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So Sonic Youth are apparently playing here, unless that jackass Livvie's made it up. H and E are coming up, so's Livvie herself, is anyone else? Anton/Di/Duane maybe? It's all going to be very odd. I wonder if Thurston'll remember even slightly.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember ME, obv. We talked about Sparks and Dave Pegg's sister's record and I took a couple of photos of him, I consider us close friends

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey HE'S tall, maybe after you introduce us I should try and get w/ him. I'm hotter than Kim by far.

― Livvie (Livvie), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also wow yeah everyone should come! This gig will be overwhelming.

― Livvie (Livvie), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU PEP!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

im tempted esp since last time was marred by screaming foo fighters fans in singlets saying "I Love U Dave"

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 26 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i have some questions. firstly, when is it? secondly, are they still doing that noise thing? thirdly, is steve shelley still their drummer? this will help me determine if i want to see them. yeah yeah i know, i'm letting my impure thoughts about steve shelley influence this decision. shame on me.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

June 26, according to their website, so I'll be there with balls on!

― Minty (Minty), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

hey the 5,6,7,8's in may too! somebody please give me more details, i can't find anything about it on the net.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to the Ticketek website. 26th June at the St James, round $65. J. Mascis is supporting. It depends what you mean by "that noise thing", they're promoting their new album which isn't out yet. Yes Steve Shelley IS still their drummer. You should really go Di, it'd be nice to see you again!

― Livvie (Livvie), Saturday, 27 March 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

don't you mean bells?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 29 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You've met Anton, right?

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, I admit to his preeminent manliness

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

About time, too.

― Minty (Minty), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanna get candy flipped & dance up front but I ph34r the seating arrangements, moshpit grunge-hangover kids, guitar geeks & nu-deadheads.

― etc, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The weekend Herald had a mention of this gig in its time-out section, so i guess that makes it official.

I couldn't find the ad for Toots and the Maytalls next month, anyone know if it's [1] still on [2] sold out and/or [3] horrendously expensive?

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Akl has "nu-deadheads"?
did/does it have "deadheads"?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Recent Sy fans. Etc you moshed at Wire, Sy types'll be wussier prob

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I only moshed coz I've got crap eyesight & it was the only way I could get close enough to the stage to see them! NOT MY WAR.

nu-deadheads = dubheads?

― etc, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No! you must clear up my confusion! confusion is sex.
don't worry this thread was already in the pits as soon as thurston lust came into it.
should I wear a Van Dyke Parks tee shirt so I can bag Jim?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

shit i thought you said "bang jim". you're such a lust fascist, spectra.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(please don't think cos i said that i am thurston for moore cos i am not!!)

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not THAT into Thurston (or any of SY), his perpetual youth thing is a bit creepy. Hey I know like 3 more people who're going to be there now, that makes like 25 people I know who'll possibly be at this gig.

― Livvie (Livvie), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, I think that's about how many for me too!
I might've misused "bag" 'cause I thought it might be a "sleep with"/"score" euphemism but I think "to bag someone" is to criticise them, which ain't what I meant...I meant share my sleeping bag.
Anyone know what they're sposed to be like live these days, I'm too lazy to look it up...maybe this is where I should give (non-groupie) props to Lee R. I need to do some more SY "research" (listening) as I know less than most people I know. I really hope they do the closer off Murray Street, Sympathy for the Strawberry!
ps. Di did you get a lollipop from me via M Darcy?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Mime, how did the photos of Thurston turn out? Were you in them too?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah non-groupie-wise Lee is amazing. I know no recent SY past Washing Machine - I'm best on the BMR/EVOL/Sister mid-eighties period but I don't know how much of that they'll play. One of the people I know who's going saw them live in NYC and said they were amazing - I don't know him well enough to trust his taste but that's something I suppose. I think you used "bag" correctly (it means both "score" and criticise as far as I know) - it's a bit less explicit than "bang", is all.

