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"Disconnection Notice" is a great Thurston Moore song. Really a strong example of his songwriting style as it had started to become refined rock music rather than experimental punk rock.

 

Thurston Moore Group tour dates popping up:

Gateway City Arts - Holyoke, MA - December 3
ONCE - Somerville, MA - December 4
Ottobar - Baltimore, MD - December 8
The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL - December 12
The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL - December 13

 

OOP time to plan a Baltimore trip

 

@EmmanuelSCastle

 

their use of guitar tunings is truly wild shit

 

I was listening to their early period yesterday, Sister is so fucking good, the no wave groove elements add so much even with how toned down they are. and Bad Moon Rising is also good but every time I listen I just wish Steve Shelley was the drummer

 

Steve Shelley one of the goats

 

Sister is one of my faves

 

heavily agreed, there's something to be said for the rest of the band getting weird and Steve always deciding to live in the groove. I personally always wanna dance to his drum work lol

 

his opening on "Schizophrenia" is all time

 

"Schizophrenia" and "Pacific Coast Highway" are probably my standouts on sister, but there are so many great ones. imagine having a three album run like evol > sister > daydream nation lol

 

I have to find my old SY cds to replay.. been a long while.... daydream nation was always one I went to.

 

Goo baby!

 

Rather Ripped is so underrated

 

this is gonna rule

Kim Gordon announces first-ever solo album, shares "Sketch Artist"

 

Someone help me out!

I started listening to Sonic Youth a week or two ago and i loved certain of their songs right from the off. The first 10 minutes of Diamond Sea seemed like a perfect song.. a mix of Mogwai and, i dunno, Bruce Springsteen and Radiohead.

But i rapidly ran out of these types of songs in their catalogue!

Don't get me wrong,i can handle their screeching instrumental songs. The problem is I've already listened to plenty of that stuff (even if unfortunately what I've listened to in this genre was all stuff that SY themselves inspired) and I'm just over it right now. It's been years since i listened to Like Herod for one example and that's hardly in the same league as heaps of the tunes I've heard on the Sonic Youth albums i rapidly gathered together a fortnight ago...

Songs I've liked are ones that are more chill, with a more ballad'y or even accoustic feel.. with good old American guitar licks and cool lyrics... I dunno how to describe these songs but i can list some of them.. incinerate, stones, the aforementioned first 10 minutes of Diamond Sea, pink stream, antenna is another one...

It's not that i can't stomach their more punky, confronting stuff... I just wanna hear more songs like the ones I've mentioned.

Any suggestions of more such tracks? Any particular album that has more of them than others? Cheers

 

lee vs thurston

speak on it

 

Thurston in the early era but the balance tips towards Lee in the early 90s

 

yeah i think this is where i stand as well

 

Def think Lee is a better overall player than Thurston

 

i need a documentary on how they came up with their tunings tbh

 

Drugs

 

Probably true but a lot of my favorite riffs/"moments" are Thurston

 

yeah Thurston has moments that are borderline transcendent but I think if you look at their whole discography that Lee is a far more consistent songwriter. don't think there's a Lee song I don't like

 

Having cheap guitars will do that to you. Did they ever find all the gear that got stolen from them?