Same here. I'm in my 40s so this stuff was around during my teenage years when I should have been listening to it, but it's only in middle age that I've started to really appreciate how great these bands were.
A band that has combined polyphonic ideas of gregorian chant, via twenty first century guitar and music concrete. And has made it acceptable by non-christian appeal.
I love the video because it reminds me of my teenage years of wildness, craziness, fun, concerts, randomness, emotional, heartbreak, anti-social, and complete disregard of older people, popularity, and the norm.
The people: 1. SY like Ciccone Youth (old video footage) 2. Writer and music critic Harvey Pekar (on Letterman) 3. Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys, hitting the drums) 4. very young Joni Mitchell (It seems, but it isn't Nico) 5. German musician, producer, actor, etc Blixa Bargeld, in a long footage (Einsturzende Neubauten\ The Bad Seeds, 3:43 It's NOT Sid Vicious, It's NOT Sid Vicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 6. German actress Nastassja Kinski (''Paris\Texas'' footage. SY almost got sued by german director Wim Wenders, but everything ended well) 7. Jad Fair (Half Japanese) 8. Patti Smith (several times!) 9. Mark E. Smith (The Fall) 10. Henry Rollins (and The Black Flag, many times) 11. Daniel Johnston (playing accoustic guitar) 12. Neil Young 13. Sun Ra 14. Mike Watt playing an imaginary guitar (Minutemen/Firehose) 15. Iggy Pop (several times, solo and I think, maybe, from some old footage of The Stooges too, I am not sure) 16. Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\Fugazi) 17. actor\writer\director\Woody Allen fave, Alan Alda 18. The band MC5 19. The band Kiss, playing and dancing 20. Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls\The Heartbreakers) 21. D. Boon (Minutemen\ The Reactionaries, walking on a crowd) 22. young Nick Cave (3:35) 23. J. Mascis (Dinossaur Jr.) hitting 24. Lou Barlow (Sebadoh\Folk Implosion\Dinosaur Jr.) 25. Susanna Hoffs (1:46 in a Bangles video). Susanna is a real punk\alt country rock pioneer from Southern California, important figure from the movement Paisley Underground, with Kendra Smith, Rain Parade, David Roback and Hope Sandoval) 26. Elvis Presley dancing 27. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, ''father - or grandfather - of Counterulture'', William S. Burroughs. He worked as a sponken word artist with many bands\musicians (3:31) 28. comedian ''Pee-wee Hermann'' (Paul Reubens) 29. singer\songwriter\actor Tom Waits 30. Legend Richard Hell 31. Writer Jack Kerouac 32. Underground fillmmaker and photographer Richard Kern 33. Legendary Lydia Lunch 34. At 0:12, the classic formation of the band Pussy Galore, with Jon Spencer (from the well-known Blues Explosion, and the bassist Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) 35. Legendary Buffalo Springfield 36. Jeff McDonald (Redd Kross, 0:47) 37. 3:36 James Chance (saxophonist, keyboard player, songwriter and singer, legend from No Wave movement, frontman of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, James Chance and Les Contortions, and, of course, The Contortions) And Reference to: 38. Butthole Surfers (in a poster) 39. Throbbing Gristle (in a t-shirt) More: Legalize Pot Free City
0:12 Jon Spencer with Pussy Galore 0:20 Richard Hell 0:28 Richard Kern film?? 0:37 Bruce Pavitt 0:45 Johnny Thunders 0:46 Jeff McDonald 0:47 Patti Smith 0:54 Pee-wee Herman 1:11 Mark E. Smith 1:28 Black Flag 1:35 KISS 1:39 Iggy Pop 1:41 Harvey Pekar 1:42 Jack Kerouac 1:45 Susanna Hoffs 1:46 MC5? 1:54 Henry Rollins 2:07 The Beach Boys 2:10 Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow 2:12 Elvis 2:13 Sun Ra 2:23 Iggy Pop 2:27 Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield 2:28 Neil Young (holding yellow beer can, thanks Daman Lidison) 2:37 Jay Mascis swinging his guitar at Lou Barlow 2:42 Daniel Johnston 2:59 Mike Watt 3:25 Joni Mitchell 3:28 Ian McKay (thanks The Healing Company) 3:31 William Burroughs 3:34 Nick Cave (thanks mugre) 3:34 James Chance (thanks Daman Lidison) 3:35 Tom Waits 3:40 D. Boon 3:43 Blixa Bargeld 3:51 Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas) The following are supposedly in the video (according to IMDB), but I couldn't locate them. Maybe you can? Jad Fair Lydia Lunch A̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶A̶l̶d̶a̶ (was actually Mark E. Smith) Bonus points of anyone can identify whose boots are shown at 1:13
I guess "the Alan Alda cameo" is actually Mark E.Smith at 1:11 (so, to me you're right about Mark!) and that you're possibly wrong about Tom Waits at 3:35: I think that's James Chance (but I'm not sure). At 2:28 (after Neil Young/Buffalo springfield) it's hard to say, but it could be a frame from Neil Young "this note's for you" music video (... because of the yellow can of soda...).
