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purr (from dirty) is so so good. most of the time i don't know what they're playing at though

I found A Thousand Leaves incredibly hard to get into, but I was determined. At the start it sounded like a pot full of hot and bubbling shit to me.

I don't think I can stomach NYC Ghosts and Flowers though. No way.

why would you?

where do you stand on the concept of growers?

Magical, both of them.

stunning album.

i can listen to a 15-20 second segment of any song and know whether it'll be good or not.

that the problem is yours, and not theirs.

Cheers

Teenage riot and 100% are the only sonic youth songs I like.

Not as if they've been commercially successful, is it?

Ergo, they've failed as a band.

People would still argue that they were shit from the third album onwards

regards,

Sonic Nurse

valuing success only in monetary terms

signed,
murray street

which is just lovely, frankly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3ovD8ZSS4

well it'd be novel

am I the only one who thinks Teenager Riot would be improved by being maybe 5-10% faster? with a more Silver Rocket type pace?

aaaaaanyway

in fact i don't think daydream nation is very good at all
forza pls get back to me when you've worked out my indie points score thanks

is the only song of theirs I really like.

a lot less time than you'd expect

did you include everything everything? All those SYR artsy things?

I always do

but I can't remember the last time I felt the urge to listen to one of their records.

Daydream Nation leaves me pretty cold. It's all about Sister and Goo as far as I'm concerned (pretty sure those two cancel each other out on the indie points scale).

I struggle with most of NYC Ghosts, and I find Murray St a bit boring.

That'd be Hey Joni. Or Cross the Breeze.

NYC ghosts and flowers is probably my least favourite. I know rather ripped gets a bad name but it was the first one i bought when it came out. The 5-album run from EVOL to Dirty is pretty perfect though.

how did you ever end up listening to any good music?

not going to go off on one about how fucking ace Sonic Youth are.

what I am going to do is request that you review every single Sonic Youth track. ratings out of ten, a short paragraph for each.

because it's their best song.

Fake Train by Unwound

it's my jam.

i've got nothing better to do today. i'm a Brit stuck in LA on fucking trick the Indians day. yay.

so, my top ten SY tracks then.

1.) Teen Age Riot
2.) Schizophrenia
3.) Shadow Of A Doubt
4.) The Diamond Sea
5.) Dirty Boots
6.) Winner's Blues
7.) Pink Steam
8.) Wish Fulfillment
9.) Rain On Tin
10.) 100%

yr welcome.

anyone else?

if you're going to be this ambivalent towards being a Brit stuck in LA on thanksgiving day, there's plenty of us who would happily swap with you.

thanks. (good list)

i will endeavor to improve my attitude. off to a pub.

good chat.

I love how they can really rock out on a song with any distortion, keeping it so shiny and clean

Is the best Unwound album, for that matter. As Conrad would say, "Sonic WHO!?!". Quite apt, actually.

So, I gather from this thread that everyone has different tastes and no one is right. I do think Antenna is the perfect distillation of their sound for the last ten years though, it's wonderful.

So they have their best period i.e. the first ten years. They haven't really progressed artistically since the 80's. Since then they've released a lot of average to mediocre material with a couple of terrible albums here and there. Long-term fans will defend them, but a lot of young upstarts will claim they are irrelevant much to the amusement of anyone over 25.

and you've got the world, friend.

never really been a massive fan of that album, I remember teenage riot being played a lot on MTV2 and being fairly nonplussed, it wasn't until I heard Sonic Nurse on a whim a few years later that Sonic Youth began to click for me.

I had them all at one stage, on LP or CD. All great until the 90s really, I just couldn't get into much of that at all. Got better in the 00s I found.

Yours huffily,
Rather Ripped.

Today officially marks the end of the 2011/12 season for me, and with that my regular participation in the daily football threads (though i'll still be around generally). What can i say, i'm a man of my word. I've tried to drag it out a bit, you have to, but August is upon us.
I'll definitely miss the daily shabs, but to be honest, i'm just a bit busy nowadays, and i can't think of a better place to leave it than at the end of the glorious season during which i was proved ultimately right and we were crowned the Champions of England in such glorious fashion.
I'll probably keep you up-to-date with my groundhopping adventures, and can't promise i won't resort to the odd smiley whenever we brutally turn over United! again, but for now i can live without DanielKelly's needless early-morning paranoid defensivity, Jordan's multiple City-obsessed accounts, and the dead inside high-horsing of part-time Arsenal fans, etc, etc.
All the best riding your fold-up bikes to those mundane office jobs, but some of us have got actual adult shit to do, and as much as i'd love to mock you all continiuously, i'm just not sure i can be bothered any more. The proof, as they say, has been in the pudding.
As we discussed on that fateful day in May when Manchester City became the best, most feared, some would argue biggest club in the whole of England, that achievement felt like a natural end to my 20-year, stripes-earned journey as a supporter. I've not bought a season ticket for the coming season, even a membership, i'm not even planning on keeping tabs with news or scores, though i'll still watch Match of the Day, of course.
Given this, that i won't be supporting the club i've loved for two decades either financially or vocally in the flesh, i sadly have to sacrifice my right to a public opinion on matters MCFC. That's just how it works in the real world. It's a shame some of you tykes are too shameless to appreciate that, but each to their own.
Good luck to you all, but i'm off to walk the Fells, grow some veg, catch some fish, see a bit of the world, romance some hot Eastern European chicks, get myself on the property ladder and produce some offspring. It's been fun, but we've all got to grow out of it at some point.

it's one of those songs that tricks you into getting all nostalgic over times that actually weren't all that spectacular

saw this when it was first posted.

was pretty special.

And to prove it here is my lovingly crafted SY playlist.
(chronological don't you know).

http://open.spotify.com/user/sartana/playlist/3VNbU0KsHFGT2PL2eLvywq