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Shut up or I'll crush yr windpipe w/my very MIND

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link

I think you should paint the steps in Aotea square, each a different colour, becauase I can;t wait for there years long 23 million queen st improvement plan

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

No problem!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link

i dreamed about sonic youth last night! i dreamed that they came down here and did a private unplugged concert just for everyone from IRE! and they were really really nice! (though lee was rude to me and steve shelley hit on me which for some reason i found uncomfortable). they gave us all lots of free CDs!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

sonic youth unplugged!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

yeah wtf!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

My mum would probably like it, she likes the quiet part of "Diamond Sea". I've dreamed about Sonic Youth before though I forget what happened.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Hey so Livvie are we gonna get to meet your mum?

― Minty (Minty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 09:37 (twenty years ago) link

&no-one's buying stink "seated" tickets, right?

― Minty (Minty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:00 (twenty years ago) link

I've dreamt about Sonic Youth like 3 times, in one I made them dinner and it was mince, tofu and mushrooms with a scoop of ice cream on top. They really enjoyed it!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

"Don't forget the icecream!"

― Kim Gordon (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

I was so envious of that dream!

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

I was too. I don't think I was in it, was I? That'd rule.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

Cooking for Sonic Youth? Wow! I'm paralysed by jealousy. I'd cook them something a damn sight better than your manky creme de mushies mince and tofu, tho.

― Minty (Minty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

how bout some melon?
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/cantordu/ek/symelon.jpg

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

sonic youth sucks my cock and you all can suck my cock for thinking that there good. anyone who wants to contradict what i just said, write me a complaint email, or just im me killthehippies16

― sonic youth sucks, Friday, 9 April 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

That's one way of meeting people, I suppose.

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 9 April 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

hey & Missy E playing earlier in the same month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

hey di - are you still going?, im up just for the weekend of the gig, shacking up on k road with the die!die!die! guys..

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Has ANYONE bought tickets for this yet? I'm getting increasingly certain I won't get in, oh well.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i bought mine about 2 weeks ago.. there seemed to be quite a few available at the time, might have changed by now though

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess it's not that big a deal if I miss out cause it saves me $65 if I don't get in. Hey Chris this will maybe sound a bit stalkerish but I see you round Christchurch a bit, you prob. don't know who I am though.

― Livvie (Livvie), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you'll get in really. I don't think I've ever been IDed at the St James, it's kinda a weird venue. Like if they'd ID you they'd probably have IDed me in the past.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey! You should come on AIM. I'm listening to Di on the radio.

― Livvie (Livvie), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I wouldn't worry about it Livvie, I went to gigs at the St. James when I was underage. I'm not even sure it's an r18 venue, I remember one time they stamped my hand to say I couldn't drink.

― Minty (Minty), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay I WILL buy a ticket. Maybe even tomorrow or Friday! As should you all.

― Livvie (Livvie), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah buy a ticket! Serious! Yo! I should sleep!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I should be able to afford a ticket next week, if the boys from d1e! d1e! d1e! pay me the money for the power bill, cough cough cough. & yeah, wasn't ID'd at the St James the one time I've been there.

― etc, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I know some people planning to take their nine year old (who's a fan of dirty)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome, looks like a party. i still have no fucking idea who etc is..

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah but kids w/ their parents is different. STILL, worth it for a chance to see SY.

― Livvie (Livvie), Thursday, 6 May 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

There you go, bring yr mum

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a Sonic Youth dream last night!
they had an afternoon gig before the night they played. They covered Violent Femmes "heartache", a really good hard thrashy song, Kim was drumming, really amazingly.
But I started realising I wouldn't be able to afford to go to the night time gig (gee I wonder why that came up!)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a stupid dream about my Mum deciding she was gay and wanting me to get her into the SCENE last night, I just remembered. She had a strapon and was being VERY annoying. And for the sake of this thread um she THEN joined Sonic Youth and they played a great gig! Rock!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

chris, i'm not going now :-(. i'm saving up to go to tucson instead.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

tuscon? what the fuck?

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah. i'm going there to marry a cactus. its quite a prickly issue.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

*drum-roll*

..and i was thinking it was something to do with their tomatoes..

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Maybe this should be revived

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Etc did you get a ticket? Spectra did you sort yr money out?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

y'know, i still don't know who etc, mr. mime and countandrew actually are.. though i suspect i should

is livvie still coming up?

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Dean.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm just some guy. Some guy named "Andrew". I've prob seen you around at some point, yeah.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

hey the new SY album is pretty cool (first listen) way noisier than murray street. i like.

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm coming on the train, Thurs. Not sure when I'm leaving.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link

SHIT there are two Sonic Youth tickets on Trademe going for $70 together and that's the buy it now!! Someone get them! Who needs a ticket?

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no price is per ticket, I should really read these things.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Phew

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I'll be there.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

okay I'm going on the train all day Thurs.
I guess I'll bump into some of yous

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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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

A super sounding riff one might say

― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link

the middle section, particularly when they start playing that harmonics/feedback riff, is the ideal of what I listen to them for.

100% cosign, a real highlight of their work

― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

this article was pretty good, imo, but the cbgb bootleg embedded within is outstanding, with some blistering versions of daydream nation tracks: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/sonic-youth-and-the-business-of-keeping-a-dead-band-alive/

the bootleg: https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cbgbs-1988

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link

lol i had no idea this board existed. i rate this bootleg a 10/10

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link

ten months pass...

This was just posted by Roxy Cinema in NYC but not widely announced - they're screening The Velvet Suite with a Q&A afterwards with Lee Ranaldo and filmmaker Ignacio Julia moderated by Thurston Moore:

https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-velvet-suite/

― birdistheword, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link

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