Premiere Video: Sonic Youth: "The World Looks Red" - Page 2

nicfit · 08.16.2007, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Indeed.

Hey, I think I finally figured out why Jim left the band so quickly!

He must hate money as much as you do, eh? Just sayin'.

atsonicpark · 08.16.2007, 04:35 AM

Heh. No one hates money, but you don't necassarily have to worship money either. There's a such thing as integrity.

This performance was actually for a good cause, but it's still kinda laughable. It's been hard to take Sonic Youth seriously since Kim Gordon appeared in Cavlin Klein ads though. I don't think a band sucks for wanting money (I don't use the word "sellout"), I think they suck for writing bad music... so yeah.

One day, Thurston came in to Sonic Youth practice and said, "Hey Jim, you like Starbucks, right?" And he said, "..." And they kicked him out of the band. True story.

nicfit · 08.16.2007, 04:45 AM

Dunno, I just like SY and the more they play ( I don't really care much where/what for they do that) = more chances to see them (well, I live in Italy, so this is not really true), and more chances to hear recordings/see videos (now, this is true even if i live here he eh). I like to see/hear them playing. I know you don't like them much these days (and you're not the only one), but still...

pbradley · 08.16.2007, 05:30 AM

Now if I was in Sonic Youth, I would rewrite some of the songs for acoustics and put together a short set of similarly tuned songs and do some impromptu gigs all over the place to fuck with people.

But I'm not in the band and I'm most likely idiotically overlooking major obstacles to this.

jetengine · 08.16.2007, 09:26 AM

The two things I like best about 'The World Looks Red' are the Doors/'L.A. Woman' intro and Thurston's echoey, I'm-an-oracle-proclamating-from-a-distant-misty-mountain-in-time vocals. Also, there's a guitar (?) passage in the middle that's rather reminiscent of the keyboard run in The Velvet Underground's 'Ferryboat Bill'--I'm sure SY would have heard it as a bootleg by 1982/'83 (it wasn't officially released until 1986 on the Another View LP).

08.16.2007, 04:35 AM	#22
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Heh. No one hates money, but you don't necassarily have to worship money either. There's a such thing as integrity. This performance was actually for a good cause, but it's still kinda laughable. It's been hard to take Sonic Youth seriously since Kim Gordon appeared in Cavlin Klein ads though. I don't think a band sucks for wanting money (I don't use the word "sellout"), I think they suck for writing bad music... so yeah. One day, Thurston came in to Sonic Youth practice and said, "Hey Jim, you like Starbucks, right?" And he said, "..." And they kicked him out of the band. True story. __________________
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08.16.2007, 04:45 AM	#23
nicfit invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: banana boat Posts: 15,570	Dunno, I just like SY and the more they play ( I don't really care much where/what for they do that) = more chances to see them (well, I live in Italy, so this is not really true), and more chances to hear recordings/see videos (now, this is true even if i live here he eh). I like to see/hear them playing. I know you don't like them much these days (and you're not the only one), but still... __________________ 11:11 11-11-11 I Ascended.
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08.16.2007, 05:30 AM	#24
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Now if I was in Sonic Youth, I would rewrite some of the songs for acoustics and put together a short set of similarly tuned songs and do some impromptu gigs all over the place to fuck with people. But I'm not in the band and I'm most likely idiotically overlooking major obstacles to this.
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08.16.2007, 09:26 AM	#25
jetengine children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 399	The two things I like best about 'The World Looks Red' are the Doors/'L.A. Woman' intro and Thurston's echoey, I'm-an-oracle-proclamating-from-a-distant-misty-mountain-in-time vocals. Also, there's a guitar (?) passage in the middle that's rather reminiscent of the keyboard run in The Velvet Underground's 'Ferryboat Bill'--I'm sure SY would have heard it as a bootleg by 1982/'83 (it wasn't officially released until 1986 on the Another View LP).
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