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by Paul Cashmere - May 25 2008
photo by Tim Cashmere

Sonic Youth is the latest act to do the Starbucks thing, but this release will have a different flavour. Sonic Youth's star fans have picked the songs for the album.

'Hits Are For Squares' will feature songs selected by Beck, Radiohead, Eddie Vedder, Flea and Flaming Lips, to name a few.

Even actresses Michelle Williams and Portia de Rossi have chosen their fav Sonic Youth songs for the album.

The band has added one new track, the previously unreleased 'Slow Revolution'.

'Hits Are For Squares' will be available from June 10.

Bull in the Heather (Catherine Keener)
Sugar Kane (Beck)
100% (Mike D)
Kool Thing (Radiohead)
Disappearer (Portia de Rossi)
Stones (Allison Anders)
Tuff Gnarl (Dave Eggers and Mike Watt)
Teenage Riot (Eddie Vedder)
Shadow of a Doubt (Michelle Williams)
Rain on Tin (Flea)
Tom Violence (Gus Van Sant)
Mary-Christ (David Cross)
World Looks Red (Chloë Sevigny)
Expressway to Yr Skull (Flaming Lips)
Slow Revolution