EVOL
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<3 This week on Magic Portals we listen to EVOL by Sonic Youth (it’s one of my favourite albums). EVOL is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in May 1986 by SST Records, the band’s first release on the label. The album is notable for being the first with a new drummer, Steve Shelley, replacing Bob Bert. This is an incredible album in terms of the guitar playing. It’s on point and this album doesn’t disappoint, if your in the mood to listen to some punk rock songs then give this a listen <3
Despite not being successful at the time, the album has received retrospective praise. Pitchfork said that EVOL ” was where the seeds of greatness were sown”, and placed the album 31st on their Top 100 Albums of the 1980s list, alongside Sonic Youth’s next two albums, Sister and Daydream Nation, which ranked 14th and first, respectively.
The album cover features a picture of model/actress Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit to Me. Leg had previously appeared in the “Death Valley ’69” music video. The back cover shows a black-and-white picture of the band in a heart-shaped frame. The album’s 10 songs are listed in a different order than the actual track listing. The members’ names are listed on the back cover as well, although no instruments are assigned for them. It reads “guitars, vocals, drums”, with “bass” hidden beneath the photograph of the band. The insert features the lyrics to the songs and the A-side depicts Thurston Moore, with eyes drawn on his hands, holding them up to his face. This photograph was later used for the cover of the “Starpower” single. The other side contains pictures from horror movies Friday the 13th Part 2 and Children of the Corn, with a blacked-out image of two ladies in the upper right corner.
Ep 55
00:01:37 – Sonic Youth – Death To Our Friends
00:05:29 – Sonic Youth – Tom Violence
00:08:47 – Sonic Youth – Shadow Of A Doubt
00:12:38 – Sonic Youth – Starpower
00:17:56 – Sonic Youth – In The Kingdom #19
00:21:49 – Sonic Youth – Green Light
00:26:10 – Sonic Youth – Secret Girls
00:30:05 – Sonic Youth – Marilyn Moore
00:34:59 – Sonic Youth – Madonna Sean and Me
00:43:10 – Charlie – Spacer Woman (Original Mix)
00:52:04 – Minty – Useless Man
Transitional Audio Clips
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) – Various Scenes
Sleeping Beauty (1959) – Maleficent’s Gift of Death
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