I gotta say, as a Sonic Youth fan for now over 20 years (!?!), this was a blast to watch, well researched and edited, and it reinvigorated my love for this incredible band. I was very fortunate to have seen them live three times, twice in 2006 and in 2008, all in southern california. Those shows I still regard as one of the best concert experiences I've ever had. It's no easy feat containing SY's 30 year long history in less than 30 minutes, but you did excellently! I feel I should point out that one very significant part of SY history you did not mention that merits inclusion was the gear theft that occurred in July 1999 - overnight after a gig in Orange County CA, a Ryder truck containing nearly all of their touring instruments and equipment was stolen. In addition to drums, amps, pedals, and basses, 27 guitars - used for the various alternate tunings, all uniquely modified and irreplacable - were gone. As of 2023 only 4 guitars have been recovered. This massive loss of their key instruments forced the band to re-approach their songwriting, both dig out old guitars and attain new ones, and as a result the band's sound evolved into a cleaner, jam/psychadelic infused sound, while still exploring the wall of noise experiments, shown in albums like NYC Ghosts & Flowers & Murray Street. So that "bass" you mentioned being at Kim's apartment when Thurston first visited was actually not a bass but a guitar with a crazy connection between them: it was a Korean made "Drifter" guitar that belonged to a friend of Thurston's first pre-SY band The Coachmen, he had played it occasionally and through traveling hands it ended up in Kim's possession. He saw she had the guitar and that was definitely an ice-breaker in their developing friendship and later romance. That Drifter guitar became one of the first SY instruments, and in the mid-80s it was converted into a 4 string (tuned F#-F#-B-B), the frets ripped out, and played by Thurston using drumsticks on "Eric's Trip" on Daydream Nation. Sadly the Drifter was among the numerous guitars, amps, and gear that was stolen in July 1999 and was never recovered.
I saw Sonic Youth at the This Ain't No Picnic festival in July of 1999. It was the first gig they played after the theft on equipment borrowed from the other bands and hastily retuned and modified that afternoon. I've seen Sonic Youth many times from 1992 to 2013 and that was one of the best gigs they ever did imho. Also the only time I've ever crowd surfed. I was tripping balls that day and a few hours before SY played my brother and I and a few friends were playing frisbee with a Jar Jar Binks frisbee that I had which was a KFC chicken bucket lid / frisbee as a promotional tie in to the Phantom Menace being released earlier that year. Someone pointed out Lee Ranaldo having a conversation and suggested I get his autograph. The only thing I had was the Jar Jar Binks frisbee, so I borrowed a pen and rudely interrupted Lee: "would you sign my Jar Jar Binks frisbee?" He very graciously paused his conversation and signed it and handed it back. We stopped playing frisbee and I still have it to this day, although the signature is smeared and a piece of it broke off of the edge 😄 Anyway SY has never failed to deliver an insane live show. Even on the Thousand Leaves tour when I saw them three nights in a row and it was the ONLY time they ever repeated the same set each night 😑 They played with Pavement the first time I ever saw them at Castaic Lake, and the last time I ever saw them at the Hollywood Bowl. For awhile it was a family tradition for my brother and I to go see them, even if we sometimes went in separate groups. While I don't think that a reunion will ever work for them, I dearly miss them. I didn't shell out for "concerts" as much as I went to shows back then, but I would always try and catch Sonic Youth. Kim Gordon has been doing the coolest shit post SY. Search up any of her recent videos or live performances. She is really still cultivating a unique and inspired sound. ✨SONIK LIFE ✨
