#SONIC YOUTH SUPERSTAR FULL#
Talk about strange coincidences.Sonic Youth’s first full album, Confusion Is Sex, was an abrasive leap forward from their awkward, half-formed debut EP. Once we realized it wasn’t an drug-fueled vision, Gillis said he and his friend were simply walking nearby and heard his music being played, so he thought he’d investigate. Around 3 a.m., suddenly Greg Gillis himself appears at the door, to the astonishment of everyone. I’ve seen him perform four times, and after one of his shows in Manhattan, my friends and I were having a going-away dance party for a friend later that night in Brooklyn. Girl Talk truly is best experienced live, since he’s known for playing in the middle of crowds, rather than on a stage, and flailing around like everyone else. “You can’t watch him perform and deny the fact that he’s creating something new and different out of the samples stored on his computer.” “What Gregg did on stage was nothing short of amazing,” recalled the silver-haired statesman, who came dressed in business casual and wielding a camera phone. The latter dubbed the congressman “Girl Talk’s biggest fan,” a title given more weight in September when Doyle attended his first Girl Talk show at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. Since then, the unlikely duo has garnered a great deal of media attention, including profiles in Newsweek and Rolling Stone online. “ash-ups are transformative new art that expands the listener’s experience,” Doyle told his befuddled colleagues-few of whom had heard of mash-ups, let alone Girl Talk. ĭuring a memorable hearing, Doyle stumped on the floor of Congress for both his young constituent- “a local guy done good”-and the mash-up genre in general. Kenneth DeGraff, one of Doyle’s young staffers and a huge fan of Girl Talk, introduced his boss to the mash-up star. Luckily for Gillis, Doyle is the vice chairman of the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee and a progressive on copyright issues. In early 2007, the Pittsburgh native met a powerful ally: his congressman, Rep.
#SONIC YOUTH SUPERSTAR UPDATE#
So what’s your favorite, most inspired cover story that veers significantly from the original? Let me know at Update from our reader above: My favorite mini-cover of “Superstar” is from Girl Talk, a mashup DJ and one of my all-time favorite artists, who sampled the song on “Like This,” the seventh track off Feed the Animals ( starting at the 2:07 mark). But my favorite cover is by Sonic Youth, who turn the song into the creepy tale of a stalker.Įmbedded above. It’s been covered many times since then (I personally own five versions), most famously by The Carpenters. It’s an emotional telling of a women in love with a man who’s seemingly forgotten her on his climb to rock stardom. Probably the most famous example is Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower,” which so improved on Bob Dylan’s original that even he does it “Jimi’s way” now.īut my favorite example of a song being reinterpreted is “Superstar.” The song was written by Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney & Bonnie fame) and Leon Russel and was initially done by Rita Coolidge way back in 1970. But my favorite type of cover is when something completely new is done with the song. There’s the “what the heck?” cover-e.g., who would have guessed that U2 are huge ABBA fans? There are all those millions of tribute albums (a particularly good one is “ I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen”). I love all kinds of music, but I particularly love covers.
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