This was my introduction to Sonic Youth. I had read about them in Rolling Stone, but had never heard a note of their music. Within 48 hours of seeing this I owned Daydream Nation. Imagine my surprise to find this was the weakest song on the album. They were my favorite band for the next 5 years.
I remember this show as a kid... It was easily the most obscure thing on regular/ non cable tv... Where else could you live see live performances from sonic youth, the residents, early RHCP... I would try to catch it every week
Holy fuck I love Sonic Youth. Wasn't old enough to catch them in their Daydream Nation days but I was lucky enough to see them do a set in '09 at Live on the Levee (a free show St. Louis puts on every 4th of July).
I think at first it was slide tunings that were easy to bar (and play with a drum stick). as time wore on and they were expanding it from that, i guess they picked notes for each string that made sense in a progression or that arpeggiated nicely. to be perfectly honest, this is conjecture and i have no idea. im just guessing.
One factor was the ability to play unisons (same note on two or more strings), to get a richer sound. They would often tune the other note off slightly to create a chorus effect
Chris Knight Thurston would achieve the “chorus” effect by slightly bending one of the two identical notes, not via detuning a string, which is how he could easily switch to playing in-tune single-note runs and non-discordant chords during the same song.
@Kid Sunyata your off by about 40 years. you're only saying it's not "avant-garde" because they became successful, and "avant-garde" is in the eye of the beholder. If you're over the age of 12 and referring to yourself as "kid sunyata" you're quite developmentally challenged.
@Kid Sunyata Are you his boyfriend? When they started doing what they were doing, it wasn't cliched, it was new and fresh. If anyone's a cliche it's you, Comic Book Guy. Worst comment ever!
right? she's not even a particularly petite lady, but that Thunderbird is still fucking huge. also really loved the white BC Rich she played for a long time.
I saw them on the Goo tour in a 650 capacity room and they played a nice selection of songs from Daydream Nation. I think I caught them at just the right time. After that I saw them several different times and was never disappointed.
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So after the violent, cathartic, blood pumping rock song by Sonic Youth, one of the most extreme bands in alternative music, we cut to a 40s jazz musician? What's the demographic of this show?
Amazing band if I ever had the chance to see them perform live. It's all such an inspiration. Though it's saddening, yet I am somewhat put at ease to know that there won't ever be another band in history that will be like Sonic Youth. All that could've only been thought up by the people in that band.
he's a super nice dude, too. was lucky to meet him when him and Lance Bangs brought a Sonic Youth documentary here to Memphis. it was my birthday! great gift. he's so boy next door looking. i've never seen him in a shirt without a collar. but he is just a fucking BEAST on drums.
I heard it, but afterwards my ears knew they would never hear anything that could compare to such greatness ever again so they committed suicide leaving me deaf.
I always thought their best songs were something like this... fast & punky influence with the noise/feedback thing... best played loud. PS Kim had 1000% stage presence
I'd love to see the reactions of the crowd when the song breaks down into chaos. If it werent for Sonic Youth we wouldnt have had Kurt Cobain doing the same thing
When I first tried listening to Sonic Youth, I didn't get what everyone was talking about, but after giving them a second chance I realized there is some really impressive stuff going on here. I ranked Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo #71/72 on my list of the 100 best guitarists of all time: bluesdjben.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-100-best-guitarists-of-all-time_10.html
Funny alternate lyrics -- I gotta date with a girl named Cher. We're gonna see 'Cats'. See ya there (!). Can't understand the preceding lyric about J. Mascis.
David Sanborn. He's sometimes associated with 'smooth jazz', but he's been professionally associated with many different musical genres through out his career. His show 'Night Music' (aka 'Sunday Night') demonstrates this. A favorite performance from the show (hold on!) -- /watch?v=wCweFfcV7Xo
No guitar tone fetish and boutique gear obsession. No iPhone app glitch brain insta posing. Just pure expressionist trash music feedback glory by the masters of a bygone art form.
Dalton Swayze I don't hear the comparison. SY's noise is much more free form, whereas BB is more about distortion on all the instruments and then keeping the mix in the red. Neither is better, just different.
meh. i'm not taking anything away from them. but, ive tried. over the years to get into it. and i just cant. there's something that feels, contrived and kind of like they were hyper aware of what hey were doing. like, trying too hard maybe. i dont want to take away from their legit contributions and i'm absolutely fucking no body to have opinion. but, there's just always just been something in the way for me when it comes to sonic youth. maybe one day, i'll get it.
