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Originally Posted by E. Noisefield
So nobody else thinks EVOL kinda sounds like '80s goth pop? I mean, relative to BMR and Sister... I remember the first time I heard it, loving the intro to "Tom Violence", but thinking "there's no way this is Sonic Youth!" Maybe it doesn't sound like the Cure exactly, but that's what I thought when I first heard it.
I think EVOL has a completely unique place in the SY discography, and that no other album sounds quite like it.
Oh yeah, this is a BMR thread. Sorry  |
Of course there are something same all after-punk bands, but I still think SY is quite different than for example Joy Division, the Cure and Bauhaus in same time. If you compare for example EVOL and Pornography, there is something very despair in Pornography and something very hopeful in EVOL. Although BMR and specially CIS are very dark albums, I donīt think they also have anything that is typical in goth pop. I think there is something hopeful also in BMR music and CIS is more raw than romantic in itīs darkness. Maybe itīs SY has always been musically kind of realistic band when goth pop is full of romantic style.
Maybe this is something to do with the difference of British and Us bands. I think Us bands are more raw and realistic, when British bands have more elegance. I think only Us band that sounds British is Love. And three albums Iīve heard from them only Forever Changes is sounding British, the first album and Four Sales sounds also Us.