Sonic Youth / The Destroyed Room (B-Sides And Rarities)
Artist Sonic Youth
Album Title: The Destroyed Room (B-Sides And Rarities)
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Primary Genre Rock
Format CD
Released 12/12/2006
Label Geffen Records
Catalog No B0008124-02
Bar Code No 6 02517 15711 8
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Fire Engine Dream (10:22)
2. Fauxhemians (4:03)
3. Razor Blade (1:06)
4. Blink (5:27)
5. Campfire (2:18)
6. Loop Cat (5:39)
7. Kim's Chords (6:01)
8. Beautiful Plateau (3:08)
9. Three-Part Sectional Love Seat (8:15)
10. Queen Anne Chair (4:36)
11. The Diamond Sea (25:49)
Date Acquired 12/30/2012
Personal Rating
Acquired from FYE Burnsville
Purchase Price 6.99

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Notes

1. Fire Engine Dream [2003] outtake from Sonic Nurse sessions at Echo Canyon NYC. Previously unreleased.
2. Fauxhemians [2001] from the Noho Furniture Sessions original released on "All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1, ATP Records". Recorded in Northampton, MA / Mixed at Echo Canyon NYC.
3. Razor Blade [1994] b-side from Bull In The Heather single at Sear Sound, NYC.
4. Blink [1999] from the "Pola X" soundtrack, Universal/Arena Films. Recorded at mixed at Echo Canyon NYC.
5. Campfire [1999] from "At Home With The Groovebox", Grand Royal Records at Echo Canyon NYC.
6. Loop Cat [2003] from "You Can Never Go Fast Enough", Plain Recordings. Recorded and mixed at Echo Canyon NYC.
7. Kim's Chords [2003] Japanese bonus track from Sonic Nurse. Recorded and mixed at Echo Canyon.
8. Beautiful Plateau [2003] Japanese bonus track from Sonic Nurse. Recorded and mixed at Echo Canyon NYC.
9. Three-Part Sectional Love Seat [2001] from Noho Furniture Sessions. Recorded in Northhampton, MA / at Echo Canyon NYC. Previously unreleased.
10. Queen Anne Chair [2001] from Noho Furniture Sessions. Recorded in Northampton, MA / mixed at Echo Canyon NYC. Previously unreleased.
11. The Diamond Sea [1995] LP version with alternate ending. Recorded at Easley Studios, Memphis, TN and Mott and Greene Street Studios, NYC. Mixed at Greene Studios.

Mastered at Golden Mastering, 2006.
Tracks 3,4,5,11 published by Sonik Tooth, administered by Zomba (BMI).
Tracks 1,2,6,7,8,9,10 published by Sonik Tooth, administered by Zomba Music (BMI)/Field Code Music (BMI).
?© 2006 Geffen Records.
Manufactured and distributed in the United States by Universal Music & Video Distribution Corp.

Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Heather Phares
Devoted to the more open-ended rarities that have gathered in Sonic Youth's discography in the decade spanning from Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star to Sonic Nurse, The Destroyed Room serves as a reminder that even the band's sketches and non-album tracks remain fascinating. Pieces like the Murray Street outtake "Fauhemians" and "Campfire," which originally appeared in the 1999 collection At Home with the Groovebox and sounds like static kisses, are great examples of Sonic Youth's ability to make dissonant, weird, and otherwise unexpected sounds feel soothing (something they've done especially well in recent years). Likewise, "Fire Engine Dream," the ten-minute Sonic Nurse-era jam that kicks off The Destroyed Room, is pretty subtle despite its hypnotic fuzz; along with the shimmering sound collage "Loop Cat," it shows that the band's seemingly far-flung experiments are balanced with structure and restraint. Given that many of the tracks here ended up tucked away as bonus tracks on Japanese editions of albums, or on the cutting-room floor, it's understandable that an unfinished feel pervades The Destroyed Room. This incompeleteness is by no means a bad thing, though, especially on the twangy, off-the-cuff Experimental Jet Set snippet "Razor Blade" and the beautiful "Kim's Chords," an instrumental full of changing moods and Sonic Youth's distinctive ebb and flow. There are also a few fleshed-out but hard to find songs here, chief among them "Blink," the band's contribution to the soundtrack to Pola X, Leos Carax's 1999 experimental film noir, and the (very) full, 25-minute long version of "The Diamond Sea," which emphasizes the avant jam band feel they've cultivated in later years. Just as this collection's name and artwork turn the rock cliché of trashing a room into a work of art, The Destroyed Room is a creative -- and quintessentially Sonic Youth -- approach to the rarities and B-sides comp.
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