@@damanlidison Thanks! You are exactly right about Neil Young. That shot if from the end of his music video. As for the James Chance, I think I had him mixed up with Nick Cave, not Tom Waits, because right after is definitely Tom Waits.
Music has such an amazing power to transport you back to the emotions and memories that were attached the first time you heard it. This song came out my last year of high school - I was 17 and getting ready to go to the Army. I had done some “loose” stuff when I was a kid, and it was time to “get my shit in a sock” and grow up. But this song - and a bunch of others - was calling me to go wild. Years later I found that lost teenager and managed to get into a few “riots”. Now I’m old, I found the balance between riotous and responsible over the intervening 35 years. But still listening to this song in 2022. So great.
Thank God, I'm not the only person who keeps replaying the breakdown at 2:35. There's something so beautiful trapped in those 30 seconds leading into the end of the song.
I am a living breathing fossil of homo erectus, and this record meant so much to me in my youth, along with fire starting, and the invention of stone tools.
it was only a few years ago but when i was in 8th grade i rlly got into nirvana and all the sibling bands that came w them, and their influences, one of them being this band. it was a covid year, so i rlly just got to stay home, watch skate videos and listen to music that was new to me but several years old. i remember hearing this song and playing it regularly and how great and almost powerful it made me feel. i was in a hick town, where next to no one was privy to the genius of this song. it made me want to live life to the fullest. and whenever i hear it, it’s like God telling me to not be anxious, to just breathe. i’m gonna live up to my eighth grade promises
One of those albums that I rediscover every 8 - 10 months and wonder why the heck I am not listening to this more often. It isn't like today's music kicks ass or anything.
This is one of the coolest things ever assembled. Between the band and the song and the footage in the video, this is a time machine to the cool looking stuff before I really existed.
This song, more than any other, gets me the closest to that feeling of being 18 and having your eyes opened to world. 35 years later, 1988 seems a hell of a lot cooler than I realized, at the time.
This brings back memories of long summer days spent in our rehearsal room with friends we spent hours talking and making music with, our first concerts in a friend's garage or garden when his/her parents were on vacation, the first sweethearts we now only have fond memories of, all our dreams, unfulfilled plans to conquer the world, to do things better then our parents did... Everything seemed possible and there were no limits. It really felt like we ruled the world during that short period of time that flew by without anyone of us realizing how precious every minute was and that none of this would ever come back...
@@videoestres bastante gente puede ser, pero realmente hay mucha gente que conoce realmente el impacto que tuvo sonic youth en la escena alt de los ochenta y noventa, una banda verdaderamente histórica y revolucionaria, pero claro, siempre habrá posers xd
Esse som é tão fascinante que eu não quero que acabe. Anos 80 e 90 foram as melhores décadas pra ser adolescente.................... ! Viva Sonic Youth!!!!!😎
This is how the story is told in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azzerad. It had all come to a head at an early '88 show at a small club in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The place was far from packed and the band wasn't playing very well. They were halfway through "Severed Lips" when Barlow began making feedback with his bass instead of playing the usual part. "Lou is sitting on the drum riser, just making noise through every song - this one note - and just trying to goad us, taunting us, basically," says Mascis. "And I'm playing and I'm like, 'I think Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And it goes on a little bit more and I'm thinking, 'Yup, this is going to be bad, Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And I keep playing and I keep thinking that, and finally, I think, 'Huh, I guess Murph's not going to beat up Lou. I guess I'll have to do it.'" Mascis rushed across the stage and tried to hit Barlow with his guitar. Barlow raised his bass like a shield while Mascis bashed away at him repeatedly. ("It made a pretty good sound," Mascis recalls somewhat fondly.) After a few failed bashes, Mascis stalked offstage yelling, "I can't take it! I can't take it!" Barlow called after him, "Can't take what, J? Asshole!" and raised his fists in triumph. "I got really psyched, like psychotically happy, and just went, 'Yes!'" says Barlow. "I felt like he'd proved to me that he actually had feelings. He never would react to anything at all, ever." "I remember just sitting there at my drum set going, 'OK, this is my perfect opportunity to pummel both of these guys,'" says Murph. "But instead I just walked off." Barlow followed Mascis and Murph backstage and assured them that he didn't mean anything by the feedback. The band went out again, played what was surely a fearsome cover of "Minor Threat" and drove home in silence. It was the beginning of the end.
