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I don't get pancakes either. Dessert is for after dinner imo

donuts

so says our man of the popcorn breakfast xp

I had my breakfast at 7am. Popcorn was an amuse-bouche.

I chew gum, but this thread, over the past 24 hours, has actually made me want to stop

I chew gum just when I bike -- it prevents me from getting a dry mouth, which can in turn cause me to overhydrate.

Important to be appropriately hydrated when you're mowing down pedestrians.

How else will I piss on their twitching bodies?

boom

Sonic Youth basically sucked until 1995, and peaked in 2006

Sonic Youth basically sucked until 1995

whereupon they began to actually suck

I like some SY fine but sometimes I wonder about the great lengths of thought and energy they put into arranging heavily modded offset guitars and overdriven feedback amps, all in pursuit of the sound of a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner. Might have been easier to just put row of vacuum cleaners on the stage and mic them. Would also have been kinda avant-garde and badass to do it that way, now that I think about it.

That's more of a Neubauten thing.

when did sonic youth ever sound like this

I don't think SY used a lot of heavily modded guitars btw? Sticking drumsticks between the strings of pawnshop Jazzmasters, yes.

Sonic Youth basically sucked until 1995, and peaked in 2006

this is maybe the most backwards-ass thing I have ever read

xp iirc when they got a trailer of gear stolen years ago the major issue was that it was irreplaceable bc of the modifications

I don't have much use for the early vacuum cleaner sound, and the band released two of its best albums in 2004 and 2006 so

Ah, you're right. Reading more about the mods now. xp

malcolm arnold's the one you need for vacuum cleaners tbrr

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/FW5JHR/floor-polisher-and-vacuum-cleaners-on-stage-in-birmingham-symphony-FW5JHR.jpg

sy were forever sticking new electronics in jazzmasters too, which is why thurston and lee's signature models from fender have unusual pickups and shit

Yeah, I was totally wrong there.

malcolm arnold's the one you need for vacuum cleaners tbrr

... Swell Maps, l0u1s jagg3r, many talented artists have utilized the humble vacuum cleaner.

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smh at the notion that the intricate guitarplay of Sister, Daydream et al. could be described as "vacuum cleaner", have you actually heard these records?

People should start new threads instead of using this thread as a test kitchen for potentially interesting discussions / clusterfucks

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sonic youth peaked in the 80s and basically sucked after that

nah nm i don't actually feel that way

slow but distinct decline with interesting interludes

that's better

They got good when they discovered phaser and chorus pedals on Washing Machine.

the 80s records all sound like SHIT, horrible thin & flat production, almost as bad as Spot's work with Hüsker Dü. Daydream Nation has riffs but it sounds horrible. Goo onwards they had good production but ehh

music talk should really be quarantined to ILM, for the sake of all the innocents

dmac is exempt from this, obv

80s SY is straight noise rock lol who cares about production

the SY records that were "produced well" are boring as shit

Teenage Riot is one of the best riffs of all time, but that shit sounds weak on record. It's quiet & flat.

i'll start a new thread in ILM

I think if there's one person on this board whose views on music I can reliably disgree with it's flappy bird.

idk those 80s records sound fine to me. sister especially

ye mad puffin i think is referring to their live shows

sy the little princesses that they are have said they sometimes didnt feel like playing songs so played huge walls of sound and feedback sometimes, mostly in the 90s im gonna say

Sister and EVOL definitely sound better than Daydream Nation, and yeah I like all these records, but they could be so much better. I hate when shit production stifles great songs, most egregious example is Teenage Riot.

anyway i started a different thread, moving on w/ nonmusical controversial opinions um..... Eyes Wide Shut is the best Kubrick movie

on White Light White Heat you can barely make out the drums what is up with that shitty production? for christ's sake learn how to mix properly

apples n oranges my dude. Teenage Riot is an anthem and the production doesn't serve it well. and fwiw i love the production on every VU record. i'm not saying everything needs to have big booming production, just that these particular records would've been served well by it.

xp

bullshit punk rock diy ethos

I always felt a little guilty that "Incinerate" is probably my favorite Sonic Youth song

hell yeah, the super saturated/wet chorus guitar that comes in on the last verse rules

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― baby boomer death wave (bizarro gazzara), Friday, May 12, 2017 8:34 AM

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