Amazed tbh
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
anyways, here is not a bad way to spend an hour. I posted it on Facebook, but it is probably appropriate here too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZAETFJ3a8
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 12 May 2013 07:27 (eleven years ago) link
loving these Youtubes, thanks folks! That brief 2-minute clips thing clemenze posted seems significantly more focused than I remember them being at the show I saw.
is there any official concert footage available other than their stuff on The Year Punk Broke?
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Sunday, 12 May 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
sleeve, there's the excellent gila monster jamboree vhs documenting a show from 85 in the mojave desert
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/vid2.html
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Sunday, 12 May 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
STOKED
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, they have the energy and intensity of a metal band in that 1987 show. Very different from the dazzling precision of the Murray Street tour (or the relatively blase ATL tour).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of feel like I'm watching Krallice.
yeah, for the first four songs or so, I was like, "okay, yeah, shoegaze" and then it turned into something quite a bit more fierce...!
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 13 May 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha this is great. "this song is called 'Sister'...::plays unaccompanied guitar for a few seconds, stops:: oh, Steve, you wanna start it?"
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
dangit, i wanna watch these, but am beat. maybe i will watch them psychically while i sleep.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds like a good premise for a pk dick book to be adapted into an sy song
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
do contendroids dream of electric guitars?
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
^underrated display names ship won't use
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 13 May 2013 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
Everybody ready?http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/song_results.png
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/100.jpg100. Secret GirlEvol, 1986(50 points, 4 votes)
woah, top 100!
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
question: are you gonna do a Spotify playlist of the songs in the countdown as we go, or will you leave that for someone else to do? (i'd volunteer myself, but i'm gonna be working a lot this week and probably wouldn't update it very promptly)
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't use Spotify, but I'm sure someone else will volunteer.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I'm not going to post YouTube videos with the entries, but I highly encourage everyone to post relevant clips!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
Secret Girl had such a huge impact on me.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I wonder if I gave "Secret Girl" half its points. I've always loved it. All the percussive sounds in the first half are them whacking muted guitar strings with a lot of reverb, right?
xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 13 May 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
OK, watching a couple of live clips, I think they were playing with a tape. Does anyone know the source? A horror film soundtrack? Actual sound collage?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 13 May 2013 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yes! Secret Girl made it! Voted for it.
IMO Secret Girl >>> Providence
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/099.jpg99. Saucer-LikeWashing Machine, 1995(52 points, 3 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/098.jpg98. Paper Cup ExitSonic Nurse, 2004(55 points, 4 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
ATL was the first SY album I disliked. I even gave the CD away. I like "hoarfrost", "sunday" and "hits of sunshine" but the album was a bit of a chore for me to listen to. I guess I should listen to it again, its been a long while. Whats is it that everyone loves about it?
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Saucer-Like" is a good song that always kinda gets lost in the shuffle for me, nice to see it get a little shine
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
If PCE made it, Lee is going to rampage the poll.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet that "Saucer Like" made it - that was one of my votes.
It took me to cotton to ATL and I never really LOVED it - there were a few songs I liked way more than others, and I remember transporting for and catching overlap with SYR songs. It never became a real favorite overall, but it's special in the sense that a) it dropped during the summer I stayed I'm my college town, between junior and senior years, b) I saw SY touring it and they were great, and c) the killer moments on it, like some of the gently psychedelic tilts on "Sunshine," are absolutely sublime even now.
NYCG&F is the first/only SY I sold almost back almost right away.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
I thought ATL was amazing the first time I heard it (I can remember I'd just got a new stereo at the time and it was one of the first things I played) but after a few listens the handful of annoying filler tracks started to grate. I still think it's a pretty good album because the highs are really good but it's not first-tier SY by any means. I'd probably put it on a par with Washing Machine.
Really surprised Goo didn't make the top ten albums.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/097.jpg97. Computer AgeThe Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, 1989(57 points, 4 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
(whisper it) Washing Machine is actually maybe my favourite SY of the albums I've heard (Evol / Daydream Nation / Dirty / WM / A Thousand Leaves / Murray Street / Sonic Nurse).
― Tim F, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
Washing Machine contains both my favourite and least-favourite SY songs.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
WM is like 80% great, which is a winner in my book - it made my top 5 albums ballot
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
I think I like how bass-driven it feels. Someone said upthread that it carried over some of the "bluesy" quality of EJST&NS - is that an accurate description? Maybe i should check that album out.
― Tim F, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
Love that cover of "Computer Age"; v.appropriate for SY's uh curation instincts or w/e that they'd cover off Trans before the 80s had ended.
― etc, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a pretty sporadic fan of SY but I voted "Computer Age" super high (#3?). Waaaaay better than the original, it seems built for SY: Moore's voice on the sing-songy "weeks and months & years" parts is my favorite vocal of his, against the squall.
― Euler, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, without your vote it would have been #130 or so.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/096.jpg96. The NeutralRather Ripped, 2006(58 points, 4 votes)
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/095.jpg95. Pattern RecognitionSonic Nurse, 2004(60 points, 5 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
i'm loving the photos!!!
"Pattern Rec" was one of my votes, one of the few tracks from that album that i actually love
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
did we ever do a pavement poll like this one?
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
it was one of the first, actually: PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL rEsULtS!!!
"Pattern Recognition" smokes
― seanpennderizer (some dude), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
I hope I Love You Golden Blue gets in.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
"The Neutral" one of mine. So is "Paper Cup Exit."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
i am kicking myself for missing that pavement poll
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
praying "Becuz" places somewhere in the top 100
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, May 13, 2013 5:41 AM (12 minutes ago)
yeah, me too. nice work, ac.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Pattern Recognition is the first one of mine to place. One of the songs I rediscovered while listening to the albums the last couple of weeks. I think at the time Sonic Nurse was released I kept going straight to "Unmade Bed" and thus never gave this one a fair chance.
― silverfish, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
cannot forgive the word "coolhunter". will fight to the death. i cringe at it like the "what becomes a mirrorshade most?" line in g-force. cyberpunk not kind to SY.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link