sonic youth

• Question:-sonic youth?
  does anyone think that sonic youth should break up?
  
  Answer:-NO!!! Have you not heard the new CD? It rocks.
• Question:-SONIC YOUTH !!!!??? ??? ??? ?
  what are your favorite "sonic youth" songs ????? =)
  
  Answer:-100%
  Silver Rocket
  Sugar Kane
  Drunken Butterfly
  Bull in the Heather
  Teenage Riot
• Question:-Is Sister by Sonic Youth a good album for someone who isn't crazy about how great Sonic Youth is?
  Don't listen to Sonic Youth much, and I've decided to start. I'm low on cash, and Daydream Nation is out of my price range. I've heard Sister is incredible and magical and amazing and *fireworks*, but only from diehards for Sonic Youth. Is this a case of crazy fans loving everything from their favorite band, or is this album actually of considerable musical quality?
  
  Answer:-Sonic Youth has actually said they don't care about their music being pirated because they're not about the money at all. So feel free and download any of their albums for free. Here's how I would rank their albums (at least the ones I have):
  
  1. Goo
  2. Sister
  3. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
  4. Daydream Nation
  5. Dirty
  6. EVOL
  7. Bad Moon Rising
  8. The Eternal
  9. Rather Ripped
  10. Washing Machine
  11. Confusion Is Sex / Kill Yr. Idols
  12. Sonic Youth
  13. A Thousand Leaves
  14. The Destroyed Room
• Question:-What albums best represent each stage of Sonic Youth's evolution as experimental musicians?
  I'm just getting into Sonic Youth, and already I can admire their avant-garde approach to modern music. I would imagine they've been through quite a few stages in their sound, and I figured I'd leave it up to the best to tell me which albums to listen to. I'm on a limited budget, and I can't pirate any albums, so if you want to get as specific as songs, feel free.
  
  Answer:-Seen em live a few times. awesome shows, at least from what I can remember.
• Question:-Why do Sonic Youth fans claim you know nothing about music if you think they suck?
  honestly, I think they're terrible, but how in any way does that mean i dont know anything about music?
  
  I notice that this is the first thing a Sonic Youth fan says when you disagree with them.
  
  Really what is so super advanced about Sonic Youth? They have few ok songs, but the rest is just boring to death to me.
  
  And if they're so great why do most people not know who they are at all?
  
  Answer:-Well, I love the Sonic Youth! Um, but I can understand where you are coming from. I can listen to Bob Dylan for about ten minutes and then I am done. However, many tout that he is one of the greatest musicians alive. Which, he was a good songwriter, but I still cannot listen to him.
  
  Just because I don't like Bob Dylan doesn't mean that he was not influencial. That is why so many people put Sonic Youth on a pedestal. Sonic Youth influenced almost all of the 90's alternative music by being a primary influence on the grunge scene. Today their indie approach has influenced many bands today.
  
  I guess Sonic Youth is to you what Bob Dylan is to me. Just because you don't like Sonic Youth does not mean that you don't like music...that is a very isolationistic arrogant approach to discussing music. Which is the same reason why most people reject mainstream music. When one acts that way they are becoming exactly what they hate about pop culture.
  
  What was so super advanced about Sonic Youth is that they were doing alternative grunge experimental punk rock befor a lot of other people. One of the main influences of Nirvana was Sonic Youth.
• Question:-What can I expect at Sonic Youth concert?
  I will be going to see Sonic Youth at the Wiltern and I am just wondering what their concerts are like and if you have any idea of how early I should get there?
  
  Answer:-happiness, amazingness, and an invitation to come as close to the stage as you can get during the encore. take advantage of it.
  also, mostly great new songs from the eternal, but a couple of the good old songs thrown in. a great show, really.
  
  it doesn't really matter when you get there, if you have a ticket. half hour before to avoid last minute crowd. also, the opening act is really good too if it's still "the entrance band".
• Question:-What are some really good songs by sonic youth?
  some crazy ones, with a lot of distortion.
  star if you think sonic youth rocks!
  
