SY piano album... ?
 

According to GOODBYE 20TH CENTURY (the book), Thurston & Lee were really into the idea of doing an album where they both only played pianos, but Kim squashed the idea.

What the F? Does anybody else think that had the potential to be amazing? I can't even imagine.

really?
I am wondering that they both can play the piano

That would be really great - as a SYR maybe?
Providence and Secret Girl are amazing tracks

oh yeah forget about them

Didn't Lee play a little synth of "Sympathy?"

He played organ... Nothing really prominent of course.

I think a detuned piano album would be amazing.

A whole album ? ....
Too much piano for me, I think. Maybe 2 or 3 songs, but not a whole album.
It would not be Sonic Youth but Boring Youth.
I don't want them to become The New Red Hot Chili Peppers...

also in 'i love you golden blue' is that right? (for sure live he did)

Huh.

????

That's a pretty daft assumption. I mean, you're saying that the musicians themselves would produce boring music if they switched to a different instrument? You're nuts. If anything it could result in one of their most adventurous albums since SYR4. RHCP? WTF?

correct.

Hey, keep cool man.
I mean that SY is a fucking good rock band with their guitars, I think a WHOLE album with piano instead of alternative tuned guitars would be a bit boring. I think the piano would be too restrictive.

And Lee and Thurston are not free Jazz pioano players...

Yeah the restriction is what makes it interesting. Y'know the ol' "necessity is the mother of invention" thing... or sort of how the restriction of having cheap guitars that couldnt stay in tune forced them to create amazing music with alt. tunings?

changing to a different instrument (especially a pinao) would be fucking amazing. I reckon they'd get some spooky stuff going on. It can be such a haunting instrument

(didn't Jim play the keys on Sympathy and Golden Blue?) (how anal was that!?)

It does make you wonder why they dont do it just not as SY.

Just cause Kim poo-pooed it I dont see why that should stop them doing a side project. Who does She think she is? Stupid Kim. (heh heh)

...but they played already piano...and sounds goooooooooood!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbyN-IUUlA

Music that is purely acoustic piano and nothing else can rarely hold my attention...

is piano a string instrument or a percussion instrument?

String.

both

Yeah, they should play a whole album like that !!!:D
Damn, where are my ear plugs?

i think it would be good as an SYR, not sure about a proper SY album, it has the potential both to be completely amazing or complete utter shite.

ditto
ubershite
there
i said it
sooooooooooooo self conscious and pretentious
i resent the band for releasing such a piece of shit
come on
this video sucks Bill Clinton's arse big time
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sonic youth can do no wrong. i'd buy an album of nothing but them sucking farts out of each others ass's and think it was the most amazin gthing ever. well, maybe not think it was amazing, but i'd def buy and like it.

I guess I can see where Kim was coming from if there are actually so many people on their own damn board who don't get why that would be an awesome thing to do and totally true to the spirit of Sonic Youth. Nonetheless, they didn't listen to the numbskulls who told them that doing a synth album was a bad idea, and we thankfully got The Whitey Album as a result. A whole album of "Providence" and "Secret Girl"s wouldn't be that amazing, but if they pushed the piano the way they've pushed the guitar, it could be a really awesome record. It's a rather safe bet that it would be a lot more like Fennesz than Red Hot Chili Peppers (wherever the fuck that came from...)

Yeah, that's why I said .................. "Huh"

Red Hot Chili Peppers?

............

Anyway, I think this would be great probably. Can you imagine them just playing straight piano versions of some of their riffs? Would be some wild shit.

TROUT MASK REPLICA was completely composed on piano!!

The piano rules.

My friends Eet have some piano guts in their studio, which is totally cool. You can bang on the strings without any keys. Prepared piano where you fuck with the strings is essentially what SY do with guitars, and it's actually a lot easier to do than with a guitar.

I'm sure Kim was just like, "But what would I do??" And Thurston probably suggested she play dulcimer, and that was it for the whole idea...

Hahaha.

Dead-Air, your posts are quality.

I volontarily went too far with this Red Hot comparison, just to provoke a debate, cause everybody here seems to be unanimous about this piano album.
Sincerely, if they did a piano album, would you listen to it as much as their other albums ?
It's a good idea for a SYR album.

Yeah, Trout Mask Replica was composed on piano, but not played entirely on piano (thank god)...

w?
i would if the music was good

i dont get why people are writing off piano music without even hearing it? Its like you've got some sort of punkrock gene definciency syndrome where your brain can only enjoy music with guitars

its stupid. The piano can produce some amazing intense fuckup sounds and moods.

kim rules with hammer :D

Man, I used to play the piano for 7 years, I'm fed up with piano, and I don't like it when it 's too much used in rock music, like Radiohead does, for instance.
It's my opinion, it's not the gospel truth.

I don't see anything wrong with the idea.

I love that we're argueing about a hyperthetical (how do you spell that?) album!

EXACTLY! To me, it would make total sonic sense for them to do something so out of character.

Well, I've listened to some John Cage pieces more than some Sonic Youth guitar songs, so I could see myself listening to a piano only Sonic Youth album. If it's good, you know.

I don't see why people would write it off -- it could be awesome.

The excellent band Bride of No No is a proggy no wave group who have songs of nothing but piano and it's amazing.

I dont understand the concept of the piano as a boring instrument at all. As atsonic pointed out, John Cage. Along with the likes of Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Dick Hymen and countless others that I would never refer to as boring.

I don't think any instrument is boring. Then again, I can listen to Judy Dunaway's "Balloon Music" (40 minutes of her rubbing a balloon) and not be bored in the slightest.

It's all about what you do with it -- it can just be a fucking TRIANGLE album and it'd probably be good if the artist was creative enough.

Word up.