I was at that show at the Nighshift. Azerrad pretty much nailed the description dead on. I would estimate there were about 20 people in the club. B.A.L.L. (Kramer of Shimmydisc Records’ band) opened. They left about 10 minutes into Dino Jr’s set. Kind of a lousy night all around.
Never been a fan of their albums but they were always among my favorite bands to catch live. Some things are just meant to be experienced live and Sonic Youth were definitely that.
Thurston Moore always wanted to be leading a “Teenage Riot.” A few years later, whilst touring Germany, he would interview a bunch of German fans who clearly didn’t have any idea what he was talking about, or, quite possibly, what he was even saying. And fair enough. It’s possible that Thurston wasn’t entirely sure. “People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?” Crickets. They have no idea. Of what he is talking about. “I think" Thurston answers himself "we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture, by mass marketing and commercial paranoia behaviour control. And the first step to do that is to destroy the record companies. Do you not agree?” Again, crickets. No teenage riot today. He should have just played them “Teenage Riot.” “Teenage Riot” rocks. “Teenage Riot” is a 10.
This came out like a fireball and signaled the underground was going overground. Nobody would have guessed SY had a song like this in them two years earlier.
Yeah, two years earlier they made the brilliant EVOL, followed by the masterpiece Sister. Who would have thought they would soon try to get into mainstream with this crap? Luckily, Goo turned them back in the right direction again.
@@dragmio Goo was much more mass appeal than Daydream Nation. Like, a lot. Yet those two albums are still great in my book, closely followed by Evol and Sister
One of the 1st examples of a pure Gen-X cultural product. Musically and visually setting the table for 90’s Alt Culture. Fills my heart with joy all the clips of their influences because they influenced so many other people. When they appear, ever so briefly, it is an invite to the coolest club.
@@FjgfhGffhu-tf7jo أحد الأمثلة الأولى لمنتج ثقافي Gen-X خالص. إعداد الطاولة موسيقيًا وبصريًا للثقافة البديلة في التسعينيات. قلبي يمتلئ بالفرح لكل المقاطع التي أثرت فيهم لأنها أثرت في الكثير من الأشخاص الآخرين. عندما يظهرون، باختصار شديد، فهي دعوة لأفضل نادٍ.
Our generation will never have something with such a big impact like the things that happened in the last century. We'll never have something like the invention of the television we'll never have something like the moon landing and we'll never have something like the punk revolution
check out otoboke beaver! Watch their live at tiny desk their style is very old school punk.. and yes music is stale these days but just like back then the better new music is usually independent and underground
I miss my friends listening to this. The world is going to shit and we need to live. Miss having no troubles or preocupations apart from what were we going to do next (thinking about the weekend, every week)
This song makes me sad. I should've had new experiences during my teenage years but chose to barely leave my house. Now I'm 18 and adult life is knocking on the door
You're not the only one, tons of us grew up in high control cults and had no life as a teen. But life is far from over at 18. I had some ragers through my 20's and beyond.
I turned 18 in June and I’ve been thinking the same as u but now I’m thinking fuck it cos we can have fun our whole lives and don’t need to go by the rule book of growing up n stuff
@@DiegoAcosta-no9kq i know, but they did play a show in central park together back in the 90s i believe. must've been one hell of a show! one of those i'd take a time machine back for
Somehow only just now discovering what is almost certainly the best album to come out the year I was born. Damn, this song and all of Daydream Nation is just glorious.
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather And what's a man to do but work out whether it's true Looking for a man with a focus and a temper Who can open up a map and see between one and two Time to get it before you let it get to you Here he comes now Stick to your guns and let him through Everybody's coming from the winter vacation Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you You come running in on platform shoes With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew Teenage riot in a public station Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you Now I see it I think I'll leave it out of the way Now I come near you And it's not clear why you fade away Looking for a ride to your secret location Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation for you Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rocking And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now It better work out I hope it works out my way 'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand We know it's down We know it's bound too loose Everybody's sound is around it Everybody wants to be proud to choose So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze It's time to go round A one man showdown, teach us how to fail We're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true Looking for a man with a focus and a temper Who can open up a map and see between one and two Time to get it, before you let it get to you Here he comes now, stick to your guns and let him through Everybody's coming from the winter vacation Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you You come running in on platform shoes With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew Teenage riot in a public station Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper nation for you Now I see it, I think I'll leave it out of the way Now I come near you and it's not clear why you make the away Looking for a ride to a secret location Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin' And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do for now It better work out, I hope it works out my way 'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city ahead It takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand We know it's down, we know it's bound too loose Everybody's sound is 'round it Everybody wants to be proud to choose So who's to blame for the stormy weather You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze It's time to go 'round, a one man showdown, teach us how to fail We're off the streets now and back on the road, on the riot trail
I don’t think a lot of people disliked Sonic Youth, but I remember a lot of people were upset about their last album, The Eternal, when it came out in 2009.
