A clip from their Minneapolis concert mentioned in the interview has been restored and uploaded here: th-cam.com/video/XFvkKh_SEYA/w-d-xo.html Also, the restored version of this episode can be found here: th-cam.com/video/5X38rsjGhEI/w-d-xo.html
Feel the energy in the room. The only discernible life is in the interviewer's hair upon which Thurston must have rubbed his guitar strings before the start.
It's so hard to imagine that Kim is 30 here... She looks like she's in her early 20s! It really goes to show that age is just a number. Especially if you're Kim Gordon.
common, ms gordon looked 40+ hreoin addict since i remember, which would bee the earliee ninetees, thurston on the other hand is scary. But Kim Gordon now looks sexy, healthier i guess.
@@crossovo Goes to show how age has no limit on talent. People are pressured to become famous young but youth isn't everything. A lot of famous actors don't break out until their 30s or 40s.
I'm pretty sure he assumed the video would take too long based on the amount of questions they had vs how slow they were answering them and that's why he chose to end the interview. 😂
Despite the fact that he didn't really like being in the group, he was a fucking groove monster! His drums are one of my favorite things about "Confusion is Sex"
@@iamdamosuzuki_ yeah he was the best behind Steve - Bob Berts drumming also frustrated me, and just wasn’t very good live tbh. I’d rank Best to worst: Steve, Jim, Richard, Bob
@Pason Jayne This interview took place in 1983, so not sure what this has to do with grunge, but regardless, I've never seen members of SY smoking cigarettes besides here. Lol!
They were an underground noise band in the early 1980s, and smokers were the norm among the hardcore adjacent back then. If you didn't smoke scenesters would joke that you were some kind of health nut.
In the 60-80ies smoking, boozing, casual drugs and sex were still allowed and normal. Then we got obsessed with security and some discovered there was a heck of a business in it. Ever since you'll get diseases from sex, car crashes from drinking and cancer from smoking. And they chopped almost every tree to avoid you'd hang yourself out of boredom ;-)
A clip from their Minneapolis concert mentioned in the interview has been restored and uploaded here:
th-cam.com/video/XFvkKh_SEYA/w-d-xo.html
Also, the restored version of this episode can be found here:
th-cam.com/video/5X38rsjGhEI/w-d-xo.html
Feel the energy in the room. The only discernible life is in the interviewer's hair upon which Thurston must have rubbed his guitar strings before the start.
POOFY VERTICAL EARLY '80s HAIR
It's so sad that the band put in so many years learning to smoke that by the time they'd finally mastered it, it was no longer fashionable.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣 The important thing is, shareholders in Philip Morris had good returns on their investments. 😑
After all the years they still look about the same.
80s sonic youth was kind of intimidating
thurston is good at making his point of view noticable over all
90s sonic youth jumped Nardwuar
@@dazeofheaven That wasn't really intimidating. That was just bullying
@@michaelgraham9774 nardwaur deserves it
@@hankworden3850 wtf no
People just want to look at how youthful Sonic Youth were
Now they’re Sonic Elderly 🙃
@@effdonahue6595they were sonic elderly since the 90s
Sonic Youth were indeed youths once, well Kim never really was
This is when they were actually awesome
“Going down south” (North Carolina) was where the live version of “I wanna be your dog” was recorded and put on the Confusion is Sex album.
Cats Cradle, right? Place is still alive and kicking. Going to see Yo La Tengo there this March.
@@AZ-hg6kw Can someone confirm this? I live in NC. Saw Boris at Cat's Cradle last August.
@@AZ-hg6kwno, it was at the pier in Raleigh. It’s no longer around
@@prlysissame. No it was at a venue called the pier in Raleigh. They played with Swans
Two and a half minutes into the interview: "Ok, we're going to have to wrap this up..." Lol
Mime is toney
It's so hard to imagine that Kim is 30 here... She looks like she's in her early 20s! It really goes to show that age is just a number. Especially if you're Kim Gordon.
Yeah and now shes almost 100 years old and looks like shes only 84.
when you do what love
you don't feel older anymore
and the body responds to that in a positive way
common, ms gordon looked 40+ hreoin addict since i remember, which would bee the earliee ninetees, thurston on the other hand is scary. But Kim Gordon now looks sexy, healthier i guess.
She was actually 29, this (1-08-1983) was a couple of months before her 30th birthday (4-28-1983)
I think she looks exactly her age and I mean that in a good way.
we are gonna mention a few things in the intro that we either won't get in depth with or won't get to at all lol.
The interviewer couldn't have possibly imagined the internet.
It's nice to see indoor smoking.
:-)
@@TheDamageinc81 - Me too.
i wish i had seen this sonic youth live
I wish I saw them in 1983 instead of 1990.
@@marcopervo Why? You didn't like them in 1990?
And where did you see them?
really?, I kind of had enough
@@marcosb733227 What do you mean?
@@Dreamcatcher9000 That I don´t wish I saw SY in 83. I kind of regreet a youth culture that I feel undermined the lives of many
Lee is such a hot young italian dream boat! Xoxo
'Wrap this up', after 2;43, minute, hilarious, a mini-interview :-)
To be fair, besides the problems outlined above, back then few would have guessed what they would become.
"We're going to let a band light cigarettes and then kick them off."
dude looks like ned from ned's survival guide
how dare he not know kim's name
Kim who
Kim was already 30 there! WTF!
sometimes i forget that Sonic Youth became truly successful when the members were all in their 40's, that's crazy!