@@sonicsnout SONIK LIFE!!!!! dude thank you so much for taking the time to type this amazing recollection. My first Sonic Youth show was at some piss-smelly dive club in Sacramento 2006 right after Rather Ripped dropped. My then-girlfriend (also a diehard SY fan) drove from LA to Sac to see them. We were front and center at the stage. That show was like experiencing the first day of the rest of my life hahaha. It was an incredible experiene. I've never seen anyone play and sculpt noise with such unconstraint and control like Thurston and Lee can. They played Pattern Recognition - one of my all time favorite SY tunes - and I knew what was coming. I heard from my gf they go BONKERS in the song's chaotic finale and particularily Thurston was known to really "lose himself" in the sound hehe... as the band did the final synced chord crash and into the feedback-ridden eardrum popping coda, Thurston began to sway more and more wildly. He swung his guitar around a bit, but then looked up and took his guitar and HUNG IT ON THE STAGE LIGHT SCAFFOLD while it was still plugged in - droning and screaming feedback. I look over at Kim and she's pressing her bass against her amp causing this almight WOOOOOOO sound. Lee has his guitar on the ground and he's scraping it with his stll-plugged-in guitar cord. Steve is crashing away on cymbals. Newly joined Mark Ibold holds down the low drone notes. I look back at Thurston and he's lightly picking his still hanging guitar, but then he grabs it and jumps into the crowd!!! They push him back and forth - GUITAR STILL PLUGGED IN - my gf nudges me with a "DO IT! DO IT!" face and I mosh my way over to where Thurston is, leap forward towards him, reached over and BASHED the strings of his Jazzmaster, causing this crazy ZWANNNNNNNG! sound - Thurston smiled big at me and the crowd pushed him back to the stage - he literally slumps onto the stage and rolls on the ground a bit and then finally stands up and the sound calms into applause and cheering. It was the greatest concert experience I ever, will ever, have. That moment changed my life, hands down. Less than a week later, we saw them again at a secret show in downtown LA. We were early showing up, and we got to catch the band arriving for soundcheck. My gf had a satchel bag that she was on a mission to have signed by every SY member. She already had Lee's and thanks to us getting there early, she got all 4 autographs! As Thurston signed her bag, I mentioned we were at the Sac show and he recognized us and me as the guy who hit his guitar!!! he said "that was killer man thanks for adding to it!" 🤩🤩 There was and will never be a live band like Sonic Youth - I feel so fortunate that we got to experience them. 🤘
I saw them in 1991 on a belgian festival (pukkelpop), been a fan since confusion is sex. Nirvana opened the festival (they where pretty unknown back then)
Great summary. One thing you kinda missed is what exactly made their sound so different. Firstly, they almost never used standard guitar tunings. Daydream Nation sounds so interesting because it is all alternative tunings. Lee Rinaldo was really innovative. Also Kim's droll vocals (influenced by Patti Smith) which are half spoken word, half singing. A lot of bands were influenced by them but couldn't quite replicate that sound or feel.
really enjoyed this video...the presentation was so nice...felt like i was sat in a room with you...which is so much more enjoyable than these modern day, fast cut...zoom in...trendy vids so many channels like to do these days. so rare to hear a complete sentence without it being chopped up and edited so much!! Anyway, i've subbed and will be looking forward to seeing more of your content. good luck with the channel :)
Nice to see pics from their early stages. Read Thurston's autobiography Sonic Life for more thoroughly correct details. Coachmen was already band of RISD guys who considered Thurston a wild child whom they brought in to augment the guitars, but had little enthusiasm for his spraying blood on the stage due to his self-injuring manic strumming style.
I never could get into them. Irony is that I introduced my neighbor to Billy Idol and he went down the rabbit hole of Generation X. I used to get rides from him to high school and had to listen to Sonic Youth and Southern Death Cult! I didn't hate it, and I appreciated the independent spirit, but I just liked prog rock more!! 😂Thanks for producing this, this is new info for me and guess what ... I might start liking Sonic Youth more!
