― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
But, I love almost all of their albums.
― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.mp3search.ru/album.html?id=19676
Here, Matts off-key jazz accompanies her off-key verbal meanderings..
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― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/sonic_youth_-_sonic_life.html
I wasn't so hot on the EP when I first heard it (just post Confusion Is Sex) but it's aged nicely. Will be interesting to see how it's received the 3rd time around.
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― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Hi dlp!
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s409133.jpg
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i'm having an argument with a friend who says he doesn't like sy - his argument basically consists of "how many of their songs can you sing? i bet not any" (he is not a luddite, he's into lots of good stuff, but has a real block with certain bands, artier ones i guess). i seem to spend half my life wandering around singing sy songs under my breath but i think i'm a bit too close to it and half the time i'm singing the texture not the tune, if that makes any sense. so... request suggestions for a melody-based sy comp?
― emsk, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not sure if i've already commented somewhere on this thread, but of course classic.
and search pretty much the whole catalogue. at the very least, there's something interesting going on in all the records. don't really bother with the nyc ghosts and flowers thing though
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaymc made this poppy SY mix for me:
1. Expressway to Yr Skull (1986, Evol) 2. Schizophrenic (1987, Sister) 3. Teen Age Riot (1988, Daydream Nation) 4. Cross the Breeze (1988, Daydream Nation) 5. Kool Thing (1990, Goo) 6. Tunic (Song for Karen) (1990, Goo) 7. Sugar Kane (1992, Dirty) 8. Bull in the Heather (1994, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star) 9. Skip Tracer (1995, Washing Machine) 10. Diamond Sea (Edit) (1995, Washing Machine) 11. Sunday (1997, A Thousand Leaves) 12. The Empty Page (2002, Murray Street 13. Unmade Bed (2004, Sonic Nurse 14. Reena (2006, Rather Ripped) 15. Incinerate (2006, Rather Ripped)
― Jordan, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, how about Star Power?
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
(In addition to Jordan's list)
"how many of their songs can you sing? i bet not any" (he is not a luddite, he's into lots of good stuff, but has a real block with certain bands, artier ones i guess).
Is your friend's name Geir Hongro?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
heheh! no...
― emsk, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
that comp looks good, a good start point anyway, thank you i had wish fulfilment and my friend goo and madonna, sean and me down too good?
― emsk, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Madonna, Sean & Me = Expressway To Yr Skull :)
Tis good though yeah.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
re: NYCGF is to be entirely avoided. I don't generally adore Lee's foregrounded beat trips, but I think the title track on it is pretty thrillingly built, levelled, and released; the rest of the album is mostly meh or worse, though.
― West Lake Wallowing, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i am useless that's what i get for trying to do 4590 things at once
― emsk, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
euh, that mix above is like an amalgam of most of my least favorite SY tracks from those albums. except 'expressway to yr skull,' which is possibly the best poppy song SY have ever done.
― the table is the table, Monday, 11 June 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i really love their 'hated' albums, experimental jet set and NYCGAF... 'sweet shine' off ejt&ns just floors me every. single. time. kim's singing is sublime.
― stevie, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
experimental jet set is sometimes my favourite
― emsk, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Some glorious day I'll have Dirty on CD.
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
(Somewhat surprised Jaymc's SY pop mix didn't include "Little Trouble Girl!")
― nabisco, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought this would be about the Daydream Nation Deluxe cd that leaked yesterday.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Other songs I would include as tuneful, well-composed SY tunes (sometimes maybe a bit on the proggy side of SY as opposed to the 'pop' side): "Candle" "Dirty Boots" "Disappearer" "Wish Fulfillment" maybe "Disconnection Notice" "New Hampshire"
― Sundar, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
(By and large, though, there's not usually a whole lot going on melodically, which may be what emsk's friend is getting at. They have tunes but they're usually very basic ones.)
― Sundar, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I made a similar comp for Dominique Leone but I never sent it to him, it went:
1. Intro 2. Teenage Riot 3. Schizophrenia 4. Tom Violence 5. Star Power 6. Eric's Trip 7. Dissapear 8. The Sprawl 9. Candle 10. Mote 11. Shadow of a Doubt 12. Sugar Kane 13. Wish Fulfillment 14. Pacific Coast Highway 15. Cotton Crown 16. Xpressway to yr Skull
basically the most hummable numbers from the 86-91 or so period. And anyone who says they don't write catchy singable songs to me will have to hear some of my singing, and it usually starts with "I went away, to see an old friend of mine..."
― dan selzer, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I like your comp a lot.
"Green Light" is another song I love that hardly anyone mentions.
― Sundar, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't mean for the mix to be a "Sonic Youth goes pop" mix per se, just a good intro to the band for someone who hadn't heard much of them before. By and large, that tended to be pop-oriented stuff.
I did almost put "Star Power" on there, though.
― jaymc, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Daydream Nation live next month: SO EXCITED YOU GUYS.
― jaymc, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Expressway To Your Skull
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadow of A Doubt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSc8957FoSQ
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Expressway to Yr Skull
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 September 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link