I played this song on my high school radio show during lunch break. And all I have to say my subject for that class didn't last to long. Nor did my friend neither. His flaw was the Beastie Boys.(when they were Hardcore NYC Punk Band)
at 2:37--J Mascis and Lou Barlow's legendary on-stage fight in 1987, wherein Lou rang out a single note of feedback instead of playing the real bassline to "Severed Lips" and J hit him with his guitar
2020... i am 64... this was such a GREAT time of my life...i miss my friends.....bob
daniel .sievers man. That’s the saddest comment I’ve read in a while. Probably because it’s incredibly relatable. Thanks for that.
42.....and feel the EXACT same. Thank you for empathizing, sir.
aw :(
30 Me 2
51 ...same...
This is one of those songs you never want to end
unlike - "mildred pierce". that sent me screaming out of the house because my brain needed to breathe.
Except they left out the beginning. WTF?!
Theres a longer version
Right. Feels like losing your bff to a new bff.
59 here
The older I get, the more I appreciate Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., for some reason.
What about Sebadoh
Same here. I'm in my 40s so this stuff was around during my teenage years when I should have been listening to it, but it's only in middle age that I've started to really appreciate how great these bands were.
@@llywelyngruffydd8474 I'm in my late 30s, but have the same problem
Exactly the same here, Fart
Don't forget gg allin and Johnny thunders
A band that walked a fascinating tightrope between mass pop appeal and pure abstract expressionism.
A band that has combined polyphonic ideas of gregorian chant, via twenty first century guitar and music concrete. And has made it acceptable by non-christian appeal.
Such a true, profound and underrated truth you posted. Well said
Perfect description.
I love the video because it reminds me of my teenage years of wildness, craziness, fun, concerts, randomness, emotional, heartbreak, anti-social, and complete disregard of older people, popularity, and the norm.
Oh man I'm 63 and I know just what you mean. It hit me just like that as well, about 30 years ago or so. Still I've got ears enough to enjoy.
ttorres89 yes now instead you lick the boot
@@Mercel29 nah, he started paying his own taxes. It's a part of growing up
And look at you now, a garbage right wing pro gun q a nut.
I can see my future self in ya Sir
The people:
1. SY like Ciccone Youth (old video footage)
2. Writer and music critic Harvey Pekar (on Letterman)
3. Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys, hitting the drums)
4. very young Joni Mitchell (It seems, but it isn't Nico)
5. German musician, producer, actor, etc Blixa Bargeld, in a long footage (Einsturzende Neubauten\ The Bad Seeds, 3:43 It's NOT Sid Vicious, It's NOT Sid Vicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
6. German actress Nastassja Kinski (''Paris\Texas'' footage. SY almost got sued by german director Wim Wenders, but everything ended well)
7. Jad Fair (Half Japanese)
8. Patti Smith (several times!)
9. Mark E. Smith (The Fall)
10. Henry Rollins (and The Black Flag, many times)
11. Daniel Johnston (playing accoustic guitar)
12. Neil Young
13. Sun Ra
14. Mike Watt playing an imaginary guitar (Minutemen/Firehose)
15. Iggy Pop (several times, solo and I think, maybe, from some old footage of The Stooges too, I am not sure)
16. Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\Fugazi)
17. actor\writer\director\Woody Allen fave, Alan Alda
18. The band MC5
19. The band Kiss, playing and dancing
20. Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls\The Heartbreakers)
21. D. Boon (Minutemen\ The Reactionaries, walking on a crowd)
22. young Nick Cave (3:35)
23. J. Mascis (Dinossaur Jr.) hitting
24. Lou Barlow (Sebadoh\Folk Implosion\Dinosaur Jr.)
25. Susanna Hoffs (1:46 in a Bangles video). Susanna is a real punk\alt country rock pioneer from Southern California, important figure from the movement Paisley Underground, with Kendra Smith, Rain Parade, David Roback and Hope Sandoval)
26. Elvis Presley dancing
27. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, ''father - or grandfather - of Counterulture'', William S. Burroughs. He worked as a sponken word artist with many bands\musicians (3:31)
28. comedian ''Pee-wee Hermann'' (Paul Reubens)
29. singer\songwriter\actor Tom Waits
30. Legend Richard Hell
31. Writer Jack Kerouac
32. Underground fillmmaker and photographer Richard Kern
33. Legendary Lydia Lunch
34. At 0:12, the classic formation of the band Pussy Galore, with Jon Spencer (from the well-known Blues Explosion, and the bassist Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog)
35. Legendary Buffalo Springfield
36. Jeff McDonald (Redd Kross, 0:47)
37. 3:36 James Chance (saxophonist, keyboard player, songwriter and singer, legend from No Wave movement, frontman of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, James Chance and Les Contortions, and, of course, The Contortions)
And Reference to:
38. Butthole Surfers (in a poster)
39. Throbbing Gristle (in a t-shirt)
More:
Legalize Pot
Free City
At 13 seconds, that's pussy galore
+joão inácio da silva I thought that looked like Harvey Pekar giving Letterman a hard time. thank you.