01. Self-Titled (1982) ep 02. Confusion Is Sex (1983) 03. Kill Yer Idols (1983) ep 04. Sonic Death: Early Sonic (1984) live 05. Bad Moon Rising (1985) 06. Evol (1986) 07. Sister (1987) 08. Master = Dik (1987) ep 09. Daydream Nation (1988) 10. The Whitey Album (1989) 11. Goo (1990) 12. Goo: The Videos (1990) video 13. Hold That Tiger (1991) live 14. Dirty (1992) 15. 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1993) video 16. Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star (1994) 17. Screaming Fields Of Sonic Love (1995) video (videos 1982-1989) 18. Washing Machine (1995) 19. Made In U.S.A. (1995) soundtrack 20. A Thousand Leaves (1998) 21. NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) 22. Murray Street (2002) 23. Corporate Ghost: The Videos 1990-2002 (2004) video 24. Sonic Nurse (2004) 25. The Destroyed Room: B-sides & Rarities (2006) 26. Rather Ripped (2006) 27. Hits Are For Squares (2008) greatest hits 28. The Eternal (2009) 29. Smart Bar: Chicago 1985 (2012) live 30. Spinhead Sessions 1986 (2016) demos 31. In/Out/In (2022) out takes/rarities 32. Live In Brooklyn 2011 (2023) live 33. Walls Have Ears (2024) live SYR1: Anagrama (1997) SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom (1997) SYR3: Invito Al Cielo (1998) SYR: Silver Sessions For Jason Knuth (1998) SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (1999) SYR5: + DJ Olive & Ikue Mori (2000) SYR: In The Fishtank 9 (2001) SYR: Kali Yug Express (2002) SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (2005) SYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes (2008) SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (2008) SYR: Sensational Fix (2009) SYR9: Simon Werner A Disparu (2011) soundtrack
I love your videos. It was the Devo one that first dropped into my 'recommend list'. I love Devo, had a great afternoon drinking with them during the Smooth Noodle Maps Tour. Also love REM and that vid is great. REM are awesome. But all your videos are great, even hardcore fans will learn things about their fav bands. Anyway, keep up the good work, these videos are awesome. Do Camper Van Beethoven, The Strawbs, The Jam....so many great bands to cover, literally history is your oyster! lol
That would be interesting. I just finished reading a book called "This Must Be the Place" that talked a little bout Beck and the anti-folk scene he partly came out of. Definitely sounded interesting enough to dig more into
First time I heard about Sonic youth was in connection with Ministry. Radio DJ strangely found a connection between this two bands and did pretty good program. Since then I'm listening both. Well.. 🙄 I would like to watch same kind of video on Ministry 😊 please. Now .. clicked like button and Subscribed 😉
I was almost 13 and ended up backstage at the Daydream Nation Chicago show. Thurston and Steve asked “Who’s kid is that”? Lee was super nice to me and I was already majorly in love w Kim .Perhaps jealous of Thurston so I just stared and clammed up. Same show I met and became longtime friends with Keith( Black Flag/Circle Jerks) Morris Yes thanks for the mention of Glenn Branca. You forgot to mention Thurstons lifelong obsession with Danny Partridge. There’s something profound in that. Anyone who misses a John Cale show is snubbing a life changer.
The most inflential band ive ever listened to. While i was in college in the 90s i was already part of the fan group obtaining demo albums and live recordings and ive read the book about them. I even went so far as changing the strings on one guitar and tried alt tunings. I bought every album until near the end. Some of the stuff they have done will be unmatched. Kim even picking up a guitar towards the end and lee is a legit guitar player. Loved thurstons solo work. SY forever.
There was a band inspired by Sonic Youth from Japan, called 人生 (Jinsei/ZIN-SÄY!) and was essentially the predecessor to the group Denki Groove. Their Wikipedia page is only on the Japanese website, but that’s why we have translators 🤷♂️
So when will the movie about the life of this magnificent band be released?. By the way, a report and summary of the group Dead Can Dance would be interesting, especially about their beginnings and their time of mystical and dark music.
Another great one! I highly suggest digging into Matthew Sweet. One of the greatest Power Pop artists of our time, who ended up being overshadowed by a new band that came to the scene called Nirvana, maybe you heard of them 😂. Matthew Sweets album ‘Girlfriend’ was ranked at number 61 on Paste magazine's list of "The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s".
The 2 best American bands of the 80s were far better known in Europe (especially Britain) than back in the US at the time. Sonic Youth and Pixies. Didn't hurt that Bowie and John Peel talked them up, that alone gives a lot of credibility.
You mention Mark Ibold but not Jim O'Rourke? No mention of SYR's amazing noise recordings and collaborations? No mention of Thurston's extensive solo work either, or much of Lee's. No mention of Kim's amazing Body/Head project. This needs to be a much longer, deeper dive.
