TV Shit explained

TV Shit
Type:	ep
Artist:	Sonic Youth & Yamatsuka Eye
Cover:	TVShit.jpg
Released:	February 1994
Recorded:	1993
Length:	9:19
Label:	Ecstatic Peace!
Producer:	Sonic Youth
Chronology:	Sonic Youth
Prev Title:	Dirty
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Next Year:	1994

TV Shit is an EP by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth and Japanese vocalist Yamatsuka Eye. It was released in 1994 by Thurston Moore's record label Ecstatic Peace.

Content

TV Shit is a series of covers, all of the same track: Washington, D.C. hardcore punk band Youth Brigade's song "No Song II". The original version was a one-second song consisting of the spoken word "no".

The album cover's spine and back cover (with the exception of the photo) were from the Karlheinz Stockhausen album Gesang der Jünglinge, which is often credited as being the first electronic album.

Critical reception

Brian Flota of AllMusic called the EP "a fun, throwaway exercise" and "a must for all Sonic Youth fans, and it will alienate just about everyone else".^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: TV Shit – Sonic Youth | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic |last=Flota |first=Brian |website=AllMusic] |accessdate=April 14, 2013}}

   Personnel

   • Sonic Youth

   Additional personnel

   • J. Mascis ("No II (Part 1)")
   • Mark Arm ("No II (Part 1)")

   External links

   • • Trouser Press article on Sonic Youth which mentions the EP

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