+officialsuperrad Yep. Pantomiming "Spin Out" on the Uncle Floyd public access show. Hilarious!
+joão inácio da silva
In between Lrgalize Pot and Free City we get a White Panther from the MC5 / John Sinclair related White Panther Party.
+joão inácio da silva: Thank you VERY much for that list.
0:12 Jon Spencer with Pussy Galore
0:20 Richard Hell
0:28 Richard Kern film??
0:37 Bruce Pavitt
0:45 Johnny Thunders
0:46 Jeff McDonald
0:47 Patti Smith
0:54 Pee-wee Herman
1:11 Mark E. Smith
1:28 Black Flag
1:35 KISS
1:39 Iggy Pop
1:41 Harvey Pekar
1:42 Jack Kerouac
1:45 Susanna Hoffs
1:46 MC5?
1:54 Henry Rollins
2:07 The Beach Boys
2:10 Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow
2:12 Elvis
2:13 Sun Ra
2:23 Iggy Pop
2:27 Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield
2:28 Neil Young (holding yellow beer can, thanks Daman Lidison)
2:37 Jay Mascis swinging his guitar at Lou Barlow
2:42 Daniel Johnston
2:59 Mike Watt
3:25 Joni Mitchell
3:28 Ian McKay (thanks The Healing Company)
3:31 William Burroughs
3:34 Nick Cave (thanks mugre)
3:34 James Chance (thanks Daman Lidison)
3:35 Tom Waits
3:40 D. Boon
3:43 Blixa Bargeld
3:51 Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas)
The following are supposedly in the video (according to IMDB), but I couldn't locate them. Maybe you can?
Jad Fair
Lydia Lunch
A̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶A̶l̶d̶a̶ (was actually Mark E. Smith)
Bonus points of anyone can identify whose boots are shown at 1:13
I guess "the Alan Alda cameo" is actually Mark E.Smith at 1:11 (so, to me you're right about Mark!) and that you're possibly wrong about Tom Waits at 3:35: I think that's James Chance (but I'm not sure).
At 2:28 (after Neil Young/Buffalo springfield) it's hard to say, but it could be a frame from Neil Young "this note's for you" music video (... because of the yellow can of soda...).
It’s good to put a name to the faces thank you for writing this comment.
RIP D Boon
@@damanlidison Thanks! You are exactly right about Neil Young. That shot if from the end of his music video. As for the James Chance, I think I had him mixed up with Nick Cave, not Tom Waits, because right after is definitely Tom Waits.
@@risraelsen 👍!
Probably the best song I’ve heard in my life
Music has such an amazing power to transport you back to the emotions and memories that were attached the first time you heard it. This song came out my last year of high school - I was 17 and getting ready to go to the Army. I had done some “loose” stuff when I was a kid, and it was time to “get my shit in a sock” and grow up. But this song - and a bunch of others - was calling me to go wild. Years later I found that lost teenager and managed to get into a few “riots”. Now I’m old, I found the balance between riotous and responsible over the intervening 35 years. But still listening to this song in 2022. So great.
Thank God, I'm not the only person who keeps replaying the breakdown at 2:35. There's something so beautiful trapped in those 30 seconds leading into the end of the song.
i think it has more to do with the fact that mascis is hitting barlow with his guitar....
One of the greatest rock songs of all time
I wish this didn't cut out the intro. That's what got me hooked on that song - that slow intro into BAM PUNK ENERGY!!
Agreed, the longer album version is better. This video is super cool, though.
Thirty three years
went by like a blink of an eye
Great song! Daydream Nation is one of the best album of all times.
I am a living breathing fossil of homo erectus, and this record meant so much to me in my youth, along with fire starting, and the invention of stone tools.
Nice! I dug it down at the water hole right before the bone hurtling in the air turned into the satellite.
