Nurse is really great! I love the mix on it, it is so unique and interesting, very hollow sounding. Rather Ripped is more like a pop album, I really like it too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 13 December 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
My favourite Sonic Youth albums/moments are such outliers that I feel like I must subconsciously hate the band: Ciccone Youth― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, December 13, 2021 5:04 AM
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, December 13, 2021 5:04 AM
this is what prompted me to reevaluate my own position. i've played "into the groovey" probably a hundred times over the past few months and it's quickly become my favorite thing they ever did.
also full disclosure: the whole feud with mariah carey was a big eye opener for me. like, okay yeah she's pretty unlikeable but you guys are literally trying to provoke her for no reason. just kind of sad.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
Feud? Afaik, they did one song about her - did she ever even hear it?
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Idk what anyone sees in those Whitey Album tracks, though. First EP is good.
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
the first song on Experimental Jet Set
I have really weird vivid associations with this song; I drove all night to visit my girlfriend in college and when I woke up after sleeping for like three hours and this was playing and I couldn't tell what it was or who was singing or if it was part of a dream and it's kind of haunted me every since.
Sonic Youth is one of those bands that even though I like them I like them more in theory than in practice (and I say this as someone who has a tattoo of the cover of Goo).
― joygoat, Monday, 13 December 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
I really only think they got it right with Dirty.
― peace, man, Monday, 13 December 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
― please don't refer to me as (Austin)
have you heard "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Handcream" recently, though?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
nurse and rather ripped are both very good, my favorites of theirs post-goo (along with murray st)
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
the first song on Experimental Jet SetThis is the only SY song I really like a lot
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Sonic Youth is one of the greatest American rock bands and have an amazingly high quality catalog
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
this is definitely my least favorite ilm thread of all time, the whole premise brings out the most annoying aspects of all of us
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
I think Sonic Youth is a band best discovered as a teenager when you're coming out of your Pink Floyd phase
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
(i will never load all posts to witness whatever dumb condescending bullshit i posted 8 years ago or w/e)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
speaking of condescending
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
I discovered Sonic Youth as a teenager coming out of my punk phase
― JacobSanders, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
have you heard "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Handcream" recently, though?― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:49 AM
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:49 AM
honestly no, but who cares? it's a rambling incoherent mess. very much the zeitgeist of my discrepancy with the band in general.
this is definitely my least favorite ilm thread of all time, the whole premise brings out the most annoying aspects of all of us― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:56 AM
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:56 AM
oh come on, friend. it's not that serious and i'm really happy you like sonic youth — honestly, that's great! i'm personally just a little tired of hearing about how innovative and different and omg MINDBLOWING they were when the records sound like none of those of things to me. but if it is to you, awesome!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
it's not about sonic youth, i've felt that way for a long time.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
i mean no one has to like sonic youth! it's not the law.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
ums otm, if you have a controversial opinion you actually think is worth discussing, bump the apt thread cowards!
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
ahh ums, thank you for posting friend! i get what you mean. i'm mostly being flippant and silly when posting in here.
xpost to rob: lock thread?
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
never lock thread!!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
this is the place where the opinions come out once and for all!! if the thread is locked, 100 more will spring up in its place!!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
tbf, if people enjoy this thread, I can just not click on it. But, here in 2021, are there really any controversial music opinions anymore? I feel like all the sacred cows have been repeatedly slaughtered
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
maybe we should lock this and start a "can someone show me a NEW controversial opinion?" thread
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper isn't as good as critics say!
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
actually
ICP are the GOAT
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
1979-present, Marianne Faithful>>>>>the Rolling Stones.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
better album:
dirty work or daydream nation?
anyone have any thoughts on this?
ALFRED??
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OJKSR79.jpg
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
Women have no sense of rhythm
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
(I don't actually believe that) just posting a certainly controversial (I.e. insane, Geir-esque) statement!
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
(wipes hands into air)
my work here is done.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I don't like The Beatles quite as much as I used to.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper is better than (current) critics say!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
yeah I was gonna add a caveat that there are obvs offensive opinions one could post, though even there, apart from arbitrary nonsense invented to prove the point (right-handed people can't sing, etc), how new would they be? "Geir-esque" suggests not very
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
Tbf, opinions don't have to be new to be controversial.
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
A thread where you can vent your unpopular opinions without necessarily getting into in-depth discussion with people who are highly invested in the opposite pov seems fine to me.
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
My point was only that non-new controversial opinions are boring (to me), not that newness is a required condition. fwiw I think imago's hyped albums you want to diss thread might serve more of a purpose than this broader thread. Anyway, I don't like the ILE versions of this thread either, so clearly it's something about me not nec the thread
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Post a controversial ILX opinion
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
my controp - "too many notes"
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
A letter to the editor of Downbeat about 10 years ago asserted that white people invented jazz.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
"Bill Haley invented rock 'n roll" variation there
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
in retrospect i was just being a baby probably, i can see the need for this thread and obv it's possible to not just click on it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
not if you're paid to click on every single thread
*keeps on clicking*
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
okay, that made me a bit uncomfortable. but good for you, sir!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
music sucks
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
^not really controversial
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
Too many notes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULkuwxJTGtY
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO-ws6vUrQ
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link