Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

[VinylGuy]

While i agree with Matt, i still remember the feeling of going to see them live already knowing they were separated and the band was going on hiatus.

The vibe was so weird, so intense...Thurston was pretty much the same guy as usual, while Kim stayed in the shadows for nearly the whole show. It was a different band for sure.

I guess they could have done something great with all that anger...

[tragabigzanda]

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

I saw SY first on a three-band bill at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 2006, with Ween and The Flaming Lips. If they were mad at each other that night, you wouldn't have known it, because they played with a passion that I have never seen, and that my friend Rob had never seen in the 20 SY shows that he attended. The funny thing is that the audience couldn't have cared less about Sonic Youth or Ween, probably because they weren't on the cover of Mojo that month. It was a total Flaming Lips sausage fest. We left halfway through their boring set.

[matt reeder]

I saw SY first on a three-band bill at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 2006, with Ween and The Flaming Lips. If they were mad at each other that night, you wouldn't have known it, because they played with a passion that I have never seen, and that my friend Rob had never seen in the 20 SY shows that he attended. The funny thing is that the audience couldn't have cared less about Sonic Youth or Ween, probably because they weren't on the cover of Mojo that month. It was a total Flaming Lips sausage fest. We left halfway through their boring set.

They always played with passion every time I saw them, but the second time I saw them in 2003 took the cake. They were always great, but they were especially great that night.

I miss them.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

I saw SY first on a three-band bill at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 2006, with Ween and The Flaming Lips. If they were mad at each other that night, you wouldn't have known it, because they played with a passion that I have never seen, and that my friend Rob had never seen in the 20 SY shows that he attended. The funny thing is that the audience couldn't have cared less about Sonic Youth or Ween, probably because they weren't on the cover of Mojo that month. It was a total Flaming Lips sausage fest. We left halfway through their boring set.

They always played with passion every time I saw them, but the second time I saw them in 2003 took the cake. They were always great, but they were especially great that night.

I miss them.

The world completely sucks without Sonic Youth, Ween and The Frogs. Hopefully Ween are back to stay.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[zeb]

The world completely sucks without Sonic Youth, Ween and The Frogs. Hopefully Ween are back to stay.

Completely?

[zeb]

I never got to see SY but I did see Ranaldo and his band a year or two ago. They were great!

[VinylGuy]

Finally bought Kim´s book, so far its a really good read. And yeah, im listening to SY non stop.

[Fuzzcharger]

Finally bought Kim´s book, so far its a really good read. And yeah, im listening to SY non stop.

I'm halfway through this at the moment. I'm enjoying it but still not sure what to make of it. It feels like she's dropping names on just about every page and it's wearing a little bit thin. Like I get that she crossed paths with a lot of well known creative people but it seems like it's overriding her narrative a bit.

[tragabigzanda]

[matt reeder]

Listening to my SY bootleg box set. Yeah, I'm still pleased with this. Some of these will become my go-to SY discs in the future, I think. This version of "Pattern Recognition" is hot fire.

[tragabigzanda]

[matt reeder]

Listening to my SY bootleg box set. Yeah, I'm still pleased with this. Some of these will become my go-to SY discs in the future, I think. This version of "Pattern Recognition" is hot fire.

It is a great version. I still haven't made it through Discs 6 & 7, just a combination of lack of time and less interest in anything from The Eternal. But I will do it soon and report back.

The Eternal is probably my least favorite SY album but I was pleasantly surprised by the songs that made it to that disc; all of them are good listens. Let me / us know what you think. Listening to "Rain on Tin" now...

[darth_vedder]

Rain On Tin is so good.

[Birds in Hell]

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/sonic-yout ... ith-noise/



Back in 1986, after recording EVOL, Sonic Youth recorded the score for Ken Friedman’s 1987 film Made in U.S.A., which they eventually released as a soundtrack album in 1995. Before that soundtrack was completed though, the band tracked a rehearsal session of music for the film that’s actually pretty different from the finished version. That rehearsal, recorded at the studio Spinhead, will see the light of day on June 17 as the Spinhead Sessions. We’re premiering a track off that release, “Theme with Noise.”

This track, like the rest of the album, is entirely instrumental, more similar to the jams and extended interludes the band incorporated into their live shows or their SYR releases than the song-oriented EVOL that was recorded months earlier. It’s no secret that Sonic Youth were masters of this kind of thing, and “Theme with Noise” is no exception. It’s at times eerie and dissonant, and strangely melodic at others. It’s also a quiet song, more interested in atmosphere and psychedelia than the feedback overload or punk-ish drive that Sonic Youth sometimes offered. It’s very worth checking out, which you can do here:



1. Ambient Guitar & Dreamy Theme (16:39)
2. Theme with Noise (4:16)
3. High Mesa (8:36)
4. Unknown Theme (2:41)
5. Wolf (1:37)
6. Scalping (3:57)
7. Theme 1 Take 4 (2:32)

I am way into this.

[zeb]

Rain On Tin is so good.

Can confirm.

[washing machine]

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/sonic-yout ... ith-noise/



...

I came here to post about this too, but glad you beat me to the punch. I rented that Made in U.S.A. VHS fifteen years ago but I don't remember much about the music, aside from it sounding kind of horrifying in that Bad Moon Rising kind of way, but even more abstract than the songs on that album. I hope I'm remembering correctly. In any case, I'm really looking forward to this.

[E.H. Ruddock]

OB hasn't been the same without washing machine bumps in this thread. Glad you are back, pal.

[washing machine]

Spenno bumped it.