Just saw Dinosaur Jr for the first time the other day, and now I'm going down the rabbit hole and wishing I'd heard of them sooner.
it was only a few years ago but when i was in 8th grade i rlly got into nirvana and all the sibling bands that came w them, and their influences, one of them being this band. it was a covid year, so i rlly just got to stay home, watch skate videos and listen to music that was new to me but several years old. i remember hearing this song and playing it regularly and how great and almost powerful it made me feel. i was in a hick town, where next to no one was privy to the genius of this song. it made me want to live life to the fullest. and whenever i hear it, it’s like God telling me to not be anxious, to just breathe. i’m gonna live up to my eighth grade promises
I live in a country town in the interior of Brazil. And my feeling with this song is the same as yours.
I JUST KNOW THIS SONG IS GONNA BE SO NOSTALGIC WHEN IM OLDER. I listened to this sm at 16
Criinge
One of those albums that I rediscover every 8 - 10 months and wonder why the heck I am not listening to this more often. It isn't like today's music kicks ass or anything.
I was 18. Perfect timing.
mat fox I had just turned 19. Made it in just under the wire.
I was just a few cells
So lucky I ever saw them in Jakarta 1996. They played with Foo Fighters and Beastie Boys. Good time memories.
Andito S. I love the Beastie Boys. listen to them when I'm pissed.
mantapp
bangke gua baru lahir 2004
it's strange, this song really does sound like being a teenager
I'll never forget the first time I saw SY in concert at the Lollapalooza in '93 or '94 hell of a good time they gave us.
This is one of the coolest things ever assembled. Between the band and the song and the footage in the video, this is a time machine to the cool looking stuff before I really existed.
This song, more than any other, gets me the closest to that feeling of being 18 and having your eyes opened to world. 35 years later, 1988 seems a hell of a lot cooler than I realized, at the time.
Might be the best rock “music video”
This song and video actually changed my life 10 years ago when I first watched
Oh Man
So glad to have grown up in the Era
greatest song of all time
This brings back memories of long summer days spent in our rehearsal room with friends we spent hours talking and making music with, our first concerts in a friend's garage or garden when his/her parents were on vacation, the first sweethearts we now only have fond memories of, all our dreams, unfulfilled plans to conquer the world, to do things better then our parents did... Everything seemed possible and there were no limits. It really felt like we ruled the world during that short period of time that flew by without anyone of us realizing how precious every minute was and that none of this would ever come back...
What IS IT about this song that brings me to tears?!?! ❤
Big, yet still the most underrated Band there is.
No en realidad es la banda que todos sicen gustar para sonar inteligentes y cool
@@videoestres bastante gente puede ser, pero realmente hay mucha gente que conoce realmente el impacto que tuvo sonic youth en la escena alt de los ochenta y noventa, una banda verdaderamente histórica y revolucionaria, pero claro, siempre habrá posers xd
Esse som é tão fascinante que eu não quero que acabe.
Anos 80 e 90 foram as melhores décadas pra ser adolescente.................... !
Viva Sonic Youth!!!!!😎
I miss, no, appreciate 10 hole DM's and NYC in the 80's. Great time to be a teenager. Even on the Upper East Side.
Я слушал эти треки 20 лет назад. Как же было супер!!!
No importa cuánto tiempo pase, siempre vuelvo a esta canción. Gracias Sonic Youth por existir.
Sonic Youth's finest pop moment.
I remember seeing them play at UW Milwaukee around 89-90 with Redd Kross. One of the best shows I ever saw. Man I miss my youth.
The music that turned myself upside down, changing my life forever and ever!
it's impossible not to get swept away by this song.
2:36 - J Mascis trying to hit Lou Barlow in one of on stage arguments
did J an Lou argue like that really, or was it a stage thing? I never thought J seemed to be a violent guy LOL
This is how the story is told in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azzerad.
It had all come to a head at an early '88 show at a small club in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The place was far from packed and the band wasn't playing very well. They were halfway through "Severed Lips" when Barlow began making feedback with his bass instead of playing the usual part.
"Lou is sitting on the drum riser, just making noise through every song - this one note - and just trying to goad us, taunting us, basically," says Mascis. "And I'm playing and I'm like, 'I think Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And it goes on a little bit more and I'm thinking, 'Yup, this is going to be bad, Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And I keep playing and I keep thinking that, and finally, I think, 'Huh, I guess Murph's not going to beat up Lou. I guess I'll have to do it.'"
Mascis rushed across the stage and tried to hit Barlow with his guitar. Barlow raised his bass like a shield while Mascis bashed away at him repeatedly. ("It made a pretty good sound," Mascis recalls somewhat fondly.) After a few failed bashes, Mascis stalked offstage yelling, "I can't take it! I can't take it!" Barlow called after him, "Can't take what, J? Asshole!" and raised his fists in triumph. "I got really psyched, like psychotically happy, and just went, 'Yes!'" says Barlow. "I felt like he'd proved to me that he actually had feelings. He never would react to anything at all, ever."
