― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 2 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
nothing touches Bad Moon Rising for me.
― Aaron A., Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 January 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 3 January 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― toby (tsg20), Friday, 3 January 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Friday, 3 January 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
that intro never fails me
― willem (willem), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lou, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Friday, 3 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Saturday, 4 January 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Disappearer
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh god...Disappearer is a doozy. Fuck. I'm gonna have to pull that out in sec here but...
why could you possibly argue that "Shadow Of A Doubt" isn't the most amazing piece of music you've ever heard in your life, now come on? GET OUTTA HEAR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSc8957FoSQ
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
amaizng, now that i listen to this song again, how the first and last part of the song is Cure styled ( as they argue rightrfully on the comments) and the middle part is exactly like Thalia Zedek's "Live skull" ( as i argue)
― Zeno, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe 'the sprawl' or 'total trash'
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
why? Why won't you admit that "Shadow of A Doubt" is the most brilliant piece of music you've ever heard in your life? Why?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND I AM ABOUT TO COMPLETELY BANANAS OVER SONIC YOUTH FOR THE 5 BILLIONTH TIME
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
fUCK i DONT EVEN HAVE GOO ON MY IPOD
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
well EVOL is maybe my favourite sonic youth record. i like the fact that the songs are shorter.
i mispalced my copy of goo apparently. one of those instances where the cd isn't in the case and is most likely lost forever :(
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
DIAMOND SEA
― 6335, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Pipeline maybe
― Zeno, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
UNWIND. JK DIAMOND SEA STILL #1
― 6335, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
expressway
― stephen, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Dirty Boots
― wesley useche, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
thurston moore is one of the top 3 most attractive musicians ever imho
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway I ripped a whole bunch of sonic youth albums to my iPod now: Dirty, Goo, Bad Moon Rising...
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
REMEMBER THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE BEASTIE BOYS ANY DAY OF THE WEEK OKTHXBYE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^^that
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Kim Gordon will sort you out. All of you. Be careful. She'll bloody well sort you out I say!
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
STARPOWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztH6Uk_Rq0
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I still say Disappearer, but JC is just this close from supplanting it...that song is utterly mindblowing...
Shadow of a Doubt is amazing. Two things:
1) I didn't get into SY until late, mainly bcz a) I was too young, and b) when I did get into them I lived in the middle of nowhere. The early stuff really wasn't available wherever I could go to buy records. Which means that DN, Goo, and Dirty were touchstones in my adolescence, but I almost entirely missed the boat on Sister and EVOL.
2) All the Kim-hate on ILX is total horse-hockey.
― Drugs A. Money, Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― stephen, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
How about dem Sonic Youth closers!
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
Kim’s whispering vocals don’t always work for me but they fit perfectly in “shadow of a doubt”. If this were a POX I would surely pick it.
Weird band to do a POO, no? Maybe I’m alone on this one but, Sonic Youth is one of those bands that I’m never in the mood to listen to just one song. Either I play several songs of them or I don’t play any. They do have songs like “teenage riot” or “inclnerate” that play well with others, but usually their songs disrupt the mood of whatever was playing before them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 12 November 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
The EVOL LP ends with Expressway to Yr Skull, which would be my choice for best closer. Peace Attack is also nicely autumnal contemplation.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
^^ yeah the original lock groove vinyl of Expressway to Yr Skull should get the nod over the cd-bonus “Bubblegum” but agree with the “Peace Attack” praise. IMO “The Diamond Sea” and aforementioned “Expressway” get a higher tier. Good list!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
Any idea why Expressway to yr skull is missing from Spotify?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
It's available for me. (As "Madonna, Sean, and Me" at least.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:13 (four years ago) link
Nice to see "Or" in the Good-to-Great section.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, and my OOP might be Silver Rocket.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:53 (four years ago) link
Disappear is a good answer
― brimstead, Thursday, 12 November 2020 06:10 (four years ago) link