Sonic Youth are putting the finishing touches on their Deluxe Edition
re-issue of 1990's "Goo". The 2xCD edition will be released by
Universal/Geffen while the 4xLP vinyl edition will be released by SY's own
Goofin' imprint via SLR. The Deluxe Edition of "Goo" will include the
original LP re-mastered along with remixed/re-mastered 8-track demos,
B-sides, rehearsal tracks, studio out-takes and more. A deluxe full-color LP
size booklet will be included in the vinyl box set with essays by Byron
Coley and Mark Kates.


SYR 6 is also being prepared for release. This CD edition of the SYR
series is a recording of the benefit concert held at and for The
Anthology Film Archives on April, 12 2003. Sonic Youth performed with
drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes. Part of the proceeds of this CD will again
benefit the Anthology Film Archives.

Coming in the Fall: While in Melbourne last June, Lee, Thurston, Steve,
and Jim recorded direct to disc at Corduroy studios for what is being
released as a limited-edition double vinyl album. Eight hundred copies
of the four-track instrumental record are being pressed by Saucerlike
records. One hundred of those will be available through sonicyouth.com.

i just got this e-mail from sonicyouth.com:





this is great news - "goo" is up there with some of my favorite prince and bowie albums as one of my favorite records of all time. i can't wait to hear all the extra goodies. woo hoo - GOO!

"hey goo,what's new"Good news.I'm digging these deluxe edition's from Universal.Although at 30 bills...I ain't buying.But I've picked up(from bmg)all 3 Margin G set's.Donna summer's Bad Girls,and Joe Jackson's "Night & Day.Haven't got Sonic Youth's Dirty though.

They need to just hurry up and get all of theirs out so I can fill in my collection. How many they got so far?

the only super special deluxxxe edition they have so far is "dirty", which is a really sweet package - tons of extra music, great packaging, great liner note essays, and even some art created for sonic youth by kurt cobain.

Anxiety said:

I wonder if Thurston, Kim, Kurt and Courtney ever had a thing.

ew!

(though kim DID produce the first hole album, ya know.)

Anxiety said:

Why ew?

I just wondered cuz there seems to be than a little love going on between all of them.

And with the rumors about Kurt and Stipe getting together and Courtney and EVERYBODY getting together, it seems like a likely scenario.

i just don't see it. kim and thurston come off as too grounded to get into that kind of hullabaloo.

Anxiety said:

Perhaps.

we're talking about a band that has a fashion designer for a bassist, a novelist for a guitarist, and one of the most knowledgeable rock historians alive as lead guitarist. not to mention this wasn't too long before kim and thurston's daughter was born...from all that i've read, i think they got their "rock'n'roll lifestyle" ya-ya's out of the way far before the grunge years.

I ran into Kim once in the men's bathroom at the Black Cat club in D.C. and I told her she was in the men's room, thinking she had made a mistake, and she said "so" and I was like "that's so cool". She was there performing with her side project Free Kitten which was pretty horrible but I love Sonic Youth. Daydream Nation blew me away when I first heard it on my FM portable stereo cassette player. Goo and Dirty are great as well. They also are great live.