sympathy for the strawberry
 

i've just watched the live vid on their facebook page, its such an amazing song. Whenever i feel my love for sy wane or drift away i play this song and it fucks me up how good it is

sonic yoooooooooooooouuuuthhhhhhhh!!!!!!

i've said it before and now i've said it again



(fuck me Steve rocks)

my favorite track on Murray Street.

Top ten SY song, easily. Noisereductions- it's my favorite MS track also. Even better than Rain on Tin. Even better than Karen Revisited.

Love it.

"Karenology" is 2nd favorite. I always felt "Strawberry" Should open MS. THen the rest of the album as presented. It's just such an amazig slow builder. It's ... wow.

But then it would end with "Plastic Sun", which is just not a closer.

BTW: Karenology isn't on MS. :)

Yes, same song

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/sy/song328.html

Working title: "Dirge" aka "Karen II"
Debuted instrumentally in 2001, first performed with vocals at the 2002 All Tomorrow's Parties festival.
Part of the outro on the LP version is taken from the 10/07/01 debut of the song in NYC.
The fourth of five new compositions debuted by Sonic Youth in 2001.
Lyrics on sonicyouth.com have slight alterations: "Come home/some time" and "stuck in isolation" sang at the end.
TITLE CHANGED POST RELEASE: after the artwork for Murray Street had been finalized (yet prior to its release, I believe), Lee decided he preferred the title "KARENOLOGY" and the song's title was officially changed for all purposes other than, uh, the album release.

Oh shit, brain fart. YOU'RE RIGHT!!! Karenology = Revisited. Don't know what I was thinking. Mixed up "Ology" with "Koltrane". :( I must have been having a retard moment.

I actually prefer the name "Karenology".

Ummm if we're talkin' abuot the Karens....err....I prefer Koltrane. Only by a little bit.


rain on tin, Sympathy, Karen Revisited.

see?

Right after 9/11 they played at the Calvin and opened with Sympathy...then it was called Sylvia's Magic Chord....it's probably one the of the best concert moments I've ever had.

I always thought this song had too much going on. I would enjoy it so much more without Thurston's guitar (especially during the intro). Still, it's definitely an intriguing tune. Had Lee sang on it, it would be a stand out track for me.

Edit: Shared vocals between Lee and Kim would be the shit. I love those.

it cushions the landing of unexpected harshness from the latter half of Murray St.

I swear.... SWEAR... that I hear horns (that's right- horns) in the intro part of the song, but the only horns on the album are credited to "Plastic Sun" or something.

The onyl real harshness on MS is "Plastic Sun". "Radical Adults..." is a classic SY jam that ends in a cacophony, but is mostly pretty smooth.

there's horns on "Radical Adults"

no idea what yr talking about.

Neither do I.

Are you sure you're thinking of the right song? Last track on Murray Street? Kim vocal? 'bout 7+ minutes? Freaking awesome? But "too much going on"? I don't get that.

That's right.... the liner notes give horn credits to that, not "Plastic Sun". My mistake. Man, that's two in one thread. I'm the suck today.

But does anyone else hear horns (soft muted trumpets, sounds like) in Sympathy? Or am I just batshit crazy.

i think its just sy magic tricking you into thinking their guitars and pedals are horns

i get the horn for Sympahty though, if that helps?

it took me a while to pick out the horns in Radical Adults, i presumed it was guitar skronk

I am pretty sure that Lee plays an organ on Sympathy-is that what you are hearing?

That's fine.

But just so you know, if you find it necessary to use "yr" due to some sort of admiration for Sonic Youth, Kerouac or the like, you should know it's a shortening of "your" and not "you're."

I know and dnt give a fuck.

I'm sure Kerouac and Sonic Youth were/are grammar Nazis, and would loathe anyone who misused the nonsensical abbreviation. lol.

Yes, Murray Street is SY's Abbey Road.

Why am I always comparing everything to the Beatles?

btw: i'm bored as fuck.

Murry St. is in my Top 5 SY albums. It might even be my 2nd fav.

student.

It's ok.

MUrray ST is too short. That's my only beef.

Naw, perfect length. Especially considering the length of the songs.

I haven't heard many of the sessions tracks or "b-sides" from MS, but I can't imagine putting anything else on there. It's pretty much perfect.

mos of the session stuff was instrumental stuff like Kali Yug EP, Demonlover tracks, "Street Sauce" and the Noho Furniture Session stuff that landed on Destroyed Room.

destroyed room is fucking incredible album too

hell yeah it is. Another favorite of mine.

kill you're idols

Wow, I haven't heard ANY of that stuff except for Demonlover and (obviously) Destroyed Room, which indeed is completely awesome, though it should have included earlier material and more of it.

Interested in uploading those recordings you mentioned?

As big an SY fan as I am, I've always pretty much stuck to the officials (albums and EPs), the SYRs, the side projects, and a few live shows.

^ You must listen to Kali Yug Express. Coca Kamera Sutra is amazing.

all that shiz should be on stu's site.

You need to hear Kali Yug, and also "Choir Boy, Church Basement" from Thurston's HURRICANE FLOYD is basically an early acoustic instrumental version of "Rain On Tin."

what is this stu's site you speak of?

oh wait

yo what happend to kill yr idols freeweb?

Do you mean the site that had lots of official material available to download?

That had nothing to do with me, I want to make that 100% clear. Or are you talking about another stu?