[Mortte Jousimo]

I make this with many messages, because this gossip throws me out when my writing takes too long time and when I log in again, there comes irretating invalid thread message.

This was my first Sonic vinyl. I had Goo, Daydream Nation and Dirty on cassette before and I thought it was time to buy an LP from this very exciting band that I have listened about two years. I chose Sister because I had heard that it was made in old equipment. I ordered it from the shop that was in maintown. I was then just moved away from home. I lived in hall of residence. That belonged to the school where I had just started studies. There was only one room and I had a roommate. This hall of residence was very old building and it had kind of atmosphere that fitted well in that record.

[Mortte Jousimo]

I have loved Sister from the very beginning, when Steve´s drums came out from the loudspeakers!!! It is very hard to me say what is best Sonic record, but if I have to, it is Sister. Maybe partly one reason is the sounds of that record, I love every record made in Sear Sound. Maybe it´s also the glamour of that time. I had just started my own life eventhough it wasn´t easy all the time. My girlfriend lived in other town and we saw only weekends, so in a week I had kind of free feeling. There were lots of great bands in that town that time, so I went to the concerts almost every week. So the time was also musically very inspirous.

[Mortte Jousimo]

I love every song of that album, Hot wire is not the strongest Sonic song but it definitely belongs to that album! The other great albums that I bought (with my study loan : )): Dr John: Gris Gris, the Stooges: Fun House, Gun Club: Fire Of Love, Joy Division: Substance, Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath, Todd Rundgren´s Utopia: Same, Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit. I also recorded the Birthday Party´s Junkyard album and some ep:´s from the band on cassette that time.

[evollove]

Dr John?

[finding nobody]

I hardly liked the album when I got it.
But, it's actually one of the best things sonic youth ever did.
You got the crazy song structures, lots of Philip K Dick inpsired lyrics going on. Even the albums title is a Philip K Dick reference

Originally Posted by evollove

Dr John?

Dr John is the gris gris man. Is there a problem?

[evollove]

No problem at all. Just funny to have that record in that list.

[donnie]

Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

I have loved Sister from the very beginning, when Steve´s drums came out from the loudspeakers!!! It is very hard to me say what is best Sonic record, but if I have to, it is Sister. Maybe partly one reason is the sounds of that record, I love every record made in Sear Sound. Maybe it´s also the glamour of that time. I had just started my own life eventhough it wasn´t easy all the time. My girlfriend lived in other town and we saw only weekends, so in a week I had kind of free feeling. There were lots of great bands in that town that time, so I went to the concerts almost every week. So the time was also musically very inspirous.

yes, dear Mortte, the sound is like the electricity is going thru the guitar strings, it's like amplified bees, especially the nexus of Catholic Block, Stereo Sanctity, and Tuff Gnarl. what a sound.

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by evollove

No problem at all. Just funny to have that record in that list.

To me it´s very natural, that I listened all those records those days. I think they all have something very primitive and dark, something very powerful. They gave me very much hope to the future because my mood was then also very dark. I felt somebody else had also experienced same things and lived through these things.

[finding nobody]

Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

To me it´s very natural, that I listened all those records those days. I think they all have something very primitive and dark, something very powerful. They gave me very much hope to the future because my mood was then also very dark. I felt somebody else had also experienced same things and lived through these things.

Yeah that is a pretty unusual album. I expected more of a blues or boogie woogie vibe (because Dr John used to play guitar for Professor Longhair) but it's more.. voodoo/cajun/eerie/almost sorta toms waits mystical feel

And: Sister Reissue PLZ! I thought it was coming after the DDN one.. It really should have. ya know?

[muttlegs]

Sister Reissue PLZ! I thought it was coming after the DDN one.. It really should have. ya know?

ORG (original recordings group) were supposed to be reissuing this and Bad Moon Rising but for some reason the date is getting pushed back everywhere.

Their site was down for ages and updates of that got put back and then they just put the old one back up 2 months after taking it down.

I have tried to contact them before but their service is lame and they do not respond to enquiries. Shame really as the other SY reissues and the Nirvana stuff was great quality.

Don't hold your breath....maybe RSD 2011 by the time they get their finger out.

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by finding nobody

Yeah that is a pretty unusual album. I expected more of a blues or boogie woogie vibe (because Dr John used to play guitar for Professor Longhair) but it's more.. voodoo/cajun/eerie/almost sorta toms waits mystical feel

I AGREE! I have always thought that Dr. John, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits and Nick Cave have something in common.

[ann ashtray]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

one of my favourite albums of all time.. despite how much i do not like Hot Wire My Heart

Fantastic album, even though I must agree that Hot Wire My Heart is a bit of a bore.

You checked out Bad Moon Rising? If not...DO IT NOW!

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

yeah i have listened to the album numerous times and i always tried to get into Hot Wire My Heart but i just couldnt.

also, of course! Bad Moon Rising could be my favourite SY album. but i always struggle with picking a favourite album of SY.. more than any other band. confusion is sex would be up there too. i even liked Rather Ripped a lot.. which from what ive seen many people on here do not like

also, i dont know if this is strange to anybody but when i was first getting into sonic youth i would turn off every light in my room, and turn off the tv and listen to their albums all the time in the dark. i only did that when listening to SY. eh.. yeah!

I love Rather Ripped!!! (By the way, there isn´t nowadays any Sonic Album that I don´t love!)

[stu666]

From John Agnello's Facebook...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...364e1d9b99 b7

[shallow27]

Also it must be said: '87 Sister tour was one of the best of their entire career!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnKPejHJRtU

[whorefrost]

One of the most atmospheric records of all time. The artwork, the production of it, everything. I still recall very clearly hearing it for the first time. I was hanging out at a friend's house around 15 years ago and his sister's boyfriend had it on vinyl. I kept playing it over and over again...

[demonrail666]

CiS and BMR are still my faves but Sister is the album where I think their main currents (punk, psych, a-g, bubblegum) fuse the best. It never sounds contrived. All their albums after Sister, it was easier to seperate into the 'Lee', 'Thurston' and 'Kim' bits but Sister has a quality where all their personalities are there but interact almost seamlessly. Except on HWMH which, I agree, sounded like a Thurston thing the others merely played along to. Overall, ironically, it might be their least schizophrenic album.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it might be my all-time fave album cover too. Definitely their best one.

[Mortte Jousimo]

Sister is still my fav!

[Chris Lawrence]

Originally Posted by stu666

From John Agnello's Facebook...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/t1.0-9/10391030_10152153884468301_7995952560475520441_n.j pg?oh=e3c33fe647854ee33ba137b8a4d2f725&oe=5407DC8D &__gda__=1409116430_e9662b927a1e28fedac0364e1d9b99 b7

Well, for once I won't be able to blame Agnello for the dead drum sounds.

 

[jetengine]

Yeah, Sister is fantastic. And the artsy collage album cover was the icing on the cake. It's a bloody shame what that's been reduced to over the decades! Censorious buggers!