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Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Sonic Youth - Rather RippedIt’s hard to say what Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon find more challenging, being the godparents of indie rock or the parents of precocious Coco. Their 11-year-old daughter heard a similarity between new album track “What a Waste” and the theme song of TV’s Friends. She’s right, of course. Other influences on Sonic Youth’s latest include Blue Öyster Cult on the darkly ominous “Rats” and The Rolling Stones on the opening “Stonesy.” With such mainstream ’70s rock sounds, what will the avant-garde think?

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