Juniper Moribund I’ve always thought it was talking about a gun. That line “burning a hole in your pocket” always makes me think of someone packing heat. I dunno
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Say what you want but these guys liberated rock from the same boring chord progressions and birthed several important genres.
By doing what v.u did 20 years before
@@breakfastline better
@@reymontcantil199 maybe
@@breakfastline VU did noise but not like this
This was my introduction to Sonic Youth. I had read about them in Rolling Stone, but had never heard a note of their music. Within 48 hours of seeing this I owned Daydream Nation. Imagine my surprise to find this was the weakest song on the album. They were my favorite band for the next 5 years.
"total trash", "candle" and "kissability" didn't pass the test for me. without those three DN would be a fantastic album (for my taste :D)
@@akis723 i love total trash personally! why didn't ya like it?
@@akis723 Candle is amazing in my book
@@thebasedgodmax1163 The whole record is brilliant start to finish. Masterpiece and nothing else quite like it.
If this doesn't make you want to smash some shit you need to check your pulse.
Golly... for some reason, I watched this and somehow don't want to smash shit.... and yet my pulse seems just fine, dumbass... 🤷
this band was so cool, seeing this live must've melted faces
The first time I saw them was on acid lol
I remember this show as a kid... It was easily the most obscure thing on regular/ non cable tv... Where else could you live see live performances from sonic youth, the residents, early RHCP... I would try to catch it every week
Me too! I watched it when it first aired and was completely blown away/stunned!
WHAT is RHCP?
@@vanessadiplomadogmai uhhh...Red Hot Chili Peppers
It was glorious.
There was this and there was also “Night Flight”
I come back to this video every year or so and if remains the most insanely badass TV performance of a rock band I’ve ever seen
Thurston and Lee are complete geniuses when it comes to feedback.
Diego Rio check out Adrian Belew, another master of feedback
Yeah, I'm a fan of him as well. :^)
Check out Thin White Rope
@TomorrowNeverKnows tell us what exciting feedback is.
@TomorrowNeverKnows I'll give it a listen, thanks.
kim stands she moves like u know she knows something about making the whole thing work.......sonic youth is all of us that were trying to be in bands
Holy fuck I love Sonic Youth.
Wasn't old enough to catch them in their Daydream Nation days but I was lucky enough to see them do a set in '09 at Live on the Levee (a free show St. Louis puts on every 4th of July).
1:51 Pavement stabbed to death....but it's the knife that screams like a pig.
Pure sonic violence. Epic band.
Uhhh... what?
@@michaelmcdonald8452pavement stabbed to death….but it’s the knife that screams like a pig. pure sonic violence. epic band.
what’s there not to get?
@@xiutxui1689 it does make more sense when you put it like that
I still wonder how the hell they chose tunings, and what notes to use.
I think at first it was slide tunings that were easy to bar (and play with a drum stick). as time wore on and they were expanding it from that, i guess they picked notes for each string that made sense in a progression or that arpeggiated nicely. to be perfectly honest, this is conjecture and i have no idea. im just guessing.
One factor was the ability to play unisons (same note on two or more strings), to get a richer sound. They would often tune the other note off slightly to create a chorus effect
Chris Knight Thurston would achieve the “chorus” effect by slightly bending one of the two identical notes, not via detuning a string, which is how he could easily switch to playing in-tune single-note runs and non-discordant chords during the same song.
To put it simply, probably just exploration and discovery.
Glenn Branca
Love Steve Shelley's drumming!
Like about 800 other Sonic Youth songs, Silver Rocket goes great in the MP3 while jogging or running a race.
gives you the speed that certainly don't have
all the "this isnt music - its just noise" commenters = knickers twisted cos it isnt chart-approved pleb-rock. its okay - you dont have to get it
it's hipster rock
This is experimental post punk down tuning slightly off key thrashing genius. Love Sonic Youth
@@dragonno6587 fuck off with your hipster bullshit. what garbage do you listen to?
@Kid Sunyata your off by about 40 years. you're only saying it's not "avant-garde" because they became successful, and "avant-garde" is in the eye of the beholder. If you're over the age of 12 and referring to yourself as "kid sunyata" you're quite developmentally challenged.
