If you compare albums like evol and confusion is sex to albums such as goo and dirty, evol and confusion is sex have more darker and nosier tones to them while good and dirty of less darker less noisy tones to them.

Good morning from Australia.

It's 3am here on the east coast, and my first born is still in the hours stage of life as she was born literally yesterday.

We're having a rough night of her not sleeping too well, and mum isn't too great due to complications in labour.

Her first song which happened to also calm her down significantly was one of my favourite songs of all time, Bull in the Heather.

We may have a new, young SY fan. 🤞💜🍼

"The day Harold passed, before I received any news of his death, his spirit had awoken me in the middle of the night, his figure in the corner of my room, one last fleeting moment together before leaving. I was not so much frightened as made curious by what I’d seen, a feeling of peace pervading me as Harold bid me a ghostly goodbye."

from Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

I found the song incinerate and I really like it and I have tried to listen to some other songs and I’m having trouble getting into it. Can anyone recommend something you think I might like?

KEXP is doing a podcast series on Kurt Cobain's top 50 albums as written in one of his notebooks. It's an excellent series overall, covering the history of the bands in question, the individual albums named, and their influence on Kurt and Nirvana. "Daydream Nation" was just featured. Highly recommend.

https://www.kexp.org/cobain50/

My song!! Hitting hard right now!!

I knew a website with most SY guitar and bass tabs with some pretty cool trivia as well but I can't remember the address and neither can Google. Sonic Youth Archive or smt like that.

Do you know it? Help a brother out.

wild

There, I said it.

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Hi - I have some questions for older Sonic Youth fans - specifically folks who are 45-55+:

1. How did you get into the band?

2. Why do you like Sonic Youth so much?

3. Thoughts on Sonic Youth’s usage of noise, distortion, feedback, crazy tunings, etc.?

4. What’s your take on Steve Shelley’s contributions to the band?

5. Sonic Youth gradually turned into a more melodic band - thoughts on that?

6. Did you see Sonic Youth during the 80s and/or the 90s? If so? then how were the shows?

7. The band’s influence is huge - pretty much everything from My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana & Radiohead to Built to Spill, Brand New, Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Pavement, GY!BE, Mogwai and more definitely owed something to SY. Thoughts on that?

8. What’s your take on how Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, etc. were on SST back in the 80s?

9. Going beyond the fact that SY covered the Fall - the Fall (along with Wire, Gang of Four & Mission of Burma) definitely paved the way for SY - what’s your take on that?

Discovered pre-SY Lee on this incredible LP by Plus Instruments. You can hear his vocals and guitar on this track.

https://youtu.be/Ztb1JFjnaps?si=W6fTLQtyDG06s70x

Does anyone think sonic youth would sell a dinosaur jr bootleg recording? i’m sure they have tons of recordings from the early days when touring with them and i was wondering if they have ever sold them or are likely too.

I think a lot of the footage that’s in freakscene documentary was filmed by them and it’s amazing quality for the year but not online and man id pay a bunch for that.

I very recently started listening to Sonic Youth and started with their top 5 songs on Spotify! I really really loved all of them, with “incinerate” being my favorite one and “Teen Age Riot” being a close second. I know their music could get pretty experimental, so what albums should I start with? I kinda want to start with something easy to listen to then go from there. Thanks!

Mine are

Halcyon Digest-Deerhunter

The Best Day-Thurston Moore

The King Of Limbs-Radiohead