James Joyce & Sonic Youth
 

Anyone know who of the Yoof propagated the use of James Joyce in Secret Girls on EVOL?

P.S. mebbe the wrong thred but you can listen to Green Light covered by Beck here : http://twt.fm/Beck:eek:

i'm the boy, that can enjoy, invisibility

It was probably Thurston since he writes the worst lyrics in the band, and James Joyce (at least Finnegans Wake) is an awful, awful writer only praised for his "avant-garde" bullshit, so.. yeah, probably Thurston.

Idk, I may eventually get to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners, or even Ulysses, but fuck something as pretentious as Finnegans Wake. Though wherever the Secret Girl lyric is from, I do enjoy that line, at the least.

i totally freaked out when i was reading ulysses and saw those "secret girls" lines... at the time, i had no idea that's where they originated.

This is funny coming from someone on a Sonic Youth board.

Dunno, but Text of Light have a track on a James Joyce "tribute" album.

http://www.firerecords.com/site/inde...id=00000000300

I like thurston lyrics and I love Ulysses...
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Wow. You've just pressed about thirteen of my anger buttons. Your judging the best writer of the 20th-century on the basis of a book you haven't read because it's (your quotes) "avant-garde"(a movement, so far as I know, Joyce wasn't involved in). I mean, I really don't care to tell people that over-earnest bollocks of 'man, you need to read [x]', but you may as well say that Ovid is pretentious for writing in a language that no-one speaks any more.

From what I remember, the 'you're the boy/ who can enjoy invisibility' line may be from a folk song quote by Joyce, FYI.

And, furthermore, I think the Joyce use comes in Ulysses, though my memory of that and the Wake is necessarily hazy.

I knew they were from somewhere but I couldn't remember what it was. I was as giddy as a school girl when I read them.

I really don't know if it's a good idea for rock musicians to start quoting joyce. Barrett did it with Golden Hair and the poor fucker ended up sitting in the park trying to eat his own shins - so to speak.

the sonics seem okay, though... and they did that in the eighties.

I saw Lee Ranado and Mike Watt in a club in the Village in 2001 doing this improvised thing over which they read bits from Finnegans Wake.
It wasn't very good.
Then they did some Stooges covers and that was. Very good indeed.

Sometime reading a passage aloud comes across as reading a passage aloud.

The best thing would be to actually read the passage yourself at home...

Agreed, Thurston write a bunch of great songs. and Joyce is a great author

Agree with this also