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| vilainde |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 02:05:09
Last saturday I bought Sonic Youth reissue of their first self-titled EP. Contrarily to their recent reissues, that one was cheap, hehe. The 5-track EP is remastered (and it sounds great) and the bonus tracks are a 7-song live from 1981 and a studio demo for I Dreamed I Dream.
I saw SY live recently (they played material from their upcoming album for the first time) and I was mildly disappointed, they mixed new songs that sounded nice but IMO lacked the noise, screams and larsens I like from their 80's records, with very old songs from Confusion Is Sex (Brother James, Making the Nature Scene...) that were awesome. The first SY ep is really cool, 5 killer tunes (that's The Burning Spear, I Dreamed I Dream, She Is Not Alone, I Don't Want To Push It, The Good and The Bad) that sound both weird and very listenable. Really good purchase, at bargain price.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
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| vilainde |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 09:03:47
Yeah, Sister's the best.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| Chris Knight |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 03:42:22
Thirded. Sister is probably their best album, and it isn't super long (unlike Daydream Nation). |
| Levitated |
Posted - 03/02/2010 : 14:18:46
Yeah, Sister is awesome!! |
| ruzom |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 16:25:50
Ok thanks Velvety, I'll do it! |
| velvety |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 06:27:33
Get Sister. And then Washing Machine. |
| ruzom |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 00:48:35
That's weird, Daydream Nation was the first album by Sonic Youth I REALLY loved(though I probably listened to it only twice)... Didn't care much about the others I listened a bit to, Dirty for example. I liked Sonic Nurse at the time of its release, never listened to it again since... but obviously, I don't know much about this band. Any recommendations? |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 12:30:42
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
Fun stuff... I'm listening to Daydream Nation and I'm blown away by it. Sonic Youth always were my favorite band, ever since high school, until I discovered the Pixies. I loved all their records - except DDN. For some reason it never clicked. And then yesterday I thought I'd give it another try, and guess what? It's as amazing as everyone says. I think I bought this CD in 1996 or something - It took me 15 years to appreciate it.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
DDN made me woozy the first few times i gave it a try. somehow it eventually clicked, though, and i couldn't stop listening to it for a couple weeks. it's really something else.
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they were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
| Chris Knight |
Posted - 02/24/2010 : 01:39:42
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
Contactmusic.com.
MOORE REGRETS FINANCIAL DISADVANTAGES OF SONIC YOUTH'S LONGEVITY
SONIC YOUTH rocker THURSTON MOORE regrets not disbanding his cult group 20 years ago - because they could have made a fortune if they'd reformed for a reunion tour.
Funny cuz it's true. And personally I don't begrudge anyone who makes good music for wanting to make a little moolah from it, which is why I never really looked down on the Pixies for "cashing in". I just keep listening to the old records and save my money for concerts I can actually afford.
SY are doing pretty damn good though. Their latest album made the US top-20...their highest charting album ever, despite just switching from Geffen/Universal to Matador Records. |
| vilainde |
Posted - 02/23/2010 : 23:05:01
Fun stuff... I'm listening to Daydream Nation and I'm blown away by it. Sonic Youth always were my favorite band, ever since high school, until I discovered the Pixies. I loved all their records - except DDN. For some reason it never clicked. And then yesterday I thought I'd give it another try, and guess what? It's as amazing as everyone says. I think I bought this CD in 1996 or something - It took me 15 years to appreciate it.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| Srisaket |
Posted - 08/29/2007 : 07:59:44
Recent review from the Guardian:
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Sonic Youth
ABC, Glasgow
David Peschek
Friday August 24, 2007
The Guardian
As the 1980s drew to a close, rock music had become bloated and empty or, worse still, obsessed with a quest for authenticity, a spurious attempt epitomised by U2's gruesome Rattle and Hum, a foray into ersatz Americana. As corporate rock wheezed out a death rattle, however, a series of records from the underground reimagined what rock might be. Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, released in 1989 and now being played live in its entirety as part of the latest Don't Look Back season, came out at a time when New York's downtown art scene had been decimated by drugs and Aids, and America was groaning under a Republican presidency hostile to the arts. In the record's savage defiance endures the implicit divide between two different Americas.
