Sonic Youth is on the Acknowledgements of The Underground Railroad, Kim Gordon was one of the wonderful 4 members of Sonic Youth, one of my favorite bands ever. Worth mentioning that David Bowie and Prince are on the acknowledgements too.
i love ALL of Sonic Youth albums, yet the latest albums have been OK i think Murray Street was the last of the latest favorite albums they put out... Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped are good, but not superb, not for my taste they are good albums, but they don't completely "rock"
The Eternal... rocks!!
to confess, since Washing Machine, i haven't been blown away by them i've been very happy that they haven't sucked and that they are still very good at what they do, in spite of the ripe age... sure they have appeared in Gilmore Girls and Gossip Girl TV shows but they have never disappointed me!! their solo projects are solo so great!
now The Eternal... is a great Sonic Youth album!! it tastes like the "old ones", even like Sister! every single song in The Eternal reminds me of why Sonic Youth were, are, and will be my freaking favorite band!! the album sounds like a lot of Sonic Youth albums, yet like none each song reminds me of a different stage on the Sonic career i feel they "consolidated" themselves in this album there are elements of Sister, entrances that remind me of Evol and angry punkness like in Confusion is Sex
The Eternal feels punk, feels trashy, yet polished trash... it's catchy trash sometimes, but still trash, noisy, and good! like a rock album should be it sounds like the good old Sonic Youth from 'back then' i mean, some hard-core fans could argument that punk shouldn't be catchy... but wasn't Diamond Sea a ballad after all??? at least the first 5 minutes of it... and then, a sea of diamond noises followed (jaime!!) Sonic Youth's best songs have always been catchy but for me, that's one of the huge accomplishments to create a song, a melody, out of those freaking noises and feed-backs it's the most structured and beautiful noise one can think of... anyway, i feel about Sonic being old and yet good as we say in Mexico: El diablo sabe más por viejo que por diablo. The devil knows more due to being old than by being the devil...
now i only regret having arrived late to the past show in January i can't wait to see them live again!... Lee Ranaldo was barely 5 steps from me ahhh i wish i was there again!! and i wish one day i could hug Steve Shelley and tell him you the best drummer in the world (that is after you Beto!!) and to Lee, that he's the last of the beat poets holding a guitar instead of a pen
little sample? Kim Gordon as punk as ever sings the opener track Sacred Trickster
today i woke up with a bad headache and an awful sinus pain made it to work only to leave a couple of hours later after many pills (which i hate taking) failed attempts of naps and uncountable cups of tea i feel a little better...
so, looking around the web i found a Sonic Youth song/quote/post on a German blog and it reminded me of how much i loved this song and how Sonic Youth was, and still is, one of my favorite bands of all times and how much i appreciate, specially all the songs written and sung by Lee Ranaldo my preferred poet of noise so this is not migraine-curing music but it's good to remember good old things of one's youth, when feeling down so here, enjoy Mote, strange video and weird lovely noisy tunes and some good obscure lyrics to scream to
[Lee] When you see the spiral turning through alone And you feel so heavy that you just can't stop it When this sea of madness turns you into stone Picture of your life shoots like a rocket All the time
Put 'me' in the equation it's alright I've seen you moving in and out of sight My friends tell me it's all cut through you (?) From nowhere - to nowhere Cut together - cutting through
I'm island-bound, a mote inside my eye I can't see you breathing as before I am airless - a vacuum child I can't stand to reason at your door In this time
Put 'me' in the equation it's alright I've seen you moving in and out of sight My friends tell me it's all cut through you (?) From nowhere - to nowhere Come together
I'm down in the daytime out of sight Comin' in from dreamland I'm on fire I can see it's all been here before Dream a dream that lies right at your door
When the seasons circle sideways out of turn And words don't speak just fall across the carpet You're just in time to watch the fires burn It seems a crime but yr. face is bright you love it All the time...
just as there is junk food there is plenty of junk literature
when i feel a little too susceptible and don't want to really question my intellect nor my soul too much i stick to junk... both, food and literature
being afraid that a too-good book might caught my interest too deeply or could drive my soul to ponder over the subtilities that form the filigree of one's soul and core... good books get to the core cheaper novellas, don't. or a too great meal could awake senses are better to keep dormant
good things awaken you and sometimes to survive one has to be a little dull somehow aloof...
so this past Sunday like under a spell i read over 200 pages of Mrs. Diane Mott Davidson first "culinary mystery" Catering to Nobody that actually is kind of a 'cute' mystery, a divorced woman whose supports her 11 year old with catering businesses and gets involved into a murder...
so while i chowed down some really fatty fries i read recipes mixed with murder
junk, sometimes so good for the soul even if not for the heart, and certainly nor for the intellect...
oh! and i have junk socks too! my mother gave me these kitty-socks they are sort of silly and not very adult... but they come in very handy when i run out of clean laundry
'cause sometimes you have to rehearse your disconnection notice [this is an amazing live version!] and then stop playing the diva games and wear anything... but the mild lovely noise cuddles me yes this mild noise does beautifully corrupts my soul but no danger on it at all ... this my band of always
porque jaime siempre me los recuerda & because sonic brings back days of mexico city subway & running, crowds & then some green stops at parks walking fast all the time school, work, life & sonic youth on my headphones, must of the time or while driving in my car & then i found a friend online, who lived in Monterrey and liked Sonic Youth as well [don't miss the destroyed room photo on their site!] almost 10 years later, we are still friends online
here Silver Rocket Sonic Youth, love that they recorded this video live look closer at the playing of those guitars and Thurston singing breaking voice sometimes
a fantastic show last night it was actually my 3rd time seeing Sonic Youth live but for far, the best
I am still amazed that they played songs from Confusion is Sex, their first official album released in 1983 a chemical reaction in my brain when Thurston started to sing Push it away the world looks red people with fish eyes the ground sucks
just a couple of hours to see sonic youth now i am getting excited one of my favorite bands of all times!
now, i know tonight's gig won't be like this video from Poitier, France in 1983 it will be mellower, softer they are a 25 year-old band after all yet Rather Ripped, their 20th album is such a great one
then for dinner tonight: live in Sun Diego Sonic Youth and i wish my friend Jaime would be here since he's one great fan but he's on his way to Mexico City to meet his girlfriend, I wish him good luck
