Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!

[dad]

In/Out/In - new SY album released 11 March 2022, compiling unreleased material dating between 2000 and 2010.

01. Basement Contender
02. In & Out
03. Machine
04. Social Static
05. Out & In

"Basement Contender" - Recorded by Lee Ranaldo in Northampton, MA in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"In & Out" - Recorded at soundcheck in Pomona, CA with additional recording and mixing at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ by Aaron Mullan in 2010. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Machine" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Social Static" - Recorded and mixed by Sonic Youth at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Out & In" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

I've listened to this a few times over the weekend. It feels like collection for us hardcore fans. They've done these kinds of releases several times now (SYR Series, a lot of Destroyed Room, Spinhead Sessions...) and every time they do, I tell myself that this is the kind of SY we need more of. I don't know that I fully agree with that anymore, but I'm never going to turn down the opportunity to hear these types of sketches. Social Static is a standout for me, simply because I could live in that '99-'02 Jim O'Rourke era forever. It's the least digestible thing on this collection, but I continue to be amazed at how this band can weave chaos and noise into something coherent.

Basement Contender is very nice too. For all the VU comparisons bands like SY and other indie cohorts get, I've never really heard that much in SY's music that actually sounds like it could be a Velvets jam. This one does. The lo-fi recording helps with that, and the groove itself is just unmistakably influenced. It would be very cool to have a full collection of instrumentals from this session, if they exist.

I'm going to listen to this album a few more times this week and then I'm sure I'll revisit it and think it's great all over again months from now. Hope we see more stuff like this from these guys, but I don't think there's anything essential on here.

Any more takers on this yet?

i would listen to more of this version of SY.

[washing machine]

In/Out/In - new SY album released 11 March 2022, compiling unreleased material dating between 2000 and 2010.

01. Basement Contender
02. In & Out
03. Machine
04. Social Static
05. Out & In

"Basement Contender" - Recorded by Lee Ranaldo in Northampton, MA in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"In & Out" - Recorded at soundcheck in Pomona, CA with additional recording and mixing at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ by Aaron Mullan in 2010. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Machine" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Social Static" - Recorded and mixed by Sonic Youth at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Out & In" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

I've listened to this a few times over the weekend. It feels like collection for us hardcore fans. They've done these kinds of releases several times now (SYR Series, a lot of Destroyed Room, Spinhead Sessions...) and every time they do, I tell myself that this is the kind of SY we need more of. I don't know that I fully agree with that anymore, but I'm never going to turn down the opportunity to hear these types of sketches. Social Static is a standout for me, simply because I could live in that '99-'02 Jim O'Rourke era forever. It's the least digestible thing on this collection, but I continue to be amazed at how this band can weave chaos and noise into something coherent.

Basement Contender is very nice too. For all the VU comparisons bands like SY and other indie cohorts get, I've never really heard that much in SY's music that actually sounds like it could be a Velvets jam. This one does. The lo-fi recording helps with that, and the groove itself is just unmistakably influenced. It would be very cool to have a full collection of instrumentals from this session, if they exist.

I'm going to listen to this album a few more times this week and then I'm sure I'll revisit it and think it's great all over again months from now. Hope we see more stuff like this from these guys, but I don't think there's anything essential on here.

Any more takers on this yet?

i would listen to more of this version of SY.

Woo boy. Is that an ask for recommendations?

[dad]

In/Out/In - new SY album released 11 March 2022, compiling unreleased material dating between 2000 and 2010.

01. Basement Contender
02. In & Out
03. Machine
04. Social Static
05. Out & In

"Basement Contender" - Recorded by Lee Ranaldo in Northampton, MA in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"In & Out" - Recorded at soundcheck in Pomona, CA with additional recording and mixing at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ by Aaron Mullan in 2010. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Machine" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan in 2008. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Social Static" - Recorded and mixed by Sonic Youth at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

"Out & In" - Recorded and mixed by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon (NY) in 2000. Performed by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley.

I've listened to this a few times over the weekend. It feels like collection for us hardcore fans. They've done these kinds of releases several times now (SYR Series, a lot of Destroyed Room, Spinhead Sessions...) and every time they do, I tell myself that this is the kind of SY we need more of. I don't know that I fully agree with that anymore, but I'm never going to turn down the opportunity to hear these types of sketches. Social Static is a standout for me, simply because I could live in that '99-'02 Jim O'Rourke era forever. It's the least digestible thing on this collection, but I continue to be amazed at how this band can weave chaos and noise into something coherent.

Basement Contender is very nice too. For all the VU comparisons bands like SY and other indie cohorts get, I've never really heard that much in SY's music that actually sounds like it could be a Velvets jam. This one does. The lo-fi recording helps with that, and the groove itself is just unmistakably influenced. It would be very cool to have a full collection of instrumentals from this session, if they exist.

I'm going to listen to this album a few more times this week and then I'm sure I'll revisit it and think it's great all over again months from now. Hope we see more stuff like this from these guys, but I don't think there's anything essential on here.

Any more takers on this yet?

i would listen to more of this version of SY.

Woo boy. Is that an ask for recommendations?

maybe?

[washing machine]

Anything recorded by Wharton Tiers or involving Jim O'Rourke is probably a good place to start. I sing the praises of the SYR series often on this board, and for good reason. It's the loosest SY material you've never heard.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I just saw that Kim is 70 today. Feeling old today

[tragabigzanda]

[Strat]

Woa. 70. wtf

[Birds in Hell]

This is a great show, but:

a) it's been part of their official bootleg series for years as a straight soundboard recording; and

b) I think the new mix from the multi-tracks sounds worse somehow (at least from the samples I've heard).

[Birds in Hell]

This new (long) interview with Lee is also great:

[washing machine]

New release incoming. I'll have to take a trip to the CD store.

[VinylGuy]

Im not sure a show from 2011 is a good selection.

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

I mean I’m sure it’s very good or great but the overall vibe from those shows was really weird.

Also I didn’t liked seeing Mark there playing with them.

[Birds in Hell]

They play some great old tunes they hadn't played for years at that point, so it's definitely worth hearing.

This NPR oral history piece is a good read:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/11938767 ... al-history

As noted above, the new mix sounds worse (to me) than the original Bandcamp/Nugs release of the show.

The old version remains available at Nugs for discerning listeners:

https://www.nugs.net/live-download-of-s ... 20433.html

[Higgs]

...discerning listeners...

[tragabigzanda]

[Higgs]

You are all 3 men of class and taste.

[VinylGuy]

Listened to the first three tracks and its good...the band seems very locked in and Kim sounds very engaged, which is surprising because i remember this tour as being so weird and cold, specially having seen live their show in Buenos Aires.

I remember reading Kim´s book about this tour, and she pictured a very hard moment for her, with Thurston being relieved with their split and she still spinning in circles.

[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

[Birds in Hell]

This show happened before Thurston and Kim split, though, so it’s quite a different vibe to the later South American shows.