C/D: Sonic Youth's GOO

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it's a blast first 12": i just cut and pasted someone else's not v.well organised list and added YESes and NOs

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

as if people deny themselves cliches, especially when they're in the grips of something so self-deceptive

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 29 May 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with the pervert that said that Sonic Youth jumped the shark. They have had their moments but are more pretentious than not.

― Julio Times 3, Sunday, 29 May 2005 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

funny, I assumed when I saw this was revived that it would be about the upcoming Goo reissue.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

EVERYTHING Alex in NYC says on this thread is OTM.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

he doesn't know what he talks about.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee's songs are terrific.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate "Mote." Most overrated SY song (by the core fanbase) EVER... well... next to "teenage riot."

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think this album is amazing! i might be blinded by nostalgia, but what the hell...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

What's the deal with the upcoming deluxe edition?

Goo is my second favorite SY album after Sister.. The first six tracks or so are incredible. It get a little less interesting towards the end.

Can you listen to "Tunic (Song for Karen)" without wincing?

Yes! Her delivery is perfect! She does sound a little like Will Ferrel doing Janet Reno, but "Don't be saaahd / The band doesn't sound half baad."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I've been chronicly looking inside the Sonic Youth CD bins hoping that big deluxe looking thing in there is Goo and not Dirty myself. I can't wait.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Goo is awesome!

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know what the extras will be?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I presume B-sides and (HOPEFULLY) the 8-track Goo.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

(as in the 8-track demoes that were sent to Sonic Death fan club members.. not an actual Goo 8-track!.. sorry. although someone should make that shit happen, too.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I third all of the Ranaldo love. The goo-era Ranaldo-penned b-sides (that'salotofdashes) were good too (I'm thinking of "wish fulfillment")

― jb, Friday, 26 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Very, very awesome. Really want that deluxe edition posthaste.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Tracklisting (from some french website, so YMMV)

http://www.xsilence.net/news-239.htm#239

CD 1
01 Dirty Boots
02 Tunic (Song for Karen)
03 Mary-Christ
04 Kool Thing
05 Mote
06 My Friend Goo
07 Disappearer
08 Mildred Pierce
09 Cinderella's Big Score
10 Scooter and Jinx
11 Titanium Expose
12 Lee #2
13 That's All I Know (Right Now)
14 The Bedroom
15 Dr. Benway's House
16 Tuff Boyz

CD 2
01 Tunic
02 Number One (Disappearer)
03 Titanium Expose
04 Dirty Boots
05 Corky (Cinderella's Big Score)
06 My Friend Goo
07 Bookstore (Mote)
08 Animals (Mary-Christ)
09 DV 2 (Kool Thing)
10 Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)
11 Lee #2
12 I Know There's an Answer
13 Can Song
14 Isaac
15 Goo Interview Flexi

― jb, Friday, 26 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

14 The Bedroom

"What do you do when your mom is a skinhead..."

"YOU FUCK HER!"

"...you write a song about her."

Possibly the greatest conversation ever held at a UCI theater or venue.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

(Anyway, this is good to know *not* to sell that "Dirty Boots" single with the live cuts on it...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

*CLAP CLAP* GARÇON! LE DELUXE GOO, S'IL VOUS PLAÎT!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I sold it, but backed it up. (phew!)

Also, I mean, SHAKEYMO is on that track playing the key role, Ned!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Also, I mean, SHAKEYMO is on that track playing the key role, Ned!

Wait, was that him? I'm amazed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading that a long time ago on here and getting a kick out of it... I've never heard the track, though. I thought he was yelling, "You [Thurston] fuck her [Kim]!!" I like it better this way.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

More love for "Disappearer" here. That song finally made me invest in Goo at 15, as I decided I needed more of what had sounded like beautiful, massive, dense amplified folk music ("Dirty Boots" had also piqued my interest for similar reasons, after the fun but not quite essential "Kool Thing"). Swirly non-singles like "Mote", the kinda touching "Tunic" and "Cinderella's Big Score" didn't disappoint either. So, pretty classic based on teenage impact alone.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Goo was SY's last great album.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Unlike Alex, I really dig "Tunic." My interest turned to love when it played over the Maggie Cheung catburglar sequence in "Irma Vep."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

*CLAP CLAP* GARÇON! LE DELUXE GOO, S'IL VOUS PLAÎT!

i just had to come back and say that this has been making me laugh all night..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

i heart goo. esp. side 1. not a dud on there.

side 2 is redeemed by titanium expose.

"it was all whirlwind, heat and flash. within a week we'd killed my parents and hit the road."

― xero, Saturday, 27 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

"Nothing.. Lipstick.. A little blood."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 27 August 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

MERCI! MERCI!

(I just picked up Goo deluxe tonight. This is fucking great. The 8-track version of the album slays. A nine-minute "Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)".)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Byron mentions "The Bedroom" being recorded at Irvine Meadows. Is he mistaking UC Irvine Crawford Hall for Irvine Meadows in the liner notes? Or was this when Sonic Youth opened for Neil Young & Crazy Horse there?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

Well just for a 9-minute Mildred Pierce, I will have to pick this up..

― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn, this might be my favorite Deluxe Edition release ever... the only ones that rival it are Rick James's Street Songs and Donna Summer's Bad Girls. And I haven't cracked at the Bob Marley ones yet. (I'm talking specifically about the Deluxe Edition line by name, not just any deluxe edition release.)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I am pleased with all this news.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

The liner notes are really fun to read, too. Byron Coley and Mark Kates do the honors. Lots of fun stories about the making of the album, ramping up to DGC, etc. wanting to call the album Blowjob? initially, and not getting to.. That's too bad, actually.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

From Blowjob to Goo sounds right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Goo should have been Goo! really.. because from Blowjob? to Goo! would have been even better... Or better yet. Q: Have you not blowjob? A: You have Goo!.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

(sorry.. sub-custosian at best.)

(custos, i keed i keed)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Are these any different 8-track versions that were available on the Goo Demos CD?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I never had the original one. The real Sonic Youth fans are going to have to delurk to answer this one...

..but I'm guessing they are the same ones, but remastered. Also, there are two "Lee #2"s. There's the 8-track version, and the studio version, which I'm guessing was slanted for a B-side, but never got used. Which makes sense as "Lee #2" is a complete departure.. very pleasant and poppy. It's another secret reason to get this.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

It's too bad that Lee only got one track on Goo, thinking about it. At least it was one fucking motherlode of a track, though.. possibly his best.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't he sing "Mote" as well as "Disappearer"?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Thurston sings "disappearer"

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

My world no longer makes sense.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

i just sold my old copy of Goo in anticipation of this one.

― gear (gear), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I was positive that Lee sang Mote as well...has never sounded like Thurston to me.

Byron Coley's notes actually irritated me, especially the bit at the front that was more or less saying "IF YOU NEVER HEARD THE ROCK BEFORE YOUR EARS SUCK NYAH NYAH ROCKIST ROCKIST BTW PEEPS OK".

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

just noticed sonicyouth.com has free mp3s of the live b-sides of the "Dirty Boots" cd single. One of their best releases in my opinion.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty great Alex in NYC was talking about Black Dice back in the '02. I stand by my 3 year old assessment upthread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Lee does sing "mote"

from this site
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/new.html

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar
Kim - bass
Lee - guitar/vocals
Steve - drums/percussion
J. Mascis - backing vocals
w/ additional percussion by
nick sansano & don fleming

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

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