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With the future uncertain given the rift between Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, this re-release of Hits Are for Squares is crass yet timely: a welcome reminder of the band’s breadth, reach and influence and an effective follow-up to 1994’s Screaming Fields of Sonic Love ‘best-of’. Being no strangers to kitsch, star-struck celebrity goggling it’s perhaps fitting that alongside the musical luminaries handpicking the tracks here – Beck, Eddie Vedder and Mike Watt of the mighty Minutemen – are directors, actresses and other such glitterati keen to coo at the feet of alt-rock’s eldest statesfolk.
The tracks they’ve chosen are mainly culled from the sequence of albums from 1986’s Evol to 1994’s Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, offering a smattering of mid-level ‘hits’ (Bull in the Heather, 100%, Sugar Kane) alongside a handful of more experimental – albeit none-too-challenging – excursions. Order of the day are chiming, crystalline guitar tones twining effortlessly with surging rushes of ecstatic sound; this backdrop laced by Gordon’s breathy, stream-of-consciousness whisper and Moore’s lackadaisical drawl. Alongside the aforementioned rock club dancefloor-fillers you get the occasional furious lunge courtesy of Rain on Tin; the wiry, plunk of early number The World Looks Red; the spiralling abstractions of exclusive track Slow Revolution; and – somewhat curiously – just one solitary cut from the band’s most-feted release, Daydream Nation.
As with any such release Hits Are for Squares offers comparatively little for long-term devotees, but for lapsed fans or those seeking a gentle point of entry into Sonic Youth’s sprawling back catalogue it’s a more than worthy purchase from perhaps the only band on the planet capable of earning patronage from both Glenn Branca and Gossip Girl. --Alex Deller
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Yes, some of the big hitters are here but its more of a playlist than a best of.
You might be better off exploring the albums, you cannot go wrong starting off with either Dirty or Goo
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