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It was just another day in the long history of Manchester United"
- Sir Alex Ferguson, after a particularly bad Manchester United defeat (5-0) to Chelsea.
When you are a soccer fan you treat you team as family. You want to take part in their victories as well as in their defeats. You just want to take part in the history of something that is bigger than you.
I think the same about admiring a band. A true fan should follow the band when it reaches artistic highs and when it reaches artistic lows. They are all part of the band's history and a fan should look at those part as a long story.
Why an I'm saying all that? I just heard the new single "No Garage" and I was blown away! This is an amazing raw Stooges style instrumental recorded in December 2008 in Northampton. Later it evolved to a song on The Eternal (not sure about the title). Sonic Youth at their best!!!
Anyway, when you hear it you will realize that all the RR bashing and the worries that it was the end of SY as we know it, were unnecessary. No matter what you think about it, RR was just another day in the long history of Sonic Youth and this history goes on now to it's next glorious chapter.
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