CICCONE YOUTH - WHITEY ALBUM (LP)

Ciccone Youth The Whitey Album On Vinyl LP! 

Sonic Youth's seventh album sort of originated with a long-running band joke involving SY's claim to one day cover the Beatles' White Album in its entirety. Somehow this project morphed into a twisted beatbox/sampler experiment masquerading as a tribute to Madonna. The band even took Madonna's surname for their own, calling themselves Ciccone Youth. The first Ciccone Youth single, featuring SY's version of "Into The Groovey" and Mike Watt's cover of "Burnin' Up" was initially released in 1986. Ciccone Youth unveiled themselves again on the "Master-Dik" EP, and decided to round out an entire album in late '87/early '88. Supposedly the finished project was put on hold until after the release of Daydream Nation, to ensure that attention wouldn't be diverted from the more "serious" album effort. In any case, The Whitey Album is a weird, wild, hit-or-miss collection of sampled beats, fresh rhymes, 80s pop covers, and a few really good tunes.

Ciccone Youth The Whitey Album Track Listing

1. Needle-Gun    
2. (silence)    
3. G-Force    
4. Platoon II    
5. MacBeth    
6. Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby    
7. Burnin' Up    
8. Hi! Everybody    
9. Children Of Satan/Third Fig    
10. Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu    
11. Addicted To Love    
12. Moby-Dik    
13. March Of The Ciccone Robots    
14. Making The Nature Scene    
15. Tuff Titty Rap    
16. Into The Groovey