Click here to talk about the next Sonic Youth album - The Eternal

Didn't hear the last two but I feel ready for new Sonic Youth. Fahey's arsehole art is a subject of great personal interest to me but unfortunately I can't find any information. Tour would be good.

I'm in the excited crowd.

Apart from it being a Fahey arse-painting the cover is dull though.

this site's pretty dope - http://sonicyouth.utkonos.org/lossless/

Did that St@rbuck's comp ever actually come out? I never saw a single copy in any store I stopped in. I'm not a daily coffee fiend, but I stopped by often enough to assume I'd have seen it at some point.

Ha, did I know you in alt.music.sonic-youth days, some dude?

maybe! I know there was one other person on ILM a couple years ago that remembered me from there, can't remember who but I don't think it was you (IIRC my screenname was "hotel opera" and i signed my posts "al").

jvc, it was only available in "New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C."

Dunno if that extends to the entire metropolitan area of each of those cities, but if not, then that might explain it. (I'm most of your Starbucks visits are in the suburbs.)

*I'm assuming most...

Unfortunately they are, that must explain it. I don't think I would have shelled out $16 or whatever for the one unreleased track, but I was wondering why I never came across it.

Malibu Gas Station (feat. Ludacris & Jeremy Piven)

free live record when you order the eternal, sounds pretty cool

For the curious (and those who wish to mock), here's where the "leaky lifeboat" reference comes from in Gregory Corso's poem "For Homer," written, I think in the '80s or early '90s.

For Homer

by Gregory Corso

There’s rust on the old truths

-Ironclad clichés erode

New lies don’t smell as nice

as new shoes

I’ve years of poems to type up

40 years of smoking to stop

I’ve no steady income

No home

And because my hands are autochthonic

I can never wash them enough

I feel dumb

I feel like an old mangy bull

crashing through the red rag

of an alcoholic day

Yet it’s all so beautiful

isn’t it?

How perfect the entire system of things

The human body

all in proportion to its form

Nothing useless

Truly as though a god had indeed warranted it so

And the sun for day the moon for night

And the grass the cow the milk

That we all in time die.

You’d think there would be chaos

the futility of it all.

But children are born

oft times spitting images of us

And the inequities

millions doled one

nilch for another

both in the same leaky lifeboat

I’ve no religion

and I’d as soon worship Hermes

And there is no tomorrow

there’s only right here and now

you and whomever you’re with

alive as always

and ever ignorant of that death you’ll never know

And all’s well that is done

A Hellene happiness pervades the peace

and the gift keeps on coming…

a work begun splendidly done

To see people aware & kind

at ease and contain’d of wonder

like the dreams of the blind

The heavens speak through our lips

All’s caught what could not be found

All’s brought what was left behind

Wow, it took about 50 seconds of the "montage" of that album to convince me that I never need to hear it. Thank you, montage.

really? ah, well, I liked the way a lot of those snippets sounded ... maybe a little throwback to Goo-era stuff? Trashier?

I stopped the mashup about 30 seconds in because I realized it was ruining my future experience with the songs.

I think a "montage" of an album would have to be the worst possible way to exposed to it for the first time and I will never ever listen to one.

esp sonic youth

wow, that sonic youth montage sure sounded like a sonic youth montage. i can't imagine anything sounding more like a sonic youth montage than that. nary a surprising, unexpected or atypical sound, pure sonic youth montage through and through. recognizable from a mile away. glad geffen can't force them to make a bunch of experimental bullshit anymore. they can do Daydream Nation VI: The Voyage Home without interference from douchebag label types who demand albums have "novelty" or some such distinguishing factor.

Ha, if anything, I almost think you're being generous, croup.

I hear next time they're just going to release the contract to the public and put the album in a filing cabinet in Northampton.

haha

da croupier u mad

the montage sounds awesome - like rather ripped, but with dirtier,fuller,and even poppier sound that goes back to the early 90's Dirty days.
smells like fun.

Fuck, they couldn't wait to get off of Geffen so they went to ... Matador?

Unbelievable.

I put down the cash for the pre-order... $40 for the LP !! (With an MSRP of $50!!)
Last record ran for $15, this better be some deluxe shit.

PROMO IS HERE...ALREADY!

where'd you preorder? through matador?

matador pre-order not open til april 28 if i understand correct

leak? leak? leak????

buyearlygetnow.com has a list of local stores where you can order. I got it at 1234GO in Oakland. Anyway so far all they're giving out is the mini-mix preview of the album, which I couldn't properly download anyhow. April 28 is the date they're letting BEGN listen to a stream of the full record. So far, dud.

You also get an exclusive Live LP recorded at Battery Park on July 4th 2008 (and a free poster) with the Buy Early Get Now pre-order remember, as well as the access to the early stream of the full album, hence the highish price.

£21 for the CD, £28 for the LP versions in the UK.

first listen: most self-indulgent disc in a good while, not sure if that's a good thing or not yet

leaked.
sounds pretty great.
like Rather Ripped, but with thicker sound - which is better!

Concerned by "thicker sound"description; Rather Ripped sounds wicked?

Ripped was good, but here it seems that they took the same ideas, and developed a bit further.

ok, i tried...
happy april fools day...

i wuz fool't. plz leak!

getting better the more i listen

and sorry, not leaking, this shit's watermarked with my name

saw this sonic youth doc/concert movie last night, it's awesome and it made me excited for a new album.

I saw that a few months ago at a sneak preview in Austin, was pretty "meh" for me and I'm a huge fan.

so what is it? a doc about the band by teenagers, or just a concert movie? both?

mostly concert movie, with some brief interview snippets between songs and about 10 minutes of bullshitting with the band after the show.

what did you like about it? i'm only a casual fan, so it's not like i've even seen them live before.

Today i saw a leak around

a doc about the band by teenagers

OTM.

Granted it was mostly concert footage, but was pretty poorly organized and not very engaging.

Strange. There's a leak that is unmistakeably Sonic Youth (it's certainly Kim Gordon singing on a couple of tracks, though the rest could be them just improvising stuff), but it's not the album that's sampled here: .

interesting article from Simon Reynolds on the artist as consumer re: The Eternal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/apr/07/sonic-youth-underground-influences