NYC Ghosts & Flowers
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NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a 2000 album by Sonic Youth, and the first recording by the band since the theft of their instruments in July 1999.
It is considered to be the album on which the influence of beat poetry on the band is most evident. The lyrics to most songs resemble the beat style, Lenny Bruce and d. a. levy are name-checked and the cover-art is based on a painting by William S. Burroughs.
The album received mixed reviews. Pitchfork Media gave it the rarely used rating of 0.0 [link], while Inkblot Magazine praised its avant-garde direction [link].
Track listing
- "Free City Rhymes" – 7:32
- "Renegade Princess" – 5:49
- "Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?)" – 5:37
- "Small Flowers Crack Concrete" – 5:12
- "Side2Side" – 3:34
- "StreamXSonik Subway" – 2:51
- "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" – 7:52
- "Lightnin'" – 3:51
| Sonic Youth |
| Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley |
| Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Gordon Moore |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex | Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | | SYR5 | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped |
| Extended plays: Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | ' | ' | | Silver Session for Jason Knuth |
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