"I remember just sitting there at my drum set going, 'OK, this is my perfect opportunity to pummel both of these guys,'" says Murph. "But instead I just walked off." Barlow followed Mascis and Murph backstage and assured them that he didn't mean anything by the feedback. The band went out again, played what was surely a fearsome cover of "Minor Threat" and drove home in silence. It was the beginning of the end.
Good call! I always wondered what that was.
I was at that show at the Nighshift. Azerrad pretty much nailed the description dead on. I would estimate there were about 20 people in the club. B.A.L.L. (Kramer of Shimmydisc Records’ band) opened. They left about 10 minutes into Dino Jr’s set. Kind of a lousy night all around.
Never been a fan of their albums but they were always among my favorite bands to catch live. Some things are just meant to be experienced live and Sonic Youth were definitely that.
My favorite band of all time!!!
Some of the best rythm guitar work ever.
This song stills the song of my rebellion. So Powerful!!!!!
2:37 infamous J Mascis and Lou Barlow fight in Naugatuck, CT that effectively ended the band's existence.
Absolute nostalgia and bubbly feelings.
Thurston Moore always wanted to be leading a “Teenage Riot.” A few years later, whilst touring Germany, he would interview a bunch of German fans who clearly didn’t have any idea what he was talking about, or, quite possibly, what he was even saying. And fair enough. It’s possible that Thurston wasn’t entirely sure.
“People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?”
Crickets. They have no idea. Of what he is talking about.
“I think" Thurston answers himself "we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture, by mass marketing and commercial paranoia behaviour control. And the first step to do that is to destroy the record companies. Do you not agree?”
Again, crickets. No teenage riot today.
He should have just played them “Teenage Riot.” “Teenage Riot” rocks.
“Teenage Riot” is a 10.
I'm just a teenager living life haha and I just found this older song! Such a good one, I love it!!
Hello from Russia! This great band isn't very popular here, but true fans listen it nearly all the time.
This came out like a fireball and signaled the underground was going overground. Nobody would have guessed SY had a song like this in them two years earlier.
Yeah, two years earlier they made the brilliant EVOL, followed by the masterpiece Sister. Who would have thought they would soon try to get into mainstream with this crap? Luckily, Goo turned them back in the right direction again.
@@dragmio watch out guys we got an EXTREME HIPSTER over here
@@Gamer-hl2qc everybody that he knows is more relevant than everybody the rest of us know
@@dragmio You...... You just suck is all
@@dragmio Goo was much more mass appeal than Daydream Nation. Like, a lot. Yet those two albums are still great in my book, closely followed by Evol and Sister
I return to this video every now and then, when I have lost my way.
my fave sonic youth song
wow cool ...it's all coming back to me ..after sooooo long ...what a great song
One of the 1st examples of a pure Gen-X cultural product. Musically and visually setting the table for 90’s Alt Culture. Fills my heart with joy all the clips of their influences because they influenced so many other people. When they appear, ever so briefly, it is an invite to the coolest club.
من فضلكم الترجمة بالعربي كي أعرف أرد على جوابك حاليا ما في ترجمة التعليقات بالعربية الفصحى آسف
@@FjgfhGffhu-tf7jo أحد الأمثلة الأولى لمنتج ثقافي Gen-X خالص. إعداد الطاولة موسيقيًا وبصريًا للثقافة البديلة في التسعينيات. قلبي يمتلئ بالفرح لكل المقاطع التي أثرت فيهم لأنها أثرت في الكثير من الأشخاص الآخرين. عندما يظهرون، باختصار شديد، فهي دعوة لأفضل نادٍ.
They are Boomers
Golden time period and Golden tune. The Teenage Riot continues. Youth Springs Eternal.
This album was a refuge from teenage angst.
Nice to see Mark E Smith in the video. My Gran played bongos for the fall.
This is actually the punkest shit ever.
not really
Punk actitude yes
Listening to this song almost gives the impression that being a teenager around this time was livid. I almost wish mine was like this, now at 24.
The demography was a little older
Complete history of pop culture in one music video, awesome.
waited so long for this video. great song, great memories.
Awesome, love this edited version that starts when the song starts rocking
Great they recognize Mark e Smith in video.they actually did a peel session of fall covers
My generation will never have something like the great revolution that was punk
nah there's great shit out there
Our generation will never have something with such a big impact like the things that happened in the last century. We'll never have something like the invention of the television we'll never have something like the moon landing and we'll never have something like the punk revolution
especially not with anime rehash shit
@@laughingguy1840 lol bladee and all the other junk raid our cultures
what do you exactly mean by great
check out otoboke beaver! Watch their live at tiny desk their style is very old school punk.. and yes music is stale these days but just like back then the better new music is usually independent and underground
I miss my friends listening to this. The world is going to shit and we need to live.
