4 Non Blondes - What-s Up -cdm- -flac- - Up By ... Jun 2026
Unlike streaming services that may compress audio, FLAC provides a "bit-perfect" copy of the studio master found on the CD. The Legacy of "What's Up?"
– 4:55 The version you know. Built around a three-chord progression (A-Bm-D), live drums, and Perry’s unpolished vocal. 4 Non Blondes - What-s Up -CDM- -FLAC- - UP BY ...
For anyone hitting the quarter-life crisis, these lines are terrifyingly relatable. The protagonist isn't fighting a war or suffering a great tragedy; she is fighting the monotony of expectation. She climbs the hill, she turns her head to the "holy man," and she realizes the institutions designed to save her—religion, society, routine—have no answers. Unlike streaming services that may compress audio, FLAC
Excellent case. A few months before this was published, I met Lee Ranaldo at a film he was presenting and I brought this album for him to sign. Lee said it was his “favorite” Sonic Youth album, and (no surprise) it’s mine too, which is why I brought it.
For the record, I love and own nearly every studio album they released, so it’s not a mere preference for a particular stage of their career – it’s simply the one that came out on top.
Nice appreciative analysis of Sonic Youth’s strongest and most artistic ’90s album. I dug a little deeper in my analysis (‘Beyond SubUrbia: A View Through the Trees’), but I think my Gen-x perspective demanded that.