Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
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Album Review
Release date: 16 May 2000
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Returning from the wilderness, then, with a new-found hunger.
The events of July 1999 marked a definite Year Zero for New York's masters of art-punk skronk. Stolen from their tour van, all of their instruments; the expertly detuned guitars, the skewed equipment that enabled them to pioneer their much-copied noise. Wherever their muse took them from here, there was no doubt they'd be starting the journey from scratch. Which perhaps...
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- Free City Rhymes
- Renegade Princess
- Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)
- Small Flowers Crack Concrete
- Side2Side
- StreamXSonik Subway
- NYC Ghosts & Flowers
- Lightnin'
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Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers: Wikipedia Album Entry
NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a 2000 album by Sonic Youth. The album was a slight departure, mainly as a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999. Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen. It is also the first Sonic Youth album to extensively use prepared guitar since 1985's Bad Moon Rising, most notably on "Small Flowers Crack Concrete" (a file inserted over the neck pickup) and "Lightnin'" (a bike horn wedged under the strings).
It is also 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. Brent DiCrescenzo, formerly of Pitchfork Media, gave it the rarely used lowest rating of 0.0, while Inkblot Magazine praised its avant-garde direction and Robert Christgau said that at times the album is more beautiful than the more widely acclaimed Washing Machine or A Thousand Leaves. The album is generally well regarded among fans.
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Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers Lyrics
Sonic Youth - Free City Rhymes Lyrics
In a free lane
Ghosts passing time
Heat rises
Lights through the town
Sonic Youth - Nyc Ghosts Flowers Lyrics
When the phone rang 3 in the morning, dead middle of night
There was nothin' on the line
I set back the silent receiver, tiny flames lit in my head
Hey did any of you freaks here ever remember Lenny?
Sonic Youth - Renegade Princess Lyrics
Jet black hair
Tangled stare
Blood inside
Silent stare
Sonic Youth - Side2side Lyrics
Meet me on the corner Thursday
Wear your special underwear
Sway side 2 side
Sonic Youth - Small Flowers Crack Concrete Lyrics
Small flowers crack concrete
Narcotic squads sweep through poet dens
Spilling coffee grabbing 15 yr old runaway girls
By frazzled pony tailed hair
Sonic Youth - Streamxsonik Subway Lyrics
Flipped on my perceptik cogs
Checked in with the future Gods
For melodies of bees and hogs
Start my day the perfect way
