sonic youth are "over"
 

according to the thurston interview.

so if this is indeed the case and they're gonna split at some point soon what are your thoughts?

i should stress that all this is based on the thurston interview in the other thread, all he says is "sonic youth are over", so make of it what you will.

to be honest i feel guilty for ripping on the eternal on here haha. i actually think anti orgasm and malibu gas station are brilliant. anti orgasm is the song i wanted them to make for years and the direction i always dreamed they would go in, but i don't like all of the rest of the album, or many of the songs on rather ripped. but its not a bad way to go out.

at one time they were my favourite band, i dont really care much about this music now but can never deny that it and its message board got me into so much of what im into know and without it i would have a shittier taste in music and my life would suck.

so thanks for being a node in mainstream culture that was easy to see and had tendrils creeping down to the underground, your influence on people in that respect has been MASSIVE, absolutely. it would be hard to underestimate how many of us got into such great music because of sy.

they have another 20 years left in the tank! ;)

he was joking and we've had this thread twenty billion times

well you can have it twenty billion and fucking one times then.


so they aren't gonna split?


























damn.

sucks.

uh ok, no one says you need to listen to their music... though i believe most of us agree with your other "points".

i knew i shouldnt have stepped over onto this board... the wrong side of the tracks... the murky mists of mongtarded morons... it's gonna take a torch and a shotgun to get out of here alive...

Yeah, it was clearly a joke. Sometimes I'm curious as to what would happen if they did break up. If it means more Lee solo material, I'm down.

I think they likely have another couple of good, maybe even great albums in them...but Sonic Youth, as a progressive unit of Sonic Exploration and Challenge have long since been over.

So no one here thinks they're gonna release the equivalent of Neil Young's 'Rust Never Sleeps' at this stage?

What do you mean? Barring some huge change, I'd say no. Sonic Youth are too arty and cool and iconoclastic and hip and ironic to do that. Unless some kind of tragedy affects them, like 9/11 did. Really, that album was probably their Rust Never Sleeps.

I knew someone would say that... Murray Street is actually their reverse 'Rust Never Sleeps'... Where Neil found a new electricity, SY found a new organic-ness I think, on Murray Street. Something which has been with them to this day... But yeah, I don't think it's possible for them to pull off a Nevermind, which; to be brutally honest with myself; is what I would love for them to do..

Just want to ask if anyone else thinks malibu gas station sounds exactly like a sparta locals song..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpH7NZhNMSg

that one?

yume station

haha sure. I didn't even think about that song, because all their songs have that clangy guitar sound... I didn't think of any song in particular, just kinda the band as a whole.. maybe not the bass, but the guitars definitely..

Great band.

Great guitar lines, always.

the world as I know it would implode.

Things would make less sense to me.

I'd probably listen to even less music that has guitars in it.

ahahah
best post ever

its called left for dead 3: syg

you get to play as either me or on special maps chabib who has banning powers. kis is the jockey.

That's what I was saying wrt Murray Street. And what do you mean "pull a Nevermind" in what context? Popularity, or sound, or what?

New York has so many cool bands going on at the moment. Sonic Youth for the first time seem too worried about hanging out with pretentious people to notice. I can't see them playing gigs in places like The Silent Barn.

Not that its a bad thing as everyone needs something to identify with, but I just feel as if for many people Sonic Youth are the be all-is all band. They didn't invent noisy experimental rock. They are not responsible for every band that has approached music in similar ways since them.

Right now, Pissed Jeans are totally kicking their ass.

I do think Sonic Youth have reached an age to where they are stuck on a formula. Not such a terrible thing....just not what I once loved about the Youth. I would love to hear them do an acoustic record, or just play around w/ ideas they've only dabbled with. But, they aren't my band and I respect them for doing whatever it is they want to do. If I identify with it or not is another story. We shall see.

I'll always love them no matter what. They were my favorite band for something like ten years.