Sonic Youth: Classic or Dud/S&D?

her interest in Karen Carpenter, Madonna, and, more recently, Britney Spears lent them depth)

Her interest in them -- her rethinking of them -- has nothing to do with lending them depth.

something sort of melancholic about the fact that this iconic avant garde/feminist couple broke up in this cliched midlife crisis kind of way

yeah it would be more awesome if they split over a fight about the importance of Britney Spears or something

would be more awesome if Britney wrote a song called "Kim Gordon and the Future of Rock Marriage"

something sort of melancholic about the fact that this iconic avant garde/feminist couple broke up in this cliched midlife crisis kind of way

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, April 22, 2013 4:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. fucking hate it, tbh.

guess it wasn't just his gutiar playing that was meandery.

but jokes aside, yeah it's one of those things that just makes me feel like the world is fucked up, like the end of crimes and misdemeanors.

oh yeah, i completely agree that they won't use the name. not initially. but after a few years, especially if their other ventures aren't well received...

i don't know, obviously. anyway, re alfred: i thought the author's point was that kim's interest in those figures lent sonic youth depth, but perhaps i misunderstood.

the end of crimes and misdemeanors otm

what a surprise. Kim and Thurston are regular human beings after all.

Poor Kim, all having to sneak a peak at Thurston's phone. The momentous weight of the confirmed suspicion.:(

my friend Kim
says "no not him"

would much rather see them carry on without thurston than without kim.

de facto professor of modern feminist pop mystique (her interest in Karen Carpenter, Madonna, and, more recently, Britney Spears lent them depth).

Author does appear to be saying that Gordon's interest lent depth to the pop stars.

The momentous weight of the confirmed suspicion.

i can't help but read this in lee's poetry voice

Lol

hehe

notice the article never referenced their post-separation yoko collabo

so what

sorry, i meant to write "noticed" - didn't mean it make it sound like a smoking gun

YOKO IS THE OTHER WOMAN

xp to how's life (and alfred): yeah, i did misread/misremember that bit. and yeah, it's a dumb thing to say - in an otherwise solid piece.

Chelsea Light Moving totally sounds like sonic youth without a kim!

and without a lee, I guess. can live with that.

a sy record without lee, thurston, kim and steve would be a classic

bob bert's bongo hour

every time i try to listen to that chelsea light moving album i get embarrassed and have to turn it off. there are some really bad "punk" songs on there.

mainly the one where he just yells "TOO FUCKING BAD! TOO FUCKING BAD!" over and over

the guitars sound pretty good. should have been instrumental. the lyrics are sub-thurston. which is saying something.

Thurston unchecked is entirely embarrassing.

I've never been a huge fan of his, either in or out of SY, but now I can hate on him for additional reasons.

Thurston's got a good amount of enjoyable non-SY stuff, song-based and not, but yeah i cannot dig the CLM album

You guys really need to grab the Body/Head/Gate LP stat

Thurston's NOISE is usually choice, song based stuff is hit/miss (ditto for Lee)

I liked Trees Outside the Academy a lot more than the last couple of SY albums, never heard any of his more avant solo stuff though.

didn't mind Demolished Thoughts.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=oi8Y4afbPuc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Doi8Y4afbPuc

i guess thurston can go on double dates with wayne coyne now

Thurston should return to Coral Gables. We got gastropubs now!

gastro pubs & their $15 hamburgers are the greatest scam ever visited on the american ppl

with Kim out of the band who's left to write that stinging indictment

i feel like NY Ghosts & Flowers would have been the album most ready for a gastropub diss

this article makes Thurston sound unbelievably lame

like, just garden-variety rich middle aged man banging my new "assistant" lame

the psychic heart wants what it wants

what Jordan said

while this is definitely an unromantic bummer, I must admit I'd rather be dating a hot young sycophant than married to Kim Gordon. And I can also see preferring juggling successful suitors to being with Thurston Moore. So maybe everyone's better off.

Kim Gordon is better off because she was publicly humiliated and dumped for a hotter piece of ass?

except the folks pining for that "plays Goo" tour, I guess

xpost that's not what i wrote, dandydonweiner

preferring juggling successful suitors

ugh are you kidding dating in your 50s/60s sounds like a total nightmare. double for anyone as famous/infamous as Gordon

but what do I know

again, i compared it to being married to thurston moore