haha those Sonic Youth liner notes are over the top. That i would agree would not what liner notes are meant for.
If anyone has a vinyl copy of Steely Dan's Aja you can see a more succint, sincere, straight to the point version of whatever Sonic Youth was trying to do there in Aja's liner note.
Now for crass liner notes I would chock those up to Dirty South rap releases. The liner notes, or to be precise liner bootleg-photoshops, are just pages upon pages of album covers for other artists on their label with nary a page devoted to actually hiring a album designer with good taste rather than a love of bling fonts and hot women images. Most of the techno outfits fall for the same trap with a bunch of ugly Photoshops or Maya stuff that is suppose to mimic actual abstract art.
But anyways if you're a true artiste the liner notes should be a way to extend a theme of an album or some s--- like that.
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