― earlnash, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Soukesian, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
you're lonely.
― 'Twan (miccio), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm not sure why i even posted, rssvldonalds and sleeve already said everything i had to say. DITTO'D
― 6335, Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm a big Eric's Trip fan.
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
well, I bought Goo this past summer and fell in love with it-- and then they came out with a deluxe version two months later. so, now i want to pick up Washing Machine, but if they're going to do a deluxe version, I might as well just wait until that comes out... yafeelme?
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 8 December 2005 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link
K!z!K: It is 8pm here on KUCI 88.9fM in Irvine...Voice: It's 8pm...
K!z!K: Pacific time of course! And we're on the phone right now with Mark Hosler of Negativland, so, say hi.
Voice: [Gurgling] "GGGH-GHGGHG-GGHGHGHHG-GHGHHGHGHG_GGHGMmmm..... GGHGHGGHGG- GHGHGHGHHG-GHGHG-GHGHGmmmm"
K!z!K: [laugh] Well, there you go... well, anyway, you released the Fair Use book about a few months ago, and it ended on a somewhat positive note. You reached an out-of-court settlement with SST. Island records and affiliates finally agreed to give permission for the re-release of the U2 single, provided of course that Casey Kasem give permission. So that only leaves that one obstacle...the "Casey" barrier... I wanted to ask how far you've gotten along in tackling that barrier, and in perhaps convincing Casey to finally give the OK.
Voice: [Gurgling] "GHGHGHG-GGGHGHGHGHG_GHGHG GOOOHHGmOGHGGHM GGGANNSWERR GU GGHGAT GGGESTIONGGh.... GHIM GNONT GGHGMARGHGK GHGOOSLEGLER... GHGHI GGHAAM GNOT.....[in background] he wants to know about...U2"
Mark Hosler: Hi.
K!z!K: [laugh] Did you hear my question?
MH: No, I didn't hear your question. They...they wouldn't let me use the phone. Someone else had the telephone, and I just...[LOUD BANG AND CRASH] ...got it from him. That was, man... [LOUD TONE PITCH BENDING].... wait a minute... you're going to have to repeat that question. Real sorry.
K!z!K: [laughing] No problem! The question was this: Fair Use was released about a few... well, almost a year ago...
MH: See, now everyone here is talking while you're talking...[CRASHING SOUND]...and I can't hear...the question.
K!z!K: Well, OK, then...now can you hear me? Am I coming through clear?
Voice [background]: I was not talking!
MH [to Voice in background]: Will you shut up? [SCREECH AND ANOTHER LOUD BANG] I'm trying to talk on the RADIO... in Southern California after a lame Sonic Youth song. [to K!z!K] OK, go ahead.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 December 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― thousands of tiny luminous spheres (plebian), Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdchurchill (jdchurchill), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
LIstening to this again now after perhaps a decade. No Queen Blues is great. Actually, the whole thing is very good.
― paulhw, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
this one = good.
A Thousand Leaves = much, much, much better.
― stephen, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
title track = awez
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
This is perhaps my favourite Sonic Youth album. It certainly was a few years ago, though Daydream Nation may edge it now, since I've become a lot more familiar with that album in the last year or so.
― krakow, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 06:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the only one since Sister that I really like much.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
now i want to pick up Washing Machine, but if they're going to do a deluxe version, I might as well just wait until that comes out
i doubt that this will ever happen
― akm, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never actually heard this album but I've played "The Diamond Sea" more than any other Sonic Youth track.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Then you should probably check this out...
I think this is one of their best, still a rewarding listen. A Thousand Leaves is similar and fine but a bit more on the SYR side...
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
My least fave SY album.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Love "Unwind" and "The Diamond Sea," can't remember anything else.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
'Little Trouble Girl' turned me off Sonic Youth for YEARS. It took a chance encounter with EVOL to change my mind about them.
― MacDara, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
And the vocal melody is "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys, which is a much better song.
I'm trying to work out what Vic meant by this. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is definitely more sophisticated in terms of melody-writing craft but I don't see a strong similarity with the melody of "The Diamond Sea". Nor would it have occurred to me that SY was attempting that kind of songwriting with this song.
This was my favourite album in high school. I still really like "The Diamond Sea", as basic as its melodies are.
― Sundar, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
This is one of my favorite SY records. Probably my most favorite.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, this thread made me take it off my shelf. Now listening. This a great record. That guitarlead in the beginning of Saucer-like is a total hommage to the guitar lead of The Byrds' 8 Miles High.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
KILL YOURSELF NYC DOUCHEBAG
haha Ø_Ø man "the diamond sea" is probably my favorite sy track
― Lamp, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to work out what Vic meant by this. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is definitely more sophisticated in terms of melody-writing craft but I don't see a strong similarity with the melody of "The Diamond Sea".
I see the similarity, but I wouldn't have thought of it on my own. If you hum the line that goes "Wouldn't it be nice", it sounds very similar to the main melody of "Diamond Sea."
― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Friday, 19 June 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Get it on vinyl. Out of this world.
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the little bluesy part of Washing Machine (where Kim does her monologue and says the title phrase) was one of those little oases of (mostly unfulfilled) hope scattered among the albums from this period...
― dlp9001, Friday, 19 June 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ohhh man the part where shes like "i looked up at her" and then *guitars*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqfiLORd6_g
― ╠╦═╩╤╬╦╩══╦╦╬═╩╣ PIPE WORLD LVL 7 (Lamp), Friday, 19 June 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
title track is such pure unadulerated goodness
― baaderonixx, Friday, 19 June 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
sonic youth i think have the highest good music to good vocals ratio of any band. which is to say that sure they can play a guitar, but goddamnit mothafuckas can't sing for shit. actually this is like, a really difficult thing for me to get past and always makes me hesitate before putting a sy record on.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
love this record -- why don't they play this stuff live anymore?
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the vocal distortion/effects on most of the songs on Washing Machine bother me more than the vocals themselves. it ain't bad, but WM is ultimately probably my least favorite of their 90s albums, and I don't dig "The Diamond Sea" nearly as much as other people.
― some dude, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that Washing Machine video is just about perfect, and basically eliminates the need for anyone to buy the album. Diamond Sea is indeed oddly overrated.
― dlp9001, Friday, 19 June 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
This is why I rate "The Diamond Sea":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW22NBmZJLo
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i rate the tightened up 'single version' over the album version too
really it just bugs me that they have at least a dozen 7-10 minute songs with long instrumental sections that are really tightly structred and well written, but the 20-minute song that's 75% aimless and kinda boring can handily win a poll like this: IT'S THE SONIC YOUTH EPICS POLL
― some dude, Friday, 19 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd never call "The Diamond Sea" boring. Aimless, yeah.
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it ain't bad, but WM is ultimately probably my least favorite of their 90s albums, and I don't dig "The Diamond Sea" nearly as much as other people.
wow really? i feel that way about all other 90s sy like yah this is ok but not something id reach for. except their simpsons appearance and "youth against fascism" fukken love those
"unwind" kills too btw
― ╠╦═╩╤╬╦╩══╦╦╬═╩╣ PIPE WORLD LVL 7 (Lamp), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Does "rate" mean good or bad? Wow, I can't imagine anyone who doesn't know the band watching more than about 30s. of that video. I sat through it just in case the studio caught fire at the end or something, but no such luck.
― dlp9001, Friday, 19 June 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"rate" = "good"
That performance was the first time I'd heard the song; even with the out-of-tuneness all over the place it instantly struck me as something special.
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Friday, 19 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
depends on what you're into, but I love every minute of "Diamond Sea" ... and I love the extended version that came out a few years ago even more!
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link