Tom Violence Is...
 

one of the greatest songs ever written, i'm convinced of it. i fucking love that song. i haven't seen em play it live in a while, i wish they'd bring it back out. no point really, just ranting. thanks for listening. end of transmission.

a dream coming out of a girl.

Tom Violence has taken the wind out of my sails.

AGREED.

Its a genius song indeed.

i don't get it? does m. ward do a cover of tom violence or something? matter of fact, does anybody know of any covers of the song? hook me up!

TV rules....

It seems that in every transcription of the lyrics to M Ward's "Helicopter" there's a conspicuous comma between the words "Tom" and "violence", but I'm pretty sure Ward meant the line I quoted as a reference to the SY song, at least partially. He did cover the tune, in fact, on Rodriguez's Swing Like a Metronome, but in a 2005 interview he said that album "wasn't very good".

kool, how can i find that cover?

Not huge on M. Ward, but wouldn't mind hearing his take on TV.

Tom Violence is good but in my opinion Sonic Youth have tons of better songs.

Tom Violence is one my favourite SY songs. Perfect opener and perhaps the best song on EVOL.

I had a dream a couple nights ago.
In the dream I had to go to a sy concert but something happened and I was late. When I arrived to the venue I heard they start playing while I was still running to the tickets stand, and the first song was "Tom Violence". I was really pissed and sad for missing it.
This must mean I love this song.
And I really do.

Yes, thinking about it again it's one of their best songs.

Its good, id agree.
But i think its better staying as a really good opening track rather then 'one of the greatest songs ever written'!

one of my least favourite of that sy era, as opposed to silver rocket which still blows me away

they played it here in february.

It's up there. Right under 'poppin' bottles'.

Well this only took me 14 months: http://www.sendspace.com/file/opp58r

One of my fav SY songs. Truely incredible. I absolutely love the skronking noisy part in the middle. That sound on 1:18 really does it for me.

It actually might be my favorite SY song... WELL, there's always cross the breeze...

Wow, thanks! I love M. Ward.

Tom Violence = walking through city streets at 2am

Yeah! I love that part. It's an awesome song.

tom violence comes on like a dream
peaches and cream
lips like strawberry wine....

Perhaps the best SY album opening song. Just my opinion, WHOREOHSCOPE

Where are all these old threads coming from?
old thread is old.
TV is shockingly good, i like to watch Thurston play it live.

YES.

I always think "actually this song could be my favourite Sonic Youth song", and then I remember about the existence of Cross the fuckin' Breeze.