JUNE 1990: Sonic Youth, Uncle Tupelo, Danzig, Teenage Fanclub

We are officially 6 months into our quest to catalog our opinions on every major album release from the 1990s, one month at a time. This week we’re listening to some killer stuff from June 1990. Sonic Youth’s now-classic album Goo sees Kim Gordon take the reins as the band’s lead vocalist, with Thurston Moore refining his ecstatic electric guitar chaos; Uncle Tupelo’s first studio album No Depression has Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy developing their singular “hillbilly thrash” sound while delivering some of the era’s most compelling songwriting; former Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig channels Jim Morrison on the vampire blues rock album Danzig II: The Lucifuge; and the debut album from the Scottish band Teenage Fanclub, A Catholic Education, lays down some of the main ideas and sounds that would dominate alternative rock in the decade ahead. Check out this episode’s playlist: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 120months.substack.com/subscribe