Goo (album)

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Goo is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. A remastered version was released in 2005.

Goo, the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records, marked the beginning of Sonic Youth's "grunge" phase, spanning three albums. Their albums became more accessible and less experimental, but still retained their trademark collage of noise.

Contents

1 Songs
2 Cover
3 Track listing

3.1 Deluxe Edition

3.1.1 Disc One
3.1.2 Disc Two

4 References

Songs

The album's lead track, "Dirty Boots", evokes old blues slang in its declaration that "It's time to rock the road/And tell the story of the jelly rollin'." [link]

"Tunic (Song for Karen)", written and sung by Kim Gordon, is about singer Karen Carpenter and her anorexia:

I feel like I'm disappearing

Getting smaller every day

But when I open my mouth to sing

I'm bigger in every way

It imagines her in heaven, happy, playing the drums again and meeting new friends Dennis Wilson, Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin.* We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Gerri Hirshey, 2001, ISBN 0-87113-788-7, on "Tunic", quoting Kim Gordon in Rolling Stone magazine. [link]

The album featured the single "Kool Thing", on which Chuck D from the rap group Public Enemy guested. The song is purported to be about the disillusionment that Gordon experienced after interviewing LL Cool J for Spin Magazine the previous year. "Are you going to save us girls from male, white, corporate oppression?" Gordon asks in the song.[link] "Kool Thing" became the song that many casual music fans associate with the band.

The album's title derives from the song "My Friend Goo", a portrait of a friend who "sticks just like glue":

My friend Goo has a real tattoo

She always knows just what to do

She looks through her hair like she doesn't care

What she does best is stand and stare [link]

The song "Mildred Pierce" is an homage to the 1945 film Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford, and/or the 1941 novel by James M. Cain on which the film is based.

Cover

The cover is a Raymond Pettibon illustration of a paparazzi photo of David and Maureen Smith, witnesses in the case of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley,[link] driving to the trial in 1966.

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Additional backing vocals were provided by J Mascis (tracks 2, 5, 6) and Don Fleming (tracks 1, 7).

Track listing

"Dirty Boots"
"Tunic (Song for Karen)"
"Mary-Christ"
"Kool Thing" (with Chuck D)
"Mote"
"My Friend Goo"
"Disappearer"
"Mildred Pierce"
"Cinderella's Big Score"
"Scooter and Jinx"
"Titanium Exposé"

Deluxe Edition

Disc One

"Dirty Boots"
"Tunic (Song For Karen)"
"Mary-Christ"
"Kool Thing"
"Mote"
"My Friend Goo"
"Disappearer"
"Mildred Pierce"
"Cinderella's Big Score"
"Scooter + Jinx"
"Titanium Expose"
"Lee #2"
"That's All I Know (Right Now)"
"The Bedroom"
"Dr. Benway's House"
"Tuff Boyz"

Disc Two

"Tunic
"Number One (Disappearer)"
"Titanium Expose"
"Dirty Boots"
"Corky (Cinderella's Big Score)"
"My Friend Goo"
"Bookstore (Mote)"
"Animals (Mary-Christ)"
"DV2 (Kool Thing)"
"Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)"
"Lee #2"
"I Know There's An Answer"
"Can Song"
"Isaac"
"Goo Interview Flexi"

References

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