Miss having no troubles or preocupations apart from what were we going to do next (thinking about the weekend, every week)
This song makes me sad. I should've had new experiences during my teenage years but chose to barely leave my house. Now I'm 18 and adult life is knocking on the door
Lucky bugger. You got to get out and rip it up and get down. Have a blast try it all. Suck up every morsel of like you only get one.
You're not the only one, tons of us grew up in high control cults and had no life as a teen. But life is far from over at 18. I had some ragers through my 20's and beyond.
I turned 18 in June and I’ve been thinking the same as u but now I’m thinking fuck it cos we can have fun our whole lives and don’t need to go by the rule book of growing up n stuff
oh gawd. you can be a child throughout your life.
You're super young and you got the whole world ahead of you.
the sun ra cameo is my fav part of this whole video. wish i couldve been in attendance for the sun ra and sonic youth concert that they did
Oscar Garcia Did not know that. Must have been great. My two favorite musical units.
A sun ra sonic youth concert would be sick but the clip of him is from his movie space is the place 😞😞😞
@@DiegoAcosta-no9kq i know, but they did play a show in central park together back in the 90s i believe. must've been one hell of a show! one of those i'd take a time machine back for
Sonic Youth. Always the bridesmaid never the bride!
this really is a celebration of rock music, amazing
This song is a vicarious melancholy teenage past.
Thank you Sonic Youth, for giving us Radiohead and Atari Teenage Riot.
Somehow only just now discovering what is almost certainly the best album to come out the year I was born. Damn, this song and all of Daydream Nation is just glorious.
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man to do but work out whether it's true
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two
Time to get it before you let it get to you
Here he comes now
Stick to your guns and let him through
Everybody's coming from the winter vacation
Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you
You come running in on platform shoes
With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue
Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew
Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you
Now I see it
I think I'll leave it out of the way
Now I come near you
And it's not clear why you fade away
Looking for a ride to your secret location
Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation for you
Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rocking
And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now
It better work out
I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head
Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now
You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him
He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand
We know it's down
We know it's bound too loose
Everybody's sound is around it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze
It's time to go round
A one man showdown, teach us how to fail
We're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail
Doni Darmawan: Spirit desire spirit desire we will fall
Mark e smith, mike watt flash across the screen briefly
And the band plays on
At 2:36 Lou Barlow's thinking "thank God J didn't plays the piano or the contrabass!"
Saw them at Memphis in may.... greatest show of my life
久々に聞くと、ヤッパこの頃のソニックユースは素晴らしい！
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two
Time to get it, before you let it get to you
Here he comes now, stick to your guns and let him through
Everybody's coming from the winter vacation
Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you
You come running in on platform shoes
With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue
Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew
Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper nation for you
Now I see it, I think I'll leave it out of the way
Now I come near you and it's not clear why you make the away
Looking for a ride to a secret location
Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you
Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin'
And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do for now
It better work out, I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city ahead
It takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now
You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him
He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand
We know it's down, we know it's bound too loose
Everybody's sound is 'round it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
So who's to blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze
It's time to go 'round, a one man showdown, teach us how to fail
We're off the streets now and back on the road, on the riot trail
I don’t think a lot of people disliked Sonic Youth, but I remember a lot of people were upset about their last album, The Eternal, when it came out in 2009.
I played this song on my high school radio show during lunch break. And all I have to say my subject for that class didn't last to long. Nor did my friend neither. His flaw was the Beastie Boys.(when they were Hardcore NYC Punk Band)
Not a flaw
I was a hardcore punk from the 80s this came right after our best times but I dig it thank you guys
Aquí con 20 años... Quizá sea hora de vivir mi revuelta adolescente
sonic youth is just the best
You will stop the teenage riot long live sonic youth and long live rock and roll
Such a great riff
lol my parents were probably lucky to be in this era
First song i ever lernt to play
because you're not a teenager anymore. I feel the same.
Felipers love this and I’m a teen who crosses the motorway bikes from place to place and shit :)
This video lasts 4:20 perfect timing
Great song all the time☺🖤
Masterpiece......♡♡●◆◆☆
Holy crap, it's been a minute.
I have been looking for this song.
melhor banda de rock pra mim sou fan queria conhecer vocês
I love sonic youth but I had never watched the music video until now rewatching a rage interview with the Mars volts where they mention this
at 2:37--J Mascis and Lou Barlow's legendary on-stage fight in 1987, wherein Lou rang out a single note of feedback instead of playing the real bassline to "Severed Lips" and J hit him with his guitar
They were so far ahead of their time.
rip rock, love from paris france
Kim Gordon ♥
Oh my God. Oh my.