Sonic Youth's roots are deep in New York's 1970s No Wave movement, when music and art bled into one another. They are a good deal older now - Lee Ranaldo's hair is almost totally white - but you couldn't tell from the way they bounce around the stage. As Teen Age Riot ends, Ranaldo, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon create gloriously brutal waves of feedback, rubbing their guitars over the amps, dragging them across the stage. If the Jesus and Mary Chain buried melody under beautiful noise, then Sonic Youth make beautiful melody out of noise. In some songs, they might almost be the New York Dolls. In 'Cross The Breeze, sudden shifts in pace knock the wind out of you and in Total Trash, Moore just punches the strings of his guitar with his fist. The songs' genius is in their fusion of good, old-fashioned riffing with experimental tunings and artful swathes of noise; somehow the sound is both brittle and big.
Despite Daydream Nation's brilliance, the night's most beautiful, affirming moment comes in the encore. Taking off her bass to sing lead on What a Waste from last year's Rather Ripped album, Kim Gordon whirls across the stage, dancing like a teenager, spinning around and around, arms flailing like a dervish. For some, the rock'n'roll ethos is live fast, die young. Yet survival - of productive relationships, of a vision, of a life - is much more radical. Sonic Youth, grow old, grow wise and dream on.
At the Roundhouse, London, on August 30-September 1. Box office: 0870 389 1846.
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 08/29/2007 : 07:45:48
it's just Thurston's sense of humour
what surprises me is that he says about the Pixies that ""The Pixies reunion was a real success, and Dinosaur Jr. seems like a big success, and both those bands play as good as they ever did."
I thought he was saying in a recent interview that he never heard a Pixies song or album until recently, and he used to make fun of Kurt Cobain when he was buying bootlegs of the Pixies saying that this was a stupid college rock band for teenagers or something like that...
He's just jealous of Frank and the Pixies I guess.
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 08/28/2007 : 13:02:05
lame, i do like them tho.
The Truth Is Out There |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/28/2007 : 12:39:44
Contactmusic.com.
MOORE REGRETS FINANCIAL DISADVANTAGES OF SONIC YOUTH'S LONGEVITY
SONIC YOUTH rocker THURSTON MOORE regrets not disbanding his cult group 20 years ago - because they could have made a fortune if they'd reformed for a reunion tour. In the last few years, Moore has watched as contemporaries including Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. reunited to great acclaim and substantial financial rewards. And the 49-year-old admits he sometimes wonders how much money a Sonic Youth reunion tour would have made. He says, "The Pixies reunion was a real success, and Dinosaur Jr. seems like a big success, and both those bands play as good as they ever did. Mission Of Burma blew my mind when they came back. "But a band like us never did break up. Which was to our own detriment. "What would have happened if we did break up after (classic 1988 double album) Daydream Nation - or even after (1990's) Dirty - and had gotten back together two years ago? "You'd be interviewing me at the Chateau Marmont as I'm waiting for my limousine. We probably would have made so much money. "This was our biggest career faux-pas - not breaking up."
28/08/2007 02:08
Also see:
SONIC YOUTH
THURSTON MOORE
Click for the SONIC YOUTH Gallery
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 07/26/2007 : 10:17:07
this is some fucking great news:
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/artist.php?id=21
July 20, 2007
September 2007 and the summer shall wane and the leaves will glow their death state and school bells will peal forth dream desires and wild wishes and oh yeh:
ECSTATIC PEACE releases thurston "trees outside the academy”
It’s Thurston’s first solo outing since 1995’s Psychic Hearts. Of course, Thurston’s been releasing records here, there and everywhere mostly in the context of rowdy and rambunctious noise/improv escapades but this new one is killer diller SONGS! Unlike Psychic Hearts’ skeletal trio rock, this new jammer, 12 years post, has a far fuller bouquet of sonic depth and proves this Sonic dude to have a very real songwriting life outside of the legendary Sonic Youth (of which he is a founding figure, duh).
This newborn disc is 12 songs long. Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste.
Thurston grabbed John Agnello to record and mix the sucker after having a helluva good time with the bro from working on Sonic Youth’s 2006 killer Rather Ripped. They decided to work in Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis’ Bisquiteen studio (the top floor in J’s Amherst house actually) where Dino did their Beyond album. This worked out very nicely as it allowed Thurston to yell down the stairs every time he needed a shredding guitar solo and J would trundle up, plug in and BURN. Other guests on “trees outside...” are Christina Carter, she of Charalambides, and she of the most beatific, beautific voice on land, sea and air.