They SORT OF ruined innovation in music in America because whilst they and the other grunge artists were doing guitar based music in the 90s Europe and the UK were pushing the boundries with synthesizers and electronic music.The Prodigy,Goldie,and Aphex Twin were way ahead of everything compared to these guys.Even to this day America is behind on innovation because of its obsession with bands but If there is a trailblazer band worth talking about from that time period its Suicide.Sonic Youth was great music but it was really for teenagers not adults.Suicide is the most interesting in my opinion.
duh....that's their point. Noise infused Rock music. Experimenting for the sake of making original music. Now go back and listen to your boring, mainstream, prog rock old people music.
You should focus real Artists like Nickel back , or singer songwriter Bob Ritchie, People who created and contributed to music and movements!! Sonic youth, Lou Reed NY guys just want to be rock stars, fuel up on cocaine and whiskey.
Lyrics could be interesting but I don’t listen unless the actual musicianship of playing the instruments is any good. These guys sound like their playing anything and trying to make it work. Nice go at it, after the song put the instruments on fire to get more attention.
I listen to Sonic Youth, but they are massively overated. Not really sure why people seem to like Kim Gordon so much but she has always been absolutely devoid of talent and just got really lucky to meet people like Thurston, Lee and Steve. I've always considered her an imposter in the music, would anyone actually have listened to her music if not for Sonic Youth? doubtful. I know its meant to be No-Wave but that just seems like a cop out to justify how poor some of the music actually is, which was certainly not at all helped by Kim. They could have found a more interesting bassist and vocalist but its pretty clear that they liked the idea of a female member for appearances.
My favorite band of all time. I had the pleasure of seeing them live three times. Awesome video!
Oh man, you're so lucky ! Happy for you \m/
So lucky never got to see them.
@@brendonkellas9778 Me neither because I discovered them too late.
appreciate the context surrounding the band, didnt know too much about their personal history🔥
Thanks for checking it out!
Turns out he was thirstin' all along.
I hate that I laughed at that...
Sonic Youth is my all time favorite rapper
Love them. Thanks for this, really informative and well-delivered.
Thank you! Thanks for checking out the video
I gotta say, as a Sonic Youth fan for now over 20 years (!?!), this was a blast to watch, well researched and edited, and it reinvigorated my love for this incredible band. I was very fortunate to have seen them live three times, twice in 2006 and in 2008, all in southern california. Those shows I still regard as one of the best concert experiences I've ever had. It's no easy feat containing SY's 30 year long history in less than 30 minutes, but you did excellently!
I feel I should point out that one very significant part of SY history you did not mention that merits inclusion was the gear theft that occurred in July 1999 - overnight after a gig in Orange County CA, a Ryder truck containing nearly all of their touring instruments and equipment was stolen. In addition to drums, amps, pedals, and basses, 27 guitars - used for the various alternate tunings, all uniquely modified and irreplacable - were gone. As of 2023 only 4 guitars have been recovered. This massive loss of their key instruments forced the band to re-approach their songwriting, both dig out old guitars and attain new ones, and as a result the band's sound evolved into a cleaner, jam/psychadelic infused sound, while still exploring the wall of noise experiments, shown in albums like NYC Ghosts & Flowers & Murray Street.
So that "bass" you mentioned being at Kim's apartment when Thurston first visited was actually not a bass but a guitar with a crazy connection between them: it was a Korean made "Drifter" guitar that belonged to a friend of Thurston's first pre-SY band The Coachmen, he had played it occasionally and through traveling hands it ended up in Kim's possession. He saw she had the guitar and that was definitely an ice-breaker in their developing friendship and later romance. That Drifter guitar became one of the first SY instruments, and in the mid-80s it was converted into a 4 string (tuned F#-F#-B-B), the frets ripped out, and played by Thurston using drumsticks on "Eric's Trip" on Daydream Nation. Sadly the Drifter was among the numerous guitars, amps, and gear that was stolen in July 1999 and was never recovered.
