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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Rather Ripped is a gorgeous, precise, PERFECT fuckin' album and I can't believe it's still getting shit after 12 years.
Noooo, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is all over the place compared to RR. If anything, beyond superficial measures of volume and tempo, it contains less pop songwriting than Dirty, the album it "reacted" against.
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I think in some ways it’s the most “Sonic Youth does pop” of any of their albums. Dirty is more “Pop does Sonic Youth,” (pop being Butch Vig). But I can see the argument for RR too.
Fuck this anti-RR shit though. It’s a great record. It’s a gorgeous gem of a noise-pop album, and it’s better than most of the high-profile indie rock records from that era.
Eternal isn’t a great farewell, but whatever