Not into the "fuck Kim" sentiment at all, and it would be a pretty bummer move for Thurston to do a record/tour with Lee and Steve at any point in the near future. He pulled a dick move. Despite this I am fine with him doing his thing and playing music, but to get 3/4s of the band back together right now would be lame regardless of how good the music would or would not be. Considering Body/Head is the best thing any of them have done since the breakup I am not so convinced that a Lee/Thurston reunion would bear much fruit right now though.
― grandavis, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Kim and Lee should form like Sonic Youth II or something like that
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Lee's latest Dust album was great! I like all three of the most recent side project a lot, but I'd probably rank 'em:
body/head > lee & the dust > clm
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
body count vs chelsea light moving
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
maybe they can just go old school classic rock style and thurston/steve leading one "Sonic Youth" around the country, while kim/lee lead another
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Hah, maybe. I like Lee's records fine, and don't dislike anything any of them have done, but would rank them in the same order. In a few more years I am fine with any of them collaborating keep in mind, I just think it would be a bad move for a while.
― grandavis, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
am guessing - apart from the fact he is a great drummer - thurst has hired steve not least to give him a regular wage? as he's the yoof probs not being offered solo album deals?
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
That seems a little condescending tbh
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Those sweet sweet solo Thurston Moore gig paychecks
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
yu cnt hv snc yth wtht sgnr ov my fv sy sng...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ZXzAtnmfQ
― scott seward, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
OTMFM
― sleeve, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
just spitballing. the rest of the band live in london, but steve is, i guess, still in the US? again, like i said, he's also a great drummer.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
and yes brother james rules
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10464312_481955435282178_6656355165409461085_n.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
First time I got to see "Brother James" live my head exploded. I mean shit, the Kim hit list is long and mighty, but fuck yeah "Brother James" is singularly awesome.
― grandavis, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPw1_ULjZLw
― tylerw, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
death valley 69 EP i bought in 1985 (with brother james on it) was a BIG deal to me. just fucked me up in all the right ways. the acid helped too.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
I still need to get a copy of that... I recently got the 7" of DV 69, did not realize that both sides are earlier versions!
― sleeve, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
this thread seems full of blank spaces, but...
the Body/Head album “The Switch” is eerie and amorphous and is really great imo. I never got around to listening to SYR 6, 7, 8, 9 (although this recording has echoes in what I’ve heard from the earlier SYR stuff), but I was so disappointed by Sonic Youth’s two post-O’Rourke albums that I thought I had lost interest in them, and any future projects related to them, forever. This reminds me of the aspects of their music I always loved, and why for 20 years I thought that they were the best band ever
― Dan S, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
Body/Head is the best post-SY band/proj for me and it isn't even close
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
agreed, and The Switch is my favorite of theirs so far
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Oh, thanks. I'm loving this so far.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Although it was released in summer, it felt really right for the cold, grey winter day.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
yeah, this is good, I'd only listened to the first album before this and didn't really like it much
― silverfish, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
i've enjoyed the thurston / lee post-SY solo stuff i've heard, but it usually makes me just want to listen to SY. body/head definitely is more interesting / involving. need to dig in more with the new one.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Body/Head is like the first Sonic Youth anything I really fucks with after the SST era
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I dug the set I play Thurston (and his band) play last month — felt like an hour-long version of “Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars.”
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
(Should’ve read over that before hitting “post.”)
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
The Switch is no joke. I wrote about it back in July:
https://www.spin.com/2018/07/body-head-the-switch-review/
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
thanks, Raymond! I enjoyed reading that
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
Ha, we have opposite seasonal responses to this album!:
Consciously or unconsciously, Body/Head’s latest is indisputably an album for or about summertime, a No Wave mirror held up to our present, perspiring moment.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link