Thank you! I read about the theft in my research but didn’t have time to cover it for this video, so thanks for putting info about it here!
@@soundofhistory_ sure thing! again, great job with the video man, looking forward to seeing what other group histories you'll explore. cheers!
I saw Sonic Youth at the This Ain't No Picnic festival in July of 1999. It was the first gig they played after the theft on equipment borrowed from the other bands and hastily retuned and modified that afternoon. I've seen Sonic Youth many times from 1992 to 2013 and that was one of the best gigs they ever did imho. Also the only time I've ever crowd surfed.
I was tripping balls that day and a few hours before SY played my brother and I and a few friends were playing frisbee with a Jar Jar Binks frisbee that I had which was a KFC chicken bucket lid / frisbee as a promotional tie in to the Phantom Menace being released earlier that year.
Someone pointed out Lee Ranaldo having a conversation and suggested I get his autograph. The only thing I had was the Jar Jar Binks frisbee, so I borrowed a pen and rudely interrupted Lee: "would you sign my Jar Jar Binks frisbee?" He very graciously paused his conversation and signed it and handed it back. We stopped playing frisbee and I still have it to this day, although the signature is smeared and a piece of it broke off of the edge 😄
Anyway SY has never failed to deliver an insane live show. Even on the Thousand Leaves tour when I saw them three nights in a row and it was the ONLY time they ever repeated the same set each night 😑
They played with Pavement the first time I ever saw them at Castaic Lake, and the last time I ever saw them at the Hollywood Bowl. For awhile it was a family tradition for my brother and I to go see them, even if we sometimes went in separate groups. While I don't think that a reunion will ever work for them, I dearly miss them. I didn't shell out for "concerts" as much as I went to shows back then, but I would always try and catch Sonic Youth.
Kim Gordon has been doing the coolest shit post SY. Search up any of her recent videos or live performances. She is really still cultivating a unique and inspired sound.
✨SONIK LIFE ✨
@@sonicsnout SONIK LIFE!!!!!
dude thank you so much for taking the time to type this amazing recollection. My first Sonic Youth show was at some piss-smelly dive club in Sacramento 2006 right after Rather Ripped dropped. My then-girlfriend (also a diehard SY fan) drove from LA to Sac to see them. We were front and center at the stage. That show was like experiencing the first day of the rest of my life hahaha. It was an incredible experiene. I've never seen anyone play and sculpt noise with such unconstraint and control like Thurston and Lee can.
They played Pattern Recognition - one of my all time favorite SY tunes - and I knew what was coming. I heard from my gf they go BONKERS in the song's chaotic finale and particularily Thurston was known to really "lose himself" in the sound hehe... as the band did the final synced chord crash and into the feedback-ridden eardrum popping coda, Thurston began to sway more and more wildly. He swung his guitar around a bit, but then looked up and took his guitar and HUNG IT ON THE STAGE LIGHT SCAFFOLD while it was still plugged in - droning and screaming feedback. I look over at Kim and she's pressing her bass against her amp causing this almight WOOOOOOO sound. Lee has his guitar on the ground and he's scraping it with his stll-plugged-in guitar cord. Steve is crashing away on cymbals. Newly joined Mark Ibold holds down the low drone notes.
I look back at Thurston and he's lightly picking his still hanging guitar, but then he grabs it and jumps into the crowd!!! They push him back and forth - GUITAR STILL PLUGGED IN - my gf nudges me with a "DO IT! DO IT!" face and I mosh my way over to where Thurston is, leap forward towards him, reached over and BASHED the strings of his Jazzmaster, causing this crazy ZWANNNNNNNG! sound - Thurston smiled big at me and the crowd pushed him back to the stage - he literally slumps onto the stage and rolls on the ground a bit and then finally stands up and the sound calms into applause and cheering.
It was the greatest concert experience I ever, will ever, have. That moment changed my life, hands down.
