Sonic Youth: Classic or Dud/S&D?

they're selling off a ton of gear: https://reverb.com/shop/official-sonic-youth
but the coolest thing is that they've started posting live shows over yonder: http://nugs.net/search/sonic%20youth
just getting into the williamburg 2011 show (their last NYC show), which i'd heard an audience tape of, but the multitrack recording is amazing. the sweetest guitar sound.

ooh thx for the tip

oh wow so much cool stuff in that reverb sale!

Omg I cannot afford any of it.

haha yeah

8000 quid for a Telecaster. No thanks, guys. Are they short of money or what?

not just ANY telecaster but the Sonic Youth one (to be fair art pricing does work like this)

Tbf, I think their guitars were modded?

SY didn’t sell much in the way of records and I don’t hear their tunes get licensed all that much so I’d imagine they need the $$$$

all that stuff is just collecting dust, I assume, they may as well get a little cash. that said, I don't know who buys this kinda thing. rich tech bros who also love noise?

haha what the heck is this bag of garbage?

https://reverb.com/item/16087880-sonic-youth-live-used-skrim-owned-by-sonic-youth

they should sell it to primal skrim

not just ANY telecaster but the Sonic Youth one (to be fair art pricing does work like this)

Like the £200 fuzzbox that doesn't work.

I noticed they're also selling a hand-made guitar that was given to them by a fan (the aluminum one). Kind of a prickish thing to do, imo.

happy to blame thurston for that tbh

Well there is only one bass on sale - I bet you that's Thurston's too.

^^I think you're right. I first saw them live in 2001 and swear I got pictures (since lost in a move) of him playing that blue P-Bass.

all that stuff is just collecting dust, I assume, they may as well get a little cash. that said, I don't know who buys this kinda thing. rich tech bros who also love noise?

Maybe the CEO of Alcaliber

Haha. All the guitars' condition is graded between "fair" and "not functioning"

Lee takes you on a tour of the Sonic Youth warehouse in Hoboken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVMo4F2H0dY

My favorite Kim songs. I don't see "Sweet Shine" mentioned enough.

otm re: sweet shine

i'd have brother james (at #1!) and making the nature scene on my list (if those qualify as kim songs)

Kool Thing, Tunic and Shadow of a Doubt are all amazing, hard to choose between them

Putting in a good word for "Sympathy for the Strawberry"

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Washing Machine should be on there, i love love love that song.

I'd also say Bull in the Heather is too low cuz I'm a basic bitch.

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My first encounter with Sonic Youth was seeing the video for "Shadow of a Doubt" on Snub TV, which came on *after* Night Flight (so, maybe 2 AM?)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpbFoEUV24

Realizing lately that 'Sweet Shine' is maybe my favorite SY song full stop. And I love a lot of the skronky noisy shit a whole lot.

I like a lot of Kim G songs but the screaming on the "wooh! I'm coming home" bit in that song really doesn't work for me, especially with the soft musical track. I like "Bull in the Heather" and "Skink" a lot, though.

I just drove past a busy strip of shops in Arusha Tanzania and there was a woman wearing, among other things, a Sonic Youth shirt.

it would be more punk rock if it was just the shirt

Sweet Shine is such a brilliant, brilliant song

Yeah it's def one of my favorites

My CD of EJT&NS had a skip right in the middle of Sweet Shine. Was so annoying. My vinyl copy is fine, though.

"Tunic" (okay, maybe "Disappearer" too) was what inspired me to buy a SY record as a wee bairn, so...w00t!

speaking of Sonic Youth shirts, one made an appearance in Apple's recent holiday ad (there's also a Dirty Projectors poster on the wall)

https://i.imgur.com/e5kRWhe.jpg

(and a DFA sticker on the laptop, though it's hard to see in that screengrab)

Here are sixteen awesome Moore songs.

Expressway To Yr Skull, Teenage Riot, yes

(also the first time I heard Kim's intro to Teenage Riot was a moment I will never forget)

Their finest moment

Unmade Bed is an overlooked Thurston jam imo

Pink Steam and Rain On Tin are two deep-cut favourites on this list

Peace Attack another great one from the later years.

(also the first time I heard Kim's intro to Teenage Riot was a moment I will never forget)

― Dan S, Monday, January 7, 2019 9:08 PM

same -- goose pimples

Me too! Not ashamed to admit I first heard it on Eddie Vedder's Self-Pollution Radio. Okay, maybe a little ashamed.

I will credit Rolling Stone. In 1988 when Daydream Nation first came out, they gave it a rave review and made it sound delightful to impressionable teenagers like myself who were otherwise not hip to the scene.

Early 90s guitar mags for me, I think.