Thurston about Avril Lavigne
 

Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore doesn't have too many kinds words to say about Avril Lavigne and John Mayer these days — although he's got plenty of respect for a certain avant-garde legend and another classic-rock hero. "I am playing with Yoko Ono, and she's well past 70 and she rocks," he told Spin for the magazine's September issue. "Neil Young rocks. It's certainly not John Mayer or Avril Lavigne. Those people don't rock. If that's the young generation in the culture, then [forget] it. In the underground, the old guys are cool. I like the fact that the older we get the more we can rock."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/156...on_kelly.jhtml

Any and all anti-ironic appreciation for Avil Lavigne stops.... NOW.

Right on, T

I think he's just reassuring himself: "I'm getting older, but if Yoko Ono can still sing at 70 and the alternative is Avril Lavigne, I can go on until I'm 80."

And he's right!

That is right:


Senile Youth Wednesday August 22nd 2007, 11:50 pm
Filed under: Sonic Youth, Humour?

 

Elderly rockers Sonic Youth are preparing for a show at Glasgow’s ABC.
Thurston - So, what are we going to play tonight?
Mark – Well, we’re billed to play Daydream Nation, so we should really do that.
Lee – Isn’t that one of our old ones? What would we do that for? We’re a forward looking band which never looks back.
M – Well, quite. I’m a little puzzled about it myself.
Steve – So if we’re playing Daydream Nation, what do we start with?
Kim – Kool Thing? That was quite good. I sang it.
M – No, that’s on Goo.
S – 100%?
M – (slightly exasperated) No, that was on Dirty. Daydream Nation came before that.
T – Yes, Bert, don’t be silly. It’s clearly Death Valley ’69!
M – (Exasperated) No! That was BEFORE Daydream!
L (looking excited) – Is it one of mine? Pipeline/Kill Time? Or Rats?
M – No! Lee, they never start an album with one of your songs!
L – Neither they bloody well do. (Looks hurt)
T – Beat On The Brat? Sheena Was A Punk Rocker?
M – NO! THEY WERE BOTH BY THE RAMONES!!! Look, here’s the record. It starts with Teenage Riot.
T – (less than convinced). Riiight. Then we play the other songs? Couldn’t we just play the CD then?
M – NO! There are people out there waiting to see you play and leap around!
T – Leap around?? Are you sure? And, any way, who are you, you young whippersnapper? The t-shirt man?
M – NO! I’m your bass player.
K – I’m fairly sure that I’M the bass player.
M – Well, you were until, well, you had problems …
K – What?
M – You had problems singing and playing at the same time.
K – What? (looks very hurt)
T – (jiggling around with excitement) I remember! I know who you are! You’re, you’re …., you’re JIM!
M (bangs head off table) – No, I’m not Jim. Jim’s … gone.
T – Gone?
S (shocked) - Do you mean he’s …?
L (horrified) – Has he …?
M – No! He just left the band.
T/K/L/S (horrified, in unison) – He left the band? Why would he do that?
M – He wanted to do other things. I’m Mark, I used to be in pavementtherockband.
T – Well, Mark-who-used-to-be-in-pavementtherockband you’ve caused us nothing but trouble since we met you tonight. You’ve told us that Jim is dead and worse that I didn’t write Beat On The Brat. So, as a punishment, you’re not going to play with us on the Daydream Nation set tonight. We’re going to play it the way we used to.
M- Aww, Thurston!
T – (Getting up to lead the band onstage). No, my mind’s made up. We’re going to play it the way we used to - as a trio.
The rest of the band nod their heads vigorously in agreement, then look puzzled as they do the maths.
T - (walking out the door) So how does Teenage Kicks go again?

Hahah, lulz at that conversation.

hah... i just reminded thurston impersonating mark at paredes de coura, he made that mark ibold smile...

I think he means you, Everyneurotic.

ah HA heheh

 

Hey, maybe T and Li'l Mama can get together
and do a song about Eye Liner AND Lip Gloss!:eek:

well, i agree with thurston, avril (and especially john mayer) don't rock, she never did. she sings great pop songs.

i still love avril but she doesn't rock. sy don't rock that much anymore anyway, at least on record. sure, great songs, great jams, but it doesn't rock.

"Thurston" can talk all the shit he wants about Avril but she was BORN TO BE A STAR. I mean, this picture says it all.
http://www.imagehosting.gr/view.php/14504_17237AvrilLavigneLiveinGreece0015122199lo.jp g.html

haha fuckin' a.
That ruled.

what an irrelevant point he's making

well i think he has a point considering no one rocked harder at Lollapalooza this year than Iggy and the Stooges, and iggy is what, 62? and same could be said for Patti Smith.

yoko ono is a complete stinge-puss. She sent julian lennon a cheque for royalties owing for johns work, worth fifty cents. she should be ashamed of herself. Regardless of what happened, julian is still john lennon's child.

A++++++++++ Thread Bump!


Would read again!

julian lennon is fucking 45 years old, i think he's old enough to support himself

ironic that he's bitching about people who don't rock to MTV, a channel that doesn't even play music anymore

Yeah...
and how Thursty can compare avant-garde with bubblegum pop ?

Fuck it man, I would say the same shit if MTV cared what I what I had to say.

you know when your at Junior School and there's a girl you really fancy, so at break time you steal her milk and pull her hair cause you don't know how else to show her you fancy her....Kim must be screwing

hahahahahaha, i love yoko!!!!!

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anyhoo, didn't thurston say he liked the donnas?

The Donnas are so mainstream, they have an edge to them.

the edge of suckiness or mediocrity?

Both?

This thread is ancient. I was still 15.

You are still 15.

if yu will notice cantankerous, the MTV article is just quoting Spin magazine. they did not talk to thurston nor did he talk to them

In the underground, the old guys are cool. I like the fact that the older we get the more we can rock."


--Amen, brother.

i don't care what anyone says about Avril, i'd still bang her regardless.

amen

Avril Lavigne calling herself Punk is like a 2008 American tourist going to the Europe for the first time thinking they themselves have liberated the continent from

the Nazis. I used to despise Avril and her image machine but when I heard her speak in an interview I just realised that she has the mentality of a 17 year old...

Thurston can indeed rock out with the best of them but sadly enough it is a image/youth dominated pop world.

how "punk" can avril lavigne be? she is canadian.

Good point Rob. But really no one is punk nowadays. In England in the seventies it was a different situation. Mass unempolyment, class division, racial division & no future.

I am sure late 60's Detroit & New York was the same.

Now all the punks are at malls.

Punk is dead.

I have to agree with Jonh Lydon, that punk was an isolated spit in the face, a brief flicker.

Some bands including SY have captured the spirit & energy of punk IMO

that sounds familiar...wait until the troops come back from Iraq...

I would add to the above a working class that was still aware of its working class status.

d.o.a. are from canada and you'd be hard pressed to find a band more punk than them.

yes, yes, DOA, No Means No, etc etc.

what has canada done for punk LATELY? bare naked ladies?

aids wolf.

where can I get me some aids wolf?