Sonic Youth: The Beatles of Our Generation
 

Shelley is Ringo, Ranaldo is Harrison, Moore is McCartney, Gordon is Lennon. It kind of fits doesn't it?

I always feel there's a kind of detachment in their music, it's not personal, which I feel the same about the Beatles.

sy are better than the beatles but not much better than yoko ono.

Jim O'Rourke is Yoko.

The Beatles were really experimental for their day too.

Bob Bert is Pete Best

corrected.

Yeah! Now we're getting into it. And When Sonic Youth break up Thurston will form a band called Bird Legs.

I can only hope Kim doesn't get murdered by a madman.

Oh no! What have I started?!

I wouldn't say they're the Beatles of our generation...the Beatles, while amazing, were straight pop even in their experimentation. Sonic Youth, while amazing, doesn't have that wide appeal.

that made me laugh

the beatles kick ass

so if sonic youth are the beatles..who's the stones?

The Beatles sure do kick ass.

Um maybe Nirvana, but only ironically in that Kurt Cobain died young whereas The Rolling Stones are all well into their old age.

nirvana are nowhere near parallel the awesomeness of the stones.

What is then? You can't blame me, I was under pressure, that was the best I could do with the material and the time I had, I'm stressed, I don't get paid enough, I work long hours, my wife doesn't love me, my kids are out of control, please don't fire me.

God, each band is distinctive, with an array of influences. No one will be ever the same as the other.

i will spare you my wrath

i think SY would actually be more like the stones. going forever. being awesome. the beatles broke up (stupidly) after a pretty short time..
so who's elvis?

Captain Beefheart!

okay, i can buy that.

You know I have never heard any Captain Beefheart songs.

Well that's your homework for this week.

shame on you

No fucking way Thurston is McCartney. McCartney was such a pussy, he always wrote the boring songs. He'd be Lennon, for sure. Switch that, and the rest are fine.
I think for the influence on the group, Lee might even be Lennon, because he seems to be the more... weird, experimental and artsy kind of guy, you knwo what I mean?

no, lee would be george harrison then
george harrison is the man behind within you without you

McCartney wrote the boring songs!? What about Helter Skelter!?

He got to the bottom of the slide.

Haha yeah



Both bands named albums after the roads where their recording studios were
Abbey Road
Murray Street

I wouldn't agree. There were bands that sound like the Beatles, but I've never heard a band that sounds like Sonic Youth.

husker du is the beatles of our generation. even though they came from a generation before me, but whatever.

Are we talking personalities or status? I feel that SY is underrated compared to the Beatles, so therefore they cannot be the Beatles of our generation.

The Beatles went from catchy pop to experimental psychedelic stuff.

Sonic Youth began with nightmarish psychedelic stuff to catchy pop.

IMO Guided by Voices are the Beatles of our generation. Just listen to Game of Pricks - it even sounds like it was recorded in the '60's!

the beatles were a ROCK band people, just because our ears are suffused with insanity and harsh noise does not mean that the "gentle" sounds of the beatles rock are POP music.
pop is celine dion, people singing standards, people making disposable mass market msuic. adults HATED the beatles, they rocked fOR the YOUTH

SONIC YOUTH

sonic truth

I ahve always thought of sonic youth as my Beatles, opening up their fan's ears and letting them see a wide spectrum of musical language.

sonic youth and beatles are the two greatest musical influences in my sonic life.

the statemen t the beatles of our generation" has less to do with the sound of their music than with their influence and wide ranging compositions. dumbasses.

I keep meaning to get a Captain Beefheart record...

I always think Ween sound a lot like a modern Beatles

Yes! Thank you! And with your previous post too.

polvo, early unwound, blonde redhead, etc?

You mean in comparison to Red Krayola, Velvet Underground, the Monks, Beefheart......?

You're saying that assuming that Sonic Youth are experimental for their day so the comparison is incorrect right? But Sonic Youth are hardly experimental in comparison to loads of other rock bands, and then there's all that Noise Music, and there's loads of Jazz that's a lot more experimental than Sonic Youth, and none of these genres compare to the experimentation done and still being done in the Classical world.

So I think the comparison is fair especially if you take into account Sonic Youths popularity compared to all those more experimental groups and The Beatles similar relative popularity. The beatles were way more experimental than a lot of stuff being produced at the time. No one else did so much for recording techniques. Revolution 9? Tomorrow Never Knows?

Remember also the huge variety of the Beatles music compared to those other bands.