Sonic Youth’s amazingly provocative and complicated album from 1986, “EVOL,” (love spelled backwards) is my favorite of all SY’s albums. All the songs have their strong points, and all are dark and moody in some way.
But “Star Power” is especially strong. From the swirling guitars to the saturated bass lines, the band really nails the coffin shut with this one. Kim Gordon’s vocals are growly and grainy, and when she sings lyrics like these, the mixture of admiration and jealousy the singer has for the subject are all the more potent:
Burning down in the night
Supercool its alright
She knows how to make love to me
She knows how to make love
Close my mind when I think of you
Everything turns black to blue
Starpower starpower starpower
Over me
This is a rad video from 1986:
Sonic Youth: Star Power
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Sonic Youth: Star Power
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October 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I Hate to Say it, But Eff Sonic Youth « Microphone Memory Emotion
[…] Hopefully this won’t screw me out of a Thurston Moore interview in the near future but this shit is just going one step too far. Ok. Let me calm down and explain. They are performing live on “Gossip Girl.” Ok, I can accept that. They are releasing a single of the song they are playing on “Gossip Girl.” Ok…i’m still alright. The song they are releasing is an acoustic version of the ever-cool, awesome “fuck you to all who fuck with me” song, “Star Power.” WHAT??? (I wrote about why I love the song, and you can get the mp3, here.) […]