Where’s The Damn Elephants?

Sonic Youth “Goo Interview” – In this bizarro promotional recording, a thoroughly baked Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon explain their songs on the Goo album while clips from the record play behind them. The word “interview” is a total misnomer, since it’s just them and they don’t seem to be answering any kind of questions, just providing liner note details in a quasi-poetic sort of way. It’s kind of like what you might get if you dialed up a Sonic Youth phone sex hotline. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Gwen Stefani “Cool (RICHARD X Remix)” – This remix is nothing too radical, it’s just like the song with a new haircut. Richard X plays up the romance and the mid-period Madonna-ness of the original version, but adds an extra layer of coolness, so to speak. The character is cool (okay) with her situation with her ex-boyfriend, but there’s an icy remove, a distance that they’ve both imposed to keep themselves feeling that way. This is much better than the massively disappointing Richard X Photek remix of the same song, by the way. I was so excited for that, but it just seems like he slapped the vocal on top of a weak sub-Bravery punk-funk track without any regard for the dynamics and structure of the a cappella track. (The iTunes music store screwed up the credits, leading to this mix-up. Please fix your mp3 file info accordingly.) (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)