1983 Sonic Youth Interview
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Short Interview with Sonic Youth members Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore. Last minute interviewer Byron from the band Crazy Hearts, unfortunately due to a no-show who preferred illicit substances......... Byron was being interviewed the same day for his band so he just filled in. Jan. 8, 1983, Episode 17. Honestly, no one had any idea back then what they would become. Videowave is a TV and Internet program featuring artists and music ignored by the mass media. #SonicYouth The thumbnail for this video is from a photograph that was taken at the time by Robert Barry Francos.
00:00 Hello
01:00 Touring and Goals
02:30 Goodbye
A clip from their Minneapolis concert mentioned in the interview has been restored and uploaded here:
• Sonic Youth: Confusion...
The restored version of this episode can be found here:
• VW017 Sonic Youth Inte...
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A clip from their Minneapolis concert mentioned in the interview has been restored and uploaded here:
ruclips.net/video/XFvkKh_SEYA/видео.html
Also, the restored version of this episode can be found here:
ruclips.net/video/5X38rsjGhEI/видео.html
Feel the energy in the room. The only discernible life is in the interviewer's hair upon which Thurston must have rubbed his guitar strings before the start.
POOFY VERTICAL EARLY '80s HAIR
After all the years they still look about the same.
80s sonic youth was kind of intimidating
thurston is good at making his point of view noticable over all
90s sonic youth jumped Nardwuar
@@dazeofheaven That wasn't really intimidating. That was just bullying
@@michaelgraham9774 nardwaur deserves it
@@hankworden3850 wtf no
It's so sad that the band put in so many years learning to smoke that by the time they'd finally mastered it, it was no longer fashionable.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣 The important thing is, shareholders in Philip Morris had good returns on their investments. 😑
People just want to look at how youthful Sonic Youth were
Now they’re Sonic Elderly 🙃
@@effdonahue6595they were sonic elderly since the 90s
Two and a half minutes into the interview: "Ok, we're going to have to wrap this up..." Lol
“Going down south” (North Carolina) was where the live version of “I wanna be your dog” was recorded and put on the Confusion is Sex album.
Cats Cradle, right? Place is still alive and kicking. Going to see Yo La Tengo there this March.
@@AZ-hg6kw Can someone confirm this? I live in NC. Saw Boris at Cat's Cradle last August.
@@AZ-hg6kwno, it was at the pier in Raleigh. It’s no longer around
@@prlysissame. No it was at a venue called the pier in Raleigh. They played with Swans
It's so hard to imagine that Kim is 30 here... She looks like she's in her early 20s! It really goes to show that age is just a number. Especially if you're Kim Gordon.
Yeah and now shes almost 100 years old and looks like shes only 84.
when you do what love
you don't feel older anymore
and the body responds to that in a positive way
common, ms gordon looked 40+ hreoin addict since i remember, which would bee the earliee ninetees, thurston on the other hand is scary. But Kim Gordon now looks sexy, healthier i guess.
She was actually 29, this (1-08-1983) was a couple of months before her 30th birthday (4-28-1983)
I think she looks exactly her age and I mean that in a good way.
It's nice to see indoor smoking.
:-)
@@TheDamageinc81 - Me too.
Lee is such a hot young italian dream boat! Xoxo
we are gonna mention a few things in the intro that we either won't get in depth with or won't get to at all lol.
World's shortest interview
i wish i had seen this sonic youth live
I wish I saw them in 1983 instead of 1990.
@@marcopervo Why? You didn't like them in 1990?
And where did you see them?
really?, I kind of had enough
@@marcosb733227 What do you mean?
@@Dreamcatcher9000 That I don´t wish I saw SY in 83. I kind of regreet a youth culture that I feel undermined the lives of many
'Wrap this up', after 2;43, minute, hilarious, a mini-interview :-)
To be fair, besides the problems outlined above, back then few would have guessed what they would become.
"We're going to let a band light cigarettes and then kick them off."
how dare he not know kim's name
Amo essa banda
this feel literally SO natural...smooothe interviewingz's
People acted like they had more time back then. Watch any Dick CAvanaugh interview
Yeah the formality of the intro was about as long as the interview itself.
Lendário entrevista
Thurston Moore
25/07/58
63 años
Kim was already 30 there! WTF!
sometimes i forget that Sonic Youth became truly successful when the members were all in their 40's, that's crazy!
@@crossovo Goes to show how age has no limit on talent. People are pressured to become famous young but youth isn't everything. A lot of famous actors don't break out until their 30s or 40s.
dude looks like ned from ned's survival guide
Odd interview. “We need to wrap this up.” Down South as in The Grow Columbia, SC!
wow very early interview of Sonic Youth!😎
3:01 short n' sweet
lee looks baller as fuck in thsi
An time capsule.
2:00 this dude's cup is fucked.
fo real tho
hey respect new wave luv dat fresh style ;)
jakob woho * no wave
anyone else think the interviewer was kinda weird to kim?
for sure
Where's the Minneapolis video mentioned during the interview??? That'd be December 1982, right? That would be quite interesting to see.
i like how kim mocks the producer by doing the finger spinning thing.
