Tunic (Song for Karen) by Sonic Youth
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Back in 2000 I was at Butlins in Minehead for the first All Tomorrows Parties Festival. It had been a great weekend and I was really looking forward to seeing one of my favourite bands Sonic Youth for the first time as they were headlining the Sunday night. What a disappointment they were. Thankfully I saw them a couple more times when they were excellent.
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The supremely gifted Karen Carpenter would have been 65 today.
Not many bands could even consider attempting a track like this and it might so easily have been utterly tasteless/crass, but Kim Gordon & Co pull this off with huge sangfroid and IMHO highly respectful of anyone who has had to deal with eating disorders.
Six-and-a-half minutes very well spent.
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You will always be missed, Karen Carpenter. "Dreaming, dreaming of how it's supposed to be But now this tunic's spinning - around my arms and knees I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day But when I open my mouth to sing - I'm bigger in every way..."
.@de_cozar
1990, from Goo. I first heard this song on a sort of post-new wave French film (Irma Vep).
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