One track called Honest James has Thurston and Christina singing duet against a single acoustic guitar and it is a naked groove. The otherworldly Canadian musician Andrew Macgregor aka “Gown” plays some spectacularly understated and incredible guitar and Sunburned Hand of The Man’s John Moloney takes over the drum stool to absolutely flail on the pit snarling Wonderful Witches. And then there’s the 20 seconds or so of primal noise wave courtesy of American noise underground genius Leslie Keffer on Off Work.
Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like Trees Outside The Academy, which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There’s also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom’s of him at 13 years old in the early 70s making some kind of sound-theatre. It’s kinda nuts, and it’s the last “hidden” track. Tracks like Frozen Gtr, The Shape Is In A Trance, Silver>Blue, Never Day and Fri/end (a theme song to the hippest TV show yet to be broadcast) will lead you in to a sparkling and heavy new world of Thurston’s heart, mind and soul.
Thurston Moore, for those of you just visiting planet Earth, has been playing music and liberating whatever ossifying standards rock n’ roll becomes threatened by since the late 70s when he walked the downtown jungle of punk/post-punk/no wave NYC and started the band Sonic Youth. Ever since he and the band have consistently stayed true to the authenticity and creativity of radical rock n roll idealism. From the experience of a life touring, writing, having a magical daughter with his amazing wife and partner Kim Gordon, Thurston has poured a heady brew into whatever speakers this new CD flows from. Take a sip, and pass it around.
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore: gtr, bass, vox
Steve Shelley: drums
Samara Lubelski: violin
with: j mascis, christina carter, andrew macgregor, john moloney, leslie keffer
thurston
"trees outside the academy"
1. Frozen Gtr 4:06
2. The Shape Is In A Trance 4:39
3. Honest James 3:49
4. Silver>Blue 5:51
5. Fri/End 3:19
6. American Coffin 3:56
7. Wonderful Witches 2:24
8. Off Work 4:12
9. Never Day 4:01
10. Free Noise Among Friends :34
11. Trees Outside The Academy 5:50
12. Thurston@13 2:37
produced by john agnello and thurston moore
recorded and mixed by john agnello at bisqueteen, amherst ma, spring 2007
mastered by greg calbi at sterling sound
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/21/2007 : 13:12:32
The SF Weekly Blogs.
LastNight: Sonic Youth Proves Ageless at the Berkeley Community Theater
Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 07:21:08 AM
“…After Gordon jumped into the crowd to dance out the end of "Eliminator Jr.," Moore greeted her with a huge, aw-shucks smile, as if after all these years she could still surprise him. …”
By Dan Strachota
Sonic Youth
July 19, 2007
The Berkeley Community Theater
Better Than: All the Smashing Pumpkins shows put together.
Download: Sonic Youth doing "Total Trash" in Barcelona, 2007; live footage of "Silver Rocket"; video of "Do You Believe in Rapture?"
You know how going home to see your parents makes you feel 16 again, no matter how old you are? Suddenly, you feel all your hard-earned independence slipping away, as they exert their control all over again. Eventually, you end up screaming insanely about how they can't tell you what to do anymore when they ask some simple question, like "Are you done with that salt shaker?"
Which is why I felt conflicted when my dad called me up and asked if I wanted not only to go see Sonic Youth play their 1988 opus, Daydream Nation, but hang out with them backstage in Berkeley. See, my dad teaches at an alternative school in Western Massachusetts. This year, he just happens to be molding the mind of one Coco, daughter to Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. My father, who hasn't combed his hair since the Reagan administration, who keeps his TV tucked away in the closet for those rare occasions when he rents a VHS tape, and who lives in a cabin in town so tiny it's barely on the map, is something of a hero to the coolest parents since John and Yoko. It's all rather bizarre.
I admit I hadn't paid much attention to Sonic Youth's last couple discs. But boy did I play the hell out of Daydream Nation and Goo when they came out, crushing majorly on the chaotic pop pleasures of tracks like "Hey Joni" and "Kissability." Naturally, I wondered how this reunion (band gets together with old album) would work, so I took my dad up on his offer.
Boy, I'm glad I did. Otherwise I wouldn't have had such cool '90s flashbacks. I'd forgotten just how metallic bands like Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Jane's Addiction were at one time, carving out a new territory where heavy metal met indie rock. Sure, SY could toss out a gem like "Total Trash," with a riff that would serve Pavement and million other congenial college rock bands well, but they could also head-bang with the best of them. "Erik's Trip" and "Cross the Breeze" were aural thrashfests, dump truck pouring noise down on my head.
