Kool Thing
 

It's the quintessential Sonic Youth song. It represents them in the height of their glory...They had passed through the mire of such badly made albums as Sister and finally started making albums that were more catchy and well-produced. They should have gone even more "pop" oriented after that.

No, I haven't heard all of it...But yeah, what I heard totally rawks! I can't wait to declare that it's better than everything else they've ever done. I also love the cover art.

You would be in the majority then, along with the other sadly mistaken folks on here.

yes kool thing is amazing

I got red rep from the commie bastards for saying that. Better watch out.

cool sig buzzo

Kool Thing isn't a very good song.

i love the song, and the album. but why does sonic youth spell like pre-schoolers?

I like the video...and that guitar part that repeats after the section where Chuck D says "let everybody know." It makes me want to go into a mosh pit, go crazy and knock saturnine and assblaster down on the ground again and again.

Haha. Saturnine is a bizdill.

Maybe they never got any further than that in skool?

hah! it's true. but this is just one of the many examples of how they cant spell. here's some more
tuff gnarl, becuz, self-obsessed and sexee, master-dik.. just to name a few

Just a different way of spelling, still pronounces the same word...

I like Kool Thing, but My Friend Goo is one of my least favorite SY songs. I'm not sure why.

Mote is the only song on that album that I like.

Kool Thing is great, but I think Schizophrenia is the quintessential SY tune. Not necessarily the best, but if I could play only one song for someone to show them what SY is about, that would be the one. It incorporates so much of what makes them a great band: dissonance, unusual composition, dense, blurry chordal riffing, soft, beautiful harmonics and both Thurston and Kim on vocals.

I would say the quintessential SY tune is Teenage Riot. Its probably the song theyre most well known for (among non-fans, at least) and its probably the song they play most often at their shows.

i loooooooove kool thing live

sadly enough, in the two times ive seen them, they never played kool thing. I know a lot of the people here are sick of seeing it live, but i really hope they play it this time around.

if there is one song that sums up sonic youth in my mind then that would have to be sugar cane. i don't know why its one of the first songs that i ever heard by them and i really love it.

My all time fav sonic song, is probably Catholic block.

i love it when Kim screams on that one, right at the end.

Expwy.

Kool Thing.

you need to see a shrink

lolzers

I don't like Goo or Dirty as much as Bad Moon Rising, or anything predating Goo for that matter. They are capable of writing decent pop songs, but the novelty wears off easily. I haven't heard anything off of the new album so I can't comment on it at all.

Anyway, the person who started this thread is incredibly misguided.

I have no problem with someone preferring their 90s output over their 80s output, but surely you can find a better example of the band's underdeveloped songwriting skills. Sister? Come on now.

Teenage Riot may be one of their best and most popular songs, but I find it to be very atypical of SY. It's very pop compared to most of their work, so I don't find it to be a good example of what makes SY's music what it is.

As for number of times played live, I'm surprised to see that White Kross wins that contest, according to this link: http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/cc/songstats.html

I'm not misguided, I just have my own opinion. I happen to like a certain aspect of Sonic Youth that is unpopular here.

And I said just give me the money, ho.

I say skip the therapy and get straight to the lobotomy (assuming it hasn't already been done).

Wow, you people are just soo cool with your obvious opinions.

It's boring and obvious to think that Geffen SY is a sellout....why not admit that it's actually better? It obviously is.

No one was claiming that they sold out. For the record, I don't believe they ever have. If I hated "Geffen SY" I would hate everything they've done on the label, and as far as I know I don't hate any of it. I quite like all of it. I'm simply saying that, while their pop songs are quite good, they don't have as much staying power as the other stuff. This is not an opinion reserved solely for Sonic Youth. I think the same about many bands. Pop songs are easy to listen to, so they get played a lot, but I find that I tire of them easier than songs that aren't as immediately accessible. Have you ever thought that maybe you should give their pre-Goo albums more attention? It doesn't even seem like you've listened to them, especially if you consider Sister to be an album full of bad songwriting.

lol...

I have listened to the whole catalogue more than once, and been a Sonic Youth fan for years and years. And I find the early albums obviously more dispensable and irrelevant than the later. There are a few good songs on all of the early albums, but for the most part the first truly good albums are Goo and Dirty, and I prefer the albums after those much more even than those.

It's a fun song. I just love it for the Chuck D appearance and Kim's voice.

"lol" indeed.

Let's just blame it all on good old-fashioned bad taste and get on with our lives, shall we?

rather ripped better than thousand leaves? better than silver sessions, granted its better than experimental but better than murray st, im not even sure its better than nurse!

anyway kool thing aint the quintesencial sy song. teenage riot is!

first truly great albums are goo and dirty.........

what???????
man you obviously havent heard daydrem nation then! or sister! or evol!!!!!

hold on, ive just spotted the writer of this thread....we have been here before...
later!

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