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成立于80年代的独立摇滚乐队“音速青年”有可能是那个时代出现的最具影响力的乐队。与他们同时代的乐队如：R.E.M.和Huker Du都保持着对传统歌曲结构和旋律的尊重，而“音速青年”则将一切摇滚乐的规则抛到一边，用即兴和自由的噪音实验来架构自己的音乐体系。他们受到了“The Velvet Undreground”和“the Stooges”这些乐队的重大影响，但多半是精神上而非形式上。其更直接的影响则来自“Post Punk”，“Hardcore Punk”和“No Wave”。他们不谐和的吉他回授和反复重新定义了摇滚乐中的吉他功能。在80年代中后期的EVOL，Sister和Daydream Nation三张经典传记已经成为独立摇滚界的行业标准。乐队在成长过程中愈发成熟老道，音乐更加动听而独立精神和创意却未见减少。90年代无论是英国还是美国的独立摇滚团体无不受到Sonic Youth的巨大影响。而“音速青年”也逐渐成为一支偶像级的明星乐队，他们在90年代的每张专辑都打入了排行榜的前一百名。
by Mark DemingMore of a good-natured prank than an actual band, Ciccone Youth was a short-lived vehicle in which indie underground noisemakers Sonic Youth further explored their obsession with popular culture. In the mid-80s, the members of Sonic Youth (especially Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon) made no secret of their fascination with Madonna; they were known to discuss her life and career in interviews, and the album EVOL listed Madonna, Sean, and Me as an alternate title for the closing tune Expressway to Yr. Skull. At the peak of their Madonna frenzy, the band decided to record a tribute single to the Material Girl; on the A-side, Sonic Youth performed a dark, ominous version of Into the Groove (dubbed Into the Groovey) that sounds slow, until samples from Madonnas original recording confirm its being played at the same tempo as the upbeat original. The flip side featured former Minutemen bassist and fellow Madonna enthusiast Mike Watt on a jacked-up rock version of Burnin Up, with former Black Flag leader Greg Ginn contributing a bracingly discordant guitar solo; it was one of Watts first musical projects following the Minutemens collapse after the death of D. Boon. Released by Watts New Alliance label under the name Ciccone Youth (in honor of Madonnas surname), the single became an underground success, and a widespread (but unconfirmed) rumor had it that Madonna herself persuaded Warner Bros. not to take legal action against the record for unauthorized use of her sampled voice. The singles success led to a Ciccone Youth album, The Whitey Album (referring to Sonic Youths often-threatened intention to record an album in which they covered The Beatles in its entirety), but Watts participation was limited to his original four-track demo for Burnin Up and the disc featured no new Madonna interpretations from Sonic Youth, though Kim Gordon did offer up an intriguingly strange karaoke version of Robert Palmers Addicted to Love. The rest of the album was for the most part devoted to playful noise experiments, and by the end of 1986, Watt and Sonic Youth had seemingly retired the Ciccone Youth banner; there were no further recordings, and they never performed live using the name.
