Video: Sonic Youth - 100%

Since seeing Christopher Walken dance his ass off in a Fatboy Slim Music Video it would seem celebrity cameos can be just what a band needs to take their music video to the next level, and while some celebrities and music videos go together like Simon & Garfunkel, others go together more like Chinese food and chocolate pudding, but here at Critical Wave UK we've decided to list our ten all time favourite music video cameos. Perhaps you've seen some of them before, or maybe you never realised that it was that person in the video, either way [...]

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Sonic Youth - 100%   20 yeas ago, the Sonic Youth album Dirty dropped. 100% was their first single and video. The video was mostly shot by Spike Jonze with footage of him and a then pro-skater named Jason Lee skateboarding around LA. This song is also semi-based on the murder of Joe Cole. Who was a photographer and roadie for Black Flag and the Rollins band, who was shot and killed in a hold-up when him and Henry Rollins we out one evening. I was in Jr High when this album dropped. I wore out two tapes [...]

My favorite moment from Sonic Youth's bazillion-year history comes just after the four-minute mark of "Sugar Kane," the third single from Dirty . The band has just launched into one of its trademark guitar-squall freakouts, one that starts off relatively linear and soon descends into near chaos before sputtering out entirely. We hear a few seconds of buzzing nothingness, punctuated by a few chords that sound just like church bells. And then a new guitar line comes in, this one heart-stoppingly beautiful, hovering like a butterfly, bringing the song immediately into focus. It always reminded me a bit of [...]

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