― Livvie (Livvie), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "bag" as "criticise" depends on you being kinda British. Petra I have no real KNOWLEDGE of it but I'd be surprised if it was under $80 or so, the Burning Spear thing, sorry I could've seen yesterday pretty easily but forgot. The photos came out GREAT, I took two cos I was worried one wouldn't work, and I took them so I'm not in them (I'm not THAT wily/good a photographer), a couple of old/ex friends are in them tho. They kept moving around to be sure and be in the shot, fucked the lightreading up a lot. Poor good patient Thurston.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Their new album is entitled "Sonic Nurse". Me and E. and Livvie had already heard a track off it on the Erase Errata split 7", and it's good.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey dmonster I was at that show too, are you SHOCKED? I looked at my shoes a LOT during the Foo Fighters set, they were really v poor. Featured (ACCORDING TO HIM) Dave Grohl's first (live obv he played everything on that first FF record) appearance on drums since Nirvana! Woah! It was kinda cool, really. Do you remember much about their performance? For some reason I remember it a lot better than SY's. People moshed to "Tom Violence", woo

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm, i think i'm gonna miss this show. we'll see. spectra, thank you for the lollipop! i dug the sour thing in the centre of it.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Livvie it's incumbent upon you to listen to A Thousand Leaves - it's a fuqxing qreat album! Don't pay ant attention to all those fools who reckon it's no good, they wouldn't know a good album it it jumped up and bit 'em in the butt.

Liz good luck with yr Jim-chasing, I'm picking him to be even more of a groupie-magnet than Thurston.

― Minty (Minty), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know where I'm going to get a copy of A Thousand Leaves but I'll try. Yeah the track off the 7" is good, I should listen to it again in preparation. I want to see the photos!

― Livvie (Livvie), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah if they're both still in one of my photo albums (I'm sure at least one is) I'll scan them sometime, maybe. I'd like to but I might never be bothered, y'know. I miss taking photos.

― Awesome Andrew, Thursday, 1 April 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought my tickets today! See you in Auckland, kids!

― Minty (Minty), Monday, 5 April 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

do you think they'll sell out? surely not by the end of April (about when I can probably pay for them)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean my plane tickets. It's only $60 to fly from Chch to Auckland, but you have to get them today.

― Minty (Minty), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought my airline tickets too! And I'm planning to buy my SY tickets very soon, as soon as I make a decision about seating.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 5 April 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You can sit on yr Uncle Andrew's lap!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, that's solved. Now where to stay after the gig?

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

THE DEATH STAR

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds comfortable.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Shut up or I'll crush yr windpipe w/my very MIND

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you should paint the steps in Aotea square, each a different colour, becauase I can;t wait for there years long 23 million queen st improvement plan

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No problem!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i dreamed about sonic youth last night! i dreamed that they came down here and did a private unplugged concert just for everyone from IRE! and they were really really nice! (though lee was rude to me and steve shelley hit on me which for some reason i found uncomfortable). they gave us all lots of free CDs!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

sonic youth unplugged!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah wtf!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum would probably like it, she likes the quiet part of "Diamond Sea". I've dreamed about Sonic Youth before though I forget what happened.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey so Livvie are we gonna get to meet your mum?

― Minty (Minty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

&no-one's buying stink "seated" tickets, right?

― Minty (Minty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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Holy shit, this setlist would've ALMOST made me brave the hipster army in Williamsburg--do they do this kind of "oldies" show alot?

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 14 August 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

post thurston/kim breakup sonic youth sounds ... exactly the same!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZBTk9fu_fN0
aside from that, mark ibold's presence here confuses me -- is he doing anything other than doubling kim's bass lines?

― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago)

he's also dating thurston

― underrated erowid reports I have read (am0n), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

i know kim plays guitar on most of the more recent material, but for oldies sets like this, it seems like ibold is not doing a whole lot. sweet gig!

― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago)

I was there in the crowd! But I don't believe this will be their last show. Kim walked off very quickly in the ending with Teenage Riot but Thurston stayed i the stage for some time and looked very emotional.

― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

he's also dating thurston

― underrated erowid reports I have read (am0n), Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:47 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:37 (thirteen years ago)

Sonic Mid-Life Crisis

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:37 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

god Bad Moon Rising is so fucking bad ass

― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

A very revealing interview with Gordon about the reason of their break-up in Elle

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:28 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

i don't get this band

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:29 (ten years ago)

and also.... i don't know if i want to.

i like noisey guitars so maybe i am supposed to be obsessed with them. i knew someone who said he was related to thurston moore and he sucked. one of the worst people of all time.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:42 (ten years ago)

i think it's only fair to hold that against the band.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 04:42 (ten years ago)

i too form opinions based on anecdotes

― internet explorer (am0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)

i demand treesh acknowledge the greatness of sonic youth immediately

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:12 (ten years ago)

and im gonna lock you in this thread until you do

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:13 (ten years ago)

Treeship

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)

Treeship get it together

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)

goon nuggying treesh until he cracks and says he loves SY

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)

would like to hear more about this sucky relative of thurston moore

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)

that relative is one of the worst ppl of all time is wut i herd

― internet explorer (am0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)

just plain bad stuff

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:06 (ten years ago)

I think I've made my case honestly

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)

You mean Thurston's cousin Winston?

