Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

Sonic Youth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 1995)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000003TBJ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the novice, February 27, 2004

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filterite "filterite" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (Audio CD)

If you want to get into some Sonic Youth but are afraid to test their albums ( and I can fully empathize having being one of them myself ) this compilation will serve as a godsend to you. However I must warn you that you might feel a little tricked ( not in a bad way though ) with this compilation for on the most part this album is really mellow only with the later tracks piling on the noisier tracks but it does serve as a useful starter for anybody interested as it whets the appetite for more Sonic Youth records.

Buy this album and you might become a SY junkie.....join the club we all know how you feel

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best of the Early Years, March 17, 2006

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UntilAfter5Yrs (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (Audio CD)

In 1995, Sonic Youth's record company decided to re-release all six of the band's seminal 1980's albums: the violent, harsh 'Confusion is Sex'; the unsettling dreamscapes of 'Bad Moon Rising'; the pulsing psychedelic 'EVOL'; the straightforward indie-rock of 'Sister'; the avant-garde tribute to Madonna `Ciccone Youth'; and the quasi-symphonic masterpiece 'Daydream Nation.' To promote these reissues, DGC also issued this record, an assortment of 17 songs from the band's 1980's catalog. By no means would anyone consider Sonic Youth a singles band (they only issued six singles in their first nine years as a band; seven if you count "Into the Groove(y)" from the Ciccone Youth LP). But the band sounds surprisingly good stripped down to the singles and key album tracks. This unconventionally-sequenced retrospective (it begins with the selections from `Daydream Nation' and goes back to the earlier, less commercial songs) shows how the band developed from a cooler-than-thou art-noise clique into one of the most creative and enduring bands in rock history. The long and graceful interlocking guitar lines of "Teen Age Riot" and "Candle," the quintessential indie love song "Cotton Crown," the shimmering psychedelia of "Shadow of a Doubt," and the forbidding sturm und drang of "Death Valley 69" and "Inhuman" all make a case on how no one could touch Sonic Youth in the 80's, and for those looking to familiarize themselves with the group, this is an excellent place to begin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Hits Album of Sorts?, July 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (Audio CD)

I give it a five for the music, but a 2 for the concept. This is a great release for those people who are not going to take the effort to purchase all of the releases that these songs come from (although I think that you get a better experience from their music when it has not been removed from its context as a whole...i.e. the album it was released on). If you like this I suggest buying Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols + (if you can find it) their self titled e.p. If you like those, try Sonic Death Live (again, if you can find it)...that is about as intense as they get on their own.