Sonic Youth: Classic or Dud/S&D?

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.

Also how I found out about MBV.

Really good Kim list Alfred, love most of those (and like all)! Here are a few I haven't seen others throw out that I think are pretty excellent Kim songs and may make my list on any given day:

Massage the History > The Eternal
Shaking Hell > Confusion is Sex
Starpower > Evol
'Cross the Breeze > Daydream Nation

I really love that pretty much any attempt to list Sonic Youth songs brings drastically different results. I will say that "'Cross the Breeze" gets special nods for the way the intro acts on my animal brain. I love it to death and have trouble not turning it up extremely loudly every time I play it. "Starpower" probably the one that would cut first if I had to make a cut.

Watching 1991 atm. (I had a voucher - haven't watched it since I had it on video).

Everyone is unbearable.

the dance

the dance

the sucky wucky dance

i need this elixir. this elixir of... skinhead violence.

There's a bit on the extras where Thurston yells "Courtney Love is in love with the singer from Smashing Pumpkins".

IT'S FUCKIN LIVE MAN

I always knew Sonic Youth used wacky tunings. But it wasn't until today when I went through some stuff with a guitar friend and this chart (http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/tuning.html) that I understood that apparently with the exception of the first EP and, weirdly enough, the song "Mildred Pierce," the band used insane tunings on seemingly literally *every single song.* That's just bonkers!

Yep. In the Aug 91 issue of Guitar Player, the band and Joe Gore broke down a bunch of their riffs and compared what you'd have to do to approximate them in standard. Despite being a fan for ages, I never played much of their stuff, at least not faithfully, out of nervousness as to what a lot of those tunings might do to my guitars tbh.

Yeah, we were talking about the need for different strings at least, let alone some custom guitars, to handle the (literal) stress.

That's why it seemed so devastating to me when all their gear was stolen in 1999 -- so much of it was modified.