I'm not saying I understand it, but it does seem a bit odd to me that the positivity of The Best Day and the images of Thurston's parents seem to be associated with the happiness Thurston has found in his new life in the UK. But we shouldn't critique Thurston's personal life, what is most important is the new album and his new band are really great, the new songs and the Psychic Hearts material sound awesome live. Not sure if it has been talked about here but there is also a tape called Sun Gift Earth that is being sold on the current tour...

The new album by Thurston Moore ISN'T great. That crap Lee Ranaldo is doing on acoustic guitar IS NOT great either. Kim is doing good with Body/Head but it's not Sonic Youth standards. These people are creatively incapable of making brilliant music by themselves.

Coming Apart is better than anything Sonic Youth did after Jim left. So is The Best Day.

I was on board for Between the Times and the Tides but lost interest in Lee's solo projects after that. I've been on team Body/Head - they beat the hell out of Chelsea Light Moving. Then seeing Thurston and his new band live exceeded my expectations and sparked an interest in Thurston's solo work again.

this is the closest I've ever felt to you on music stuff man. I actually like this album quite a bit. Though I honestly think that Leaves Outside The Academy is my favorite T solo album. Followed close by Psychic Hearts. That said, I keep checking out their post-SY work and none of it grabs me in any serious way. The best I can muster is "ah yeah it almost sounds like SY." There's certain bands where what made them perfect was the sum of their parts. The tug-o-war between each member to make this perfect diamond. And that was SY. At this point I'm even just hoping for new archival releases to keep me happy. It's honestly just sad to me. Again I like this album. But it's not what I really want.

Of course Thurston´s personal life is none of my business, but I don´t also quite understand why he started already in Demolished Thoughts put pictures of his close relatives in the albums (there is also picture of Coco in DT). I don´t really know about his personal life, but I got the picture he´s not the one who tell everything in his life public. Of course those pictures look just fine in the Best Day. Just got thoughts are his parents ill or are they recently died or something...

he broke up one family and is nostalgia hunting for that feeling again?

stophereyes you should really check out Lee second album. Better than the first. Lee's second album is the highlight of the post SY work. Just listening to The Best Day is up there as well. Some great moments on this one.

Both Lee Ranaldo's albums post-Sonic Youth records are complete and utter SHIT. You guys are living out rock and roll fantasies where someone will come along and make it right. These people have been creatively dead for a long time now. Reverence is all they make their revenue out of.

That's the thing. So much of the post-SY solo stuff sounds to me like a pretty good demo for what could have been a way better SY song. Songs in one hand feel empty compared to what would have been added by the rest.

I think even Kim said something in an interview about how Body/Head isn't Sonic Youth, and nothing will be... it goes without saying that none of these new projects compare to Sonic Youth's best work.

Interesting interview, thanks!

If Sonic Youth is dead & its members' creativity so offensively depleted, why do you still post here? Do you have no other outlet for your righteous negativity?

Repped

This is not the Lee Ranaldo forum nor the Thurston Moore forum, (it may be the Steve Shelley forum, drummers can do no wrong).

It is the Sonic Youth forum. I will frequent it forever because they are my Beatles, my Sex Pistols, my *shudder* Nirvana, but If we do not have the ability to rag on things we think suck then what is the point?

This is not the "let's all put flowers in sonic youth's anus" forum.....

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Rob Instigator again.

I must spread some Reputation around before giving it to shirttail again.

preach

If you get offended by comments someone makes about a record by a member of a band, why are public forums created for them in the first place then? I find it a more negative attitude when someone responds to such comments implying that the offender must live a grand life putting down stuff in general because of some non-defined personal confidence they may gain from their actions. What you're doing is applying your judgemental ability to suit your views and give the impression to the person who puts the criticism of x band forward that you are not mature enough to process it and not influence your opinions at all because you disagree anyway.