Less than a week later, we saw them again at a secret show in downtown LA. We were early showing up, and we got to catch the band arriving for soundcheck. My gf had a satchel bag that she was on a mission to have signed by every SY member. She already had Lee's and thanks to us getting there early, she got all 4 autographs! As Thurston signed her bag, I mentioned we were at the Sac show and he recognized us and me as the guy who hit his guitar!!! he said "that was killer man thanks for adding to it!" 🤩🤩
There was and will never be a live band like Sonic Youth - I feel so fortunate that we got to experience them. 🤘
Very well done video I’ve been looking for something well spoken, condensed and detailed like this for a long time in video form!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it
1978. A great year in rock.
Yup!
Jim O Rourke was also a writing, recording and touring member of SY for a few years in the early 2000s. Might wanna edit that in.
I saw them in 1991 on a belgian festival (pukkelpop), been a fan since confusion is sex.
Nirvana opened the festival (they where pretty unknown back then)
"Drugs and Other Forms of Debauchery" is a great name for a new band's first single!
Sounds like my entire 2000s decade
That photo of Thurston with Metal Machine Music brings me so much joy for some reason. Great video
Great summary. One thing you kinda missed is what exactly made their sound so different. Firstly, they almost never used standard guitar tunings. Daydream Nation sounds so interesting because it is all alternative tunings. Lee Rinaldo was really innovative. Also Kim's droll vocals (influenced by Patti Smith) which are half spoken word, half singing. A lot of bands were influenced by them but couldn't quite replicate that sound or feel.
really enjoyed this video...the presentation was so nice...felt like i was sat in a room with you...which is so much more enjoyable than these modern day, fast cut...zoom in...trendy vids so many channels like to do these days. so rare to hear a complete sentence without it being chopped up and edited so much!! Anyway, i've subbed and will be looking forward to seeing more of your content. good luck with the channel :)
Nice to see pics from their early stages. Read Thurston's autobiography Sonic Life for more thoroughly correct details. Coachmen was already band of RISD guys who considered Thurston a wild child whom they brought in to augment the guitars, but had little enthusiasm for his spraying blood on the stage due to his self-injuring manic strumming style.
I bought SISTER when it came out. Hard not to love them after that.
I never could get into them. Irony is that I introduced my neighbor to Billy Idol and he went down the rabbit hole of Generation X. I used to get rides from him to high school and had to listen to Sonic Youth and Southern Death Cult! I didn't hate it, and I appreciated the independent spirit, but I just liked prog rock more!! 😂Thanks for producing this, this is new info for me and guess what ... I might start liking Sonic Youth more!
Great video!
Really nice overarching summary. Nice content and flow
Thanks!
You didn't mention Jim O'Rourke. Played with them from 2000-2005 but it was their most forgettable time so no surprise.
I refer to those years as their “ Grateful Dead of punk rock” years …haha
Murray St is a fine album
Most forgettable? That was their best period post Dirty.
He did better work with Stereolab, imho.
Never liked Sonic Youth.
It was a big deal that they let an outsider into their tight-knit group. Especially one with a reputation for being a game-changing influence.
01. Self-Titled (1982) ep
02. Confusion Is Sex (1983)
03. Kill Yer Idols (1983) ep
04. Sonic Death: Early Sonic (1984) live
05. Bad Moon Rising (1985)
06. Evol (1986)
07. Sister (1987)
08. Master = Dik (1987) ep
09. Daydream Nation (1988)
10. The Whitey Album (1989)
11. Goo (1990)
12. Goo: The Videos (1990) video
13. Hold That Tiger (1991) live
14. Dirty (1992)
15. 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1993) video
16. Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star (1994)
17. Screaming Fields Of Sonic Love (1995) video (videos 1982-1989)
18. Washing Machine (1995)
19. Made In U.S.A. (1995) soundtrack
20. A Thousand Leaves (1998)
21. NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000)
22. Murray Street (2002)
23. Corporate Ghost: The Videos 1990-2002 (2004) video
24. Sonic Nurse (2004)
25. The Destroyed Room: B-sides & Rarities (2006)
26. Rather Ripped (2006)
27. Hits Are For Squares (2008) greatest hits
28. The Eternal (2009)
29. Smart Bar: Chicago 1985 (2012) live
30. Spinhead Sessions 1986 (2016) demos
31. In/Out/In (2022) out takes/rarities
32. Live In Brooklyn 2011 (2023) live
33. Walls Have Ears (2024) live
SYR1: Anagrama (1997)
SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom (1997)
SYR3: Invito Al Cielo (1998)
SYR: Silver Sessions For Jason Knuth (1998)
SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (1999)
SYR5: + DJ Olive & Ikue Mori (2000)
SYR: In The Fishtank 9 (2001)
SYR: Kali Yug Express (2002)
SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (2005)
SYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes (2008)
SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (2008)
SYR: Sensational Fix (2009)
SYR9: Simon Werner A Disparu (2011) soundtrack
it's worth noting. sonic youth are nerds.
