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Sonic Youth Format: Audio CD
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4.92 x 5.59 x 0.55 inches; 3.17 Ounces Manufacturer
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Goofin Records Original Release Date
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2016 Date First Available
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August 20, 2016 Label
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Goofin Records ASIN
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B01J6T4N9E Number of discs
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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This is essentially the first Sonic Youth album, but it sounds so much like some of their later work you would be hard pressed to notice. It's a lot more dissonant and full of noise, but if yo ulose yourself in it, you can find a lot of melody and texture underneath. Not the best SY album to start with, but a great one to check out after you've got 3 or 4 of their albums under your belt.
Not Sonic Youth's finest hour, but solid none the less. Definitely worth checking out.
Great tape. It arrived on time and the packaging was perfect! Thanks!
If you've never heard early Sonic Youth before (or other early-80s no wave acts), this cd is going to take a long time to grow on you. To the uninitiated listener, Confusion is Sex sounds like a dense nightmare constructed by people who can neither sing nor properly play their instruments. About two decades later, Sonic Youth have becomes one of the most critically-acclaimed rock bands of our time. They've honed the swirling mess of clangs and feedback that we hear on these early recordings into a number of successful guitar symphonies. As good as recent efforts like Murray Street and Sonic Nurse are, however, I will always have a soft spot for the early albums (the self-titled EP, Confusion is Sex (plus Kill yr. idols), and to a lesser extent, Bad Moon Rising). Somehow, four "kids" (all in their mid-20s at this point, I believe) didn't need to know how to play their instruments. There is something utterly natural about these dozen-or-so songs... as if they represent the swirling chaos in the minds of musicians everywhere. Despite the tuneless shouting, the untuned guitars, the absence of professionalism (see: the brutally lo-fi version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog"), this album isn't as inaccessible as you might think. Somehow, the songs just move. I've always thought the addition of drummer Steve Shelley seriously crippled the band-- he brought in an Apollonian strictness that has focused (but at the same time, narrowed) the band's wild creativity. Believe it or not, you can actually DANCE to a few of the songs here (the same is the case for the nearly-forgotten (but brilliant) debut EP). I could, at this point, go through a track-by-track analysis of the album, telling you what to listen for. But I really want to leave that pleasure of discovery for you. Essentially, if you really love Sonic Youth, you will eventually find this album. And if there is a dark, chaotic section of your brain that has been begging for something different-- this album will eventually find you. You've been warned.
I have heard Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty, Sister, EVOL and there were moments on all of them that I liked. Still, I never felt any of those albums went into the territory of pure noise that I had heard Sonic Youth would go into and would be such an inspiration for Cobain. Then I hear "(She's In A) Bad Mood" and can see that Cobain stole the ending of the song for his own "Aneurysm". This is not a pretty album, this is not for everyone by any means. But it's pure noise and I love it. "Kill Yr Idols" the song definitely achieves the menace the Sex Pistols were going for, blowing away any sign of melody with a vengeance. It's awesome. Sometimes you hear music that's so absorbing you can't think about anything else, and on that note I don't think this album will ever be background music, ever. There is no real structure to most of these songs, they're just songs, and after hearing enough verse chorus songs (which I do love by the way) to make my head explode, this album is a great change. If I had just heard of this band and this was the first music of theirs I had heard, and you told me that millions of people loved them. Well, I would be surprised, but I would also think that was really great.
After the somewhat disappointing debut EP, what would turn out to be the greatest rock band of the last 25 years came to blazing life with this, their first full-length album. Whereas the eponymous EP seemed restrained, the band unsure how far to take it, "Confusion is Sex" just kicked out the jams, all the better to, as Russell Crowe would say, "unleash hell." For the uninitiated, this would be a great place to start, at least if you like feeling deeply uneasy. Recorded in a damp basement for next to nothing under conditions that many P.O.W.s would find deplorable, the album is as raw as a freshly killed wildebeast and twice as mean as the lion that killed it. The opener, "She's in a bad mood," pitches and rolls with feedback and drones, never settling for something so predictable as a groove (the band would later find their inner groove, and to this day it has remained their own, though many have tried and failed to copy it). The ending feedback hum will drill right through your skull, depending on the volume it is experienced in. Elsewhere, there is a truly messed up cover of the Stooges' "I Wanna be your Dog" and "Shaking Hell," which features bassist Kim Gordon screaming sweet nothings like "I'll Shake off your flesh!" It could be either a sexual come-on or a physical threat, or more probably both. "Inhuman" starts out with a robotic, distorted laugh and goes on to show that yes, there are things that are far more extreme than punk. "Confusion Is Next" would be the de facto "anthem," though our heroes were already too sly for such blatant pandering. "I maintain that chaos is the future," starts out guitarist Thurston Moore portentously, but soon he's just shouting "Sonic Tooth!" like a hellfire preacher obsessed with dentristry, turning the opening pronouncement into a self-aware joke. Sonic Youth's particular brand of irony has always been a problem for some critics, but to me it's obvious that for SY, irony IS sincerity, not in any way a contradiction. How can anyone be raised in an embryonic bath of American pop culture and not have some irony? It's just adaptation; survival of the snarkiest. The guitars, of course, are always the center of the Sonic show. After all, who cares about lyrics when an F train is clattering and squealing through your brainpan? Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo are the true glimmer twins of rock n' roll, making their axes sound like anything from a swarm of giant bees to the soft tolling of bells and Tibetan gongs. The guitar nerds who pine over Joe Satriani and his ilk still can't wrap their heads around this stuff; let's hope they never do. The Geffen reissue of this classic helpfully adds on the Subsequent "Kill Yr Idols" EP, the title track of which is one of the greatest punk rawk songs ever committed to tape (in fact, there's a mediocre hardcore band who took the title as their name). There are underground bands to this day, like Mouthus and Magik Markers, who use this early material as a touchstone, and Sonic Youth are still right there to help them along. It may never win mass appeal, but if you've got a cast iron stomach, "Confusion is Sex" is a feast.
