Sonic Youth

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We’re currently doing a music league using the Band Jam App and our theme for this past round was Song for a Rainy Day. I found so many songs about rain when looking into this, so I decided randomly to do a top 50 list. See below for links to the #50 to 21 songs. You can listen below for the #20 to 11 songs.

I’ve included the list below the fold in a text format with streaming links. In case you’d rather do that. Though I didn’t find streams of all of the songs…

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Here’s an easy way to burn an hour. Sonic Youth playing at London’s Brixton Academy in the early 90’s. They actually shared a bill with Pavement that night. The audio and video quality here are pretty good by bootleg standards, so feel free to enjoy the whole thing. And if you don’t have an hour to kill, “Kool Thing” starts around 10:30.
Dronin’ Thurston is the best Thurston.
Drone on, Thurston. Drone on. For those of you keeping track, Moore’s backing band includes both Steve Shelly (also of SY fame) and MBV’s Debbie Googe. Plus, you know, Thurston fucking Moore. I’m assuming “Forevermore” will be on Moore’s upcoming solo effort, The Best Day, out 10/21 on Matador Records.