Great vid, but no mention of Jim O’Rourke
I love your videos. It was the Devo one that first dropped into my 'recommend list'. I love Devo, had a great afternoon drinking with them during the Smooth Noodle Maps Tour.
Also love REM and that vid is great. REM are awesome.
But all your videos are great, even hardcore fans will learn things about their fav bands.
Anyway, keep up the good work, these videos are awesome. Do Camper Van Beethoven, The Strawbs, The Jam....so many great bands to cover, literally history is your oyster! lol
That is very kind - thank you for checking out multiple videos!
Great video! I think Beck would be a cool artist to do next!
That would be interesting. I just finished reading a book called "This Must Be the Place" that talked a little bout Beck and the anti-folk scene he partly came out of. Definitely sounded interesting enough to dig more into
First time I heard about Sonic youth was in connection with Ministry. Radio DJ strangely found a connection between this two bands and did pretty good program. Since then I'm listening both. Well.. 🙄 I would like to watch same kind of video on Ministry 😊 please. Now .. clicked like button and Subscribed 😉
Thank you for this video, would love to see something like this about Green River and Connan and the Moccasins
Would you settle for a Mudhoney documentary? "I'm Now"
@@romanlouche3702 I know it’s great and green river is mentioned but I’d love to see more about that early band of mark
i think blind faiths story would be pretty cool , and is short, thanks for the video
As someone who added the 801st like, I'd just like to say we are the Eight Oh One. We are the central shaft. Where are the warm jets fans at?
They are strategically taking tiger mountain
I remember going through kims book when it came out. Oh man it was amazing. Very entertaining quotes.
It was definitely an interesting read. I need to pick up Thurston's now
I use to stare at the EVOL album cover and fantasize that Lung Leg was my girlfriend.
Digging your vids man. Request for a Meat Puppet vid.
I was almost 13 and ended up backstage at the Daydream Nation Chicago show. Thurston and Steve asked “Who’s kid is that”? Lee was super nice to me and I was already majorly in love w Kim .Perhaps jealous of Thurston so I just stared and clammed up. Same show I met and became longtime friends with Keith( Black Flag/Circle Jerks) Morris Yes thanks for the mention of Glenn Branca. You forgot to mention Thurstons lifelong obsession with Danny Partridge. There’s something profound in that. Anyone who misses a John Cale show is snubbing a life changer.
The most inflential band ive ever listened to. While i was in college in the 90s i was already part of the fan group obtaining demo albums and live recordings and ive read the book about them. I even went so far as changing the strings on one guitar and tried alt tunings. I bought every album until near the end. Some of the stuff they have done will be unmatched. Kim even picking up a guitar towards the end and lee is a legit guitar player. Loved thurstons solo work. SY forever.
Bravo ‼️👍🏻👍🏾🌹
Great video. Could talk about X and their Under a Big Black Sun and also The Minutemen.
Minutemen has definitely been on the list - I’ll look into the other ones. Thank you!
This guys got the face of a good youtuber! Love the content!
you should do an album history series
you should do spacemen 3 !
Imagine you work at a bar and you coworker calls out and it’s just the guy from sonic youth
Please do either, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine & Slowdive
Do one on the Television Personalities. The research alone will be worth it, trust me.
what footage / date is the concert at 11min from ?
would Love to see that !!!!
Great band!
Sonic Youth got the Sonic Reducer, and will be Pharoahs soon.
