Favorite Song off Rather Ripped
 

I know we aren't supposed to of heard the album yet, but come on... I'm going to buy the vinyl the day it comes out, but my favorite song is Incinerate, very solid and the chourus pedal really brings it together. What's everyone elses?

ive only heard two.

Don't even wanna listen.

i've heard the paris gig...

the songs are pretty good...

i like Incinerate and Sleeping Around

Musically, the best song is Rats by my main man Lee! This song features the best instrumentation of the whole album. The lyrics are a little bit strange, but seriously, what a fuckin good groove. The most "Sonic Youth" sounding song on the whole album.

It sounds like Disappearer part 2, I love it.

I've only heard Reena and Incenerate. Reena is such a great song! Beautiful.

or.

jams run free

i'm still digesting it really, much like how a python does to a smelly old doc martin boot down the bottom of the swamp, not that SY are a smelly old boot and quite frankly snakes, in my opinion present an aura of total evil that chills me to the bone but my favorie song so far would have to be.... Rats also. i played it for my friend who is Lee obsessed and waiting for the release date and he creamed himself.

Damn straight. Rats really is the best song off Rather Ripped. It's the most Sonic Youth-y. Everything else on the record seems underdeveloped.

thieves!
 

thieves!!!! Thieves!!!!!!


for shame!!!

reena and incinerate are all i've heard. i like them both but not hysterically.

OR.
I really like the little riff that sounds like it's lifted from 'The End'

lights out

Hmpf, I must admit, that

1. yes I heard rather ripped (now for the fifth or sixth time)
2. I tend increasingly to fail to see the point in paying money, if I can get the stuff much earlier and easier on the net - please: no morality - discussion right now!
3. rather ripped really doesn't knock me out of my socks so far. It has quite some good melodies and stuff and there are many good moments - MOMENTS!!. But come on: Sonic Youth used to have more POWER than that.
4. just look at some of the telltale titles: pink steam, neutral, or & in the end Thurston quotes some fan-questions with tired voice. Hey what's up: Bathing in indifference? Sonic Old at last????
5. half of the album seems to be a second extraction of "rain on tin".

each sonic album is different. each one grows on you. give it time

as far as STEALING the album, how is this going to help sonic youth boost their already dismal album sales? (see thread regarding this for list of albums and sales figures)
How does stealing the album early in any way add to the pleasure of the music?
How does stealing the album benefit anyone but the greedy thief?
WAIT people, WAIT and buy the fucking album direct from sonic youth if you want your money to go to them and not to BEST BUY or your local indie record store.
wait until you have the music as SONIC FUCKING YOUTH INTENDED YOU TO HAVE IT, not on some bullshit sounding leaked MP3.

Long Live sonic youth and long live TRUE FANS

just cuz you are going to buy it later does not mean you did not STEAL IT.

If I steal a stereo, test it out and see that i like it, then go back to the store and purchase another stereo exactly like the one I stole, that does NOT MAKE IT BETTER DAMNIT!

think people!

Jams Run Free

chorus pedals really get to me for some reason...

@ rob instigator: come on, please don't be so self-righteous!

there are more than one interview in which sy (specially thurston) adopts a clear pro-downloading position! "music should be available for free & for all" or something like that.

I bought every single official album, you freak! Maybe we should compare our collection to see who is the real fan (I am getting real teenager-like today!)

Maybe this album grows on me, but all I can say right now: This album disappointed me & no other sy-album did this in the past 12 years since I started being the sy-head I still am.

hey dude, all we have is our principles.

and if sonic youth really wanted you to have their album for free they would send it to your house.

SONIC LIFE!!!!

shit man, I have been rocking sonic youth since 1987. I have scoured the earth to add to my 40plus pieces of sonic youth recordings. I take great pride in supporting my local indie record stores. GREAT PRIDE.

long live sonic youth

experimental jet set trahs and no star did and continues and will always disappoint me.

@ rob instigator: "I take great pride in supporting my local indie record stores. GREAT PRIDE."
fine for you.

But where I live there is just this big supermarket-like "media markt". Just dumbnuts who think Phil Collins is music. And anyway: Something more than mainstream music is just available via mailorder.
And mailorder has its pitfalls too. On the opposite: The dl of rather ripped just needs less than an hour & you are able to listen it more than a month than the other "honest" folks.

that's no justice, I know & that is not to be questioned, but I really don't have the time no more to hunt after "rare" recordings, if I can get them via computer in the twinkling of an eye.


and experimental jet set .... sweeps up the floor with rather ripped

agreed

although for me it's 8 years

I can't decide yet, but i guess my favorite Rather Ripped songs must be:
Reena, Incinerate & Turquoise Boy.....by now

Pink Steam, Pink Steam and Pink Steam

i have the france performance (audio)... but i dont have the album on mp3...i'm waiting for the official release...i'm not a thieve or something like that ( thieve is an insult for me )
and also you can listen reena and incinerate at OFFICIAL this site...
http://www.sonicyouth.com/alt-main/rippedpop.html

Jams Run Free

I guess noone remembers that long and heated thread about illegal downloading of material on the old forum

it is hard to read hyperbole in text.

rather ripped! I cannot wait!

Incinerate kicks ass

Jams Run Free

HAHAHA.

YOU ARE NOT A REAL FAN IF YOU DOWNLOAD MUSIC! I AM KHCHRIS! HEAR ME ROAR!

I love The Neutral or Pink Steam the most.

If the band has a pro downloading position, then that's the end of the argument on this message board. Besides, it's not really stealing, it's taking other people's copies WITH permission. If the band didn't want their music to be realeased early, then maybe the record studios should beef up their security. The thing is, a lot of bands allow music to be leaked to drum up some hype. If Sonic Youth have low record sales, then that's not my problem. I have supported the band for years by paying considerably hefty prices to go to their shows. I'm doing my part. Besides, I just saw Thurston driving around in a brand new SUV. It looked like a really nice car. The band has many different ways of earning income. It's not like they live in squallor like a group of 20-something college students in a run down apartment building. They have earned enough cash to keep up a decent living. They may not be rich, but they're not poor.

Besides, there's always iTunes. They charge you a buck per song. Not too shabby.

The truth is that some of you people who always buy the albums and complain about the people who download for free, you think you're better than everyone else. Well guess what? You're not. You can complain all you want but at the end of the day we're all the same. We all love SY and just because some of us get it differently than some other's doesn't mean we're wrong. It's not like we're going into record stores and snatching this shit off the racks.

So all of you just get over it. I can't believe somthing so TRIVIAL like downloading music for free gets you so riled up! There are starving people all over the world, there are evil dictators ruling foreign (and domestic) lands that treat people like garbage! And you have the spoiled little balls to complain about rock music???? Shame on you! I'm sure everyone, myself included, can go find something better to do with our time than wax idiotic about something so ridiculous as this shit. Go and read a book, ride a bike, sponsor a child, hand out soup in a homelss shelter. I don't care. But whatever you do just SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT MUSIC DOWNLOADING!!!!!!
I'm tired of this shit!

Quadruple-post!

what is trivial about getting something you have not paid for, with no cover art, w9ith no liner notes, presented in an audio format that the entirety of sonic youth find shitty, with no support given either to my favorite band's label, or themselves?

That is NOT trivial

are you trying to make the argument that if the person you are stealing from has money then it is OK? that is STUPID!

I'd much rather have the physical CD/vinyl in my hands. Theres nothing fun about hearing songs played through your computer. With just text....

I love going to record stores.

Do what you will though, you're missing out.