Sonic Yoof

[Kounelaki]

Profile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/ju ... rock-music

Review of The Eternal
http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.c ... ent=169758

[withahip]

The Guardian article is over the top with its praise of the band.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/200 ... atado.html

A little more accurate - imho



Wasn't Pavement on Matador? Wonder if Ibold had anything to do with the band going there.

[Kounelaki]

Wasn't Pavement on Matador?

Yup.

What did you find OTT in the Guardian article?

[withahip]

Yup.

What did you find OTT in the Guardian article?

I am not as big of a fan as the writer so the praise felt like too much.
Sowwy.

[Kounelaki]

I am not as big of a fan as the writer so the praise felt like too much.
Sowwy.

I know you don't like them; just wondering what you found particularly OTT.

[withahip]

I know you don't like them; just wondering what you found particularly OTT.

I would like to like them, but they are so out of tune - it is like bad jazz to me. Also - I am uncomfortable saying this because I don't know their output post Dirty - but have they put out anything that really is memorable since the early 90s?

[Kounelaki]

"they continued to put out records - most of which, Ranaldo acknowledges, would have got any other band dropped"

[black francis]

Rather Ripped was great. Sonic Nurse half great.

[Kounelaki]

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[black francis]

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[JackT]

Rather Ripped was great. Sonic Nurse half great.

I like Rather Ripped. Daydream Nation is the only other album I have. My understaning is that those are at the more accessible end of the SY spectrum.

[Kounelaki]

Goo is arguably their most accessible album.

[Kounelaki]

Lee Ranaldo interview
http://www.eyeweekly.com/music/intervie ... onic-youth

[withahip]

They are so out of tune - all the time. It is as bad as Seals & Croft and in some weird way sounds the same.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEF470mXqU4&feature=related[/youtube]

[Kounelaki]

They don't use conventional tunings...

Anyhoo, great show last night at Massey Hall (so the sound was good). They played all the new album and a few older songs. Ended with a blistering version of Death Valley 69. Bill Gates is a great drummer.