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This thread is totally dedicated to Sonic Youth's influences, whether it be music, art, books, movies, etc.
Take a look at this thread from a Mars Volta forum (http://www.thecomatorium.com/board/i...howtopic=20371), it's a really, good acurate list of The Mars Volta's influences which we should try to compile like. Try to quote from magazine scans, interviews, etc. I'll start it off: Speaking of the mix tape, what’s on Sonic Youth’s road tape? Flipper. Flipper still rules. Montrose. Sparks—like, pre-Georgio Moroder Sparks. But some of that’s on there. Bar-Kays. You know, that kind of stuff. The new CD-Rs from (former Hardkiss vanity label) Sunburn, we’ve been listening to those a lot, they’re really good. (http://www.magnetmagazine.com/interviews/moore.html) Thurston's "Throbbing" 13: Funhouse - Stooges White Light / White Heat - Velvet Underground Marquee Moon - Television Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids Ramones - Ramones Radio Ethiopia - Patti Smith Damaged - Black Flag Bug - Dinosaur Jr It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy Impressions - John Coltrane Ege Bamyasi - CAN Bleach - Nirvana Killer - Alice Cooper (http://www.spikemagazine.com/0600thurstonmoore.php) |
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kim said she was into Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield and the Laurel Canyon scene.
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Roots and Influences:
Ron Asheton, Glenn Branca, James Chance, Greg Ginn, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Lloyd, Ian MacKaye, Sterling Morrison, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Pere Ubu, Robert Quine, Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, Silver Apples, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Tom Verlaine, James Williamson, Neil Young, John Zorn http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/ar...792#influences |
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Lee was really into the Grateful Dead when he was younger. Total hippie.
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Yeah. See, I sometimes think I'm a fan of Sonic Youth not so much because of their music, but because they're fans of the same music as me... I'd like to know who/what their literary inspirations are. (I have Ginsberg on my wall.. I'm willing to bet they do too.) |
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Some great stuff on that list
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The New York Dolls as well, one of their major litarary influences has to be Jack Kerouac.
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oh, the return of TT13
the rest: (circa late '90s) Kim Gordon THE GOLDEN YEARS Billie Holiday YOU'RE LIVIN' ALL OVER ME Dinosaur Jr DAMAGED Black Flag GI Germs ROYAL TRUX Royal Trux LEE & NANCY Lee Hazelwood, Nancy Sinatra RADIO LL Cool J EXILE ON MAIN STREET The Rolling Stones GREATEST HITS Shangri-Las DA CAPO Love LIVE IN JAPAN Vol.1-2 Carpenters FUNKADELIC Funkadelic Lee Ranaldo ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan ANAL BY ANAL (7") Boredoms HUNKY DORY David Bowie LIVE DEAD Grateful Dead BLANK GENERATION Richard Hell & the Voidoids JONI MITCHELL Joni Mitchell LIFE OF CRIME Laughing Hyenas THIS YEARS MODEL Elvis Costello & the Attractions 6+12 STRING GUITAR Leo Kottke MADONNA Madonna THE FREED MAN Sebadoh WORLDBROKEN Saccharine Trust HEY LOVE (12") King Sun-D Moet Steve Shelley SISTER LOVERS Big Star MOANIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT Howlin' Wolf STICKY FINGERS The Rolling Stones MARQUEE MOON Television HEARTATTACK AND VINE Tom Waits ON THE BEACH Neil Young CLEAR SPOT Captain Beefheart VELVET UNDERGROUND Velvet Underground TENDER PREY Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN Leonard Cohen DINOSAUR Dinosaur II Meat Puppets Quote:
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Yeah, I remember being utterly disappointed and shocked that Thurston held a rip-off, meathead medley like "Bleach" in such high esteem.
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Jim O'Rourke... I think he was a major influence to the band these last few years.
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The Velvet underground definatly seem to hold the lions share of SY's influence if you ask me
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He was just probably tryin' to be a sweetheart, much like Lee was with picks like Saccharine Trust. |
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I'm guessing you weren't around when Bleach came out? I'm not being facetious - its just that Bleach may sound a little different to current ears after the whole Nirvana explosion and the adoption of that scene by, as you say, "meatheads". It was at the time, and remains to my ears, an incredibly strong album. |
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What would be a good intro to Fred Smith's work?
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