[Johnny American]

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[Jef Mertens]

Originally Posted by Johnny American

I'll take another Murray Street! Or Washing Machine! I don't think their best music was necessarily made 21 years ago when they were playing more exclusively with Glenn Branca and hardcore sounds! But then again, I don't want them to revisit anything, and certainly not in such a nearly self-parodying fashion as they do on this album.

I haven't even heard the album, yet laughing out loud!!!!
funnny funny shit. pfff

[automatic bzooty]

Originally Posted by pbradley

Somebody post some emo poetry.

2009
the year
sonic youth
broke my <3

i cry all night
clutching my ipod
that my mommy bought me 4 christmas
i listened to the leak of the eternal
(((ugh, more like eternal heartbreaks...)))
two and a half times
the album... it made tears
leak
out of my eyeballs
& mess up
my intricate neon eye makeup
[via karen o./bjork/lovefoxxx, etc.]

it was like a thousand cute boys
broke up w/ me at once
(((my heart lies rather ripped in the shoebox where i hide all my old cds...
maybe i should never have "outgrown" those bands, up the mallpunx!!!)))
it was like a thousand leaves
but not rly
it was like
my life
was over...

i don't
believe
in rapture
anymore,
thurston...
i believe
in
pitchfork

[Johnny American]

Originally Posted by automatic bzooty

i don't
believe
in rapture
anymore,
thurston...
i believe
in
pitchfork

Pitchfork's never-ending search for signifiers of former cultural greatness makes me feel all vomitorious inside. They should change their name to Pastiche. They have no taste for new, interesting music unless there's some kind of blog backlash against a certain aspect of their idiocy (read the text of their review of Dirty Projector's "Rise Above" for their oh-so-shitty 'analysis' of Dave Longstreth's personality, or their hideous simplification of "Murray Street," a favorite of mine, as being successful because it's not, you know, too noisy for people who like Dirty). Fuck them, fuck them so hard in their eyes for their un-critical embrace of copycat disco, copycat Beach Boys, copycat Bruce Springsteen, copycat U2, copycat shitty Graceland pop, etc and for their absolute antipathy towards originality unless it's already popular by the time it passes under their crapdar. If they had taste, they wouldn't need to lean so hard on what Rolling Stone declared classic twenty years ago as re-recorded by New York college grads under new band names in this shitty decade of our youths with even less inspiration than it takes to torrent Paul Simon's discography. Best New Music!

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by Johnny American

I'll take another Murray Street! Or Washing Machine! I don't think their best music was necessarily made 21 years ago when they were playing more exclusively with Glenn Branca and hardcore sounds! But then again, I don't want them to revisit anything, and certainly not in such a nearly self-parodying fashion as they do on this album.

Why do you need another Washing Machine or Murray Street? They already did Washing Machine and Murray Street.

I'll ignore the insinuation that Murray Street and Washing Machine are better than Evol. You just haven't been a fan long enough to realize that they aren't.

[alex_could]

Pitchfork has its positive sides anyway. I'm grateful for their Juan's Basement - Deerhoof performance there is just fantastic!!! As well as Deerhoof show I attended last weekend, maybe I wouldn't discover this great band without Pitchfork's help and miss the concert.
I see it's also Blitzen Trapper there now, so hope to watch SM & The Jicks soon as well!

[pbradley]

an emo poem for the eternal

ahem

my golden ears have betrayed their base
as alloys rust onto my face
by salty tears I shed for thee
the record of sonic eternity
where art my youth of sonic yore?
my fury waged on message board
this static collage of broken tunes
leaves me nostalgic for art-yuppie blues

[Massassinated]

I find it quite bland, too.

Flog me.

[greedrex]

Originally Posted by pbradley

an emo poem for the eternal

ahem

my golden ears have betrayed their base
as alloys rust onto my face
by salty tears I shed for thee
the record of sonic eternity
where art my youth of sonic yore?
my fury waged on message board
this static collage of broken tunes
leaves me nostalgic for art-yuppie blues

excellent

[Johnny American]

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[terminal pharmacy]

This thread should just die a savage death... a bit like sharon tate maybe

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by Johnny American

I said specifically that I don't want them to revisit anything. I just don't cling to the weird rock critic canonization that all their best work was done between 1985 and 1988 and then they fell off a huge cliff into irrelevance around the time of Goo/Dirty/EJST&NS and never came back to ... a bunch of sounds that, if they did them now, would be really dated and irrelevant sounding. I love "Tom Violence" and "Expressway to Yr Skull"; I would not want to hear the band that they've evolved into attempt to do those songs, and yet that seems to be the thing that most people get excited by: paler and paler imitations of their old full-on rockin' selves. And to THAT end, I say, give me some Washing Machine and Murray Street sounds instead of dipping back to breaking into rock 'n' noise mode in a mindbogglingly heartless fashion as on this album. I blame Mark Ibold and Thurston Moore, and I like Pavement and Sonic Youth.

You rip your hair out over what is or isn't relevant, don't you.

[Jasónico]

''The Eternal'' es a good album...but before of the third listened.

[terminal pharmacy]

 

 

 

 

[killthecaliforniagirls]

oh my god... these "you´re so emo" jokes are the unfunniest thing i ever heard of.

[PAULYBEE2656]

i dont get it...... the eternal is a damn great album..people you gotta remember sy are now 50 years old...not 25 !! its all relevent!!!

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

i dont get it...... the eternal is a damn great album..people you gotta remember sy are now 50 years old...not 25 !! its all relevent!!!

exactly.

[alex_could]

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

i dont get it...... the eternal is a damn great album..people you gotta remember sy are now 50 years old...not 25 !! its all relevent!!!

i respect them, for what they did and for pleasure they gave me all these years. but it doesn't mean that i have to love their new record just because they're 50 y.o. they weren't so much younger when sonic nurse was released btw.

Robert Wyatt is 64 now and still he makes very good records.

[lechaoscestmoi]

shut the fuck up.

the eternal rules.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I think what PBradley said about The Eternal is pretty accurate.

Originally Posted by pbradley

I agree that The Eternal is pretty accessible. It also seems to challenge the self-described Sonic Youth fan's expectations between the Youth as an experimental band (therefore expecting new sounds and structures) or as a rock band (delivering the thrashy jam). Plainly said, I think this album is a lot less experimental than what most fans will want. However, that isn't to say it is entirely devoid of new sounds. The first seven seconds of "Leaky Lifeboat" is a sound I haven't heard them touch since "Shadow of a Doubt" (plus a cool playground swing thing going on, I want more of that). But these moments are admittedly few but should that stop it from being a fun record? No. This album delivers the sounds that people moaned for with Rather Ripped. Mission accomplished.