― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually think NYCGF was one of their better covers, not that they have many great ones. (S: Daydream Nation).
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ha! tis true ... again, scott makes me happier.
― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
GooDaydream NationExperimental Jet Set Trash and No StarDirtyEvolSonic NurseSisterConfusion Is SexA Thousand LeavesRather RippedNYC Ghosts and FlowersThe Whitey AlbumMurray Streetall of the SYR records in a tie, though I like the red one bestBad Moon RisingWashing MachineSonic Youth EP
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
beta--was kim gordon a total ice queen when you were eating olives with her? or was she nice to you? i got the chance to hang out with sonic youth backstage once, maybe four years ago. kim was very distant and basically ignored me, thurston was nice enough, jim o'rourke (guess he's not still in the band) was friendly, and i didn't see much of steve. the nicest person in the band was lee ranaldo, who even offered to write my wire article for me when i was feeling stressed out about it. i saw him some other time at a gallery and had a funny conversation with him about "le corbusier concrete lollipops" (i still have one somewhere, in a box!)
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
thurston gave me an impromptu lecture on strange old improvisors when i 1st met him...but they have all been quite nice to me when i have met them. & xpst
― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I see M. Perpetua posts here, august company indeed!
― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I've never ever ever heard of any anecdote involving Lee in which he was anything less than super nice and awesome.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
only member of the band I've met was Steve, a few times, including an interview, and he's definitely a nice, low-key bro.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I always keep hoping that someday there's a Sonic Youth album where Lee does a full third of the singing.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
the only good ones are Daydream, Goo, Sonic Nurse, and Evol. Sister and Bad Moon were alright on vinyl but the detail is lost on CD. the other covers are all worse than this one.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I always thought it was sort of a funny twist, too -- usually the concert t-shirt has the cover of the album on it, whereas here the cover of the album has the concert t-shirt on it. I'm sure everyone who bought the shirt in summer '95 assumed that when the album was released a couple months later, it would just be the logo from the shirt on that solid blue background.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, that has been the word on the street
― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Jaymc has a really good point about the album/t-shirt reversal, and now it's making me like the cover more again.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
the Jet Set cover is debateable, but if we're talking about the whole packaging, I did like that goofy thing they did where it was a bunch of different cards instead of a booklet in the CD case with alternate covers. I used to shuffle it to a different cover all the time, usually the b&w one of Steve or the one w/ Kim over the green background with the horse.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 31 March 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Brainwasher started a thread on this after me and it got locked, however that one included the tracklisting which I think we should do now, since we're talking about the cover...
01. Reena02. Incinerate03. Do You Believe In Rapture?04. Sleepin Around05. What A Waste06. Jams Run Free07. Rats08. Turquoise Boy09. Lights Out10. The Neutral11. Pink Steam12. Or
And I am also enthused about the "more Lee stuff" rumour. An album of songs like "Skip Tracer" or "The Bridge" would be just peachy by me.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 31 March 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Friday, 31 March 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Friday, 31 March 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 31 March 2006 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Recorded at Sear Sound Studio, additonal ovedubs at Murray Street studio, J Mascis Studio, produced by John Agnello
Album inspired by Blue Oyster Cult, Rembrandts, NBC comedy series Freaks and Geeks (last 2 probably a joke, or even blue oyster cult is a joke also )
Kim Gordon - 5 songs,Thurson Moore- 6 songs,Lee Ranaldo - 1 song
Jim o'Rourke left the band
Rather ripped has 12 songs + descriptions:
01. Reena (sung by kim gordon)02. Incinerate (sung by thurston moore, a propulsive song, a song kinda like teenage roit)03. Do You Believe in Rapture? (sung by thurston moore04. Sleepin' Around - (sung by thurston moore, previously called sonic mirror)05. What a Waste - (described by Kim/Thurston's daughter Coco as a rip of from Friends series theme song of Rembrands)06. Jams Run Free07. Rats (sung by lee ranaldo, blends a dark bass grove with thick sheets of guitar, whatever that means)08. Turquoise Boy (sung by kim gordon, a gentle song dirtied up with bursts of noise at its conclusion)09. Lights Out10. The Neutral11. Pink Steam (Sung by thurston)12. Or (Sung by Thurston)
Quotes:Lee Ranaldo:"Some of it seems to be an extension of the last couple of records, but some hearkens forward into territory and also back to earlier, more dissonant and atonal stuff we've done. There's definitely some rocking songs and also some sound piece-y kind of things that are pretty interesting as well."
so maybe the "more lee" rumour is wrong?
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Out of curiosity, can you post a track list/sequence? I just made a quick Lee Ranaldo vs. Sonic Youth playlist (ordered chronologically) to listen too while reading this thread and I think it plays through pretty nicely:
In The Kingdom #19Lee Is FreeTrilogyWish FulfilmentSaucer-LikeSkip TracerKaren RevisitedPaper Cup Exit
I didn't have a copy of "Mote" off of Goo, or I would have stuck it in after "Trilogy".
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
this is a Lee-themed tape I made a couple years ago, roughly based on the running order I posted in the thread linked a few posts back:
side 1:1. Skip Tracer2. Eric's Trip3. Genetic4. Paper Cup Exit5. Pipeline/Kill Time6. Karen Koltrane7. Karen Revisited (aka Karenology)8. Lee Is Free
side 2:1. Mote2. Hoarfrost3. Hey Joni4. Saucer-Like5. Wish Fulfillment6. In The Kingdom #197. Rain King8. I Dreamed I Dream9. NYC Ghosts & Flowers
I'm really happy with how I sequenced it. I might revise it as a double CD soon, and add the song(s?) from the new album, and "Unwind" (which both Lee and Thurston sing on) and "Lee #2" aka "The Notorious Rockin' Lee," the instrumental from the Goo demos that Lee wrote lyrics for and performed live but never recorded w/ vocals, maybe also the "Wish Fulfillment" and "Mote" demos from the recent reissues.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
So my first impressions after listening to 2/3s of it before work...
It's not particularly noisy!
A very superficial comparison would be that many of the songs sound like the quiet bits of Nurse sped up with Steve Shelley's patented motorik.
Those classic rock influences they've hinted at come to the fore! Soaring melodic guitar parts! Lee Ranaldo sounding a bit like Jim Morrison! Definitely a bit of Television on there, particularly songs like Guiding Light.
There are noise elements to it, but they're not as prominent. It's like they're playing noise in another room and it's leaking into the mix.
Just cos it's quieter don't mean it's generic indie rock - it's SY alright. There's a hazy psychedelic mood throughout and weird, dissonant elements.
I like it! But it'll be interesting to see what the noise dudes make of it...
― stew!, Friday, 31 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I hope we get a radio promo soon.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
this all sounds pretty scrumptious
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link