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:11 (ten years ago)

Have you heard 'schizophrenia'? It kinda sounds like Belle & Serb Ashton u might like it.

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:21 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

vinyl reissues:

http://pitchfork.com/news/62755-sonic-youth-announce-vinyl-reissues-of-six-albums/

no "Washing Machine"?

― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:20 (nine years ago)

I think Washing Machine already got reissued: http://www.discogs.com/Sonic-Youth-Washing-Machine/release/7805311

― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 7 January 2016 01:55 (nine years ago)

at last

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 January 2016 01:58 (nine years ago)

i rate youth

― am0n, Thursday, 7 January 2016 16:47 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

Spinhead Sessions is out and quite wonderful IMO

http://pitchfork.com/news/65063-sonic-youth-announce-1986-spinhead-sessions-share-theme-with-noise/

― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:43 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

Murray Street warming my heart this Sunday. "Sympathy for the Strawberry" is so good.

― MatthewK, Sunday, 31 July 2016 04:52 (eight years ago)

eight months pass...

Thurston in studio on BBC6 right now, talking with Steve Lamacq and playing SY stuff.

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)

six months pass...

Anyone ever heard the Sonic Youth folk do an admiration for Hawkwind. Rolling through the pines of Virginia jamming both Goo and Doremi Fasol Latido, I seemed to notice how similar the stoned gallop of "Lord of Light" is to many Sonic Youth numbers. It was more the groove and the drone than anything.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:19 (seven years ago)

http://www.carolinetimeline.com/sonicyouth

― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:32 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

I picked my fifteen favorite Kim tracks.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 January 2019 03:24 (six years ago)

A obscure place to tell us about it...

btw, there ws an interview with "Lost Voice Man" on the news last night, behind him was a wall of albums in frames. I saw Thriller, Unknown Pleasures, 1977 (Ash), and Sonic Youth's Goo.

So, hey.

― Mark G, Friday, 4 January 2019 12:35 (six years ago)

In other news, Sister is still hot shit

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:37 (six years ago)

this band mostly sucked

― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:40 (six years ago)

one year passes...

^^ wrong

https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-1

― sleeve, Sunday, 9 August 2020 03:48 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

speaking of the SY bandcamp, there are several live shows on there - anyone got a recommendation for a standout among them?

― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 05:53 (four years ago)

one year passes...

If you could re-sequence/revise the track list for one Sonic Youth album, what would it be and how would you change it?

I’m going with Washing Machine, an album that’s near to perfect but slightly half-hearted about its desire to be psychedelic.

Here’s what I’d do:
- cut “Junkie’s Promise”
- cut “Panty Lies”
- merge “Becuz” and “Becuz Coda” into a single song
- would I cut “Skip Tracer”? Maybe
- replace the 19:35 version of “Diamond Sea” with the ~25 minute long version from the CD5
- Bliss out

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:25 (three years ago)

Skip Tracer is the second best track!

― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:33 (three years ago)

I would skip tracer too
I’m more of a Lee fan in concept than in reality

― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:44 (three years ago)

"Skip Tracer" is solid! Lyrics are kind of mean tho, SY don't really have room to be making fun of other bands' lyrics.

the title track is so amazing though, the middle section, particularly when they start playing that harmonics/feedback riff, is the ideal of what I listen to them for.

― JoeStork, Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:16 (three years ago)

A super sounding riff one might say

― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:18 (three years ago)

the middle section, particularly when they start playing that harmonics/feedback riff, is the ideal of what I listen to them for.

100% cosign, a real highlight of their work

― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:24 (three years ago)

three months pass...

this article was pretty good, imo, but the cbgb bootleg embedded within is outstanding, with some blistering versions of daydream nation tracks: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/sonic-youth-and-the-business-of-keeping-a-dead-band-alive/

the bootleg: https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cbgbs-1988

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:45 (three years ago)

lol i had no idea this board existed. i rate this bootleg a 10/10

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:46 (three years ago)

ten months pass...

This was just posted by Roxy Cinema in NYC but not widely announced - they're screening The Velvet Suite with a Q&A afterwards with Lee Ranaldo and filmmaker Ignacio Julia moderated by Thurston Moore:

https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-velvet-suite/

― birdistheword, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:33 (two years ago)

two years pass...

Is “kool thing” the closest they ever came to rocking?

― calstars, Saturday, 31 May 2025 21:10 (one month ago)

no that would prob be something off Dirty

― sleeve, Saturday, 31 May 2025 21:24 (one month ago)

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