  Answer:-Teenage Riot
  Superstar
  Cross the Breeze
  Kool Thing
  100%
  Theresa's Sound World
  Sugar Kane
  Diamond Sea
  Sunday
  Unmade Bed
  Incinerate
  Leaky Lifeboat
  Little Trouble Girl
• Question:-Sonic youth...?
  I love Superstar what's another great song by them?
  
  Answer:-kool thing, 100% (my personally favorite), youth against fascism, sugar kane, teenage riot
• Question:-Sonic Youth?
  Couple of questions
  What album should i buy first?
  Whats some fun songs of theres to play on guitar?
  
  Answer:-Its difficult to say, because their style has changed drastically since their inception. Overall, their best or most important albums are probably Bad Moon Rising and EVOL. Evol I would say. I also like some of their newer albums, as its a little more accessible and poppy, but still Sonic Youth. Rather Ripped was decent.
  
  In terms of songs of theirs to play, most of their earlystuff, like pre-Bad Moon Rising, is nearly impossible to play. At the time, the band used multiple guitars, each with a unique tuning that often involved taping a screwdriver or pencil or something under a particular part of the guitar. The band destroyed all these guitars when they became sick of playing the same songs, and they themselves are unable to replicate many of the original releases.
• Question:-What do you think of the new Sonic Youth album?
  I am a long-time fan of Sonic Youth. They have their good albums, like "Dirty" and "Daydream Nation," and their bad albums like "NYC Ghosts and Flowers" and "A Thousand Leaves." Where does this new album fall in? Is it good, but unremarkable like "Rather Ripped" and "Sonic Nurse," or the return to greatness we have all been waiting for?
  
  Answer:-...It hasn't been released yet, but I know there was some deal that made it possible to get a digital download in April, which I failed to follow up on. If you've heard it, I'd like to hear what you have to say, because I haven't, other than "Sacred Trickster", which is a good track and a very Sonic Youth track.

thurston moore

• Question:-Thurston Moore (sonic youth) as a guitarist? Talented? What do you think he mostly uses?
  I'm curious what guitar players might think of Thurston Moore as a guitarist.. I'm asking because I'm learning guitar and like his style but I'm not sure he's the most 'talented' guitarist.
  
  Does he mostly use barre and power chords with some simple melodys?
  
  What do you think?
  
  Answer:-yes, Thurston is very talented im my opinion, especially if you listen to the Dirty album
  
  he moslty uses power chords
• Question:-Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo vs Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien, which is you favorite?
  I personally like Jonny and Ed, but Thurston and Lee are pretty awesome too.
  
  Answer:-Without question, Thurston and Lee.
• Question:-Lyrics to Thurston Moore song?
  Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics to the song "Fri/End" by Thurston Moore?
  
  I've tried searching but I haven't come up with anything.
  
  Help, please? :)
  
  Thank you in advance!
  
  Answer:-i think it's .........
  You step on the purple vale
  Emit shards of a screaming halo.
  You strap on your rainbow sail.
  Rainbow resin, a sticky cyclone
  Oh, how i love the smell of your charred remains
  Nothing better
  Than to meet your sweetheart in severed chains
  It's love forever.
  
  Chorus
  
  Yeah, I'll always be your friend.
  Oh yeah, at least just till the end.
  
  
  Our burner switches hit
  Instant meltdown, free-fry the ghost town.
  Fresh battery head trip.
  Love it to death, how, go child strum sound.
  Never leave you alone, harsh and heavy drone.
  To cook a sizzle soft beat.
  Pre-historic love, electric catacomb.
  I see your look goes to me.
  
  Chorus
  
  Yeah, I'll always be your friend.
  Oh yeah, at least just till the end.
  
  Bridge
  
  Pardon me, purple vale.
  The ticket of the girl who loves you.
  She rides the high rail
  Devotional dogma crackles above you
  And all the startled tones chilling tonight
  Sweet circular motions
  Amplify a moon dot(?) in her sight
  
  i hope that could help
  
  
• Question:-Thurston Moore Tabs?
  Where can I get the tabs for Pretty Bad by Thurston Moore?
  
