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Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to get to see Sonic Youth play Daydream Nation in Brooklyn. They sounded great, and every one of the songs highlighted something interesting I hadn’t noticed before. I just read a fitting quote from Thurston (of Sonic Youth):

When people come up to you and say, “Hey, I don’t understand noise rock,” what is your response?
That’s not the way to approach any kind of music, to say you don’t understand it. There’s nothing to understand. Any kind of music, it already kind of transcends understanding. It’s a sensual art form. You obviously don’t understand life because noise music, for me, is the noise of life, in a way. It’s so much more akin to the human condition. The human condition is not a song, it’s not an organized composition. This is more the natural music of our lives.

(From Rolling Stone)