How cool do you reckon Sonic Youth are in 2010? - Page 2

Rob Instigator · 03.08.2010, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SYRFox

do not even dare to put MGMT in the same sentence as Animal Collective ever again or I'll be compelled to send you a power chihuahua. Which you really do not want to see.

is this because you are a huge MGMT fan, or because you are a huge Animal Collective fan?

SYRFox · 03.08.2010, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

is this because you are a huge MGMT fan, or because you are a huge Animal Collective fan?

I hate MGMT with a passion. Fucking boring band. They've got one good song and the rest is plain atrocious. Overhyped for no reason.

I don't think you can compare Animal Collective with them. I mean, it's fine to not like them (though I'm personally a huge fan, but I thought everyone on there knew that already), but they've not been hyped for no reason. They've been releasing albums and touring non stop (seriously. I've been able to see them three times in a year in Lille - I mean, that's not New York or London. That's Lille), evolving constantly (it's not like they've been doing the same formula for 9 years), exploring a broad range of music, from noise to freak folk to electronic pop to blahblahblah.

SYRFox · 03.08.2010, 01:26 PM

by the way this is a power chihuahua

may i tell you, you'd rather not deal with it

Rob Instigator · 03.08.2010, 01:42 PM

not fucking with that chihuahua

Toilet & Bowels · 03.08.2010, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

being a big nob end does not preclude coolness.

it totally does

!@#$%! · 03.10.2010, 02:47 PM

was "nob end" directed at miles?

jetengine · 03.11.2010, 06:10 PM

Sonic Youth always have been 'cool', and probably always will be. Thankfully, they're not 'hot', and I don't think they have ever been--not even in the early '90s. There's a big difference between 'cool' and 'hot'. Lady Gaga is 'hot'. Do you want that for Sonic Youth?

"'Cool' is involving. 'Hot' is not."--Marshall McLuhan (I think)

[Sandbag] · 03.11.2010, 06:45 PM

they're cooler than anything else going on in the music scene at the moment

imo

SonikJesus · 03.12.2010, 04:38 AM

yea. way cool.

Daddylikes · 03.12.2010, 04:39 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza8IaP70iQ

Toilet & Bowels · 03.12.2010, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

was "nob end" directed at miles?

keith richards. who is miles?

kingcoffee · 04.07.2010, 07:36 PM

SY are just as cool and relevant as ever, they just dont make albums like they used to. They have tons of side projects and interests and they all have families. As for the Rolling Stones, they should have retired in the early 70's and spared their leggacy from being tarnished by everything that followed Exile on Main St. which isnt even that great of a record to begin with.

cagedbird · 04.07.2010, 08:49 PM

Long live Tyler and yes, J-Jagger. I know they can.

Sonic Youth are cool. Cool is mild self-consciousness, following your peers and then going back to your own thing.

It's a cool economy that SY perform in, though.

demonrail666 · 04.07.2010, 09:50 PM

SY probably are cool. The problem is that's probably all they are now.

greedrex · 04.08.2010, 04:09 AM

i'd say "too cool for school". Where's the poll, Genteel?

whorefrost · 04.11.2010, 07:22 PM

I'd say Sonic Youth are infinitely uncool in a very cool way. The only thing that is less cool (in a hip way) is to spend time denigrating a band on their own website message board.

xx

automatic bzooty · 04.11.2010, 08:46 PM

the bees knees among the "young" "people"

EVOLghost · 04.11.2010, 08:55 PM

about.....this much.

ann ashtray · 04.11.2010, 10:33 PM

Cool in the way that they've made amazing music in the past, yes. Cool that there is a lot of history there, a lot of great stories to tell. The immense level of influence they've had on other bands is pretty cool, too.

As far as where they currently stand, they are kinda like the Dead. Fun to follow, but haven't evolved much musically in ages. Sometimes I wonder if Nurse will forever stand as their last AMAZING record. I hope not.

They're still are one of my favorite bands, but not because of anything they've done over the last few years.

Dead-Air · 04.11.2010, 11:14 PM

Nobody has been cool since the Fonz.

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jetengine children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 399	Sonic Youth always have been 'cool', and probably always will be. Thankfully, they're not 'hot', and I don't think they have ever been--not even in the early '90s. There's a big difference between 'cool' and 'hot'. Lady Gaga is 'hot'. Do you want that for Sonic Youth? "'Cool' is involving. 'Hot' is not."--Marshall McLuhan (I think)
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SonikJesus the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 998	yea. way cool.
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kingcoffee expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,510	SY are just as cool and relevant as ever, they just dont make albums like they used to. They have tons of side projects and interests and they all have families. As for the Rolling Stones, they should have retired in the early 70's and spared their leggacy from being tarnished by everything that followed Exile on Main St. which isnt even that great of a record to begin with. __________________ "No way, man! Cuz dyin' would be a stone groove! Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix?" "Yes. Pick up your puppy."
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cagedbird the destroyed room Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mid-Manhattan Library Posts: 567	Long live Tyler and yes, J-Jagger. I know they can. Sonic Youth are cool. Cool is mild self-consciousness, following your peers and then going back to your own thing. It's a cool economy that SY perform in, though.
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	SY probably are cool. The problem is that's probably all they are now.
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greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	i'd say "too cool for school". Where's the poll, Genteel? __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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whorefrost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arrived in Smoke, Arrived in Gold Posts: 2,569	I'd say Sonic Youth are infinitely uncool in a very cool way. The only thing that is less cool (in a hip way) is to spend time denigrating a band on their own website message board. xx __________________ hehehe
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automatic bzooty invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,859	the bees knees among the "young" "people"
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	about.....this much.
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ann ashtray expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Macon, GA Posts: 2,299	Cool in the way that they've made amazing music in the past, yes. Cool that there is a lot of history there, a lot of great stories to tell. The immense level of influence they've had on other bands is pretty cool, too. As far as where they currently stand, they are kinda like the Dead. Fun to follow, but haven't evolved much musically in ages. Sometimes I wonder if Nurse will forever stand as their last AMAZING record. I hope not. They're still are one of my favorite bands, but not because of anything they've done over the last few years.
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Dead-Air invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portland OR Posts: 4,300	Nobody has been cool since the Fonz. __________________ FuckBook; My Band; My Radio Show; My Flickr Page; Science Fiction Message Board
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