![]() Perhaps this album is more of an exploration or unique translations than a tribute to what The Carpenters had done. ![]() Other guest programmers include Flea ("Rain on Tin”), Radiohead ("Kool Thing”) and Gus Van Sant ("Tom Violence”) and the disc can only be found at Starbucks shops, which may make it a rarity very soon. Redd Kross kill on ‘Yesterday Once More’, Sonic Youth get twisty and dive darker deeper on ‘Superstar’ and Cracker re-perfects ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’. The Flaming Lips just naturally chose the demented guitar dynamics of "Expressway to Yr Skull” from 1986's "EVOL,” and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Juno”) favored the Youth's unusually gentle cover of Leon Russell's "Superstar” from the 1994 Carpenters tribute album, "If I Were a Carpenter.” When Richard Carpenter heard the song for the first time. Eddie Vedder voted for the upbeat "Teenage Riot” stirred up by the double-time twang of Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's noisy guitars on 1988's "Daydream Nation” LP. Delaney & Bonnie were the first to record Superstar written by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett. Oscar-nominated actress Catherine Keener picked "Bull in the Heather” from "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” a minimalist-rock reaction to the glut of grunge that was ruling the alternative scene in 1994. Thrillingly, you can almost hear the band finding themselves as Shaking. What Sonic Youth did was invite a group of devotees as creatively radical as themselves to choose the 16 tracks that make up "Hits Are for Squares.” The result is a wild and wonderfully broad sampling from this New York band's long, strange journey through underground post-punk passageways of its own making. Sonic Youth’s first full album, Confusion Is Sex, was an abrasive leap forward from their awkward, half-formed debut EP. Leave it to the elder statespeople of subversive rock 'n' roll experimentation to come up with an anti-greatest hits album when compiling a collection of their fans' favorite songs. ![]()
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