SY & traditions
 

Last four years I have listened SYR3 in the midsummer night. Last night I change this "tradition" in listening SYR6 instead of 3. Both fit very well into my feelings of midsummer night.

A little details: Kim has vocals on every SYR except SYR1 & SYR9. Thurston has only one vocal in SYR4, Lee has none. I think there is no reason why this is so.

Every year, on Halloween, I listen to Halloween.

I have no traditions what comes to listening to music, but in christmas I usually pick up Steve Reich or John Zorn's Masada albums and listen to them...

Every time I make an omelette I listen to the 2nd side of DDN.





I've never made an omelette.

My musical tradition is to play every bit of music I own from a musical artist when they pass away.

When Marc Sandman died I played all Morphine's records back to back.

When Curtis Mayfield died I did the same thing.

I have been doing this for about 12 years now.

I dread the day any SY member dies, not only because I will terribly miss them and what they do, but because I will have to take a week off of work to listen to everything I own by them, back to back.

Bobby Blue Bland passed away just this weekend. I have a blues comp on LP with him in it and an old Chess LP of Bobby Bland and I will listen to those tonight.

It is a tribute on my part for the hours of enjoyment they give me.

Sonic Youth = 24:16
Confusion is Sex = 35:40
Bad Moon Rising = 37:33
Evol = 39:09
Sister = 42:49
Daydream Nation = 70:47
Goo = 49:23
Dirty = 58:45
Experimental Thrash JS&NS = 47:30
Made in USA = 42:17
Washing Machine = 68:17
SYR1 = 22:35
SYR2 = 28:30
SYR3 = 56:18
A Thousand Leaves = 73:36
SYR4 = 105:42
NYC Ghosts and Flowers = 42:18
SYR5 = 48:44
Murray Street = 45:37
Sonic Nurse = 62:48
SYR6 = 65:31
Rather Ripped = 51:53
SYR7 = 41:08
SYR8 = 57:32
The Eternal = 56:25
SYR9= 58:08

I didn't even include their EP's, Side-Projects and Solo stuff...

or the deluxe editions with tons of extra crap!

Hey, I love their extra crap:o

I like to listen to A Thousand Leaves on Sundays. It's the absolute best day to listen that album. And not just because of the song that happens to share a title with that day of the week.

I am still scarred by watching dipshit Macualy Culkin making out with his gross girlfriend in that video.

As am I. They completely ruin the video.

every year the first day it feels like fall- i drive around dirt roads and listen to bad moon rising

YES! BMR is the best Fall/Autumn album there is!

It truly is! The music and cover art both!

I listen thousand leaves in autumns. And about that passing away of the artists, I listened yhe whole Captain Beefheart-discography soon after his passing.

My only SY tradition was to go see their record-release shows and parties here in LA, but alas, I can't seem to do that anymore now can I ;)

The SYRs are jams and pre-versions of later album material which always seems to be collaborative. Thurston and Kim somtimes actually switch songs before recording the album, but Lee, all his tunes seem to be solidly his tunes, both lyrically and musically. So maybe Lee's tunes aren't part of that creative process that has been the SYRs?

I think this isn`t totally correct. Maybe at first SYR`s meaning was to be pre-versions of album material, but already in SYR3 they seem to change direction to the total experimentalism. And in SYR4 there is just art music from other composers. Then came Kim´s collaboration. After that they started to release earlier experimental performances. So I think the meaning of SYR is just to release out-of-normal-album stuff, kind of too experimental stuff to the normal albums. Why there isn´t any Lee´s vocals, that´s mystery to me, because he´s doing vocals in his very experimental solos. Thurston´s experimental solos very rare include vocals, am I right?

And that´s Lee´s part isn´t also right. I think for example Mote has made by Thurston & Kim mostly, but Lee sings it. I think they do songs very collectively in SY.

i've always wanted a list of who wrote which lyrics

the songs are all collaborative (i think murray street was more thurston but generally the music is all collaborative) (i think, i'm never there when they write, but its what i've read) (so it must be true)
but the singer isn't always the lyricist

i assume that Lee writes his own lyrics but i think i read that thurston writes for kim too

Every year, on Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Day, I listen to Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style.