Lee Ranaldo Covers John Lennon
This one slipped by me back in 1998 despite being an obsessive Sonic Youth fan. As members of Sonic Youth are spending quarantine digging up rarities, Lee Ranaldo has unearthed his 1998 release AMARILLO RAMP (for Robert Smithson). This release ends with a cover of John Lennon's "Isolation." This song suddenly has new meaning in 2020, so Ranaldo decided to make a new video for the song. Lee Ranaldo has this to say about the song and video: "During this time of enforced global confinement – the ‘planetary pause’, as I’ve been calling it, I’ve been sorting thru some old releases, and came across my version of John Lennon’s ‘Isolation’, which was recorded back in 1991 and released on the 1998 album Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson). Our dear, departed friend Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps, These Immortal Souls, Crime and the City Solution) played drums on the track, and I’ve always loved both the original and the version of the song we made, almost 30 years ago no...