The Whitey Album is a 1988 album by Ciccone Youth

Ciccone Youth

Ciccone Youth is an experimental band which was formed in 1986. It is a side project of Sonic Youth members Steve Shelley, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore, with Minutemen/fIREHOSE member Mike Watt....

, a side project of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 members Steve Shelley

Steve Shelley

Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...

, Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

, Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

, and Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

, with Minutemen

Minutemen (band)

Minutemen were an American hardcore punk band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985...

/fIREHOSE

FIREHOSE

Firehose was an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt , Ed Crawford , and George Hurley .-History:...

 member Mike Watt

Mike Watt

Michael David Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and Firehose; , he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen...

. The album is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

 and 80s pop in general. Beatbox and samplers/sequencers are the foundation of the recording but Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 references still manage to permeate throughout. The album features a new version of an early Sonic Youth number, "Making the Nature Scene."

Track listing

All songs by Ciccone Youth except as noted.

1. "Needle-Gun" – 2:27
2. (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
   Burning Up
   "Burning Up" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her self-titled debut album. It was released as the album's second single on March 9, 1983, in some countries as a AA side single with "Physical Attraction"...
   
    (Mike Watt Original Demo)" (Madonna
   Madonna (entertainer)
   Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
   
   ) – 3:52
8. "Hi! Everybody!" – 0:57
9. "Children of Satan/Third Fig" – 3:06
10. "Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu
    Neu!
    Neu! was a German band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s...
    
    " – 2:56
11. "Addicted to Love
    Addicted to Love (song)
    Tina Turner has made "Addicted to Love" a regular feature of her live shows since 1986, although her version did not make it onto the market until two years later....
    
    " (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 Groove(y)
    Into the Groove(y)
    "Into the Groove" was a single of Madonna covers from Mike Watt and Sonic Youth's side-project Ciccone Youth. It was released in 1986 on Blast First Records.-Tracklisting:# "Burnin' Up" - 4:11# "Tuff Titty Rap" - 0:37# "Into The Groovey" - 4:33...
    
    " (Madonna, Bray) – 4:36

Album Artwork

According to the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in October 1988 by Enigma Records in the United States, and by Blast First in the United Kingdom....

: "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."