Sonic Youth Gossip - Songs You're Ashamed To Not Like

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Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)

- Non-Sonic Sounds (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=4)

- - Songs You're Ashamed To Not Like (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=9001)

k-krack

12.17.2006 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luxinterior

I'm beginning to dislike Sonic Youth. Should I even be here?

It's like when Rather Ripped came out, and I listened to it and thought, "Well that was fucking retarded." And now every time I hear one of their songs it is tainted by retardation. Except for mostly everything on Bad Moon Rising, I mean it's been months since I've played that one, but I imagine it would sound as good as ever.

Anyway, my point is that I am more critical of them than any other band, probably. Sometimes they're just boring, and the lyrics are atrocious, and the melodies are juvenile. When they're bad, they're unbearable, like "What A Waste" or some other such nonsense. When they're good, it's all great and there's "Brother James" and all of that.

Come on!!! I don't like What A Waste, (or Sleepin' Around, for that matter) but aside from those lowlights, it's a great album.
Give it a chance, dear!

luxinterior

12.17.2006 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by k-krack

Come on!!! I don't like What A Waste, (or Sleepin' Around, for that matter) but aside from those lowlights, it's a great album.
Give it a chance, dear!

But no, it's really not a great album. As I recall, all of the songs on it are pretty bad. Calling it a great album is an insult to actual great albums, like Springsteen's "Nebraska" and the first five Mötley Crüe albums.

Toilet & Bowels

12.17.2006 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luxinterior

i walked out of SY's performance at ATP because they played two songs from rather ripped in a row, i couldn't face seeing a band who once meant so much to me humiliate themselves so publicly

porkmarras

12.17.2006 09:25 AM

The first signs that i was gonna be let down by them for a long while came after Sonic Nurse came out.I felt really conflicted because a new record by Sonic Youth had always been a religious experience and what i was hearing was the work of a band trapped into a now familiar formula and stubbornly so.I still haven't recovered from that but i buy the records just as i buy the nme even though it's utter cack.And please,i just wish they would stop those stupid dances on stage.C'mon,stuff like that should be reserved for wedding and funeral drinks.

king_buzzo

12.17.2006 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

I dislike just about every Dinosaur Jr. song I've heard besides Freak Scene, Severed Lips, Feel The Pain, and The Wagon.

Actually, I'm not ashamed of that.

should i shoot you now or later?

cryptowonderdruginvogue

12.17.2006 10:31 AM

-Pavement
-The Smiths/Morrissey
-New York Dolls
-The Faint

not really ashamed though

Glice

12.17.2006 10:32 AM

I enjoyed SY at ATP, but I was right in the middle of the mosh pit. Still a great and (shudder) important band, I'm just not as into their recent stuff. Doesn't really worry me, I wasn't really into EJST&NS or most of Washing Machine. I'm sure they'll pull another ATL out at some point.

luxinterior

12.17.2006 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

i walked out of SY's performance at ATP because they played two songs from rather ripped in a row, i couldn't face seeing a band who once meant so much to me humiliate themselves so publicly

Yes, that.

atsonicpark

12.17.2006 01:27 PM

Wow, lots of ridiculous opinions on this board. Can of worms.

Joy Division are AMAZING, one of the all time best bands ever, Unknown Pleasures...? Top 10 albums of all time easily.

The Pixies were a band that never made a bad song.

And "franz ferdinand" and all that shit goes without saying anyway, so no one's confessing to something awful.

But yeah.. magick markers are quite possibly my most hated band (besides mars volta..).

And I never could stomach black flag. As an idea and probably as a live performance, great.. musically, ehhhhh.... greg ginn sucked balls.

Savage Clone

12.17.2006 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

The Pixies were a band that never made a bad song.

Here Comes Your Man and Where Is My Mind are both among some of the worst songs I have ever heard. Wretched, annoying, etc etc...

They had a few good tunes, but they were almost all on Surfer Rosa.

atsonicpark

12.17.2006 02:31 PM

Here Comes Your Man? You kidding?!?!?!

....to each their own I guess.

HECKLER SPRAY

12.17.2006 03:28 PM

Most part of Bossanova is crap ( "Allison"...what 's that shit ?), in my opinion.

k-krack

12.17.2006 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Here Comes Your Man and Where Is My Mind are both among some of the worst songs I have ever heard. Wretched, annoying, etc etc...

They had a few good tunes, but they were almost all on Surfer Rosa.

Gimme a break, man. Both of those songs are pretty much... perfect. And Where Is My Mind? is on Surfer Rosa...

Anyways, in response to sonicpark on the last page... The Mars Volta kick ass. No two ways about it.

cryptowonderdruginvogue

12.17.2006 04:47 PM

its their opinions, ass

HECKLER SPRAY

12.17.2006 07:14 PM

Other boring album : Radiohead's OK Computer. The only song I can support is Paranoid Android. And Yorke's voice.... ugly. Like a crashed cat.

afterthefact

12.18.2006 01:36 PM

Just about anything Tommy Guerrero anymore. I used to love his stuff, but now I can barely listen to a whole song all the way through. It just get's too repetitive in my opinion.

It's still good love makin' music though...

ZEROpumpkins

12.18.2006 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by king_buzzo

should i shoot you now or later?

Agreed, If one likes the Wagon, shouldn't they like most of Green Mind?

Torn Curtain

12.20.2006 04:15 PM

Pavement
NY Dolls
The Fall
Beck

!@#$%!

12.20.2006 04:20 PM

i'm not ashamed at all of this, but i could never get into pavement. or the pixies. i don't see where's the greatness.

Savage Clone

12.20.2006 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by k-krack

Gimme a break, man. Both of those songs are pretty much... perfect. And Where Is My Mind? is on Surfer Rosa....

Just because it is on their most tolerable album doesn't make it any less supremely annoying.

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