JAW ON THE FLOOR: Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity Compilation (WTF)

HOW CAN IT SURPRISE ANYONE THAT SONIC YOUTH LOVE BAD FUCKING COFFEE? GET OVER YOURSELVE AND YOUR STUPID STANDARDS

You obviously come with an asshole, KJB.

You don't know how true this is, sugar britches.

I thought we learned a lot: about coffee, at least. Am sad to find a thread where people simultaneously think that Sonic Youth are currently worth worrying about *and* that The Who haven't done anything decent in three decades, but that's kids for you.

haha, "globalization"

these are pretty old people, no?

old people? hell, ancient. mid-thirties. which, ironically enough, is a good 15 years younger than anyone in sonic "youth."

the sy and pixies fans in my high school (and i was a huge sy fan up to dirty) gave me shit for wanting to see a "dinosaur" band like the Who. i distinctly remember saying to them, "yeah, well, in 15 years sonic youth and the pixies will be doing their reunion cash-in nostalgia tours." i was wrong on only one point: sonic youth never broke up, hence no need to reunite. but the nostalgia "did-i-ever-tell-you-kids-about-the-late-80s" thing is still all up in that.

who gave a fuck about the who's corporate ethics in 1989 anyway?

lots of folks gave several fucks about the Who's corporate ethics in 1989, like charles m. young in his musician magazine cover story: http://featuringdave.com/Data/Webpage/townshen/musician.htm

it's not like they'd done anything decent in three decades!

naw, they just made it possible for bands like the velvets, stooges, and sonic youth to do what they do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80BUs0EUh8

To KJB, Mr. Lord Soto, and Tim:
http://www.lilysea.net/smdanjesstoast.jpg

Sorry for nastiness.

I thought we learned a lot: about coffee, at least. Am sad to find a thread where people simultaneously think that Sonic Youth are currently worth worrying about *and* that The Who haven't done anything decent in three decades, but that's kids for you.

otmfm

I call it Fourbucks.

Sorry for nastiness.

-- the table is the table,

They look happy! What's your point?

Name me some aesthetic that is more cutting edge than the recent output of these groups please.

-- Tim Ellison, Sunday, June 17, 2007 7:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

the knife?

sry

my point is that i am sorry for being a bit of a dick. glass is raised.

Portia de Rossi?

I keep reading this thread title as JAWN ON THE FLOOR and thinking it's a Hollertronix thread.

http://www.thecoolwaterband.com/landshark.jpg

I mean, if Lennon's "Imagine" turned up in an army recruiting ad, I might raise an eyebrow...is there some irony being missed given that, as I understand it, Thurston is a stroller pushing Connecticut homeowner? Named Thurston?

Or maybe he rents...

I think he and Kim own a farmhouse in western Massachusetts.

It should be titled-

"Espresso to Yr. Skull"

When is this out? I haven't seen it yet in any of the Starbucks I regularly patronize to buy delicious iced coffee drinks.

stephen just validated this entire thread.

obviously they read this thread, took to heart its superb arguments, and changed their mind

Bassist Kim Gordon's haunting vocals and edgy lyrics add additional depth to the numbers she sings.

Pretty sure Kim didn't write her own lyrics 'til My Friend Goo.
Pretty sure Thurston's back to writing hers again.

obviously they read this thread, took to heart its superb arguments, and changed their mind

I don't get it - did they cancel it?

Starbucks said "DO NOT WANT!" possibly?

Pretty sure Kim didn't write her own lyrics 'til My Friend Goo.

Is this true?? I'd always assumed that e.g. "Secret Girl" and "Shadow of a Doubt" were her words. They don't seem like Thurston's at all.

pretty sure this isn't scheduled to come out until 2008

xpost: there's a reason there isn't any individual writing credits on their LPs.

I just noticed this upthread:

their shilling in and of itself doesn't bother me; but if pete townshend -- someone who's sold many of his songs for use in ads -- narrated a documentary on the corporatization and commodification of music, you'd think, wtf?! and yet: http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/MoneyForNothing

And I wondered why no one else appeared to see (including, apparently, the members of Sonic Youth) the blatant contradiction between narrating that movie and gettin' chummy with S-bucks.

xpost I think she's said so in interviews.

it seems to me that once you start to download illegally you sort of lose your right to act all self-righteous about people selling their music to commercial or stuff like this starbucks partnership.

http://www.7andy.jp/cd/detail?accd=C1090089
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ok wow....

audio samples there

Yoshimi trying to ape Kim on vocals I think!

or Lydia.

it seems to me that once you start to download illegally you sort of lose your right to act all self-righteous about people selling their music to commercial or stuff like this starbucks partnership.

so so OTM. i'm not into downloading at all and i'm gonna buy the starbucks comp. so what?

1 4 : S U G A R C A N E ( V E N T I R E M I X )

Starbucks seems kind of gross. Obvious soulless low-com-denom in a middle-aged, middle-class housewife sort of way (misogyny warning redacted). Plus corporate evil blah blah, but mostly just gross. I'm not talking about what Starbucks actually is, mind, just what it seems to represent, culturally, to youngish city people who give a shit about what's in season.

Meanwhile, SY are supposed to be the opposite of all that. Some kind of timeless, all-weather coolness bastion that stands in opposition to zombie cow people who buy the wrong shoes. Unfortunately, they mean the most to once-cool people who are starting to get old, maybe even wrongly shod. That's why this conjunction fucks us up. It seems to foretell the death of something, at least time's ongoing uglification of everything that used to be beautiful. No mystery at all.

Mostly I love people who get on threads to talk about how stupid threads are. Fucking rock.

I think SY shut down this argument when they pointed out that Starbucks is in no way any "worse"/more corporate than the label they've recorded for the past 18 years.

plus they are middle-class, middle-age

How inspiring.

xpost

Have I shared with you guys my former roommate's theory that SY are older than the Rolling Stones? "Think about it," he said. "Sonic Youth had kids and stayed home with them and stuff. The Rolling Stones never did that shit!"

re Alex:

Yeah, but Starbucks are much, much worse in the gross (but totally bullshit) cultural associations sweepstakes. It's like SY recording a record for Depends. Not in any way immoral, but the black cloud hangs heavy.

College kids look like fucking children nowadays. Like they're twelve or something. Was it always like that?

yxpost your former roommate is hiiiiiiiiiii

It's like SY recording a record for Depends.

Huh^^^^^^^^

= getting old

Bob, SY has been my favorite band for like half my life and even I can't fathom the idea of them as some kind of "timeless, all-weather coolness bastion" that stands in opposition of everything bad in the world. Put down the pipe.

Maybe it's just me, but that's always seemed like the marketing angle. And I'm kind of attached to the pipe. It goes with my hand.

By "always", I mean since Daydream or thereabouts. And they were my favorite band for a good quarter of my life (20-30). So, I think we're in conjoined ballparks.

So the marketing angle for a rock band is understood to be completely true to life and unimpeachable, but the marketing angle for a coffee shop chain is something horrible and insidious that kills everything it touches.

loosely translated: I HATE YOU MOM

hey guys let's hate on awesome bands for stupid reasons

Can you guys imagine if you were at a garage sale and you stumbled over a Rolling Stones comp that had been sponsored by STP oil treatment?? It would be like "oh my god, coolest thing ever"

SNAP