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I wasn't planning on getting jet set; I stopped buying SY stuff since marc3l kept my copies of confusion is sex (which I liked a whole lot) & evol (which I'd just grudgingly made myself buy, blah blah anti-evol/sister but I was gonna reverse my position but then I never got to listen to it so FUCK EM).

etc, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I like messing up the EJSTANS cd covers in Real Groovy. My favourite's the green one.

Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Are all you Lee worshippers forgetting that he wandered on stage reading (or pretending to read) a book? Blaaah.
I was kinda hoping that SY would follow "Skip Tracer" with a cover of "Shut Out". Mind you, if they did it would probably just have been annoying cos that song sucks.
Who the devil is Carrie Sterling?

Minty (Minty), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

We arrived late, y'know. Fuck support bands

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Would be good if they played the Walker Brothers one instead but I'm sure no-one would get the joke. But who cares it would rock anyways.

hsimah (hamish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's the set list, according to someone:

I Love You Golden Blue
Bull In The Heather
Empty Page
Pattern Recognition
Stones
Unmade Bed
Paper Cut Exit
White Cross
Dude Ranch Nurse
Mariah Carey And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Skip Tracer
Drunken Butterfly
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Rain On Tin
Pacific Coast Highway
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Schizophrenia
New Hampshire
Kool Thing

Minty (Minty), Thursday, 1 July 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks Anton! Btw I think Carrie was Duane

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

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?

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 14 August 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

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?

tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

he's also dating thurston

underrated erowid reports I have read (am0n), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

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!

tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

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

plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:37 (twelve years ago) link

Sonic Mid-Life Crisis

plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:37 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

god Bad Moon Rising is so fucking bad ass

Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

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

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

i don't get this band

Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link

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.

Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link

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

Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link

i too form opinions based on anecdotes

internet explorer (am0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link

i demand treesh acknowledge the greatness of sonic youth immediately

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link

and im gonna lock you in this thread until you do

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link

Treeship

i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link

Treeship get it together

i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link

goon nuggying treesh until he cracks and says he loves SY

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link

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

mattresslessness, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link

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

internet explorer (am0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link

just plain bad stuff

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link

I think I've made my case honestly

Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link

You mean Thurston's cousin Winston?

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link

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

$0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

vinyl reissues:

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

no "Washing Machine"?

sleeve, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link

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

eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 7 January 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link

at last

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 January 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link

i rate youth

am0n, Thursday, 7 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

Spinhead Sessions is out and quite wonderful IMO

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

Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

MatthewK, Sunday, 31 July 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link

eight months pass...

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

by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

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.

earlnash, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link

http://www.carolinetimeline.com/sonicyouth

Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

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.

Mark G, Friday, 4 January 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link

In other news, Sister is still hot shit

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link

this band mostly sucked

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

^^ wrong

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

sleeve, Sunday, 9 August 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

alpine static, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

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

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link

Skip Tracer is the second best track!

a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link

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

calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link

"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.

JoeStork, Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link


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