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<p>Sonic Youth spent most of the 80s sleeping on floors, driving used vans, touring across a neurotic America and the globe beyond. Before they became part of the national bloodstream, they created an underground swell, encouraging adventurous listeners to jack into their matrix of pantonality, feedback, and chiming scree. All the while, Lee Ranaldo was drinking in the landscape, the clubs, the people; recording a journal of this wild ride.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Ranaldo (Road Movies) is the guitarist for Sonic Youth, arguably the most vital and enduring band to have emerged from American punk rock. They cut through the vapidity of '80s Top 40 and enabled the angry rise of Nirvana and company to megastardom, and still, after two decades together, make music that is innovative and influential. Ranaldo's writings from the decade that made the band a legend are collected here. However, both the fan looking for a comprehensive tour diary and the rock historian searching for insights will be disappointed. This thin volume is too crowded and the writing is too varied--stream of consciousness prose, performance poetry, song lyrics, letters to friends and family. It is as dense

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Author

Lee Ranaldo

Publisher

Soft Skull ; Turnaround

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781887128315

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Poetry, History

Rating

3.73 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14