[kingcoffee]

I agree with you, Lipslikewindows. I'm in yr corner all the way. SY just aren't as daring and adventurous on this album as they used to be. They have flirted with different ideas over the (many) years that they have been around, but they've always remained (in some ways) the same. They always had a certain quality to them no matter what kind of music they were playing. A certain je ne se quoi (I think that's how you spell it) but it's strangly missing on this album. Whatever qualities that made Sonic Youth into who they are just are not present on Rather Ripped.