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Sonic Youth Reveal Starbucks Hits Comp Details
Radiohead, Beck, Flaming Lips, Mike Watt, Mike D, Flea join list of curators
Hey, remember the celebrity-curated Sonic Youth compilation put together by Starbucks? Well, it's finally coming out. Hits Are for Squares goes up for sale June 10 at select Starbucks stores and online via Starbucks Entertainment's Hear Music/Universal Special Markets.

The disc collects 14 Sonic Youth famous-people-favorites, plus one brand new and exclusive SY jam called "Slow Revolution". Among the celebrity curators: previously mentioned cats like Eddie Vedder, Dave Eggers, David Cross, and Chloe Sevigny, plus newly-announced SY-philes such as Radiohead, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Mike Watt, Flea, Mike D, Gus Van Sant, and, sigh, Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody. Jeff Tweedy and Marc Jacobs apparently didn't make the cut. Peruse everyone's selections in the tracklist printed below.

Thurston Moore initially dropped the Starbucks bomb on Pitchfork back in June 2007, joking, "Starbucks is the new record store, right?" Kim Gordon later remarked that Starbucks is "less evil than" Universal, parent to Sonic Youth's label, Geffen.


Hits Are for Squares:

01 Bull in the Heather [selected by Catherine Keener]
02 Sugar Kane [selected by Beck]
03 100% [selected by Mike D]
04 Kool Thing [selected by Radiohead]
05 Disappearer [selected by Portia de Rossi]
06 Stones [selected by Allison Anders]
07 Tuff Gnarl [selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt]
08 Teenage Riot [selected Eddie Vedder]
09 Shadow of a Doubt [selected by Michelle Williams]
10 Rain on Tin [selected by Flea]
11 Tom Violence [selected by Gus Van Sant]
12 Mary-Christ [selected by David Cross]
13 World Looks Red [selected by Chloe Sevigny]
14 Expressway to Yr Skull [selected by the Flaming Lips]
15 Slow Revolution [exclusive]

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Not so sure about this whole Starbucks thing but I might pick this up just for the new track.

cdollaz

Decent comp for the uninitiated. I'll get the new track one way or another.

cdollaz

I"ve seen another tracklist that has "Superstar" included. Is this one complete?

atlantamoi

Not bothered by the Starbucks release or a hits comp. from Sonic Youth. There are some killer songs listed.

cdollaz

Shitty cover, though.

Josh-da-man

I think I already have most of those albums.

Hiro11

Not a big fan of the mid-ninties era stuff, but the rest of those tracks are straight up killer, no filler. Shadow of a Doubt, Tom Violence and Expressway are three of my favorite songs of all time.

brokenhanger

Considering Starbucks pays my bills, I can't say much about that. I can say I'm annoyed that not all stores are getting this and I have to have a friend and fellow manager in NYC pick it up for me because my store won't be carrying it. Oh well. It was nice to hear 'Stones' tonight on the in store play, however.

Kind of an obvious tracklisting - though very happy to see so much "Goo" as it is my favorite album of all time - but it is a nice collection. Wouldn't mind seeing a few more older songs on there, but I suppose we've already got "Screaming Fields of Sonic Love" for that.

Damfino

well, it's hard to argue with that!

and yes, I do go to Starbucks, so I am a sell-out too.

Triple S

See, now if Sonic Youth was a great as everyone SAYS they were, they would've titled it Starbucks presents Sonic Youth: 15 Tracks of Noise featuring Starbucks.

Damfino

fixed.

GoVegan

Well, the article mentions Diablo Cody as one of the people who selected a track, but then I don't see her name on the list. That leads me to mistrust the tracklist a bit.