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歪な不協和音が牙を剥く地下臭充満ジャンクアルバム！
No Waveの破壊力と、当時共鳴していたSWANSやノイバウテン的な ジャンクネスを孕んだ、知性と狂気がせめぎ合う1983年2nd。 劣悪な録音環境やスキル不足でクビ寸前のボブ・バートが振り下ろすなたのような鈍いドラムは ロウな音質や閉塞感を助長し、直線的でいびつなメロディやのたうち回る高音不協和音、 気のふれたシャウトが一体となり、全曲完全にレッド・ゾーンに振り切れてます。 後年の不協和音ギターアンサンブルが織り成す壮大なサイケデリアとは全く違い、 ギターもヒステリックでおどろおどろしさが前面に出ており、stoogesのカバーですら 低温火傷しそうな恐怖しか感じません。 ヨーロッパツアー、インディーネットワーク開拓期の記録であり、 次作で巧く制御される以前の荒々しい音をパッケージした作品という意味でも 重要な位置を占めるアルバムです。 追加収録されたドイツZENSORからのシングル「Kill Yr Idols」も 殺傷能力十分なキラーチューンが並ぶ必聴作！！！
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Digitally remastered reissue. Originally slated to be a seven-inch single to follow up their self-titled debut, Sonic Youth 's Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band's first album: a brain-bludgeoning, completely fried endeavor of dissonance and disarray, a perfect soundtrack for running from a chain-wielding gang near the SIN Club. This was the sound of 1983 New York City: nothing like London where punks were starting to scrub their faces and sounds to get on Top of the Pops, and nothing like the jangly roots of college radio rock starting to formulate in Athens, Georgia. It sounded like no one else on Earth, for that matter. The raw, Wharton Tiers 8-track production is dark, the Kim Gordon-scrawled cover figure art of Thurston Moore is dark, Lee Ranaldo 's back cover photo-collage and Catherine Ceresole 's crumpled-xeroxed images that adorned the inside are dark. It's an album that moves Sonic Youth forward from their first EP almost by devolving backwards into true ugly, lo-fi primitivity. The bare-boned arsenal of junkpile guitars and implementation of alternate tunings was growing, and so were the songs that matched the individual attributes of each instrument: certain ones groan and growl a specific way that the band started to realize itself could become the compositional germ of a song. Herein is the threshold of a new explosion of the band's creativity, replacing the comparatively cleaner buzz of the Sonic Youth EP with guitars that spew fractured, uglier chunks of sound everywhere, held down by menacing minimalist basslines and the brutal-yet-controlled metronomic drumming. While it's confrontationalism might have put off some critics, time has rewarded Confusion with a truly distinctive air and atmosphere in the Sonic discography, enough to have Moore declare it his fave along with the band's swan-song The Eternal.
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Confusion is Sex is Sonic Youth’s first full-length studio album, released in 1983 on Glenn Branca ’s Neutral Records.
At this point in their history, Sonic Youth had a rather complicated relationship with their drummers. When Richard Edson left, they tacked up drummer-wanted fliers around town, a request which only one person answered. His name was Bob Bertelli, but he’d shortened it to Bob Bert . Bert was a…
Confusion is Sex is Sonic Youth’s first full-length studio album, released in 1983 on Glenn Branca ’s Neutral Records.
At this point in their history, Sonic Youth had a rather complicated relationship with their drummers. When Richard Edson left, they tacked up drummer-wanted fliers around town, a request which only one person answered. His name was Bob Bertelli, but he’d shortened it to Bob Bert . Bert was a heavy-handed rock drummer who’d been out of practice for years before the no wave scene inspired him to pick up his instrument again. As a result, he was rather sloppy and unskilled in the beginning—however, the band liked his primitive style, so he was in.
Soon, the band embarked on a tour of the midwest with Swans (one they called “ Savage Blunder ”). It was a short, tense, poorly-attended affair. Relations between the two bands, congenial at first, grew quite strained by the end, thanks in no small part to Swans frontman Michael Gira ’s confrontational, authoritarian ways. Bert in particular found the trip to be a unique ordeal; a non-smoker, he spent countless hours driving from stop to stop in the poorly-ventilated van as both bands smoked copiously. Plus, his skills were slipping behind as he frequently struggled to keep up with the band onstage. The group grew frustrated with him and shortly after finishing the first leg of the tour, Bert was fired over the phone by Gordon.
After one more false start, the band settled on Jim Sclavunos as Bert’s replacement. Sclavunos had quite a bit more technical finesse than Bert did (though he certainly didn’t share the band’s admiration for hardcore punk).
The band was eager to get the followup to their first EP recorded, but funds from Neutral were stuck in limbo. The band, thankfully, managed to befriend a wealthy Swiss couple who gave them a sizable loan to begin the sessions. Ranaldo found the studio, owned by Wharton Tiers (a friend of his who’d drummed for Rhys Chatham , who’d convinced his landlord to let him build a makeshi
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