"Superstar" on SY's myspace from Hits Are For Squares.
 

I know that this is not big news, but "Superstar" is on there saying it's from Hits Are For Squares and there is cover art.

pretty cool. i dont know. it'll be so weird to see a sonic youth album in starbucks. most people dont like them anyway.

well at least superstar will have a SY album that it belongs to.
will this album be available in starbucks in the UK? I didn't realise starbucks sold music.

ugly cover :(

perhaps it was allreday dicussed before in another thread, but what's the meaning of this CD ??

promoting SY to a larger audience ? or promoting Starbucks amongst fans ?!

There are no Starbucks here ! I didn't know it before Hits for Squares was announced !
(sorry, I traveled a lot but never in the US and never stayed long in big cities...)
but it just looks like horrible coffee in poluting disposable cups :(
:) just found a petition for opening a Starbuck here !! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/starbucksbrussels/

...Back to the CD : It's a best of, but not a single collection, rather a track selection made by musicians, isn't it ?
That's at least a little bit more interesting...And will there be an unreleased bonus, at least ?

that cover is awful.
whats the tracklist?

Parental Advisory? That means either Kill Yr Idols or My Arena is on there :D

or flower

or I Dreamed I Dream ("Fucking youth" ooooooooh my ears are red now)

...include choice Sonic Youth cuts selected by the likes of Eddie Vedder, Dave Eggers, David Cross, and Chloe Sevigny...
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/n...h-starbucks-cd

Thurston : "I never thought of it as being more radical than recording for Universal Music"..."But I kind of like the absurdity of it. Sonic Youth has always, in a way, made itself available to the super mainstream"......yeah, why not !
...Sonic Youth has yet to record its own contribution to the compilation, but was recently in the studio recording an unidentified Bob Dylan cover that may be used in Todd Haynes' upcoming film "I'm Not There."....
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003605708

but the article is frome june 2007...will there be a real new song ??? anyone has more info ? I guess there must have been a thread about it here in the time, would a search engine in the gossip not be usefull ?

there is a search engine here, and it works wonders when used properly.

cool, didn't see it !

or Ineffable Me.. or No Queen Blues.. or Eric's Trip.. or the Sprawl.... or....

I suggest you use the "advanced" feature and fiddle a bit with the options if you can't immediately find what you search for.

This is the end. That cover is truly appaling even if you look at it in the middle of a desert while you're hallucinating.

myspace is running slow oday. shit.
I want to check this thing

remember that sonic youth do not have arecord contract with anyone, and to keep putting out their own albums they have to have some sort of influx of capital to maintain production. I think this is good idea, but I wish they were selling it in Houston.

I hope they won't sign too soon any long term contract with a major...

I love the Geffen albums & the SYR albums but I would like them to mix again their "mainstream" side with their "experimental" side on the same songs and/or records as they did more in the past...

Are Starbucks-like options the only way to find money ?
It's funny as a "one shot" but their must be other ways to gather the needed money !
Show tickets may surely be more expensive and all records released on SYR

Just an idea: who would be ready to pay more for concert tickets if the ticket would include a key to download a soundboard quality recording from the show from sy.store the day after ?

Other ideas ?

yes, new song! but will they ever play it live, is the question...

(and it will it appear, ala plastic sun/mariah on the next record?)

what do you mean ?

plastic sun was on the jane magazine compilation in umm september 2001, and later appeared (same recording, different mix, one vocal change) on murray street in june 2002.

mariah carey appeared on the split 7" in april 2003, and later appeared (same recording, different mix) on sonic nurse in june 2004.

will the "exclusive" starbucks tune appear on the next full-length album and thus cease to be exclusive? or will it remain a legitimately unique track on this starbucks compilation?

thanks again....!
each time I read you I think I still don't know anything about SY :( ...
thanks for our continuous teaching !

did you see that the myspace mentions it will be out by Universal???
did Starbucks backed off?

I saw that. Wonder what it means. I couldn't find anything about the cd on the Starbucks site.

Dude - that link at the foot of your posts is AWESOME. I just got Kali Yug!!!!!!!!! :) sweet as a nut x

Starbucks Sells Out

Why Sonic Youth and Frappuccinos don't mix

August 10, 2007—When I walk into Starbucks, there are a couple things I've come to expect: One, I'll screw up the verbiage of my Mega-Grande-Retardo- Frappalicious Mochamajig™, and two, I'll be offered the chance to purchase the latest CD from Norah Jones or Sting or some other Adult Contemporary mainstay. And I like it that way—the second part, at least. Knowing that my taste in music is still hipper than Starbucks' legion of Alanis Morissette fans has always been comforting to me.

Which is why I'm saddened—no, outraged—by the recent news that the chain has enlisted art-rock demigods Sonic Youth to do a compilation. Predictably, indie ideologues are screaming "sellout!" over the band's "betrayal" of their former anticorporate code, but they're missing the point. Sonic Youth is just trying to make a buck. It's Starbucks who's betraying us.

How am I supposed to react if the next time I order a coffee they're blasting the latest Pitchfork-approved noise rock through their formerly safe and soothing speakers? Howard Schultz, you're shaking my sense of cultural superiority to the core. What's next? Will Staples begin publishing McSweeney's? Will Red Lobster produce the next Wes Anderson film, giving away free DVDs with every popcorn shrimp basket? To paraphrase Judd Nelson, If Starbucks gets hip... they'll all get hip... it'll be anarchy.

Adding insult to injury, the compilation has a nifty ironic title, Hits Are for Squares. And alterna icons like Dave Eggers and Chloë Sevigny are apparently involved in the conspiracy: They'll be selecting the tracks to be included on the disc. Et tu, Sevigny?

I'll tolerate having 35 Starbucks on my block. I'll put up with the ludicrous drink prices. I'll even suffer the angst of the blue-haired barista. But I can't go to Starbucks and hear Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Starbucks are for squares, Mr. Schultz, and for the love of God let's keep it that way.


— Robert Lanham
http://men.style.com/news/the_rant/081007

Yeah, I noticed that too. Perhaps it won't be a Starbucks exclusive. In line with the review you posted above, it seems like if Starbucks put it out by their lonesome, they'd have to be inclined to promote it, i.e. play it in their stores. What do you bet, they didn't really want to do that, so opted for a non-exclusive product tie-in instead?

I must be as old as I feel too, because I kind of like that cover. It is god awful, but that kind of works for this. The title and the photo are just so Huey Lewis referential I end up smiling at the horrific irony of it all. I want to be more cynical than them, but I just can't.

I came to the conclusion that the cover might appeal to all the "Lost in Translation" lovers.

You couldn't have put it better my friend. That being said, I don't think the cover is too horrible, though it could have been better.

The cover is so horrible I'm liking it in a sort of exotic way. In any case, hopefully this album will earn them enough dough to help them concentrate on making a good album, after this way too long mediocre phase.

It has been described in that Pitchfork article etc as a "joint effort between Starbucks Entertainment and Universal Special Markets".

im pretty sure that universal is Hearmusic's distributer, as it is for ecstatic peace

Slow Revolution!

Can't fucking wait for this.

me too.

I think it means that their next album is going to be the Doom metal one.