@Kid Sunyata Are you his boyfriend? When they started doing what they were doing, it wasn't cliched, it was new and fresh. If anyone's a cliche it's you, Comic Book Guy. Worst comment ever!
Kim and her beautiful basses. 😍
right? she's not even a particularly petite lady, but that Thunderbird is still fucking huge. also really loved the white BC Rich she played for a long time.
I cant quite make out what they are saying about jMascis but I'm sure its complimentary
Teen Age Riot was originally about electing J Mascis for president. It still sort of is.
J and Thurston were roommates for a while, imagine all the jazzmasters in that place.
@@wwecats j and thurston played a show with gg allin. imagine the shit on that stage.
i come back to this recording so often
I saw them on the Goo tour in a 650 capacity room and they played a nice selection of songs from Daydream Nation. I think I caught them at just the right time. After that I saw them several different times and was never disappointed.
i really like that one part where the guitars are loud and they're like totally not giving a shit lmao so cool
14l30 same
yes, music was good back then, unlike now.
S. Miller oh stfu, there’s now plenty of good music out there. no idea what you’re talking about
@@lovecomesbutonce Examples, please.
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So after the violent, cathartic, blood pumping rock song by Sonic Youth, one of the most extreme bands in alternative music, we cut to a 40s jazz musician? What's the demographic of this show?
People who love all kinds of good music. A show like this is, unfortunately, a thing of the past.
Demographic? Music Fans.
The host of the show was David Sanborn, who happens to be a jazz musician.
the demographic is a damn good one, I'll tell you what. #Murica #SonicYouth #Jmascis4President
@@gtrrs71 closest thing since would be later...with jools holland
that feedback
SNL in 89!?!? Holy shit, SY sounded spectacular....so young and fresh....NOISE WAVE going mainstream....I fuckin luv this!!!!!!!!!
Dino Prima nightmusic
Amazing band if I ever had the chance to see them perform live. It's all such an inspiration. Though it's saddening, yet I am somewhat put at ease to know that there won't ever be another band in history that will be like Sonic Youth. All that could've only been thought up by the people in that band.
I can see where Kurt was influenced by these shockingly beautiful creatures from the garden of epic musical genius
steve shelley is a bad ass
Probably the most underrated drummer in rock n roll.
he's a super nice dude, too. was lucky to meet him when him and Lance Bangs brought a Sonic Youth documentary here to Memphis. it was my birthday! great gift. he's so boy next door looking. i've never seen him in a shirt without a collar. but he is just a fucking BEAST on drums.
thurston falling over at the end is my favorite part
Probably the greatest video footage of anything ever.
Lived in upstate NY in the 80’s. Loved “Night Music”.
This is one of the most magnificent videos on TH-cam...
pushing it to the extremes , that's what music should be
Total brilliance.
i'm thurston for moore.
U need more credit
WHAT A GROUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Energy , attitude , calculated weirdness all blend for one hell of a rock n roll milkshake
This is my favorite performance that I've seen as far as WFO Crazy !!! Thanks for the post.
Best sonic youth song :)
The power of the youth.
so that's where kurt stole his schtick from
German Salazar inspiration and thievery aren't the same thing
good artist copy, great artists steal
German Salazar and they were all friends
Kurt Nirvana and Butch Vig OUT RIGHT STOLE from every body. BOC, Killing Joke, Pixies, Boston to name a few.
cmon. Kurt loved SY but his style was unique enough where these kinds of comments are just dumb.
Thanks for posting this. Love it.
awesome performance
Lol i never heard the j mascis line until this
About 3 years before "November rain" heh
I broke my first guitar trying to emulate the 1:51 part of this video. Thanks Thurston
me too bro... I fucked my guitar a few times trying to do some Thurston moves, but it was always so awesome to do it
it looks and sounds super fucking cool tho lol
@@bummeryummer8235 hell yeah, no regrets
coolest band
Kim Gordon is the Queen of Kool
This is guitar magic.
Great 👌 performance!!
Perfect!!
Holy shit.
Amazing
best band in the fuckin world
GODS
amazing
Cosmic and kickin'
Do you hear that?... me neither--i think our ears just melted off
I heard it, but afterwards my ears knew they would never hear anything that could compare to such greatness ever again so they committed suicide leaving me deaf.
I always thought their best songs were something like this... fast & punky influence with the noise/feedback thing... best played loud. PS Kim had 1000% stage presence
Sick.
