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Biography
Use mdy dates|date=October 2011Infobox Album | | Name = NYC Ghosts & Flowers| Type = Album| Artist = Sonic Youth | Cover = NYCGhosts.jpg| Released = May 16, 2000| Recorded = August 1999 – February 2000| Genre = Alternative rock , experimental rock , noise rock | Length = 42:18| Label = Geffen Records|DGC | Producer = Jim O'Rourke (musician)|Jim O'Rourke | Last album = SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (1999) | This album = NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) | Next album = SYR5 (2000) | Misc = Singles| Name = NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Type = studio | single 1 = Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) | single 1 date = Unreleased 2000 (Germany Only)
NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a 2000 album by Sonic Youth . The album was a slight departure, mainly as a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999. Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen. It is also the first Sonic Youth album to extensively use prepared guitar since 1985's Bad Moon Rising (album)|Bad Moon Rising , most notably on "Small Flowers Crack Concrete" (a file inserted over the neck pickup) and "Lightnin'" (a bike horn wedged under the strings).
On this album the influence of beat poetry on the band is strongly evident: The lyrics to most songs resemble the beat style, Lenny Bruce and D. A. Levy are name-checked and the cover art is based on a painting by William S. Burroughs .
Reception
Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = Rating|2.5|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r480361|label= NYC Ghosts & Flowers - Sonic Youth|first=Heather|last=Phares|accessdate=10 May 2012 | rev2 = Blender (magazine)|Blender | rev2score = Rating|3|5citeweb|url= http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/54202/nyc-ghosts-amp-flowers.html|title=Blender review|publisher= Blender (magazine)|Blender deadlink|date=May 2012 | rev3 = Pitchfork Media | rev3score = (0.0/10) cite web|last=DiCrescenzo|first=Brent|title=Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers |url= http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7342-nyc-ghosts-flowers/|publisher= Pitchfork Media |accessdate=10 May 2012|date=30 April 2000 | rev4 = Robert Christgau | rev4score = Rating-Christgau|Aciteweb |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php? name=Sonic+Youth|title = Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers |first = Robert|last=Christgau|accessdate=10 May 2012 | rev5 = Rolling Stone | rev5score = Rating|3.5|5cite web|last=Kot|first=Greg|title=Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers|url= http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sonicyouth/albums/album/160795/review/5940561/nyc_ghosts__flowers|publisher= Rolling Stone |accessdate=10 May 2012|archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20070930232048/ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sonicyouth/albums/album/160795/review/5940561/nyc_ghosts flowers|archivedate=30 September 2007
The album received mixed reviews. Brent DiCrescenzo, formerly of Pitchfork Media , gave it the rarely used lowest rating of 0.0, while Inkblot Magazine praised its avant-garde direction http://www.inkblotmagazine.com/rev-archive/Sonic_Youth_NYC.htm and Robert Christgau said that at times the album is more beautiful than the more widely acclaimed Washing Machine (album)|Washing Machine or A Thousand Leaves .
Track listing
tracklist| collapsed = no | lyrics_credits = yes | extra_column = Vocals | all_writing = Sonic Youth | total_length = 42:18 | title1 = Free City Rhymes | lyrics1 = Moore | extra1 = Moore | length1 = 7:32 | title2 = Renegade Princess | lyrics2 = Moore | extra2 = Moore, Gordon, and Ranaldo | length2 = 5:49 | title3 = Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) | lyrics3 = Gordon | extra3 = Gordon | length3 = 5:37 | title4 = Small Flowers Crack Concrete | lyrics4 = Moore | extra4 = Moore, Gordon, and Ranaldo | length4 = 5:12 | title5 = Side2Side | lyrics5 = Gordon | extra5 = Gordon | length5 = 3:34 | title6 = StreamXSonik Subway | lyrics6 = Moore | extra6 = Moore | length6 = 2:51 | title7 = NYC Ghosts & Flowers | lyrics7 = Ranaldo | extra7 = Ranaldo | length7 = 7:52 | title8 = Lightnin' | lyrics8 = Gordon | extra8 = Gordon | length8 = 3:51
Album charts
Year
Album
Chart
Position
2000
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Official French Albums Chart
No. 37
2000
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Official Norwegian Albums Chart
No. 37
2000
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Official UK Albums Chart
No. 113
2000
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Billboard Top 200
No. 172
References
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