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
or Madonna, Sean and Me
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 September 2007 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
best song ever, especially on vinly, because it goes on forever.
starfield road
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 24 September 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Their first EP is an absolute monument in post-punk worthy of rubbing shoulders with PIL in my opinion.
― Bimble, Monday, 24 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes! I feel like one of those arbitrary revisionists who always piss me off, but I swear that first EP is, in hindsight, the best thing they ever did.
― dlp9001, Monday, 24 September 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
worthy of rubbing shoulders with PIL
Glad I've never heard it then.
― jaymc, Monday, 24 September 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadow of A Doubt:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSc8957FoSQ
cool, never seen that before. that's one of my favorite sy tracks
― am0n, Monday, 24 September 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
so, um, SYR 7 ???
Saw it on vinyl the other day, 1 song on each side. Anybody heard it?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
bump, dammit.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 14:58 (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<<
wow this is grebt..
>basically the most hummable numbers
but i thought Juno said they were JUST NOIZE!???
― Vichitravirya_XI, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I'd describe 5 out of the 8? minutes of Mote as hummable actually
― Vichitravirya_XI, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
you can hum whatever you want! win win!
― gff, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't heard the music yet, but I like the sleeve:
"Thurston Moore. Goodbye 20th Century, Goodbye Talent."
― krakow, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.saucerlike.com/articles.php?x=display&id=14
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Thank you.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Battery Park show broadcasting live on WFMU right now :D
just started, they're on their first song
― dmr, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
This is awesome! Thanks for the tip.
― Sundar, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
no prob, I was stuck at work just a few blocks away from where they were playing! so I was glad I got to listen to it
I wonder why they didn't broadcast the Feelies ... ?
― dmr, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit they're broadcasting...now???
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
okay what link am I supposed to click on? You guys are holding out.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this the right link? What do I do when I get here? http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/reminder-sonic.html
Help please thanx
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
(1 hour ago)
it's over now, it was from about 5 to 6:15
I'm sure they'll archive it but it probably won't be up right away
― dmr, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the concert was INCREDIBLE! and with Mark Ibold on bass? I'd neven seen them live, and I was gobsmacked. Thurston was amusing too - when Kim forgot the words - "she's injecting the lyrics now". When he friend a guitar cable - "we need bluetooth up in this piece".
― jermainetwo, Saturday, 5 July 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing's for sure though: Moore is enjoying the relative freedom that comes with a return to indie-dom. "It feels great," he told Rock & Roll Daily. "The last four or five records we did were just so compromised by that [major label] situation. But that's the way it goes."
asshole. Those last three records, at least, were fantastic. But I guess that was just because the major label made them do it.
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think he's saying they aren't good records.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree, but I still wonder what he means by compromised. Obviously Geffen is not forcing them to make records with big radio singles.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I get that, but what's he mean by saying they were "compromised"? xp lol
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
who did they sign with?
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
article is coy (decision isn't public yet), but suggests either Domino or Matador
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's this article?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
pitchfork lol
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, aside from Rather Ripped's much shorter song running times, I'm really at a loss on what the label might've leaned on them to do on the last 4 albums, especially compared to the pressure the band was likely under circa Dirty. I always just figured, they have so many outlets for instrumental and/or abrasive noisy stuff with the SYR series and all those side projects that the proper albums were the way they were by choice.
― some dude, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I think this means he wants the next one to sound like Bull Tongue.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe he just means the experience of having to work with a major label took some of the fun out of releasing those albums.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
What a fucktard. Sonic Youth are easily the most out-there band signed to a major these days.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it is you who are the fucktard
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link