SONIC YOUTH

Brave Men Run
Death Valley '69
Cotton Crown
Kill Yr Idols
Eric's Trip
Sacred Trickster
Calming the Snake
Starfield Road
I Love Her All The Time
Ghost Bitch
Tom Violence
What We Know
Drunken Butterfly
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Flower
Sugar Kane
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Psychic Hearts (whole band)
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Inhuman

Holy shit, this setlist would've ALMOST made me brave the hipster army in Williamsburg--do they do this kind of "oldies" show alot?

post thurston/kim breakup sonic youth sounds ... exactly the same!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZBTk9fu_fN0
aside from that, mark ibold's presence here confuses me -- is he doing anything other than doubling kim's bass lines?

he's also dating thurston

i know kim plays guitar on most of the more recent material, but for oldies sets like this, it seems like ibold is not doing a whole lot. sweet gig!

I was there in the crowd! But I don't believe this will be their last show. Kim walked off very quickly in the ending with Teenage Riot but Thurston stayed i the stage for some time and looked very emotional.

he's also dating thurston

― underrated erowid reports I have read (am0n), Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:47 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Sonic Mid-Life Crisis

god Bad Moon Rising is so fucking bad ass

A very revealing interview with Gordon about the reason of their break-up in Elle

i don't get this band

and also.... i don't know if i want to.

i like noisey guitars so maybe i am supposed to be obsessed with them. i knew someone who said he was related to thurston moore and he sucked. one of the worst people of all time.

i think it's only fair to hold that against the band.

i too form opinions based on anecdotes

i demand treesh acknowledge the greatness of sonic youth immediately

and im gonna lock you in this thread until you do

Treeship

Treeship get it together

goon nuggying treesh until he cracks and says he loves SY

would like to hear more about this sucky relative of thurston moore

that relative is one of the worst ppl of all time is wut i herd

just plain bad stuff

I think I've made my case honestly

You mean Thurston's cousin Winston?

Have you heard 'schizophrenia'? It kinda sounds like Belle & Serb Ashton u might like it.

vinyl reissues:

http://pitchfork.com/news/62755-sonic-youth-announce-vinyl-reissues-of-six-albums/

no "Washing Machine"?

I think Washing Machine already got reissued: http://www.discogs.com/Sonic-Youth-Washing-Machine/release/7805311

at last

i rate youth

Spinhead Sessions is out and quite wonderful IMO

http://pitchfork.com/news/65063-sonic-youth-announce-1986-spinhead-sessions-share-theme-with-noise/

Murray Street warming my heart this Sunday. "Sympathy for the Strawberry" is so good.

Thurston in studio on BBC6 right now, talking with Steve Lamacq and playing SY stuff.

Anyone ever heard the Sonic Youth folk do an admiration for Hawkwind. Rolling through the pines of Virginia jamming both Goo and Doremi Fasol Latido, I seemed to notice how similar the stoned gallop of "Lord of Light" is to many Sonic Youth numbers. It was more the groove and the drone than anything.

http://www.carolinetimeline.com/sonicyouth

I picked my fifteen favorite Kim tracks.

A obscure place to tell us about it...

btw, there ws an interview with "Lost Voice Man" on the news last night, behind him was a wall of albums in frames. I saw Thriller, Unknown Pleasures, 1977 (Ash), and Sonic Youth's Goo.

So, hey.

In other news, Sister is still hot shit

this band mostly sucked

^^ wrong

https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-1

speaking of the SY bandcamp, there are several live shows on there - anyone got a recommendation for a standout among them?

If you could re-sequence/revise the track list for one Sonic Youth album, what would it be and how would you change it?

I’m going with Washing Machine, an album that’s near to perfect but slightly half-hearted about its desire to be psychedelic.

Here’s what I’d do:
- cut “Junkie’s Promise”
- cut “Panty Lies”
- merge “Becuz” and “Becuz Coda” into a single song
- would I cut “Skip Tracer”? Maybe
- replace the 19:35 version of “Diamond Sea” with the ~25 minute long version from the CD5
- Bliss out

Skip Tracer is the second best track!

I would skip tracer too
I’m more of a Lee fan in concept than in reality

"Skip Tracer" is solid! Lyrics are kind of mean tho, SY don't really have room to be making fun of other bands' lyrics.

the title track is so amazing though, the middle section, particularly when they start playing that harmonics/feedback riff, is the ideal of what I listen to them for.

A super sounding riff one might say

the middle section, particularly when they start playing that harmonics/feedback riff, is the ideal of what I listen to them for.

100% cosign, a real highlight of their work

this article was pretty good, imo, but the cbgb bootleg embedded within is outstanding, with some blistering versions of daydream nation tracks: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/sonic-youth-and-the-business-of-keeping-a-dead-band-alive/

the bootleg: https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cbgbs-1988

lol i had no idea this board existed. i rate this bootleg a 10/10

This was just posted by Roxy Cinema in NYC but not widely announced - they're screening The Velvet Suite with a Q&A afterwards with Lee Ranaldo and filmmaker Ignacio Julia moderated by Thurston Moore:

https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-velvet-suite/

Is “kool thing” the closest they ever came to rocking?