Sonic Youth: Hits Aren’t for Sellouts

Sonic Youth has recently compiled, with the help of their celebrity friends, a list of their music to be released in Starbucks stores.  The album: Hits are For Squares. The celebs/artists: Eddie Vedder, Dave Eggers, David Cross, and Chloë Sevigny, Radiohead, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Mike Watt, Flea, Mike D, Gus Van Sant, and Diablo Cody. The album’s message: idiotic.

So SY, bless their collective youthful heart, decide to release an album of music that they don’t want to become hits? As far as I know, hits mean that you are popular and selling well and are able to make more music with more flexibility. And as far as I know, if you wouldn’t want music to be a hit, you wouldn’t sell it in the largest coffeehouse in the world (over 15,00 stores in more than 40 countries). I know it’s an image thing, and I’m sure SY is making a bunch of money, which I am more than fine with, but GET A DIFFERENT NAME FOR THE ALBUM. It smacks of arrogant insincerity.

Please enjoy this song.  In fact, make it a hit, if you will:

MP3: Kissability

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