I didn’t know anyone in the band was a smoker. I found that mildly surprising
@Pason Jayne This interview took place in 1983, so not sure what this has to do with grunge, but regardless, I've never seen members of SY smoking cigarettes besides here. Lol!
@@andrewptob nope..me either...
@@andrewptob Soundgarden and green river were both active in 1983 so technically grunge was already popping up at that time.
@@dudeman5303 well technically The Nile Song was released in 1969.
They were an underground noise band in the early 1980s, and smokers were the norm among the hardcore adjacent back then. If you didn't smoke scenesters would joke that you were some kind of health nut.
Kim is stunning 🎶👑
🖤🖤🖤🖤
Okay, that was weird. Why did it end so abruptly?
"A good new healthy ingredient to the band" Thurston could not be any more wrong here.
Despite the fact that he didn't really like being in the group, he was a fucking groove monster! His drums are one of my favorite things about "Confusion is Sex"
@@iamdamosuzuki_ yeah he was the best behind Steve - Bob Berts drumming also frustrated me, and just wasn’t very good live tbh. I’d rank
Best to worst:
Steve, Jim, Richard, Bob
Do you have the live clip from Minneapolis they mention? That is my #1 holy grail Sonic Youth rarity I’ve been dying to see for decades!
If I recall, it may have been part of the program, but it was horrible quality. I'll let you know if I find it.
@@VideowaveMusic Thank you for replying!
@@VideowaveMusic I would love to see it also. You're going to upload it here at YT? Thanks
@@Xcalator35 Yes over at the sister channel www.youtube.com/@1982Videowave
@@VideowaveMusic Thanks!
And, within 3 to 4 years...they were making some ridiculous and amazing music.
They already were.
They already were.
@@fortressofdesire ...what
They look like the family from the Beetlejuice film.😆
The interviewer reminds me of either Krist or Andy, but I can't decide which...
Easter Island Statues I thought the same but just Krist Novoselic
@@iprobablylikedyourvideo2231 In fact, I thought it was Krist xd
lol this is so funny
oh my god thurston is the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen
Do it yourself noise rock? Yes please
what the hell? they're all smoking?? pretty funny!
a lot of people smoked on tv in the 80s atleast in italy, and it was fucking cool
all the way up into the 90's, too.
It's still cool, just not in public
yeah right LOL
In the 60-80ies smoking, boozing, casual drugs and sex were still allowed and normal. Then we got obsessed with security and some discovered there was a heck of a business in it. Ever since you'll get diseases from sex, car crashes from drinking and cancer from smoking. And they chopped almost every tree to avoid you'd hang yourself out of boredom ;-)
Sonic Youth should’ve stayed the way they were in 1983. NO WAVE was who they truly were.
A fascist way of thinking. You are truly this, and you over there are truly that, so learn your place and and don't you ever forget it!
Totally agree. When Goo came out, I about puked. The last great album they did was Bad Moon
@@azhbahaSonic Youth totally and admittedly sold out for the money with "Goo"- Thurston and Kim admitted they wanted to cash in on the emerging alternative rock scene that was starting...literally said that.
@@joedoomsdaypio4374 Source?
@@joedoomsdaypio4374so what? Who gives a shit. They busted ass for a decade doing everything themselves (touring, recording, sleeping on peoples floors every night, barely having money for food, etc..). I would have done the same thing. They deserved some money in their pockets at that time. Plus its not like they suddenly started making terrible music lol. All their albums are good
Thorston looks like a young Jandek wtf
the best time for post modern art is 1990s
*0:04** "You're on"*
KIM ALTHEA GORDON
28 DE ABRIL DE 1953
69 AÑOS (70). (71)
I need some Van Halen NOW!
This is what's smoking: Kim Gordon brings Tony Oursler into the conversation.
Tony Oursler was on VW....Maybe she knew that because it was around the same time.
Who was he supposed to be interviewing?!?
THURSTON JOSEPH MOORE
25 DE JULIO DE 1958
64 AÑOS (65). (66)
smoking is cool
Very I’m in a band
god. the interviewers hair is so distracting
your avatar is
POOFY HAIR STICKUPBUTT BOY interviews SY
My first lessons were hard to forget about madia spy trajedys. I guess you weren't robbed enough to be prepared for you.
Back here just for see a gorgeous display of Kim
Robot host
The real Thurston, moody and semi-delinquent.
Confirmed: they were smokers.
No future tours after his divorce
Skidscrapper
What kind of company or broadcast station etc. even let this type of guy conduct an interview
this is pretty boring....are they all just waking up or going to sleep?
The SickNeeds Probably both lol
Smack.
Cigarettes are cool
she's so attractive here holy fuck
This interviewer sucked rule 1 -know the lead singers name
Lousy beatniks. Pretentious as all get out.