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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 February 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, did I know you in alt.music.sonic-youth days, some dude?
― Sundar, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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").
― I'm your biggest fan, here's your suggest ban (some dude), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
*I'm assuming most...
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Malibu Gas Station (feat. Ludacris & Jeremy Piven)
― Eazy, Friday, 27 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
free live record when you order the eternal, sounds pretty cool
― schlump, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
really? ah, well, I liked the way a lot of those snippets sounded ... maybe a little throwback to Goo-era stuff? Trashier?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I stopped the mashup about 30 seconds in because I realized it was ruining my future experience with the songs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Freak Man (some dude), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
esp sonic youth
― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, if anything, I almost think you're being generous, croup.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― Sundar, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
da croupier u mad
― eman, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Friday, 6 March 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck, they couldn't wait to get off of Geffen so they went to ... Matador?
― swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Friday, 6 March 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 March 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
PROMO IS HERE...ALREADY!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 27 March 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
where'd you preorder? through matador?
― tylerw, Friday, 27 March 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
matador pre-order not open til april 28 if i understand correct
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
leak? leak? leak????
― akm, Friday, 27 March 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 March 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― krakow, Friday, 27 March 2009 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
first listen: most self-indulgent disc in a good while, not sure if that's a good thing or not yet
― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 27 March 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
leaked.sounds pretty great.like Rather Ripped, but with thicker sound - which is better!
― Zeno, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Concerned by "thicker sound"description; Rather Ripped sounds wicked?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Ripped was good, but here it seems that they took the same ideas, and developed a bit further.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, i tried...happy april fools day...
― Zeno, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i wuz fool't. plz leak!
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Thursday, 2 April 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
getting better the more i listen
― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw that a few months ago at a sneak preview in Austin, was pretty "meh" for me and I'm a huge fan.
― ilxor, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
so what is it? a doc about the band by teenagers, or just a concert movie? both?
― tylerw, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Today i saw a leak around
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
a doc about the band by teenagers
OTM.
― ilxor, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Granted it was mostly concert footage, but was pretty poorly organized and not very engaging.
― ilxor, Saturday, 4 April 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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: .
― StanM, Sunday, 5 April 2009 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― Zeno, Monday, 6 April 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 April 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah the idea of Sonic Youth simply putting out generic SY album 1,2,3....no one needs that,surely. Where's the next Goo-esque cool t shirt design going to come from? Massive black marks for '5th member' influence - O'Rourke, Ibold.
Once upon a time Sonic Youth were funny people from New York who had the key to castle irony and sang about people much more famous than themselves. They should put Lung Leg on their next album cover.
― Edward Figaro, Sunday, 12 April 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/20/sonic-youth-first-mp3-secret-show-in-london/
― just sayin, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Good song. I can't get over how short it is.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link