Then this wondering was replaced by the realisation that I didn’t want to be the silent muse, mopping a floor when the song about me comes on the radio, I would rather be the one writing the songs. Listening to my tapes, hearing song after song about characters cruel, beautiful, unattainable, fantastic, I wondered about all these silent people, living their lives somewhere out in the world, and perhaps sometimes hearing their song on the radio, and feeling happy, or annoyed, or wistful. They are not my kind.Īnother thing I wondered at that point was whether anyone would ever write a song about me. I didn’t know much about it all at that point but I hoped not to encounter one of these volcanic lovers. All I could picture was a tall man with dreadlocks and a flannel shirt, a biddable but a little stupid character, who was an over-eager lover. The idea of it terrified my teenage self. I have no idea who that explosive person is, or if they are real, but my guess is that it must be at least based on someone. In particular I wondered how it would be to be the person who inspired that song. I do remember pondering the song Supernova, especially the line: “And you fuck like a volcano and you’re everything to me”. It was music for confident people, of which I certainly didn’t feel like one. Although I knew the hits, at the time there was something too bright and shiny about her songs and I didn’t pay them much attention. Note: Start times of scheduled Saturday morning preview segments of rage may vary in some states due to pandemic news updates.Listening to this tape now, I have probably thought more about Liz Phair than I ever have before. THE CARPENTERS - 'Superstar' THE BREEDERS - 'Cannonball' DEVO - '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' CAT POWER - 'Crossbones Style' BRYAN FERRY - 'Let's Stick Together' Tune in to the rage Sonic Youth special this Saturday August 21 from 10am and again from 11:45pm on ABC TV. Here are a few of the clips they picked over the years: Join us this weekend as we celebrate four decades since Sonic Youth formed by replaying all the best moments from their 19 rage hostings, plus all of the music videos we have in the vault. Sonic Youth became the trailblazers for artists like Beck, Sigur Rós, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement and most famously Nirvana, and 40 years later their mark on music remains indelible. It was an album that changed everything for alternative music, capturing the imaginations of millions by perfectly balancing underground, avant-garde and experimental artistic expression with a more accessible composition style, proving that indie bands didn't have to compromise on their art to achieve critical and commercial acclaim. Sonic Youth spent most of the 1980s steadily releasing albums and making their name in music, but their breakthrough moment finally came in 1988 with the release of their fifth studio album, Daydream Nation. Where no-wave ultimately got no-where, Sonic Youth began slowly shaping their own sound by harnessing all the chaos, noise and experimentation of no-wave but channelling it through a distinctly pop-driven songwriting approach that grew stronger with each progressive release. This weekend, we're taking the Express Way To Yr Skull to celebrate 40 years of Sonic Youth with a special all about the New York indie-rock pioneers.įorming in 1981, Sonic Youth emerged during the twilight of New York's ‘no wave’ scene, adopting the noisy, experimental and avant-garde aesthetic of underground bands like The Static and DNA but shying away from it's nihilistic 'boo-we-hate-everything' ethos.
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