Ciccone Youth (Photo: Naomi Petersen)

The Whitey Album surprises only
those who have never understood a
thing about Sonic Youth. Its strange
mix of studio experiments, covers
from commercial songs, white hip
hop disguised as industrial noise
making, make it a very rich happily
original work. Although it lacks the
unity and the imperfect perfection that make Daydream Nation a masterpiece,
Ciccone Youth's debut is the triumph of intelligence over categories, of creative
freedom over the dictates of the market, of the unforeseen over careerist calculations.
Sonic Life, Guido Chiesa, 1995

Ciccone Youth is a collaboration between Sonic Youth and Mike Watt.
The only album produced by this formation was released in 1988. The
name of the band refers to none other than pop queen Madonna. Sonic
Youth showed much appreciation for this singer when she was starting
out in New York.