CICCONE YOUTH “Into the groovey/Burning Up” UK 7” Single *Sonic Youth* 1986
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CICCONE YOUTH “Into the groovey/Burning Up” UK 7” Single *Sonic Youth* 1986.
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When Ciccone Youth’s genius cover versions of Madonna’s ‘Into The Groove’ and ‘Burnin’ Up’ arrived in 1986, how long did it take to work out Sonic Youth were involved? Word soon got around…
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An ominous bassline, a wiry guitar and a hissing machine-made percussion track that quickly gives way to a familiar vocal sung by an unfamiliar distorted voice just as echoing, self-conscious handclaps join the mix. “Music can be such a revelation” runs the vocal, poignant as opening lines go, but strangely out of place here.
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The track was a cover of Madonna’s ‘Into The Groove’ by a group calling themselves Ciccone Youth. It appeared as the B-side of a 7-inch in the US on the New Alliance label, with another Madonna cover, ‘Burnin’ Up’, taking the A-side. Coming resplendent in a silkscreened sleeve deploying a sensationalist tabloid newspaper story about Madge – created by Andy Warhol as a wedding present to the singer and Sean Penn – it had a DIY, prankster feel suggesting it was a send-up of pop culture in general and Madonna Louise Ciccone in particular.
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It was anything but. Ciccone Youth was a pseudonym of Sonic Youth, then a four-piece consisting of Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley. For the project they enlisted fellow Madonna fan, Mike Watt, bassist from Minutemen.
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