Gordon said later that when the band went back to the album to listen to their parts, they thought they were sloppy and too sprawling, but obviously they had reworked them considerably. The pop tunes I gravitated towards in the past sounded razor sharp, but it was the more expansive numbers that really shone, tracks like "Candle" and "Rain King" that bristled with new energy. Or maybe it was how the musicians didn't give some rote performance, like the Pixies reunion. They seemed genuinely interested in the songs and each other. After Gordon jumped into the crowd to dance out the end of "Eliminator Jr.," Moore greeted her with a huge, aw-shucks smile, as if after all these years she could still surprise him.
The same goes for the band's encore, which sadly didn't consist of the complete Sticky Fingers, as Thurston joked, but several numbers from SY's recent Rather Ripped LP. Still, the way the performers played vibrant, concise tunes like "Incinerate" and "Jams Run Free," I could see the quartet carrying on for another decade or two. Sonic Youth? More like the Fountain of Youth. Maybe it's something in that Western Mass water.
Critic's Notebook
Personal Bias: Um, you know, that stuff about my dad.
Random Detail: Pavement's Mark Ibold, who was in Free Kitten with Gordon, played bass on the encore set.
By the way: The idea for playing Daydream Nation was conceived by All Tomorrow's Parties founder, for his Don't Look Back series. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 09:24:28
Thanks Cass.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 04:54:39
I always thought you were... a strange fellow
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 04:26:34
I found Daydream Nation the easiest SY album to get into, along with Dirty.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 02:24:40
To me, EVOL, Sister and Daydream Nation make a perfect trilogy, they're very different, but their respective qualities makes it too hard for me to pick up one of them as the best one.
Indeed Daydream might be the hardest one to appreciate, because of its lenght, its production and its density. But when you get into it, it's definitely one of the 5 (or at least 10) best records of the last 30 years.
By the way:
an awesome TV live video of Silver Rocket with Don Fleming on keyboards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpU7q1d9lAU
(poor sound but it's worth a try)
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| vilainde |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 01:06:54
I have it both on CD and vinyl. For some reason that record never did much to me, although I used to be a massive SY fan. It's often considered as their best album but I much prefer Sister or EVOL over it. I really don't know why, maybe it's the length. I should give it another try.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| Carl |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 11:37:41
I have it on vinyl, too-in fact it's the only SY album I have at all! |
| Jason |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 16:16:38
I've considered myself a non-fan of Sonic Youth for awhile, but I've never paid that much attention to them. I've owned Daydream Nation before (on the Geffen CD), but, honestly, never listened to the whole thing (and got rid of it years and years ago). However, while trolling about the local used bookstore today, I found it on vinyl and thought that was a good excuse to give it another go. It was $20, but I figured could easily make that back (and more) on ebay if I wanted to get rid of it.
It's really good. Finally, at 30 years old, after having "experimented" with Sonic Youth before in college while feeling my way through the whirled of kool muzik and never getting attached, I think I'm a Sonic Youth fan. I'll be aiming my ebay bidder sights on Sister on vinyl soon (I used to own that one on CD, too).
Daydream Nation appears to be one of those double albums (like Exile on Main Street and Trout Mask Replica) that I could never get into on CD, but, on vinyl, I totally enjoy. Maybe it's the enforced side break intermissions or the usual vinyl fetishist bullshit.
I'm glad I bought this. I was really on the fence about it at the store. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 04:33:35
Bayrou in a thread about Sonic Youth?! wow! who would have guessed?
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 03:35:52
Hello, Yes indeed I'm in a bad mood, but unfortunetly I think at least half of what I said. Especially about their influence over youth. In Paris you have 90 percent of those pseudo punk band who are merely duplicating those no-so- cool riffs from diRty and washing machine period and pretend they are not influenced by Sonic Youth when you gently come and ask them if they don't feel they simply have nothing to express.
In my opinion you judge a band according to their contemporary influence. Same for politics.
I could even start to feel bitter towards the Velvet Underground.
It's all cause of Paris... maybe.
Haaa! I want to shit all over that pop culture. Time for a change and new references!
Shit over Europe!
Spread the news around the Frank Black Forum!
