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Thank you

This part about Psychic Hearts doesn't make any sense:

"I was writing a lot of those songs burning through the days of Lollapalooza ‘94. A lot of it was what was in the air at that time. It was just a few years after Kurt had died and Courtney was sort of in this space that we were in. And so I was hanging out with Courtney a lot [...]"

I'd say he's having a bit of a senior moment

The Japan tour he's referring to, he was actually playing solo versions of songs from Jet Set (and he may also be thinking of Lollapalooza '93, where he did the same thing). Can't explain the rest...

Also Trees Outside The Academy was not recorded in the early 2000s! (I think he's confusing it with the Murray Street stuff, which started as a solo project)

'' And, I always liked that when I would get a Blue Oyster Cult record in the early ‘70s, and I would see these bylines by Helen Wheels or Richard Meltzer or Patti Smith as a lyricist…they would write this music and they would get other writers, friends, and lovers to compose lyrics for them. And something about that I always found really fascinating and appealing. And I like having that collaboration in my solo records, particularly the ones I’ve been making since being in a relationship with Eva.”

That's such a strange thing to say.

^I guess that would explain why he laments his own lyrics and reveals why he weirdly feels the need to explain the meaning of the lyrics in his songs.

Thurston is lost a bit

I'd lament his lyrics if I wrote them too.

well he's nearly 70 years old. Some people are already out of it much sooner than that.

From Paste:

Thurston Moore in a Nutshell

In our latest Digital Cover Story, the singer, songwriter, composer and author takes us through every tangent of his musical world, feeding us with anecdotes, radical musings and recollections along the way, as all roads lead back to his new album, Flow Critical Lucidity.

"Radical musings"

From Discogs:



VINYLOGUE:
Thurston Moore

The Sonic Youth co-founder shares his favorite stories from his journey in record collecting, from New York to Tokyo and back again.

Cool! Thanks

https://daydreamlibraryseries.bandca...thurston-moore
Flow Critical Lucidity - Bandcamp Edition with bonus Tracks

Radical is Thurston's favourite word. He can't help checking out a black woman writing an interesting book and think to himself 'So radical, this black woman is radical'. He's now all over Kamala Harris because potentially she will be the first black woman voted as a president. Nevermind reading on the label that her politics may be just as bad as Donald Trump or Jo Biden's, but because she is a woman and black, they will be 'radical', therefore an improvement.

I knew I had a problem with you.

Thurston on Pitchfork's "My Perfect 10"
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore shares a Perfect 10 that he calls one of the coolest records he's ever heard

thanks for sharin

I would say this is more "Sonic 2024" than "Thurston News". But hey, it's all to the good. :)

oops, wrong thread

btw, did you guys read Thurston's "Sonic Life" book? I am in it now and it's indeed entertaining. I like how he's focus on the bands he loved when he was young, and giving deep impressions about gigs he attended, people he met, etc.

i really loved it. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2024/...became-my.html

Thanks Rob! I'mma read through your review right away.

Thanks for reminding me i need to pick up a copy

watch out though: he uses the word 'radical' quite a bit in there

Thanks Slavo, forewarned is forearmed.

Radical mag Forbes article in which T-dog endorses jazz and the Grateful Dead (agreed)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveba...grateful-dead/

Very cool, thank you. I'm not a Grateful Dead fan (I apologize, Lee ;)), but this is the most eloquent and focused Thurston I've read in some time.

(Now, that B.E. thing... Oy. That's for the flame war over pop music at the "Best of 2024" thread, I guess.)

xD xD xD

There is an article about Mark Chapman on Quietus featuring oo'er T on anecdotal form like.

https://thequietus.com/interviews/st...ange-world-of/

Thurston playing with (i.e.supporting) The Ex, 3rd Oct, Cafe Oto, London

MICHAEL Chapman, please. Mark Chapman is the fucker who killed John Lennon.

Oh Aye. Fucker or as I like to call him, nice feller who put the world out of its misery.