david bowie & sonic youth ?
 

Is it "Afraid Of Americans" from Bowie's birthday party? That's old school.

Yes it is.

sorry mil :p

haha syrfox :p
i know it's a little bit old, but i was boring today, watching sy live videos, and i haven't seen this before!

how are you man?

You had heard it though, right? I remember that from Saucerlike.com yeaaaars ago. And "Ghost Ship In A Storm" :)

fine, fine, enjoying my holidays
and you ?

I'm fine too. it sucks that they are too short. but still having a good time here.

I remember it from tv, but it was years ago.. when I was watching it and I didn't know who sonicyouth are!

I'D NEVER SEEN THIS! Ahh, thats SO brilliant, thankyou for posting this even if it is old news for most of you. What year was this?

I've never heard it before. But my guess is, Reznor was too busy so he resorted to "those Sonic guys."

Well, I've never seen it before, so thanks! Pretty crazy to see SY and Bowie on the same stage. I never saw any connection between them.

It's still awesome, even if I have seen it before.

No, actually Bowie has really good musical taste and probably knows way more "underground" bands than we do.

I know, I was joking. I love Reznor, too.

Me too. Though I haven't heard YEARZEROREMIXED, THE SLIP or GHOSTS I-IV yet. I don't know what happened there!

They're all pretty different, and his stuff is extremely preference-based so it's hard to judge whether they'd be good for one person. But I'd recommend Ghosts. It's just a really weird fucking album, and a lot more interesting than the other two. Sometimes I hate it, and sometimes I love it. It's very random, and worth it just to have when you feel like it. The other two are more standard NIN.

And I'm sure you know, but here's the The Slip and the free 1/4 of Ghosts.

Earlier in the year, when they came out I still had dialup, so it was a real pain in the ass to download them. I figured I would buy the full GHOSTS but never did. I wasnt crazy about YEAR ZERO. I thought it was okay, but WITH TEETH was way better.

Yeah, I think With Teeth is my favorite album by him, along with Downward. It didn't get the appreciation it deserved, I think, cause it had more pop elements. I liked Year Zero a lot when it came out, but it didn't last very long. But there are a few awesome tracks that I still love (Vessel, Zero Sum, In This Twilight).

David Bowie and Sonic Youth should do a collaboration album

his good voice with sonic guitars will be great.

To NR: with teeth better than year zero..?
Come on.

He mentioned "Tom Violence" as one of his favorite songs in some interview, and he's said he still listens to Glenn Branca's work.

*Wayyyyyy better.

Although, Vessel was the single best live song I've ever seen in my life. No exaggeration.

something about 1995.

I love this version.

9-1-1997

Other guests:

Frank Black
Billy Corgan
Foo Fighters
Lou Reed
Robert Smith

you can download the whole show (2 dvds)

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3668...THDAY_DVD2.ISO

In my opinion, way way better. "All The Love In The World" is one of the best post-DOWNWARD SPIRAL and tgs he ever wrote, and the shit stays great throughout.

WOW, how did I never hear of this amazing collaboration??!! I'm such a huge fuckin Bowie fan. Fuck me for not knowing of this!!

Thanks for posting this! I was at this show and couldn't really hear SY's parts in the song. I remember wondering if someone turned them down in the mix and they were just on stage for show. But on this video I can hear them.

For us American readers, using the backwards ass calendar format, that's January 9th, not September 1st.

It rocks!

Haha SY scared Bowie into singin' that song.

and that was 12 years ago!

That was one of the first bootlegs I ever got.

Awesome, awesome, awesome show. Very highly recommended.

re: Ghosts

What do you get when you play new age music backwards?

New age music!