No obviously not. I just figured that the dash was a statement... IE: A return to independence.

I find it ludicrous, but this dash must mean something because someone typed it on purpose, although it's a bit superfluous.

Wow, I love the album cover, and the tracks sound awesome, particularly 'Anti-Orgasm'. However, Sonic Youth, or Should I say Sonic-Youth, please change the font of the writing. It's too boring, too Times New Roman.

"The dash is a return to independance."

Excellent.

the name makes me lol.

thank you.

Wait, I just realized we lost 'Burning Shame' as well.

So 'Walkin Blue' could be either 'Burning Shame' or 'trash weasels n gutter snipes' ... which makes me wonder what happened to the other track. Why did we drop down from 13 to 12? Is one of them just for the Japanese release?

Ohhhhhhhhhh shit! Teh Yoof are back.

The cover art ain't bad. I'm pumped to hear the new music. Kim, Lee and Thurston all sharing lead vocals on a track!? Sounds delicious.

Sister, I think.

Amazed it's not "The Sonic-Youth".

The font is dull, otherwise this is shaping up to be a pretty cool release...

I am a big fan of the track titles, and the cover art is pretty cool too!
I wonder what the time lengths of the songs are... I hope it's a nice variety. I know Massage the History is almost ten minutes long.

I'm very glad we lost the title of 'Trash Weasles N Gutter Snipes'.

How do you people find out these things?!

^^ by being AWARE.

I love the cover. I can hardly wait, my expectations for this album are really high... I don't know why, but I liked the move to Matador. And while I've heard it all before ("one of their more inspired efforts...") for some reason I buy it every time. Oh, and seeing Mark Ibold in the band photo reminds me of Pavement, I like that.

what does this mean?

I think this is the release where my hopes are the highest, and at the same time its the one where I am afraid the most of being dissapointed.
argh, cant wait

and yes I want noise too, even if its in the helen lundberg style

I was referring to Thurston's quote about how the album "has more compact, melodic, high-energy, Detroit punk-rock songs on it."

i wonder if "thunderclap for bobby pyn" is a tribute to him. i sure hope so.

oh my god....





*heart attack*
*dies*


wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:D :D :D

woop, i can't wait for this album, it seems all my fav bands are are in the process or have recently released new albums

cover is fantastic..less legal crap on a cover the better

I like the cover, I'm really excited about this!

HOLY MOLLY PARKER POSEY! Sounds mighty bitchin'! Gotta monitor that Buy Early Get Now thing!

I love the cover. Kinda sorta vaguely almost has a little 4AD thing going on - the black stripes with the white letters reminded me of the Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll, although there's probably 900 more albums with some similar design. The Fahey painting is gorgeous; too bad he'll now become more popular than ever and I'll have to share him with goddamn MOOKS. :cool:

Hey joe11121, is your signature a Bad Santa reference?

I can't wait for this. I am getting giddy for it.

I like the sleeve, and some of the titles (i.e. 'calming the snake') are quite rad. I don't like the fonts they used.

oh boy. least favourite SY album cover ever. all it makes me think of is goatse. *shudder*

at least i know being SY i won't be disappointed by the music inside.

weird. I think the cover art is great. And why do some many people even mention the font? What are we? A bunch of losers who flock here each day to discuss the minutia of Sonic Yu--

[NR thinks long and hard about his life]

...nevermind.

it's minimalistic. and let it stay that way.

You're here chatting inane bollocks quite a lot. Also, just because aesthetics aren't something that interest you, doesn't mean other people who look at things like that haven't got a life. Ok?

I don't like the cover at all. It's like an afterthought (which it has every right to be, but seeing as how we're discussing it...) Horrible.

I think the joke went over yr head. I was talking about MYSELF. Because I AM HERE EVERYDAY talking about the minutia of SY.

The fonts and two black spaces that frame the picture are what ruins it. I like the painting itself.

I like the black spaces. Same way DESTROYED ROOM was cropped. I like it for some reason.

You don't have a sense of humour, why do you tell jokes?

oh.

you spelled humor wrong.

I told you that you don't have a sense of humour already, didn't I?

I forgout.

Nah, you're just some twat, that's all.

I think it's funny that by making fun of myself, you've somehow taken offense. Though, I'm sure it's personal. You've called me "the T word" before over things just as minor.