that Beck interview is fucking classic. SYR4 is great.. i was a super-stupid fan of sonic youth in 1999, and it fell right in line with my own trajectory outwards, discovering the larger world of music, fucking around with sounds and recording regularly. side A (of 4) sounded fully unhinged, with Kim G's vague, hushed vocals woven into the loose fabric - it was mysterious and difficult to understand. it introduced me to Christian Marclay, who made satisfying percussive sounds w/turntable, records etc. on "Burdocks" (a highlight) and throughout the four sides (the longer Cage pieces esp.) "Six for New Time" is another highlight, maybe the closest thing resembling a song (Slint-like?) on the album, and it introduced me to Pauline Oliveros. loved the variety of percussion and electronic sounds, the general sparseness of it, with meaty textures and odd juxtapositions.. but the ideas it presented were sometimes more appealing than the actual material/results. i'm glad to have been naive or ignorant of any supposed political or aesthetic intent for the album at the time, though i really dug the layout (font, graphics etc.) of the SYR series.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 10 June 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
Considering the 90s were a time where Beck was into drone guitar and Olivia since before he could speak and he was so slack that his real name was the sound of a sneaker hitting the wall I think that playing into the dissonance = credibility = cool equation was probably a part of it, even if the story of them starting SYR to allay "sell-out" accusations was spurious
― fgti, Friday, June 9, 2017 8:13 PM (twelve minutes ago)
this post is poetry
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 June 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
True story (and PUA tip): I shared that interview with my current partner of 3.5 years when we were first courting.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 June 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
SYR4 is great.. i was a super-stupid fan of sonic youth in 1999, and it fell right in line with my own trajectory outwards, discovering the larger world of music, fucking around with sounds and recording regularly.
This was very similar to my experience. By '99, I'd just started getting seriously into experimental composers. From my weirdly self-absorbed pov, it just seemed like a logical direction for them to go at the time, with the alternative moment in popular culture having more or less passed, esp after they had already put out a 20-minute song that was mostly a noise jam on a Geffen record.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 11 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 12 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
154 votes! nice. kinda surprised that 00s placed last
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 June 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
The results are too close
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 June 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
Lmao
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
this fuckin guy http://pitchfork.com/tv/22-over-under/1987-thurston-moore-rates-harry-styles-vaping-and-90s-nostalgia/
― DPRK Nowitzki (lpz), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
154 votes
wtf
― Οὖτις, Monday, 12 June 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
xp i love that when they get to "90s nostalgia" thurston sounds like he's midway through a stereotypical old person speech "which was the style at the time..."
also damn i know i've thought this and probably posted this before but are those caricatures they do for the over/under's intentionally really bad and unflattering?
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 June 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
The "1987" in that url was really fucking with my head.
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
vaping blows
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
otm
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 June 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
"Sugar is just wicked at my age."
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
hey that too (i'm the same age as him); weight gain is a bitch for old dudes, even stringbeans like thurston
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
TeenAge wiot
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
hello twenty, fifteen!
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
sister-sister-sister
― space2k, Monday, 19 June 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
radical adults lick godhead style
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 19 June 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
boys go to jupiter get more stupidergirls go to mars become rockstars
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 June 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
one two one two one two titty
― massaman gai, Monday, 19 June 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
don't forget to close the door
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
Terror Twilight’s second attempt at actualization began at Sonic Youth’s Lower East Side studio/practice space Echo Canyon, rented out to the band at friends’ rates. The manageable budget was the main attraction but within a couple days it became apparent that the studio’s sundry idiosyncrasies were a bridge too far for Godrich. Acceptable headphone mixes were nearly impossible to achieve and the faders were upside down.
they peaked a lot when the faders were upside down, probably
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 April 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link