"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