Goo  by Sonic Youth

In 1990, Sonic Youth inaugurated the 1990s with one of the most dynamic and complete albums of their career, a career that had begun in the early years of the previous decade. Goo is an unstoppable and relentless assault on the ears of the album's listeners. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon give their best, while the other two members of the band follow without hesitation in this musical frenzy that moves between noise rock, punk - and grunge, which does not yet exist (!)

The title of the album, during the time Sonic Youth were preparing it, was Blowjob?. The main reason they named their album this way was to test the humor and limits of the people at their new record label, DGC Records. The first single from the album was Kool Thing, a composition by Kim Gordon and Chuck D of Public Enemy. For the record, the song Tunic (Song For Karen) is written and dedicated to Karen Anne Carpenter, a member of the Carpenters, who died in 1983 from anorexia.

Goo is the first Sonic Youth album to enter the Top-200 of the Billboard, reaching No. 96 and selling nearly 170,000 copies in the U.S. The album also became a success in the United Kingdom, as it reached No. 32.