From my 2009 entry on this album:
"Sonic Youth is the New Wave of waves. Lo-Fi to the point of being obnoxious, every track is strangely hypnotic. SY is the only music I have ever found myself getting lost in AND being able to read a novel while listening at the same time. Classical demands that I pay attention, Rock, jazz, etc, all call on the listener to distract themselves. You can listen to Sonic Youth and love it, or you can put it on as background music. Either way, it works. I've never heard anything like that.
Ambient to it's core, Confusion is Sex is a groundwork, a culmination of the beginnings of ideas.
Tracks like Protect Me You could be the soundtrack to a Killer Orphan Slasher Movie. In a good way. Whereas Shaking Hell ALMOST sounds like a song. But it's not, really. It's an audition to score some NYU Experimental film.
Some songs, like Confusion is Next, are actually worse than Yeast Infection's and that's saying something.
There is a lot of value here, though. Along with Laurie Anderson and Glenn Branca and others, this is what the post-New Wave art sound was sounding like in the early 80s. A great time for music, when you think about it."
I haven't changed that opinion.
2/28/1983
Sonic Youth
Confusion is Sex
3 Stars
Sonic Youth
Confusion is Sex
3 Stars
Best Tracks:
She's in a Bad Mood
Making the Nature Scene
The World Looks Red
She's in a Bad Mood
Making the Nature Scene
The World Looks Red
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