Burn your rock magazines and formate you hard drive.
I'm Joey Joe Jo. Bip you.
Votez Bayrou.
Listen to NEU.
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 02:25:41
wow Joey!! you're not in a good mood today!
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| Levitated |
Posted - 11/02/2006 : 16:49:26
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
For now, Sonic Youth will focus on touring, beginning Dec. 8 with the Nightmare Before Christmas festival in England, which Moore is curating. Visits to South America, Japan and China are in the planning stages for next year, and Gordon reports that Moore is working on material for his next solo album.
OMFG!!!  |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/02/2006 : 15:29:39
Joey, you need to take a cold shower!!
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| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 11/02/2006 : 13:30:23
Sonic Youth is a crap band. I used to listen to them, enjoy some of their creepy songs. I used to enjoy the creepy effects of Marijuana too and Sam Fox as a kid 'cause she had those big tits. Now I speak english and I surrender to the evidence. Their songs mean nothin', it's full of f***** nothin'. On stage they are boring like alcohol free beer. This band is one of the greatest ripp-off of American pop non-culture. Their influence over poor geeks from the suburbs trying hard to sound cool with their detunes cheap guitars and their glasses is disastrous. They invented nothing.
They suck. Point final. Nirvana sucks too.
Long live the Pixies.
www.myspace.com/oldskoolpariscool
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| Carl |
Posted - 11/02/2006 : 10:21:46
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003315040
Kim Gordon Crafts Film, Sonic Youth Preps Rarities
October 25, 2006, 5:00 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Sonic Youth principal Kim Gordon will offer the U.S. premiere of her film, "Perfect Partner," and participate in a live performance of the soundtrack this Friday (Oct. 27) and Saturday at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J. Gordon will be joined on stage by her husband/Sonic Youth partner Thurston Moore and longtime collaborators Jim O'Rourke, Ikue Mori and Tim Barnes for the screenings.
"Perfect Parter," which Gordon assembled in tandem with artist Tony Oursler and director Phil Morrison, is a road movie reflecting her obsession with the ad copy in car brochures. "Ad copy is this existential, contemporary philosophy that doesn't mean anything," she tells Billboard.com. "But the brochures are so sophisticated. They really stretch and try to be poetry and art."
For the movie, footage of actors Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert plays on one screen, while "psychedelic landscapes" are projected on another screen behind it. The musicians perform the live score in between the two screens, thus creating what Gordon describes as "a kind of 3-D movie in the way the two screens work together. The actors disappear sometimes, and sometimes it is just abstract landscapes with music."
"Perfect Partner," which debuted last fall in London, runs for about 55 minutes. Gordon hopes to enlist an entirely different cast of musicians to play the score at future performances, but before that, she wants to at least stage screenings with the original ensemble in Manhattan in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Geffen will on Dec. 12 release "The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities," which will fulfill Sonic Youth's contract with the label. Gordon says Moore and drummer Steve Shelley have been in charge of the project, which will feature a blend of tracks from vinyl singles, compilations and international releases as well as material seeing the light of day for the first time.
Asked if Sonic Youth would consider re-signing with the label for which it has recorded since 1990, Gordon says, "I don't really think they want us to stay. They fired a few key people working on [the band's 2006 album 'Rather Ripped'] a week before it came out. Our A&R person -- he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don't know."
Gordon is also unsure if a potential move away from Geffen would affect the planned expanded reissue of Sonic Youth's landmark 1988 album "Daydream Nation," which is thought to be in the Universal Music Enterprises pipeline.
For now, Sonic Youth will focus on touring, beginning Dec. 8 with the Nightmare Before Christmas festival in England, which Moore is curating. Visits to South America, Japan and China are in the planning stages for next year, and Gordon reports that Moore is working on material for his next solo album.
Kim Gordon
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/10/3108.cfm
Sonic Youth Rarities Album May Be Last With Geffen
Tuesday October 31, 2006 @ 06:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Sonic Youth have revealed the songs that will appear on their forthcoming album, The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities.
The record will be released by Geffen on CD on December 12 and a double-vinyl version will be made available early next year on the band's own Goofin' Records label. It will include tracks from foreign album releases, B-sides and previously unreleased material.
The Destroyed Room is the last album that's part of Sonic Youth's current contract with Geffen, their label home since 1990, and it's unknown whether the band will resign with the label or search out a new deal elsewhere. Bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon doesn't seem optimistic about continuing with Geffen, according to a recent interview she gave to Billboard.com.