I'm going to start a cover band called Sonichu Youth
There was a band inspired by Sonic Youth from Japan, called 人生 (Jinsei/ZIN-SÄY!) and was essentially the predecessor to the group Denki Groove. Their Wikipedia page is only on the Japanese website, but that’s why we have translators 🤷♂️
So when will the movie about the life of this magnificent band be released?. By the way, a report and summary of the group Dead Can Dance would be interesting, especially about their beginnings and their time of mystical and dark music.
If they do make a movie, who do you think is cast to play the band?
Thanks for the recommendation - I’ll add em to the list!
I would love you to do the history of smashing pumpkins
No mention of their most popular release, Goo? Epic fail. Epic.
Edson was featured in Ferris Buehler's Day Off.
Son8c nurse is my fav album etc
Sonic Youth prays to the CUBE in the Ciccone Youth Macbeth music video , interesting...interesting...
Another great one! I highly suggest digging into Matthew Sweet. One of the greatest Power Pop artists of our time, who ended up being overshadowed by a new band that came to the scene called Nirvana, maybe you heard of them 😂. Matthew Sweets album ‘Girlfriend’ was ranked at number 61 on Paste magazine's list of "The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s".
Thanks - I'll add him to the list for sure!
The Replacements!
sun kil moon/red house painters/mark kozelek deserves a video
You should do ween or primus
great video, surprised u didnt mention how Thurston was the bassist in Swans (not THE Swans) for a very brief period.
have you done weezer?
Not yet! But I’ll add em to the list
Never heard of them.
Make a video about Boa?
I'll add em to the list!
@@soundofhistory_ woot woot! Keep up the good stuff :)
But Jim O'Rourke tho
The 2 best American bands of the 80s were far better known in Europe (especially Britain) than back in the US at the time.
Sonic Youth and Pixies.
Didn't hurt that Bowie and John Peel talked them up, that alone gives a lot of credibility.
You mention Mark Ibold but not Jim O'Rourke? No mention of SYR's amazing noise recordings and collaborations? No mention of Thurston's extensive solo work either, or much of Lee's. No mention of Kim's amazing Body/Head project. This needs to be a much longer, deeper dive.
They SORT OF ruined innovation in music in America because whilst they and the other grunge artists were doing guitar based music in the 90s Europe and the UK were pushing the boundries with synthesizers and electronic music.The Prodigy,Goldie,and Aphex Twin were way ahead of everything compared to these guys.Even to this day America is behind on innovation because of its obsession with bands but If there is a trailblazer band worth talking about from that time period its Suicide.Sonic Youth was great music but it was really for teenagers not adults.Suicide is the most interesting in my opinion.
Check out No Dogs in Space podcast series about Suicide
Just noise.
duh....that's their point. Noise infused Rock music. Experimenting for the sake of making original music. Now go back and listen to your boring, mainstream, prog rock old people music.
You should focus real Artists like Nickel back , or singer songwriter Bob Ritchie, People who created and contributed to music and movements!!
Sonic youth, Lou Reed NY guys just want to be rock stars, fuel up on cocaine and whiskey.
Bing Hampton...
Lyrics could be interesting but I don’t listen unless the actual musicianship of playing the instruments is any good. These guys sound like their playing anything and trying to make it work. Nice go at it, after the song put the instruments on fire to get more attention.
Who is in NOwave what artist is noWAVe nu-wave go back to cherry picking stuff. This time get the pronunciations right....
What are you talking about? Lol
The scene/genre was called No-wave
I listen to Sonic Youth, but they are massively overated. Not really sure why people seem to like Kim Gordon so much but she has always been absolutely devoid of talent and just got really lucky to meet people like Thurston, Lee and Steve. I've always considered her an imposter in the music, would anyone actually have listened to her music if not for Sonic Youth? doubtful. I know its meant to be No-Wave but that just seems like a cop out to justify how poor some of the music actually is, which was certainly not at all helped by Kim. They could have found a more interesting bassist and vocalist but its pretty clear that they liked the idea of a female member for appearances.
Still the coolsst band unless you suck.