Ciccone Youth
Ciccone Youth
Ciccone Youth is basically an ironic, deranged experimental/noise/pop/new-wave project from members of Sonic Youth, featuring Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis and Minutemen’s Mike Watt on one track each. They merge typical 80s mainstream instrumentation such as beatboxes and samplers with experimental tuning, tape loops and noise sections more common in SY’s albums. Whether it is a joke, or a homage for their pop contemporaries (or something in-between) is up for debate.
They released one LP and a single between 1986 and 1989, including a couple of Madonna covers and a Robert Palmer cover. The project’s name is a reference to Madonna’s last name.
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