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this board needs better emojis

daaaaamn

rip them for us

(jk jk)

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ps we need relativity for gps though

goddammit i cant and more emojis in this dino-board

One day I will figure out this "ripping" thing.

nooooo

you'll get in trouble sharing illegal files from a military installation

but if you want to back up your own files for your own protection at the same quality for future proofness...

look for FLAC encoders and go from there (took about 1/3 the space as i recall... don't know these days)

o man, i remember the ripping era... luckily i no longer need

last time i tried to back up my discs, a few years ago, i did it on itunes on a mac. and the thing automatically found cover images, etc... then deposited them on my local file server

but holy fuck i got bored with the process and then hardware failure kiboshed the whole project (the cloud was not quite there back then, this was like 2 years before icloud was launched) and oh who has the TIME to look after this. i must work for a living.

i lack patience to manage collections. i love the library, but i prefer to use it than to manage it

(i have made peace with this now)

anyway, yeah... be nice to your discos. cd-r is particularly fragile

Just been going through all my discs. They are like my babies.

Fuck....where did Sonic Nurse go?

Baby, baby... where'd Sonic Nurse go...?

see, this is why you need.... a well organized library (and music services do that)

i never got the disc— vinyl only. it was beautiful. well it is. in its box :D

i’d like to sell it but what a hassle

i got too many projects!

Update: it's back!

Sonic Nurse is when Sonic Youth started to tread water, it's not bad but if you programmed an AI to make an SY record it would probably sound like this. If i remember correctly it was around this time that Sonic Youth got their foot in the door with Starbucks.

Today's been the most depressing SYG day I can remember. The quote above makes me nauseous, and at the Trump thread there was so much conservative horseshit from people who should know better that I unsubscribed from it.

Why does it make you nauseous?

T&B is pretty spot on about Sonic Nurse. How can you compare what came before to this record? It's Sonic Youth suddenly being a bit boring. The fact it's not entirely rubbish helped me through the trauma of hearing Rather Ripped for the first time. A couple of songs, maybe three, worth loving between these albums.

It isn't helped by Jim O'Rourke's production style either

I remember coming back here to say that Sonic Youth's peak was in the 80s and someone posted that they had "five different peaks" and named Sonic Nurse as one of the reasons why the mid 2000s were a peak for them. Why any band would have five different peaks of their career is beyond me. I dunno, a lot of later Sonic Youth just sounds so uncreative to me now. The 80s records encapsulate a moment, sound, mood, idea etc. and ride it out to its full potential. They lost that starting with Goo.

Goo was the first SY record to have a few wack tracks, but they still did a lot of truly great stuff in the 90s, and Dirty, ExpJetSet and 1000 Leaves are pretty much end to end brilliance.

Yeah they're good albums but they don't aim for something grander like the 80s records do. There's something missing in them that made EVOL or Sister so mystifying and almost otherworldly.

Yall are gonna make me listen to Sister for the first time in 5+ years.

I think ExpJetSet is a fairly mystifying/mysterious record, the Kim songs especially

I don't know about that.

This song for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vSo0InPQlU

It's lyrically as dark as anything they did in the 80s and the ending is pretty fantastic. It doesn't sound like there's a lack of creativity going on to me, but I understand taste is taste etc. Fair enough. Besides, I think Sonic Youth at that time were too enshrined in the mainstream but not exactly a band that fit into it to please all the underground, blank cd creatives that were gathering momentum at fast pace.

Oh no, there's definitely individual songs that aim for something grander, but front to back as a unified album concept not reallyyyyy.

I really did forget how good that song is though.

I can see the multiple peaks thing, if you're active for 28ish years and still try to make new stuff each time you end up with a discography more like a mountain range than a straight up and down peak & trough.

Nurse, RR and Eternal are definitely where they were *just* sounding like SY though. Nurse was "remember them groovy extended jams from DN? then you'll love this!". It was safe, but lovely and textured and the jams were sweet and pure if not fresh. RR I love deeply and will fight you on the playing field after school to defend its honour, but is undoubtedly safer again. I just love the songs, it's the shiny pop record that Jet Set was claimed to be but wasn't. The Eternal was a sad end, all the joy and love was gone, makes sense in the wider context of Kim/Thurston and all that but it really was dire and is the only actually *bad* main sequence LP for me.

Even though the song-based proper Albums You Might Actually Find In A Shop played it safe, the SYRs/extra-curricular stuff was still pushing, 8 with Merzbow and then 9 for that French movie soundtrack were an interesting if not entirely successful new direction and utterly excellent respectively.

Did they ever claim Experimental Jet Set was meant to be a pop record? This is news to me, unless I've missed something. I thought it was meant to be a less commercial-sounding record after the release of Dirty in the Grunge golden days. In any case, I wouldn't really compare the two records. One is great and the other is almost completely rubbish, for a start.

Dirty is rubbish? I wouldn't say so. Or you meant Experimental Jet Set?

I didn't have coffee today, my brain is slow.

No, I was referring to the comparison between RR and EJSTNS. I love Dirty.

I have a memory of reading an interview with SY around the time of ExpJetSet and they said something to the effect that Dirty was a more conventional heavy rock record that lead to them playing on the same bills as bands they weren't into so they wanted to make something more odd and ramshackle, more or less inspired by groups like pavement and the folk implosion.

However that was 25 years ago and my memory could be totally wrong.

ExpJetSet was the 2nd SY record I got and i loved it then and still love it now, I used to sit sit in my bedroom listening to it and pouring over the myth-science-art cards trying to expunge any deeper meanings from them. I was baffled when i later found out that a lot of self-proclaimed SY fans really dislike ExpJetSet. I guess the world is full of meat heads, idiots and Red Hot Chilli Peppers fans though.

Not sure if they did, or if it was attributed to them, or if I'm just mis-remembering the Pavement/Folk Implosion thing T&B references, or it was some sardonic offhand Thurston-ism that I've taken as gospel for some reason, but it's not a theory I've consciously made up...

hehehe, me too.

Gotta say Sonic Nurse is my fav album by far, as the sound quality - especially the bass - is really really good.
Actually thought I lost my copy, but it's since been found.
It's Rather Ripped that I can't find among my SY collection.....