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This is a limited edition release containing a Mike Kelly photograph visible through a see-through tinted tray.
Includes a bonus disc with additional B-sides and rehearsal tapes. Also includes a 28-page booklet.
Includes liner notes by Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Byron Coley.
Sonic Youth's second major-label album, produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace (a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum) was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines. While Vig and Wallace give guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, bassist Kim Gordon, and phenomenal drummer Steve Shelley a wide-screen panorama for their bizarrely-tuned assaults, DIRTY is probably Sonic Youth's most uncompromising album since 1985's BAD MOON RISING--particularly in the lyrical department.
Dropping the deliberate obscurantism, Philip K. Dick references, and smart-alecky snottiness, Sonic Youth brackets a slew of pointed political attacks ("Youth Against Fascism," "Swimsuit Issue," and the Jesse Helms-bashing "Chapel Hill") with two passionate tributes to the band members' murdered friend, Joe Cole ("100%" and "JC"). That DIRTY is Sonic Youth's most commercial-sounding album makes it that much more subversive.
Recorded at Magic Shop, New York City.
Full title: Dirty (w/ Mike Kelly photograph).
Personnel: Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo (vocals, guitars), Kim Gordon (vocals, bass), Steve Shelley (drums).
Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley.
Producers: Butch Vig, Sonic Youth.
Personnel: Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar); Kim Gordon (vocals); Ian MacKaye, Lee Ranaldo (guitar); Steve Shelley (drums).
Audio Mixers: Andy Wallace; Butch Vig.
Recording information: Magic Shop, New York, NY (1992); Sear Sound, New York, NY (1992).
Additional personnel: Ian MacKaye (guitar).
Additional personnel: Ian MacKaye.Rolling Stone (9/3/92, p.63) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...DIRTY is a great Sonic Youth disc, easily ranking with DAYDREAM NATION [1988] and SISTER [1987] among the band's most unified and unforgettable recorded works...a scorched and scorching whole. DIRTY is a burner..."
Spin (12/92, p.67) - Ranked #3 in Spin's list of the 20 Best Albums Of The Year - "...the spectrum of sound and fury unleashed by Sonic Youth is the perfect soundtrack for a generation..."
Spin (9/92, p.101) - Recommended - "...In an era of reduced expectations, Sonic Youth remains uncompromised--integrity and soul intact..."
Spin (9/92, p.101) - Recommended - "...the new Sonic Youth album rocks...Sonic Youth remains uncompromised--integrity and soul intact...the vocals have never sounded better, nor have the guitars...a wonderful record..."
Entertainment Weekly (1/7/93, p.123) - Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 10 Albums Of 1992 - "...Rock & roll--whatever that archaic phrase means in the '90s--simply doesn't get more vital and intense than this..."
Entertainment Weekly (8/14/92, p.58) - "...much-needed proof that the old-fangled concept of a rock guitar band can still result in vital, undeniably moving music...every other rock & roll record that visits our planet this year will have a hard time topping [DIRTY]..." - Rating: A
Q (1/93, p.72) - Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.
Uncut (5/03, p.114) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Crammed with contagious grunge-pop and deafening plectrum-grinding chaos....A must..."
The Wire (5/03, p.71) - "...DIRTY is all the better for piled-on confusion..."
Option (9-10/92, p.128) - "...as solid and uncompromising an album as Sonic Youth has made...Sonic Youth is already one of the defining bands of its generation, far more significant in terms of their influence and artistic import than bands which far outsell them..."
Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #8 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Stereo Review (12/92, p.104) - "...[a] grunge-pop masterpiece...packs maximum snarl and pummeling dissonance...The fraying fabric and internal contradictions embodied in DIRTY are precisely the point, and Sonic Youth makes it brilliantly..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, pp.118-9) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...DIRTY was as close as Sonic Youth would ever come to an orthodox noise: a crisp rockist beast, with all the pro-studio trimmings. It is also compact proof of the rock'n'roll heart that beats inside their fire music..." Dirty (W/ Mike Kelly Photograph). Music Sonic Youth Dirty (W/ Mike Kelly Photograph). Songs Dirty (W/ Mike Kelly Photograph). Music Dirty (W/ Mike Kelly Photograph). Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   Testimony Summary
This is one of many complete others Sonic Youth has created to the best. The band produces great musical tone from the instrument to the lyrical patterns. Realting to that of something that just Punks the Rock. Dibby needs to actually understand what he is listening to when he listens to Sonic Youth. But maybe that person isn't well oriented with this kind of genre or culture. Buy this. It is good.
Submitted by mikmauldin (Birmingham, AL)
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 Old skool
Crazy album, and almost really good, with tracks like Purr, 100%, Shoot, Sugar Kane and On the Strip. However, the rest of the selections are SO unlistenable and just plain crappy that the album suffers for it - I think a retarded chimp on LSD could have done a better job writing some of these "songs." Brings "hit or miss" to a whole new level, but the good songs really are pretty tight. Sonic Youth seem more concerned with "art" and "reputation" than with actually producing quality sound, but this album is the exception, and certainly their best ever.
Submitted by dibby (Birmingham, Al)
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Sonic youth as best!!!
You can't help hearing Sonic youth's love for "Velvet underground" and the
"Stooges". This record may not suit the
mainstream audience when hearing it for
the first time but if you don't like after your first experience hearing them, give it time. They will rock your
world eventually.
Submitted by conny_car (katrineholm, sweden)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No powerful urge driven experimental rock at its best
ooooh ,yeaaah!!
This is the stuff! This is it!
From 100% to Purr, non stop crazy.
Bitter off key melodies resonating impeccably, mutilated chord arrangements, tortured guitars,and caustic churns powering your ears with adrenaline.Out of control.100%.Dirty.
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