C/D: Sonic Youth's GOO

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Does anyone know what the extras will be?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I presume B-sides and (HOPEFULLY) the 8-track Goo.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(as in the 8-track demoes that were sent to Sonic Death fan club members.. not an actual Goo 8-track!.. sorry. although someone should make that shit happen, too.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I third all of the Ranaldo love. The goo-era Ranaldo-penned b-sides (that'salotofdashes) were good too (I'm thinking of "wish fulfillment")

― jb, Friday, 26 August 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Very, very awesome. Really want that deluxe edition posthaste.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Tracklisting (from some french website, so YMMV)

http://www.xsilence.net/news-239.htm#239

CD 1
01 Dirty Boots
02 Tunic (Song for Karen)
03 Mary-Christ
04 Kool Thing
05 Mote
06 My Friend Goo
07 Disappearer
08 Mildred Pierce
09 Cinderella's Big Score
10 Scooter and Jinx
11 Titanium Expose
12 Lee #2
13 That's All I Know (Right Now)
14 The Bedroom
15 Dr. Benway's House
16 Tuff Boyz

CD 2
01 Tunic
02 Number One (Disappearer)
03 Titanium Expose
04 Dirty Boots
05 Corky (Cinderella's Big Score)
06 My Friend Goo
07 Bookstore (Mote)
08 Animals (Mary-Christ)
09 DV 2 (Kool Thing)
10 Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)
11 Lee #2
12 I Know There's an Answer
13 Can Song
14 Isaac
15 Goo Interview Flexi

― jb, Friday, 26 August 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

14 The Bedroom

"What do you do when your mom is a skinhead..."

"YOU FUCK HER!"

"...you write a song about her."

Possibly the greatest conversation ever held at a UCI theater or venue.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

(Anyway, this is good to know *not* to sell that "Dirty Boots" single with the live cuts on it...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

*CLAP CLAP* GARÇON! LE DELUXE GOO, S'IL VOUS PLAÎT!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I sold it, but backed it up. (phew!)

Also, I mean, SHAKEYMO is on that track playing the key role, Ned!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I mean, SHAKEYMO is on that track playing the key role, Ned!

Wait, was that him? I'm amazed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember reading that a long time ago on here and getting a kick out of it... I've never heard the track, though. I thought he was yelling, "You [Thurston] fuck her [Kim]!!" I like it better this way.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

More love for "Disappearer" here. That song finally made me invest in Goo at 15, as I decided I needed more of what had sounded like beautiful, massive, dense amplified folk music ("Dirty Boots" had also piqued my interest for similar reasons, after the fun but not quite essential "Kool Thing"). Swirly non-singles like "Mote", the kinda touching "Tunic" and "Cinderella's Big Score" didn't disappoint either. So, pretty classic based on teenage impact alone.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Goo was SY's last great album.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Unlike Alex, I really dig "Tunic." My interest turned to love when it played over the Maggie Cheung catburglar sequence in "Irma Vep."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

*CLAP CLAP* GARÇON! LE DELUXE GOO, S'IL VOUS PLAÎT!

i just had to come back and say that this has been making me laugh all night..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i heart goo. esp. side 1. not a dud on there.

side 2 is redeemed by titanium expose.

"it was all whirlwind, heat and flash. within a week we'd killed my parents and hit the road."

― xero, Saturday, 27 August 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"Nothing.. Lipstick.. A little blood."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 27 August 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

MERCI! MERCI!

(I just picked up Goo deluxe tonight. This is fucking great. The 8-track version of the album slays. A nine-minute "Blowjob (Mildred Pierce)".)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Byron mentions "The Bedroom" being recorded at Irvine Meadows. Is he mistaking UC Irvine Crawford Hall for Irvine Meadows in the liner notes? Or was this when Sonic Youth opened for Neil Young & Crazy Horse there?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Well just for a 9-minute Mildred Pierce, I will have to pick this up..

― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Goddamn, this might be my favorite Deluxe Edition release ever... the only ones that rival it are Rick James's Street Songs and Donna Summer's Bad Girls. And I haven't cracked at the Bob Marley ones yet. (I'm talking specifically about the Deluxe Edition line by name, not just any deluxe edition release.)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I am pleased with all this news.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The liner notes are really fun to read, too. Byron Coley and Mark Kates do the honors. Lots of fun stories about the making of the album, ramping up to DGC, etc. wanting to call the album Blowjob? initially, and not getting to.. That's too bad, actually.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

From Blowjob to Goo sounds right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Goo should have been Goo! really.. because from Blowjob? to Goo! would have been even better... Or better yet. Q: Have you not blowjob? A: You have Goo!.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry.. sub-custosian at best.)

(custos, i keed i keed)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Are these any different 8-track versions that were available on the Goo Demos CD?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I never had the original one. The real Sonic Youth fans are going to have to delurk to answer this one...

..but I'm guessing they are the same ones, but remastered. Also, there are two "Lee #2"s. There's the 8-track version, and the studio version, which I'm guessing was slanted for a B-side, but never got used. Which makes sense as "Lee #2" is a complete departure.. very pleasant and poppy. It's another secret reason to get this.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

It's too bad that Lee only got one track on Goo, thinking about it. At least it was one fucking motherlode of a track, though.. possibly his best.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Doesn't he sing "Mote" as well as "Disappearer"?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Thurston sings "disappearer"

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

My world no longer makes sense.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i just sold my old copy of Goo in anticipation of this one.

― gear (gear), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I was positive that Lee sang Mote as well...has never sounded like Thurston to me.

Byron Coley's notes actually irritated me, especially the bit at the front that was more or less saying "IF YOU NEVER HEARD THE ROCK BEFORE YOUR EARS SUCK NYAH NYAH ROCKIST ROCKIST BTW PEEPS OK".

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

just noticed sonicyouth.com has free mp3s of the live b-sides of the "Dirty Boots" cd single. One of their best releases in my opinion.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

It's pretty great Alex in NYC was talking about Black Dice back in the '02. I stand by my 3 year old assessment upthread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Lee does sing "mote"

from this site
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/new.html

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar
Kim - bass
Lee - guitar/vocals
Steve - drums/percussion
J. Mascis - backing vocals
w/ additional percussion by
nick sansano & don fleming

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The nine-minute "Mildred Pierce" and the "I Know There's An Answer" cover are great, the rest is...well, pretty unnecessary.

More annoyingly, I got a copy with fucked-up liners that repeat pages several times and leave others out. It's possibly intentional but definitely irritating.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Goo's better than Dirty.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

DN, Goo and Dirty are all about equal for me these days.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Byron Coley's notes actually irritated me, especially the bit at the front that was more or less saying "IF YOU NEVER HEARD THE ROCK BEFORE YOUR EARS SUCK NYAH NYAH ROCKIST ROCKIST BTW PEEPS OK".

Well, at least, this time, there seems to be more quotes from the band in his liner notes, which is what I was primarily interested in... Wasn't into his Deluxe Dirty liner notes... especially after giving Dirty a good listen, and confirming it sounded like a constipated Goo, but not in a good way.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

If/when I finally get the Dirty special edition, I can see myself listening only to the bonus disc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

As for your fucked liner notes, Dr. Bill, I'll double check, but I didn't notice any problems like that with mine. Maybe you should consider going back and getting a new copy if you still have your receipt?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd sound far too pathetic doing it to make it worthwhile.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Seconded...no such repetition in my booklet. Just irritation.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

(Lee does sing "Mote". It's "Disappearer" that I was confused about.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 22 September 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, the 8-trk demos ARE the Sonic Deth Goo Demos versions...
which i think make a good case for seeing how SY went from Point A (daydream) to Point B (goo/dirty). you can see how the song writing was changing into more focused territory but still pretty well wrapped in a gauzy layer o' fuzz/noize.

― eedd, Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Just wanted to speak up for the SY fans who lost interest after EVOL. There was the occasional flash of subsequent brilliance ("Schizophrenia", "Mote") but the sustained dark-dream-undertow was lost to the sands of time... it's odd that a band that was so important to me in '86 now is closing in on a 20 year losing streak. Jesus I'm old.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 22 September 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

What was the last SY album you bought, Edward?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 22 September 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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