@@crossovo Goes to show how age has no limit on talent. People are pressured to become famous young but youth isn't everything. A lot of famous actors don't break out until their 30s or 40s.
Odd interview. “We need to wrap this up.” Down South as in The Grow Columbia, SC!
lee looks baller as fuck in thsi
Where's the Minneapolis video mentioned during the interview??? That'd be December 1982, right? That would be quite interesting to see.
1983 was a weird time to be alive and hip.
Thurston Moore
25/07/58
63 años
this feel literally SO natural...smooothe interviewingz's
People acted like they had more time back then. Watch any Dick CAvanaugh interview
Yeah the formality of the intro was about as long as the interview itself.
wow very early interview of Sonic Youth!😎
An time capsule.
They look like the family from the Beetlejuice film.😆
I'm pretty sure he assumed the video would take too long based on the amount of questions they had vs how slow they were answering them and that's why he chose to end the interview. 😂
Okay, that was weird. Why did it end so abruptly?
Do you have the live clip from Minneapolis they mention? That is my #1 holy grail Sonic Youth rarity I’ve been dying to see for decades!
If I recall, it may have been part of the program, but it was horrible quality. I'll let you know if I find it.
@@VideowaveMusic Thank you for replying!
@@VideowaveMusic I would love to see it also. You're going to upload it here at YT? Thanks
@@Xcalator35 Yes over at the sister channel www.youtube.com/@1982Videowave
@@VideowaveMusic Thanks!
hey respect new wave luv dat fresh style ;)
jakob woho * no wave
i like how kim mocks the producer by doing the finger spinning thing.
"A good new healthy ingredient to the band" Thurston could not be any more wrong here.
Despite the fact that he didn't really like being in the group, he was a fucking groove monster! His drums are one of my favorite things about "Confusion is Sex"
@@iamdamosuzuki_ yeah he was the best behind Steve - Bob Berts drumming also frustrated me, and just wasn’t very good live tbh. I’d rank
Best to worst:
Steve, Jim, Richard, Bob
anyone else think the interviewer was kinda weird to kim?
for sure
Kim is stunning 🎶👑
3:01 short n' sweet
Thorston looks like a young Jandek wtf
The interviewer reminds me of either Krist or Andy, but I can't decide which...
Easter Island Statues I thought the same but just Krist Novoselic
@@iprobablylikedyourvideo2231 In fact, I thought it was Krist xd
2:00 this dude's cup is fucked.
fo real tho
I didn’t know anyone in the band was a smoker. I found that mildly surprising
@Pason Jayne This interview took place in 1983, so not sure what this has to do with grunge, but regardless, I've never seen members of SY smoking cigarettes besides here. Lol!
@@andrewptob nope..me either...
@@andrewptob Soundgarden and green river were both active in 1983 so technically grunge was already popping up at that time.
@@dudeman5303 well technically The Nile Song was released in 1969.
They were an underground noise band in the early 1980s, and smokers were the norm among the hardcore adjacent back then. If you didn't smoke scenesters would joke that you were some kind of health nut.
what the hell? they're all smoking?? pretty funny!
a lot of people smoked on tv in the 80s atleast in italy, and it was fucking cool
all the way up into the 90's, too.
It's still cool, just not in public
yeah right LOL
In the 60-80ies smoking, boozing, casual drugs and sex were still allowed and normal. Then we got obsessed with security and some discovered there was a heck of a business in it. Ever since you'll get diseases from sex, car crashes from drinking and cancer from smoking. And they chopped almost every tree to avoid you'd hang yourself out of boredom ;-)
Amo essa banda
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And, within 3 to 4 years...they were making some ridiculous and amazing music.
They already were.
They already were.
@@fortressofdesire ...what
@@startervisions You heard 'em
@@Fig8907 read
Lee got that shit on
Do it yourself noise rock? Yes please
oh my god thurston is the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen
I need some Van Halen NOW!
the best time for post modern art is 1990s
World's shortest interview
lol this is so funny
Who was he supposed to be interviewing?!?
This is what's smoking: Kim Gordon brings Tony Oursler into the conversation.
Tony Oursler was on VW....Maybe she knew that because it was around the same time.
Back here just for see a gorgeous display of Kim
The real Thurston, moody and semi-delinquent.
KIM ALTHEA GORDON
28 DE ABRIL DE 1953
69 AÑOS (70). (71)
Very I’m in a band
🖤🖤🖤🖤
god. the interviewers hair is so distracting
your avatar is
POOFY HAIR STICKUPBUTT BOY interviews SY
smoking is cool
THURSTON JOSEPH MOORE
25 DE JULIO DE 1958
64 AÑOS (65). (66)
What kind of company or broadcast station etc. even let this type of guy conduct an interview
Confirmed: they were smokers.
this is pretty boring....are they all just waking up or going to sleep?
The SickNeeds Probably both lol
Smack.
No future tours after his divorce
My first lessons were hard to forget about madia spy trajedys. I guess you weren't robbed enough to be prepared for you.
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Skidscrapper
she's so attractive here holy fuck
Cigarettes are cool
This overrated band was especially horrible in their early days.
This interviewer sucked rule 1 -know the lead singers name
HA ha back in the day i thought they were so cool, now all i see is pretension LOL
Lousy beatniks. Pretentious as all get out.