This thread is totally dedicated to Sonic Youth's influences, whether it be music, art, books, movies, etc.
Take a look at this thread from a Mars Volta forum (
http://www.thecomatorium.com/board/i...howtopic=20371), it's a really, good acurate list of The Mars Volta's influences which we should try to compile like. Try to quote from magazine scans, interviews, etc. I'll start it off:
Speaking of the mix tape, what’s on Sonic Youth’s road tape?
Flipper. Flipper still rules. Montrose. Sparks—like, pre-Georgio Moroder Sparks. But some of that’s on there. Bar-Kays. You know, that kind of stuff. The new CD-Rs from (former Hardkiss vanity label) Sunburn, we’ve been listening to those a lot, they’re really good. (http://www.magnetmagazine.com/interviews/moore.html)
Thurston's "Throbbing" 13:
Funhouse - Stooges
White Light / White Heat - Velvet Underground
Marquee Moon - Television
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Ramones - Ramones
Radio Ethiopia - Patti Smith
Damaged - Black Flag
Bug - Dinosaur Jr
It Takes A Nation Of Millions
To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Impressions - John Coltrane
Ege Bamyasi - CAN
Bleach - Nirvana
Killer - Alice Cooper
(
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0600thurstonmoore.php)