Reynolds, Simon, Press, Joy. The Sex Revolts – Gender, Rebellion, and Rock'n'Roll (angol nyelven). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 148–149. o. (1995). ISBN 0-674-80272-1 „If any group crystallised the noise/horror aesthetic and took it to its limits, it was Big Black. Their songs fetishised atrocities and freakish crimes as a kind of truth: a radical unveiling of the lies that govern social appearance.”
Gordon, Kim: Boys Are Smelly: Sonic Youth Tour Diary, '87 (angol nyelven). The Village Voice, 1988. szeptember 1. [2024. május 9-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2024. május 15.) „How many grannies once wanted to rub their faces in Elvis’s crotch, and how many boys want to be whipped by Steve Albini’s guitar?”
Gordon, Kim: Boys Are Smelly: Sonic Youth Tour Diary, '87 (angol nyelven). The Village Voice, 1988. szeptember 1. [2024. május 9-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2024. május 15.) „How many grannies once wanted to rub their faces in Elvis’s crotch, and how many boys want to be whipped by Steve Albini’s guitar?”