Why I Hate SONIC YOUTH

"Sonic Youth Were Generations Apart From Their Idols - Despite What They Claim On Film"

Watching Thurston Moore reminisce about the good ol days with Joey, Dee Dee and Chrissie is enough to gag a magot. I was watching a punk video on the history channel a few weeks back and Thurston told his story with historic acuracy.... well... as accurate as ANYONE who has done thier homework from a Tower Records book department.

Sonic Youth came out in the late 80's and barely made a stir on the campus airwaves. You had to find people who liked them in 87. Even after "EVOL" came out, ( a record I returned for lack of musical likeability ) it took a while for their sound to have any type of recognizable melody to it. To put it frankly you had to be on drugs to really dig this sound, (the drug part eurupted in the early 90s and THEN their sound took off).

But the really awful thing about Moore was watching him pontificate about how great it was to be around Dee Dee and Joey from the Ramones... and more oddly, Patti Smith! Now, maybe what he was babbling about was partly true. I am not in the music business. But the GOLDEN YEARS he is referring to was back in 1976 in New York City in the punk rock scene. Moore is younger than I am and when the punk scene was taking off I was ten years old.

And now I am supposed to suspend belief that Moore and Co. were partying backstage at CBGB's with Patti Smith and the New York Dolls? How fucking ridiculous. So we are supposed to believe that he was a hard rage rocking punk rocker at age six? What horseshit. Seriously.

I wanted to jump through my tv screen and beat the crap out of Thurston Moore as I watched this clip. The entire claim was not only bogus but totally absurd. Patti Smith is about a hundred years old and even when she was considered big news she only had one or two early albums that really made a huge headline with Rolling Stone Magazine.

It was brief.

Hint: In the late 70s there were no Sonic Youth records..... It was Devo man, Clash, Pistols and in America it was the Plasmatics and Blondie.

Honest Cantu 2007, posted this on June 17, 2007 at 10:38 pm