The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
by Sonic Youth
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 12 December 2006
- Label: Geffen
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:16:44
- Community rating: 3.46/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: John Siket, Butch Vig
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Deliberately focusing on the band's extensive Geffen Records era, this collection eschews traditional, melodic B-sides in favor of lengthy, sprawling instrumental improvisations and avant-garde noise experiments. The sprawling, 25-minute track 'The Diamond Sea' serves as the centerpiece of the compilation, showcasing their mastery of sustained, hypnotic dissonance. The release highlights the uncompromisingly experimental undercurrent of their major-label tenure.
Genres
Descriptors: Avant Garde, noisy, avant-garde, atmospheric, dissonant
Tracklist
- Fire Engine Dream (10:22)
- Fauxhemians (4:03)
- Razor Blade (1:06)
- Blink (5:27)
- Campfire (2:18)
- Loop Cat (5:39)
- Kim's Chords (6:01)
- Beautiful Plateau (3:08)
- Three-Part Sectional Love Seat (8:15)
- Queen Anne Chair (4:36)
- The Diamond Sea (25:49)
Credits
- Jim O'Rourke - performer
- Kim Gordon - performer
- Lee Ranaldo - performer
- Steve Shelley - performer
- Thurston Moore - performer