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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
By "ambition" you seem to mean experimentation? I know you hate that way of putting it, but "ambition" to implies trying to be bigger rather than trying to push the envelope, and I'm pretty sure you didn't mean that.
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But I think success--not so much trying to become bigger, but persisting at something that ended up becoming bigger--really was a huge part of Sonic Youth's ambition. It's not quite the same to be a highly innovative nobody (like Branca) as it is to be a middleman for popular culture (like SY). Branca is practically unknown outside of his own influences, but Sonic Youth--whom he directly influenced--brought a different kind of ambition, one that just happened to click with the mainstream. Sonic Youth did aim for success, though not necessarily on purpose, and that's what sets them apart. In my mind, at least.