  Answer:-try this.
  http://www.tabcrawler.com/
• Question:-Someone introduce me to Thurston Moore/Sonic Youth properly?
  I somehow stumbled upon this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wllPXb4lkI&feature=player_embedded
  It's called Benediction, and it's by a guy named Thurston Moore, who I found out, after a little sleuthing, is actually from Sonic Youth. Not that I'd know before, since I'm fairly unfamiliar with that band. Anyhow, I've absolutely fallen in love with this song, and definetly need more Thurston Moore, and maybe even some Sonic Youth, who I've heard of before but never got into before because I just never knew where to begin. Someone give me a good starting place for both?
  
  BQ: When you were a kid, did you have those socks that had individual nubs for each toe? WEREN'T THEY THE COOLEST SOCKS EVER?
  BQ2: What's the coolest dish you know how to cook?
  BQ3: Are you going to any concerts soon?
  
  Answer:-Ok well you deserve a fair warning: Sonic Youth can be VERY experimental at times. I mean really though. They're known for using screwdrivers as instruments sometimes. So for that reason, I wouldn't go -too- far into their deep stuff just yet, or you might get completely turned off to them.
  Some of their more listener-friendly tunes include:
  Incinerate - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3ovD8ZSS4
  Jams Run Free - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxmfXLM8wps
  Bull In The Heather - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4BsnXmJaI
  Candle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlrWnZbp2wM
  
  Now! If you're like me, and you are planning on purposely digging up some of their over-the-top-eccentric songs just because you were told not to, start with their album "Sister" or "Dirty" and move forward. ;)
  
  PS- If after all of this listening, you decide that you prefer Moore's solo to Sonic Youth as a whole, he did do a lot of solo composing and work. Check out the soundtrack to the movie "Manic"- absolutely beautiful.
  
  BQ1: Yeah I had them but I hated them. They made me itchy.
  BQ2: Blonde brownies.
  BQ3: I was supposed to go to a Rush concert with my fiancee but I found out I was pregnant instead.
• Question:-Has anyone heard any of Thurston Moore's (Sonic Youth) solo material?
  The album Trees Outside the Academy, for example.
  
  How is it? On par with Sonic Youth's best?
  
  Answer:-Yeah I have Trees Outside The Academy. It's pretty good. Most of the album is more straightforward sound than most of SY's stuff. An example would be the song Honest James which could nearly be considered to be almost folk-ish.
  
  My favourite songs from it would be Frozen Gtr and The Shape Is In A Trance. If you're a big SY fan then I would definitely recommend it as I very much enjoy it.
  
  The Shape Is In A Trance
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTVC0PUuoA
  Frozen Gtr
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTj5ktubTc
• Question:-Anyone buy Thurston Moore's recent solo release - Trees Outside the Academy?
  I'm thinking seriously of getting this before White Chalk (PJ Harvey) but wanted to get some comments on it before I decide.
  
  Answer:-I just heard the new song from P.J., When Under Ether. As strong as the love is for all things pertaining to Sonic Youth, I would go get White Chalk. That was one hauntingly cool song.
  
  Good thing I was around to answer this, slow day in the Y!A.
• Question:-whose vocals are cooler: thurston moore or lou reed?
  
  
  Answer:-Very tough choice.
  
  But Lou Reed I guess.
• Question:-Thurston moore and lee ranaldo (sonic youth)?
  What do you think of these two as guitarists?
  
  Answer:-They are pretty great , especially Thurston - I'm just getting into his solo albums
• Question:-Better guitarist: Jerry Cantrell or Thurston Moore?
  In your opinion
  
  Answer:-Jerry Cantrell. His solo stuff rules, along with his stuff from AiC.
  
  He's been a large influence on my guitar playing with his bends, vibratos, etc.