Sonic Youth Reveal Starbucks Hits Comp Details
Radiohead, Beck, Flaming Lips, Mike Watt, Mike D, Flea join list of curators
Hey, remember the
celebrity-curated Sonic Youth compilation
put together by Starbucks? Well, it's finally coming out.
Hits Are for Squares goes up for sale June 10 at select Starbucks stores and online via Starbucks Entertainment's
Hear Music/
Universal Special Markets.
The disc collects 14 Sonic Youth famous-people-favorites, plus one brand new and exclusive SY jam called "Slow Revolution". Among the celebrity curators:
previously mentioned cats like Eddie Vedder, Dave Eggers, David Cross, and
Chloë Sevigny, plus newly-announced SY-philes such as Radiohead, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Mike Watt, Flea, Mike D, Gus Van Sant, and, sigh,
Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Jeff Tweedy and Marc Jacobs apparently didn't make the cut. Peruse everyone's selections in the tracklist printed below.
Thurston Moore initially
dropped the Starbucks bomb on Pitchfork back in June 2007, joking, "Starbucks is the new record store, right?" Kim Gordon
later remarked that Starbucks is "less evil than" Universal, parent to Sonic Youth's label, Geffen.
Hits Are for Squares:
01 Bull in the Heather [selected by Catherine Keener]
02 Sugar Kane [selected by Beck]
03 100% [selected by Mike D]
04 Kool Thing [selected by Radiohead]
05 Disappearer [selected by Portia de Rossi]
06 Stones [selected by Allison Anders]
07 Tuff Gnarl [selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt]
08 Teenage Riot [selected Eddie Vedder]
09 Shadow of a Doubt [selected by Michelle Williams]
10 Rain on Tin [selected by Flea]
11 Tom Violence [selected by Gus Van Sant]
12 Mary-Christ [selected by David Cross]
13 World Looks Red [selected by Chloë Sevigny]
14 Expressway to Yr Skull [selected by the Flaming Lips]
15 Slow Revolution [exclusive]
here's the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTm0aY1N5-A
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