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Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 3:15 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 5:55 pm
by Kevin Davis
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 6:32 pm
by VinylGuy
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 6:34 pm
by Simple Torture
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 11:27 pm
by zeb
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Wed August 14, 2024 11:32 pm
by zeb
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 12:16 am
by tragabigzanda

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 12:18 am
by dimejinky99
music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 12:29 am
by Simple Torture
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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Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 1:47 am
by zeb
Hahaha really? That's awesome!

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 1:49 am
by zeb
dimejinky99 wrote:music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers
Obviously terrible take.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 2:42 am
by VinylGuy
tragabigzanda wrote:unpopular opinion: Dirty sucks too.
Omg

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 2:43 am
by VinylGuy
dimejinky99 wrote:music by people who cant play music and only liked by posers
Omg x2

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 3:09 am
by Kevin Davis
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!

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 3:19 am
by Birds in Hell
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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Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 6:03 am
by zeb
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Thu August 15, 2024 7:07 pm
by VinylGuy
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

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Mon August 26, 2024 2:02 am
by VinylGuy
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.

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Mon August 26, 2024 2:05 am
by tragabigzanda

Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

Posted: Mon August 26, 2024 2:08 am
by VinylGuy
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