Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Other than Pearl Jam, who else is there?
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The Eternal is one of the few Sonic Youth albums that I just didn't really dig -- everything on there felt like a retread of stuff they did better on previous records, but without any added wisdom of years or sharper melodic senses or anything like that. It was a bit like REM's Collapse Into Now in that regard. I like the songs on that one better, but with both bands it was like they hit a point where they exhausted what they could say with the language they had, and just decided that was it.
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I think it was the first time i bought a SY album and it felt weirdly normal and common. The magic was gone, it felt safe and yes, boring. Of course, now know why, and i agree with Trag that it translated live too.
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Kevin Davis wrote:The local museum had a free day over the weekend so I went with the family. Was pleasantly surprised to see one of Richard Prince’s nurse paintings on display — not the one used for SY’s album cover, but another unmistakably from the same series:
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Man, “Stones” came on one of my shuffle playlists last week and I rocked out so hard.
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Kevin Davis wrote:it was like they hit a point where they exhausted what they could say with the language they had, and just decided that was it.
Spot on, KD.
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Simple Torture wrote:Man, “Stones” came on one of my shuffle playlists last week and I rocked out so hard.
That's a top ten SY tune in my book.
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music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Well, folks, dime is wrong again.

My favorite Sonic Youth fact is that the guy who took the car for a joyride in Ferris Bueller (also one of the pizza shop guys in Do The Right Thing) was the band’s original drummer.

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Hahaha really? That's awesome!
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dimejinky99 wrote:music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers
Obviously terrible take.
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tragabigzanda wrote:unpopular opinion: Dirty sucks too.
Omg
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dimejinky99 wrote:music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers
Omg x2
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tragabigzanda wrote:unpopular opinion: Dirty sucks too.
I wouldn’t say sucks, but it’s definitely inconsistent. I really love “Theresa’s Sound World,” “Wish Fulfillment,” and “On the Strip.”

Man, I am due for a SY binge!
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Simple Torture wrote:Well, folks, dime is wrong again.

My favorite Sonic Youth fact is that the guy who took the car for a joyride in Ferris Bueller (also one of the pizza shop guys in Do The Right Thing) was the band’s original drummer.

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Richard Edson, he plays on the really great Sonic Youth EP.

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Kevin Davis wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:unpopular opinion: Dirty sucks too.
I wouldn’t say sucks, but it’s definitely inconsistent. I really love “Theresa’s Sound World,” “Wish Fulfillment,” and “On the Strip.”

Man, I am due for a SY binge!
100%, Sugar Kane and Wish Fulfillment are absolutely bulletproof in my view.
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100% might be the song that really got me into them back in the day. Teenage Riot also and I could say The Diamond Sea locked the deal maybe
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Bout to dive into Gastr Del Sol, first time since the last rarities album came out.

I might listen to a Jim solo album afterwards.
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yeah, my favs are Insignificance, Bad Timing and Simple Songs.

The Gastr last collection is wonderful. But i wanna dive into the old stuff, specially Camoufleur.

My favorite might be Upgrade & Afterlife, maybe because i got it really cheap back in the day in cd and was my first Gastr album
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