I think it's their best album, by far. Everything about it is perfect. It's genuinely SCARY at times. I think they took the sound of Theoretical Girls, Red Transistors, Mars, Teenage Jesus, etc. and kinda made it their own, twisting it around and infusing some genuinely appealing melodies/riffs.
I've always been enamoured by this album -- it was the first one I ever heard, at 14 years old in an attic. It was over 100 degrees. You couldn't even move because it was so hot. Me and a friend and his girlfriend layed on the dusty wooden attic floor playing the album from beginning to end on a beat-up stereo. I was hooked right away. The music seemed to match the heat perfectly... the music seemed to exist in sort of a weird mirage of sound.
I replaced my copy of Confusion yesterday, getting a REAL copy after playing the burnt copy for 10 years. Man, I bet I listened to that copy he burned me that day a thousand times.
I just read an interview with Jim Sclavunos (of Grinderman), who played drums on this album. This is interesting..
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...50263209715434
Roch Parisien's Rocon Communications
You're on! We'll be on the undercard at the Grinderman show in Montreal...
Meanwhile, describe your association with influential NYC post-punk band Sonic Youth.
Jim Sclavunos
Lydia Lunch introduced me to Sonic Youth. She was pimping me out in those days for which I am quite grateful. She tried to get me into The Birthday Party after Phill Calvert quit, but Mick Harvey ended up assuming the position. Anyway, I digress. I recorded the first album "Confusion is Sex" with Sonic Youth, It was not smooth sailing by any means but I think the end result was really good. I had to leave the band due to friction between a certain member of the band and my first wife. I hope that is a tantalizing tidbit…