![]() ![]() They’ve actually proved themselves, which is a difficult thing to do. Superstar sonic youth meaning how to#They know how to do it and I’m quite impressed with that. They’ve really got it down to a T – the thing they’ve wanted to do all along – they’ve got it down now. American bands get lost a lot because they’re usually such brilliant musicians and all that sort of thing and they’re so heavily into the ethos behind what they’re doing that they’re not listening to what they’re doing, but this would be a song I’d put on a tape and play in the car. I don’t think there’s any band in Britain who could come up with anything with that amount of suss and humour and sarcasm, you know? Everyone’s so f***ing uptight. This single just goes to show how wrong he was. So, yeah, that is brilliant and they’re American, aren’t they? The other day I heard the guy out of The Cult going on about how American bands are shit and how Britain is where it’s at now. ![]() “WEIRD! The reason I screamed ‘weird’ is that I heard that song yesterday in rehearsal because a band, some friends of ours, were doing a cover of it and I thought, Wow, that’s a great song, and here it is. That’s darker than Portishead, and that’s a recommendation.” That’s the darkest thing I’ve heard all year. “There was a lot less you could do with the Redd Kross one, but that song was just screaming to be done like that and they really did it. If that song got exposed everywhere, people would just f***ing drop. That should be on Radio One, that should be everywhere, that song. No one’s going to play it, but it’s amazing. The obvious thing is that the first thing you think is, like, Sonic Youth, so the first few times round it’s nice and quiet so you think, yeah, right, they’re just gonna lay into it any minute and they don’t. They really know how to make records, don’t they? That’s amazing. Thom: “‘Yesterday Once More’ sounds like the Manics, a bit, which is really weird, which just goes to show that you could probably produce the Manics to sound like The Carpenters and they’d be huge. Reviewed by Radiohead's Thom E Yorke, assisted by Holly Barringer ![]()
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