the Sonic Youth poll for songs with Lee Ranaldo on lead vox

The ones I love are Sunset Boulevard and International Heroes. Anyway, lyrics to Fowley's "Blow Up" (for example) are totally SY compatible. They could cover it and nobody would know it wasn't an original.

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felt like throwing "Skip Tracer" a vote today

good song!

"Kick it!" (Hey Joni)

"Mote" now and forever. (It's actually my favorite SY song, period.)

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Am surprised that Genetic finished so unloved.

i think most of us who are nuts about it probably had their fill of repping for it by the time the Dirty reissue came out

i can dig these results

i dig them too, except for Wish Fulfillment finishing below Kingdom #19, that's just crazy

would've voted "In The Kingdom #19" because of the screaming when thurston lights off firecrackers in the studio

though this whole list of songs is going to make a killer comp -- i love LEEEEEEE

― tylerw, Tuesday, July 14, 2009

probably would've voted "hey joni" but "what we know" deserves something

The fact that "Wish Fulfillment" got only 3 votes is kinda sad

low "wish fulfillment" tally is surprising and none for "Saucer Like"?! thanks for the

sweet, thx barnaby, never got around to doing that cop myself.

and enjoy the show tonight! they were awesome when i saw 'em a few months ago.

tx for the tape, barnaby. looking forward to revisiting some of the post-thousand leaves tracks that i either wasn't crazy about at the time or never heard at all. remember "NYC ghosts and flowers," for instance, being horrid, but maybe i wasn't listening right, i dunno.

anyway, i'm bummed to have missed this poll/discussion, SY being one of my favorite bands, lee being my plastic jesus. would have voted for "mote" (raggett OTM), "rain king" or "i dreamed i dream." god, but "pipeline," but "hoarfrost," but "skip tracer"...

Thanks Barnaby.

Downloaded it. Thanks!

used to think he was the best songwriter evah or something

'it sounds crazy' but by hit-rate there can't be (m)any better

^ OTM

tho tobin sprout hit a similar average on those early GBV records

(faultless 2nd bananas poll)

seems like spiral stairs would fit in there, but he is far from faultless

I would jump off a building and hoped I landed on Spiral Stairs.

i dont even know which songs he wrote

generally speaking, the ones he sang ... two state, hit the plane down etc.

well he wrote pavement songs so i'm not sure he's going to be challenging schubert and arthur lee

unexpected tag team

the Lennon-McCartney of art-suck?

are schubert and arthur lee faultless second bananas?

art suck could be your life

arthur LEE, not arthur SUCK...! God, clean out yr ~ears~

thanks for that comp!!! lee is the best!!!

i def wouldve chosen 'hey joni' on this poll cuz its my favorite SY song

karen I & II are so perfect, beautiful and sad

i made a Lee mix a few years ago, cool to see someone else's and some small ways the sequencing is similar (especially opening with Mote/Hoarfrost): http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2006/08/sonic-youth-notorious-rockin-lee.html#comments

yeah hooray and thanks. tried to get this together inspired by his thread but foiled by mp3 lack.

home from dinner and listening to the comp. lost the sequencing importing it to ituens, so i'm just running it sequentially. wanted to note that the drum break before the second verse of "pipeline", about 1 minute in, is one of my all-time favorite musical moments. bum ... ba BOOM ba ksh ksh (pause) crak boomboom BAM BAM! so rad.

hokay, so i listened to all the lee is free songs, and they are some great, but it was somewhat disappointing to find that the somewhat disappointing post-dirty dropoff that i once thought i noticed still seems to exist. at least in and among the lee songs. i'd hoped it was mere figment and that i'd be blown away, chagrined chet-like at what i'd then failed to understand. but no.

of the songs i knew, i still dig "skip tracer" and the thousand leaves cuts, still loathe "nyc ghosts & flowers", and "rats" is awesome (but much better than most of RR, iirc). biggest surprise was the relative excellence of "karen revisited" and the eternal tracks (great drum recording). reservations aside, i guess i need to pick up the last 4 albums and really spend some time with them. rather ripped is the only one i've heard from front to back...

'pipeline' is sucha rad fukken song man

fukken a

No problem on the mixtape, you're all most welcome.

The Manchester gig I caught in December wasn't so hot unfortunately. I wasn't really feeling the setlist and the band seemed under-rehearsed (Catholic Block took three attempts to get right!).

Still, the encores ruled.

Sonic Youth - Manchester Academy - Dec 30th 2010

1. No Way
2. Sacred Trickster
3. Calming The Snake
4. Tom Violence
5. Walkin Blue
6. Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
7. Poison Arrow
8. Anti-Orgasm
9. Antenna
10. (I Gotta A) Catholic Block
11. Stereo Sanctity
12. What We Know
13. Massage The History

Encore

1. The Sprawl
2. Cross The Breeze

Encore

1. White Cross
2. Death Valley '69

haven't seen them in so so long. have to make the time next time they're around.

"i dreamed i dream" got fukken shafted in this poll. one of their very best songs. half regret voting for "mote" now...

no votes for "Saucer-Like"?????????????????? besides that wack beat poetry shit in the middle, that's one of SY's most thrilling and creepy songs.

"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.

Would put it over "Skip Tracer" though (even though I also like "Skip Tracer" a lot ....)

My picks

Hoarfrost is an unexpectedly low key and beautiful choice, from one of my favorite Sonic Youth albums

We'll know wheeeeeennnn