tho tobin sprout hit a similar average on those early GBV records
(faultless 2nd bananas poll)
― contenderizer, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like spiral stairs would fit in there, but he is far from faultless
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I would jump off a building and hoped I landed on Spiral Stairs.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont even know which songs he wrote
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
generally speaking, the ones he sang ... two state, hit the plane down etc.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
well he wrote pavement songs so i'm not sure he's going to be challenging schubert and arthur lee
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
unexpected tag team
― contenderizer, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the Lennon-McCartney of art-suck?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
are schubert and arthur lee faultless second bananas?
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
art suck could be your life
― contenderizer, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
arthur LEE, not arthur SUCK...! God, clean out yr ~ears~
― Ned Rag & the Evil Olive Gardens (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for that comp!!! lee is the best!!!
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i def wouldve chosen 'hey joni' on this poll cuz its my favorite SY song
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
karen I & II are so perfect, beautiful and sad
― Nedrag "Neđa" Mijatović (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i made a Lee mix a few years ago, cool to see someone else's and some small ways the sequencing is similar (especially opening with Mote/Hoarfrost): http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2006/08/sonic-youth-notorious-rockin-lee.html#comments
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah hooray and thanks. tried to get this together inspired by his thread but foiled by mp3 lack.
― Snop Snitchin, Friday, 31 December 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
home from dinner and listening to the comp. lost the sequencing importing it to ituens, so i'm just running it sequentially. wanted to note that the drum break before the second verse of "pipeline", about 1 minute in, is one of my all-time favorite musical moments. bum ... ba BOOM ba ksh ksh (pause) crak boomboom BAM BAM! so rad.
― contenderizer, Friday, 31 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
hokay, so i listened to all the lee is free songs, and they are some great, but it was somewhat disappointing to find that the somewhat disappointing post-dirty dropoff that i once thought i noticed still seems to exist. at least in and among the lee songs. i'd hoped it was mere figment and that i'd be blown away, chagrined chet-like at what i'd then failed to understand. but no.
of the songs i knew, i still dig "skip tracer" and the thousand leaves cuts, still loathe "nyc ghosts & flowers", and "rats" is awesome (but much better than most of RR, iirc). biggest surprise was the relative excellence of "karen revisited" and the eternal tracks (great drum recording). reservations aside, i guess i need to pick up the last 4 albums and really spend some time with them. rather ripped is the only one i've heard from front to back...
― contenderizer, Friday, 31 December 2010 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
'pipeline' is sucha rad fukken song man
― A ‰ (Lamp), Friday, 31 December 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
fukken a
― contenderizer, Friday, 31 December 2010 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
No problem on the mixtape, you're all most welcome.
The Manchester gig I caught in December wasn't so hot unfortunately. I wasn't really feeling the setlist and the band seemed under-rehearsed (Catholic Block took three attempts to get right!).
Still, the encores ruled.
Sonic Youth - Manchester Academy - Dec 30th 2010
1. No Way2. Sacred Trickster3. Calming The Snake4. Tom Violence5. Walkin Blue6. Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)7. Poison Arrow8. Anti-Orgasm9. Antenna10. (I Gotta A) Catholic Block11. Stereo Sanctity12. What We Know13. Massage The History
Encore
1. The Sprawl2. Cross The Breeze
1. White Cross2. Death Valley '69
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't seen them in so so long. have to make the time next time they're around.
"i dreamed i dream" got fukken shafted in this poll. one of their very best songs. half regret voting for "mote" now...
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
no votes for "Saucer-Like"?????????????????? besides that wack beat poetry shit in the middle, that's one of SY's most thrilling and creepy songs.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 29 April 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
"Saucer-Like" is great, one of the reasons I love that record. Still hard to vote for it over the other classic Lee tunes though.
― grandavis, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Would put it over "Skip Tracer" though (even though I also like "Skip Tracer" a lot ....)
― grandavis, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
My picks
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
Hoarfrost is an unexpectedly low key and beautiful choice, from one of my favorite Sonic Youth albums
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
We'll know wheeeeeennnn
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
it's so good
― sleeve, Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
Skip Tracer is my #1, glad to see it listed. Great song, kind of scary.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:59 (five years ago) link
"Rats" v. underrated Lee cut.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 5 January 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link
I remember liking Pipeline/Kill TIme but I think Eric's Trip was the first time I thought of Lee Ranaldo as a distinct entity within the band
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
same!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
even on "Hoarfrost" I thought at first that Moore sang it.
His solo records have been outstanding. It doesn’t sound anything like Sonic Youth. It’s much more melodic. Almost like classic rock.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
Crazy that "Genetic" only ended up with 2 votes. It was on the My So-Called Life soundtrack (which should be polled!)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
he grew up as a deadhead xp
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 6 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Great Lee video (we need that SYR with Nels Cline!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVMo4F2H0dY
― EvR, Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
"Wish Fulfillment" is such a sad song. Like something Thalia Zedek would have written.
― timellison, Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Skip Tracer is so good.. the production on Washing Machine is stellar, I never really recognized its shortcomings (lack of bass?) ... i didn't realize Lee had such a strong presence on Unwind, it's not so obvious / apparent. a friend of mine once recorded (himself singing) a short parody of Ranaldo's vocal delivery--it's pretty spot on. Haven't kept up with Lee's recent output, he seemed to get a bit hackneyed (similar to Thurston), recycling bits of his old recordings for some of his more recent free-form sound work, but i can't really speak on the recent song-based stuff
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 7 January 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
Eric’s Trip made me think about music a little differently when I heard it in high school - like, I’d heard a few Somic Youth songs, and had even seen them live at this point (touring Murray St at a festival), and I got that they incorporated noise, but what I’d heard was the jams in the middle of songs (or just slamming their guitars against the amps during Karen Revisited). Eric’s Trip was the first song I’d heard where the noise seemed to actually propel the song, and it didn’t conform to the way I thought about proper songwriting at all, but I immediately loved it.
― JoeStork, Monday, 7 January 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link