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 +'''''The Whitey Album''''' is a [[1988]] album by [[Ciccone Youth]], a side project of [[Sonic Youth]]. The album is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] and 80s pop in general. Beatbox and samplers/sequencers are the foundation of the recording but [[Sonic Youth]] references still manage to permeate throughout.
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 +==Track listing==
 +All songs by Ciccone Youth except as noted.
 +
 +#"Needle-Gun" – 2:27
 +#Untitled (silence) – 1:03
 +#"G-Force" – 3:39
 +#"Platoon II" – 4:18
 +#"MacBeth" – 5:27
 +#"Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby" – 5:30
 +#"[[Burning Up|Burnin' Up]]" (Mike Watt orig. demo) ([[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]) – 3:52
 +#"Hi! Everybody" – 0:57
 +#"Children of Satan/Third Fig" – 3:06
 +#"Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to [[Neu!]]" – 2:56
 +#"[[Addicted to Love (song)|Addicted to Love]]" ([[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]]) – 3:45
 +#"Moby-Dik" – 1:01
 +#"March of the Ciccone Robots" – 1:57
 +#"Making the Nature Scene" – 3:14
 +#"Tuff Titty Rap" – 0:39
 +#"[[Into the Groove]]y" (Madonna, Bray) – 4:36
 +#"MacBeth II (Mix)" (bonus track on CD release) – 5:17
 +
 +==Album Artwork==
 +According to the liner notes of the deluxe edition of [[Daydream Nation]]: "The album cover [of Ciccone Youth], a b&w xerox enlargement of Madonna's face, was a brilliant and contemporary design. Sonic Youth had utilized found images in album covers before, but this was testing the limit. We sent copies of the vinyl album to Warners to be passed on to Madonna via her sister who worked in the art department there. Word came back that she had no problem with it acknowledging she remembered the band from her NYC Danceteria days."
-"'''Into the Groove'''" is a 1985 song by [[United States|American]] singer-songwriter [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] from her first major feature film ''[[Desperately Seeking Susan]]''. It was released as a single on [[July 23]], [[1985]] by [[Sire Records]]. [[Ciccone Youth]] covered "Into the Groove" (as "[[Into the Groove(y)]]"). It appeared on the ''[[The Whitey Album]]'' and was also released as a single. 
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The Whitey Album is a 1988 album by Ciccone Youth, a side project of Sonic Youth. The album is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Madonna and 80s pop in general. Beatbox and samplers/sequencers are the foundation of the recording but Sonic Youth references still manage to permeate throughout.

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Track listing

All songs by Ciccone Youth except as noted.

  1. "Needle-Gun" – 2:27
  2. Untitled (silence) – 1:03
  3. "G-Force" – 3:39
  4. "Platoon II" – 4:18
  5. "MacBeth" – 5:27
  6. "Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby" – 5:30
  7. "Burnin' Up" (Mike Watt orig. demo) (Madonna) – 3:52
  8. "Hi! Everybody" – 0:57
  9. "Children of Satan/Third Fig" – 3:06
  10. "Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu!" – 2:56
  11. "Addicted to Love" (Robert Palmer) – 3:45
  12. "Moby-Dik" – 1:01
  13. "March of the Ciccone Robots" – 1:57
  14. "Making the Nature Scene" – 3:14
  15. "Tuff Titty Rap" – 0:39
  16. "Into the Groovey" (Madonna, Bray) – 4:36
  17. "MacBeth II (Mix)" (bonus track on CD release) – 5:17
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Album Artwork

According to the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation: "The album cover [of Ciccone Youth], a b&w xerox enlargement of Madonna's face, was a brilliant and contemporary design. Sonic Youth had utilized found images in album covers before, but this was testing the limit. We sent copies of the vinyl album to Warners to be passed on to Madonna via her sister who worked in the art department there. Word came back that she had no problem with it acknowledging she remembered the band from her NYC Danceteria days."


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