I'm Insane: Classic or Dud?
 

I think it is an underrated classic. the lyrics might be random as heel, but damn they sound so genius and flow so well. The guitar noise throughout the song was really unprecedented in their career with all of the static action. I was watching Gila monster jamboree and before this songs kicks into gear, Lee comes out with this pot/gong thing and starts hitting it. Fucking brilliant. Whatd you think?

With lyrics and energy like it has?...classic, baby.

I imagine you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone here that would label it a "dud."

It's good enough. Bad Moon Rising is their best album, and it's not the best track on there, but it does have a fantastic intro.

yeah no shit. It's no dud. It's the first song by sonic youth that, for one, scared the fuck out of me, and two, made me realize that this was more than your average indie, hipster band.

It is the best song on Bad Moon Rising, fuck yeah.

yeah, great song. love the dark, erie vibe that song (and the entire BMR album) has.

It's the track that turned me into them too.

it's great

It's a fine tune, with lyrics that are the perfect accompaniment.

This is a big favorite for me. My favorite SY lyrics ever.

The lyrics make for good usernames.

Kissmyfist
Toughtowncrueltouch
Sexinheaven


(and of course hot eyed bride)

I love this song. The way it starts... oh man.

I must be the only one who was disappointed with it upon the first few listens. I thought the title was so cool, but was initially disappointed with the song to what I expected it to be. I grew to dig it, but to me one of the lesser tracks on the album.

classic for motha' fuckin' shore

one of my favorites off bmr. the lyrics are fucking rad.

Love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride
stone cold blonde a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
we want out
we fish at night
sex in heaven
tough town
a cruel touch
sailors leave
sirens screaming
lap of luxury
a show of violence
take off your mask
lay off my brother
kiss my fist
stop at nothing
a steaming swamp
and a troubled heart
the sky is red
and i can't stop running
her baby stares
the secret's there
so help us god
i'll swing at your funeral
the stubborn air
the killer mob
a red bone woman
a double cross
big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle
one step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
murded angels
bodies in bedlam
a women scorned
you can't hang me
tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
nothing before
a big fear
don't get caught
by her father's friends
swamp girl faded
the tiger's wife
a frenzied love
hot climate
twisted passions
flesh parade
dead ahead
a world so wide
big river love camp
the house boy and hill girl
the agony column
don't crowd me
it's time for crime
strange breed river girl's misery index
inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane

inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane

inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane

inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant

i'm insane



...nuff said!

Love it.

Well I'm sorry if you feel this thread is useless, but in fact, some sonic youth songs are not liked by everyone. This song has been talked down before and i really got into it the other night and wanted to know everyones opinion. Myabe i should have done a song of the day discussion instead of a C or D?

Thanks for that comment Porkmarras!

Im insane is one of my favorite SY tracks ever. Great beyond any words that I can think to type!


We want out, we fish at night
Sex in heaven, a tough town a cruel touch

Nice to see this great song getting some love. It's a bit more lyrical than a lot of SY and the music is outright old school industrial (as in EN, Throbbing Gistle school not NIN!) I've always loved it, and the line "She was significant, I'm insane" is some of Thurston's best writing.

One of the best on Bad Moon Rising, I love this song.

lets face it, the lyrics are ridiculous but theres certain lines that jump out at you, the houseboy hillbilly one in particular. Its a very unnerving song which i love.

Well, they're ridiculous in the way that a schizo's conversation style is ridiculous, but that's the whole point of the song!

I'm Insane is also one of the best tunes by Ratt ever (second-to-last song on Out of the Cellar.) But I bet I'm the only person here who cares about that.

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned how Thurston "wrote" the lyrics to the song, yet. All the phrases are from various pulp paperbacks strung together to create this great lyric.

i just got bad moon rising, so ill have a listen to it.

i think i only need like 3 more to complete sy

Just got BMR?? You've been on the board at least 3 years haven't you?

What 3 do you still need to get?

I remember once being baked iwth my friend in my car--he;'d borrowed the cd for near 6 months with no listen so i made him listen to it as we toked--- when i'm insane came on i got excited and heard, for the first time, the slinking monster machine guitar sounds walking back and forth behind the music. It's deep in the mix and gives it a certain unsettling feel til you find it. You can imagine a monster made of tin cans and loose wires sparking and boxing left and right dropping bolts and firing ones of lightning.

JOIN DATE=2006

read...

i still need kill yr idols. exp jet set, a thousand leaves and made in usa

that was 4.

oh shit, and the first one, that 5. fuck

I have made in usa---for probaly a year plus--- and so far have listened to it 1.5 times.

um...CLASSIC!!!

Well, Kim used to say Ratt was one of her favorite bands when that album was out. Though I could never tell if she was bullshitting or not. She was a big Red Kross fan for real, so maybe that's not too far away.

fucking classic. it used to scare the shit out of me when i was a little kid and my mom would play it.