being done in the Classical world.
So I think the comparison is fair especially if you take into account Sonic Youths popularity compared to all those more experimental groups and The Beatles similar relative popularity. The beatles were way more experimental than a lot of stuff being produced at the time. No one else did so much for recording techniques. Revolution 9? Tomorrow Never Knows?