Sonic Youth

Yeah, I can't remember.

I think I saw, was it Dirty by Sonic Youth? They had that one at not too bad a price.

As you said, I think this was the one I was kind of expecting them to take the piss a bit with the prices.

But in the end, the one thing that I bought from it, I was actually quite happy with the price in the end.

um but i will say like she ha she also has a very you know underrated music career i think a lot of people i going into this thought like oh she's just you know somebody who was like kind of coasting off of john lennon's coattails she puts out an album like within a year of his assassination that's like this really raw thing that's like very critically acclaimed She, you know, Kurt Cobain has said she's like the first female punk artist.

A lot of like Sonic Youth say that like her recordings are incredibly influential on them.

Yeah.

So she's, and then she's had this.

No.

Okay, so earlier than that, Sonic Youth.

And that is exactly who this band reminds me of.

Also Pavement, but less so them.

It's in the right ballpark, but it just is.

It's so annoying noise.

Are you a fan of Sonic Youth? No, they're terrible.

Agreed.

The band lineup is...

Steely Dan versus Sonic Youth versus Fugazi.

Who wins in this battle of the bands?

Probably Sonic Youth.

Really? Man, Tubes, you got me on this one.

I'm going to up the ante here.

We're talking 97? Yeah.

That's peak Sonic Youth.

There's everything going on in Broken Circle scene.

uh and uh their influences i think would be things like for example very much pavement you can hear pavement in there you can hear uh dinosaur junior uh even sonic youth as well but it's it's more complicated than that uh there's uh there's a lot of uh green pop elements or uh even things like my bloody valentine I could probably just list about 50 of the biggest indie or alternative artists in the last 20 years and 30 years and say that they're influencers because I think they draw their influences everywhere.

What is incredible about them, though, is they still sound...

A Broken Social Scenes song sounds like a Broken Social Scenes.

Okay, so what was 95? Cypress Hill.

Yeah, Cypress Hill, Beck, Sinead O'Connor, Jesus Lizard, Mighty Mighty, Boss Tones, Moby, The Far Side, Elastica, Patti Smith, and then Cypress Hill, Hole, and Sonic Youth.

But I remember going there.

Yeah.

So someone like you being able to love it makes me, you know, fills me with joy really.

It's beautiful and it's quite unique because I don't know, We'll talk eventually about the period of time you've been making music, but at some point in the 90s with the influence of people like Sonic Youth, I felt the lyrics became very throwaway with people in this kind of American manner of, you know, irony and, gee, I don't really give a shit about what I'm saying.

You know, it's just stuff.

But, yeah, so it's great to hear people put themselves into things, you know, and it's rare.

We don't put too many live pictures on our cover.

I know we had one of Sonic Youth years ago.

Kind of hard-pressed to think of any other ones, although I think there was one other one, at least since we became like a glossy computer-generated magazine, as opposed to me putting my pictures that I taped up on a tape-and-scissors deal.

The last 36 years of our 46 years to date, it's been done on a computer and Most of them are post shots, but wow, Tim Bugbee, what a great job.