"I don't really think they want us to stay," she said. "They fired a few key people working on [2006 album Rather Ripped] a week before it came out.
"Our A&R person — he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don't know."
Here are the songs on The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities:
"Fire Engine Dreams" (Sonic Nurse outtake, previously unreleased)
"Fauxhemians" (from All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1)
"Is It My Body?" (from Alice Cooper Tribute)
"Razor Blade" ("Bull In The Heather" B-side)
"Blink" (from Pola X soundtrack)
"Campfire" (from At Home With The Groovebox)
"Loop Cat" (from You Can Never Go Fast Enough)
"Kim's Chords" (from Sonic Nurse Japan edition)
"Beautiful Plateau" (from Sonic Nurse Japan edition)
"Three Part Sectional Love Seat" (from The Noho Furniture Sessions, previously unreleased)
"Queen Anne Chair" (from the Noho Furniture Sessions, previously unreleased)
"The Diamond Sea" (Washing Machine LP version)
—Andrew Stewart
Sonic Youth |
| speedy_m |
Posted - 06/16/2006 : 15:56:19
quote:
Originally posted by mcil
I'm really looking forward to Rather Ripped, I really like Sonic Nurse and I have a feeling oit will be very similar.
I got the reissue of Psychic Hearts by Thurston Moore a couple o months ago, that's superb.
quote:
http://img313.imageshack.us/img313/1213/img12342sonicyouth4we.jpg
Why does Kim have stubble?? is it meant to be Kim?? I don't know
(How the hell do you quote an image?? I can't figure it out)
"Your Bone's Got a Little Machine..."
Because Kim is Kurt Cobain?
he's back jack smoking crack find him if you want to get found
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| Newo |
Posted - 06/16/2006 : 15:51:28
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Gravy boat! Stay in the now! |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/14/2006 : 12:08:27
http://www.metronews.ca/entertainment_cd_review.asp?id=16813
CD Reviews
Published June 14, 2006
Sonic Youth's usual rawness, with a melodic twist
Sonic Youth
Album: Rather Ripped
Label: Geffen/Universal
Released: Yesterday
**** (out of five)
Had this been 20 albums and 25 years ago, this New York post-punk foursome wouldn’t even dream of deliberately sounding this melodic.
With their Velvet Underground-fuelled austerity and feedback-laden dischordancies, Sonic Youth helped cement this kind of do-it-yourself template for which the likes of the Pixies, Breeders and, to some degree, the Smashing Pumpkins would follow.
As you’re finger-snapping along to Reena, Incinerate, Do You Believe In Rapture? and The Neutral, singer-guitarist Thurston Moore, his bassist-singer wife Kim Gordon, guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley refuse to compromise on any DIY rawness.
But Sonic Youth truly let the indie-inspired momentum fly on Sleepin’ Around, closing track Or and the two Gordon-led efforts What A Waste and Jams Run Free, the latter powered by a Pumpkins-a-la-1979-esque rhythm. Wailing feedback is kept to a minimum — until all hell breaks loose on Rats.
IAN NATHANSON/METRO TORONTO
Live in Washington, D.C., 9.30 Club, last night (June 15):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5480397
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/14/2006 : 03:12:07
they're coming back in France -just for one date boouuh ouh ouh...- on December 13 Paris, France Zenith
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 07:45:02
quote:
Originally posted by mcil
I'm really looking forward to Rather Ripped, I really like Sonic Nurse and I have a feeling oit will be very similar.
I think it's quite different from the last three albums: songs are very short, concise, sometimes more quiet and more "classically perfomed" (in a good way). Less distortion and white noise than usual, lots of great arpeggios and interesting progressions. Kim is almost "singing" for the first time of her life on a SY record (it's not quite right, but it feels like that).
It seems like a very refreshing and surprising SY album, which is quite paradoxical because it probably the more "classic" album they've ever made.
I'm really happily surprised by this one.
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 07:26:51
I'm really looking forward to Rather Ripped, I really like Sonic Nurse and I have a feeling oit will be very similar.
I got the reissue of Psychic Hearts by Thurston Moore a couple o months ago, that's superb.
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Why does Kim have stubble?? is it meant to be Kim?? I don't know
(How the hell do you quote an image?? I can't figure it out)
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