You so 'Dirty'

Another crazy week is done, with a semi-relaxing weekend behind me. Saturday saw the day I dread most - the day Purdue gets beat by Notre Dame. I despise of all things Notre Dame. I'm even Catholic and I wish this festering wound that resides in South Bend would just go away. It seems that anyone who doesn't have ties to a school of their own, leeches on to this cesspool because they want a winning team to follow. Well, punk, it's easy to be a winning team when you only play one ranked school all year long with a schedule full of patsies such as Army, Air Force, Temple and Navy.
One year, for Christmas, I received a Notre Dame sweatshirt as a gift. If I remember I may have even asked for it .. but that was when I was a stupid kid with blinders on. I saw other kids in my school with Notre Dame stuff on and thought they were cool. I wanted to be cool, but at what cost? The cost of wearing a Notre Dame shirt? Good lord, if there was one time period in my life I could erase, I'd consider that one of my top five options. Thank God I don't care if I'm cool anymore, I'd be wearing Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie and other worthless, overpriced garb that falls apart as quickly as the cheap crap I buy at Target and Costco.

Anyway ... today's tunes:
Granddaddy "Sumday"
The Cure "Wish"
Neil Young "Tonight's the Night"
Sonic Youth "Dirty"

I rediscovered one of my favorite albums today - Sonic Youth's "Dirty."
Why does a fuzz-ridden album that was released 14 years ago still hold up? There's nothing terribly ground breaking on it. It's not a rookie release, or a major label debut. I think it's because it stood out among a lot of bad 'angry rock' attempts of the early 90s. It's not friendly as an initiative to the band, but I think only their latest disc, "Rather Ripped" is a good intro.
It's not so much angry as it is making a statement. "Swimsuit Issue" break with the moaning of 'Naomi,' 'Judy,' 'Paulina,' 'Cathy,' 'Vendella' and other so-called super models are called out to their meaning. "Drunken Butterfly" opens with an assault on the six strings and the feedback pouring back to the listener. The pop moment of the album hits at "Sugar Kane" and I wonder why in this time period that this tune didn't make it on the air? No MTV? No nothing? This would have been a perfect grunge friendly radio hit for Geffen Records. Whatever. Maybe they were reluctant to initiate others into their ciricle of fans. No problem here, I'll introduce this band to anyone that cares to listen.