Sonic Youth: Classic or Dud/S&D?

"It was the idea of the director, Eva Prinz."

Dud.

yea sy is dead glad i saw em when i did, thurston ever the coolest starting to look exceedingly lame in all the CLM promos

The bit in RS about getting blown off the stage by Tegan & Sara was sad, and I like Tegan & Sara...

sy is dead glad
eh i don't know, i wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years they did high profile festival things -- coachella, primavera etc. they probably won't do another album though...

the bit about him thinking all those young girls were there to see him was . . . uh. . . telling

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/middle_age_crazy_ver2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDF31Vy42E0

god that CLM song sucks

Yeah, sounds like some local bar band.

Man, for a song that's just over two and a half minutes long it seems to go on forever.

Not really my favourite period but a pretty intense show/video regardless, with a cool noise jam on "The Diamond Sea": http://dangerousminds.net/comments/teen_age_riot_ferocious_sonic_youth_concert_from_german_tv_1996

Wow, Kim really killing it on Washing Machine, which was the only track I really wanted to see. I'm glad I watched that.

Classic show. In high school I rode 8km on my bike with a blank videotape to a friend's house so he could record it, because we didn't have the right German channel in my house. Those were the days...

Bought a boot of that on CD shortly after the show. Saw them for the first time on that tour (London Forum), Washing Machine is one of my favourite SY periods.

Washing machine the track is awesome.

still get chills from "starfield road", when the main riff sets in, with Lee's massive, swirling vortex of static electricity elevating the whole thing. first part of "washing machine" sounds dope as hell.. the sinister (for lack of a better word) vibe of those interlocking riffs beneath Kim's initial verses, minimal cymbals. that like, up-to-no-good, preying, roaming the premises vibe. and then the magic, ringing bridge into the super feel-good 'light' of the 2nd half. it's awesome. thanks for posting that video

This is cool, a show from August 2000 where they did one set of individual solo projects (including solo TM acoustic versions of "Rain on Tin" and "Disconnection Notice") and one full rock set of NYC G&F material plus older classics. I found that NYC G&F songs sometimes came across better when I saw them live (though I never disliked the album per se) and I get something of that here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/152688686497/sonic-youth-cats-cradle-carrboro-north

yeah, that one is highly recommended -- those NYC G&F tracks sound awesome. I've got another cat's cradle show from the sonic nurse tour i'll probably put up too, really really good.

There's a great NYCGAF-era show in Japan too, the title track feels like your stereo is about to implode

Going to see Lee in Edinburgh tonight. My first gig for a loooong time

That was awesome, btw.

Timely thread bump - I just dug out the Helen Lundberg/Eyeliner single from 2006. I think it was the first 7" single I ever bought. Great couple songs.

I'll check out that show, I had no idea Thurston had already written Murray Street material in 2000. does anyone know if a recording of the 10/9/01 benefit show is circulating in full? i believe it was at the knitting factory. the album version of Karen Revisited/Karenology segues into a recording of the show at the end

murray street stuff on that 2000 tape is acoustic/instrumental/sketchy, but still recognizable.
have we talked enough about how great that Spinhead Sessions disc they put out this year is? it is great!

OK I'm confused after looking at that - this is different material than the Made In USA ost? cuz I found that to be a total snooze back in the day.

ha, it's rehearsals for Made in the USA, I think? Stronger than that OST, I think.

ah cool, will listen

Made in the USA was basically snippets of Secret Girl over and over again iirc.

exactly!!!

I had no idea Thurston had already written Murray Street material in 2000.

Murray Street songs began as a proposed Thurston Moore solo album, iirc, that ended up morphing into the SY album.

Ha, I was SO disappointed when I first listened to Made in USA.

Never listened to the Made in USA album but I've seen the movie.

i loved "made in usa" back in the day. especially the shortness of the songs appealed to me. probably that's also a reason why my fave sonic youth album will always be "dirty". another reason being that it was their first album i seriously listened to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10K074bs5hk

Recorded live September 16, 1999

1983!

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/richard-prince-is-sued-yet-again/

Richard Prince opened for Lee Ranaldo, maybe? Was good, but long and unappreciated.

Nope! Sorry, was Richard Youngs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfA7To2HzVo

Yeah, Prince does the 'Nurse' series of paintings, some of which were used for the Sonic Nurse alb.

he certainly does not come off well in that article

i feel thurston moore has fallen so low in my estimation over the past few years that i have trouble listening to any sonic youth these days, is that the case for anyone else? i just feel so turned off by him and right now it kind ruins the whole enterprise

yeah, same here :(

Is this still over his adultery or did he do something else?

doesn't bother me that he left his wife. life happens.

I'm still OK with the old records but I always think of that anecdote in Goodbye 20th Century where Steve Shelley starts yelling at Thurston for forgetting the words

Lee's solo is so good in that 1983 clip above

If you follow Thurston on facebook he's been posting tons of anti-Trump stuff, while the commentators feel betrayed for some reason. It makes me wonder about what the pro-trump/anti-clinton think about themselves that they're consistently amazed to find that their cultural icons disagree with them. /drunkandshouldbeignored.

see also david cameron's love for the smiths / chris christie's springsteen obsession

(he posts nonsense like this, though http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/rigged-election-hillary-clintons-early-voting-lead-florida-mathematically-insurmountable/114/)

Dude who sang "I believe Anita Hill" in song isn't a Trump voter whhaaaaaat? non-shocker