They need to liven up a bit.
Epic!
Nirvana should pay them royalties
I want a better audio version.
Steve Shelley is the Jack Kerouac of Elvin Jones’s
I’m here because Sonic Youth
wow
I'd love to see the reactions of the crowd when the song breaks down into chaos. If it werent for Sonic Youth we wouldnt have had Kurt Cobain doing the same thing
1:20
Lolwut! How many songs do they have about J Mascis?
I'd like to know more about the program, Night Music, that this performance is from. Anyone got any info. (killer performance too)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Night_(American_TV_program)
Does any clever soul know what guitars Thurston and Ronaldo are playing?
Thurston's playing a jazzmaster and lee's playing what looks like a strat
Thanks man. I spose we have to punctuate every type of guitar they play with "heavily modified"
lee is playing a yamaha pacifica and thurston a fender jazzmaster
I thought Lee was playing strat copy from Fernandes
The kind of guitars that sound like shit!!
how the fuck did that guitar stayed in tune
Alvin Sebastian It didn't, you can ser him tunning It at the end of the break
Genial
When I first tried listening to Sonic Youth, I didn't get what everyone was talking about, but after giving them a second chance I realized there is some really impressive stuff going on here. I ranked Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo #71/72 on my list of the 100 best guitarists of all time: bluesdjben.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-100-best-guitarists-of-all-time_10.html
Presenter has epic hair
i thought it was Jim Jarmusch for a hot second.
Funny alternate lyrics -- I gotta date with a girl named Cher. We're gonna see 'Cats'. See ya there (!). Can't understand the preceding lyric about J. Mascis.
I ::think:: its:
J Mascis Makin' Out With Phoebe
Me and Lizzy Know She's A Sweetie
Post-modern guitar lead @1:43
Back then every band tried to be this band, they all failed.
Why is this so sexy
Wow this is awesome
Does anybody know the name of the presenter? Thanks.
David Sanborn. He's sometimes associated with 'smooth jazz', but he's been professionally associated with many different musical genres through out his career. His show 'Night Music' (aka 'Sunday Night') demonstrates this.
A favorite performance from the show (hold on!) -- /watch?v=wCweFfcV7Xo
Mr werewolf XD
LEE MARK RANALDO
03 DE FEBRERO DE 1956
68 AÑOS
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
you got it!
Kim’s so rad
steve shelley fuckin kicks ass
Sonic boy ! Sonic Girl!
No guitar tone fetish and boutique gear obsession. No iPhone app glitch brain insta posing. Just pure expressionist trash music feedback glory by the masters of a bygone art form.
who is the cowboy guy
THURSTON JOSEPH MOORE
25 DE JULIO DE 1958
64 AÑOS
JazzBlaster
Before nirvana
and better
This song sounds exactly like "Bad Penny" by Big Black
not a bad thing
They sound almost nothing alike. Only thing in comparison is the noise
Dalton Swayze I don't hear the comparison. SY's noise is much more free form, whereas BB is more about distortion on all the instruments and then keeping the mix in the red. Neither is better, just different.
>implying that big black ever went on a pure 3-minute noise tangent
Kim had dyed her hair by this point
The last rock band
Sonic Youth with a Keyboard (Synth?) Player? What?
Dan Burkett they had one in the very beginning back in ‘81 it didn’t last long...
pretty sure it's don fleming, was in their tour party/gumball
@@iluvugoldenblue the host says at the beginning it's him.
🔊👊🏻🔊
what does he says at 1:21 about J Mascis?
i think its j mascis making out with phoebe
Unfuckingreal
meh. i'm not taking anything away from them. but, ive tried. over the years to get into it. and i just cant. there's something that feels, contrived and kind of like they were hyper aware of what hey were doing. like, trying too hard maybe. i dont want to take away from their legit contributions and i'm absolutely fucking no body to have opinion. but, there's just always just been something in the way for me when it comes to sonic youth. maybe one day, i'll get it.
0:05 werewolf guy
Thurston looks like Rusty from National Lampoon's European Vacation.
WTF is Kim up to at 3:10!? 🤣
What does silver rocket mean?
Juniper Moribund I’ve always thought it was talking about a gun. That line “burning a hole in your pocket” always makes me think of someone packing heat. I dunno
shit i always thought it was about meth
That’s good theory too
i thought a silver rocket was a dildo?
A silver rocket is a rocket that's silver.