body/head -vs- chelsea light moving

Ah bollocks, I typed that manually and everything. Fucking android phone. They played 2 sets, which were the same 5 songs. I'm not complaining.

album is VERY murray street/sonic nurse, and pretty good

Oh man, that is good news. Murray St. and Sonic Nurse both explored much better territory for Thurston than the Chelsea Light Moving material (imo).

Yeah, definitely exciting news to hear more of that type of material, though I think I liked CLM more than most here.

did he moved to London?

http://thequietus.com/articles/15445-thurston-moore-stoke-newington-sonic-youth

can we dream of a collaboration with Kevin Shields?

Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo, Steve Shelley and Kim Gordon should form a supergroup.

yeah.

I mean, he has Shelley in his band alreay. bring Renaldo and recreate sonic youth again (fuck Kim)

no kim = not sonic youth

no kim = not sonic youth

― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, August 15, 2014 3:08 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so call it another name. whatever

Sonic Youth, feat. Kim Gordon.

Kim Gordon's Armada, featuring Thurston Moore

new band sounds like Sonic Nurse and Murray Street already anyway.
so it's not Sonic Youth. but it's Sonic Youth.

Bring Renaldo and stop playing games!

fwiw the chrome hoof guy playing lee to thurston's thurston on the best day is excellent.

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.

Kim and Lee should form like Sonic Youth II or something like that

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

body count vs chelsea light moving

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

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.

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?

That seems a little condescending tbh

Those sweet sweet solo Thurston Moore gig paychecks

yu cnt hv snc yth wtht sgnr ov my fv sy sng...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ZXzAtnmfQ

OTMFM

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.

and yes brother james rules

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10464312_481955435282178_6656355165409461085_n.jpg

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPw1_ULjZLw

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.

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!

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

Body/Head is the best post-SY band/proj for me and it isn't even close

agreed, and The Switch is my favorite of theirs so far

Oh, thanks. I'm loving this so far.

Although it was released in summer, it felt really right for the cold, grey winter day.

yeah, this is good, I'd only listened to the first album before this and didn't really like it much

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.

Body/Head is like the first Sonic Youth anything I really fucks with after the SST era

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.”

(Should’ve read over that before hitting “post.”)

The Switch is no joke. I wrote about it back in July:

https://www.spin.com/2018/07/body-head-the-switch-review/

thanks, Raymond! I enjoyed reading that

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.