Same here. I'm in my 40s so this stuff was around during my teenage years when I should have been listening to it, but it's only in middle age that I've started to really appreciate how great these bands were.
The people: 1. SY like Ciccone Youth (old video footage) 2. Writer and music critic Harvey Pekar (on Letterman) 3. Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys, hitting the drums) 4. very young Joni Mitchell (It seems, but it isn't Nico) 5. German musician, producer, actor, etc Blixa Bargeld, in a long footage (Einsturzende Neubauten\ The Bad Seeds, 3:43 It's NOT Sid Vicious, It's NOT Sid Vicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 6. German actress Nastassja Kinski (''Paris\Texas'' footage. SY almost got sued by german director Wim Wenders, but everything ended well) 7. Jad Fair (Half Japanese) 8. Patti Smith (several times!) 9. Mark E. Smith (The Fall) 10. Henry Rollins (and The Black Flag, many times) 11. Daniel Johnston (playing accoustic guitar) 12. Neil Young 13. Sun Ra 14. Mike Watt playing an imaginary guitar (Minutemen/Firehose) 15. Iggy Pop (several times, solo and I think, maybe, from some old footage of The Stooges too, I am not sure) 16. Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\Fugazi) 17. actor\writer\director\Woody Allen fave, Alan Alda 18. The band MC5 19. The band Kiss, playing and dancing 20. Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls\The Heartbreakers) 21. D. Boon (Minutemen\ The Reactionaries, walking on a crowd) 22. young Nick Cave (3:35) 23. J. Mascis (Dinossaur Jr.) hitting 24. Lou Barlow (Sebadoh\Folk Implosion\Dinosaur Jr.) 25. Susanna Hoffs (1:46 in a Bangles video). Susanna is a real punk\alt country rock pioneer from Southern California, important figure from the movement Paisley Underground, with Kendra Smith, Rain Parade, David Roback and Hope Sandoval) 26. Elvis Presley dancing 27. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, ''father - or grandfather - of Counterulture'', William S. Burroughs. He worked as a sponken word artist with many bands\musicians (3:31) 28. comedian ''Pee-wee Hermann'' (Paul Reubens) 29. singer\songwriter\actor Tom Waits 30. Legend Richard Hell 31. Writer Jack Kerouac 32. Underground fillmmaker and photographer Richard Kern 33. Legendary Lydia Lunch 34. At 0:12, the classic formation of the band Pussy Galore, with Jon Spencer (from the well-known Blues Explosion, and the bassist Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) 35. Legendary Buffalo Springfield 36. Jeff McDonald (Redd Kross, 0:47) 37. 3:36 James Chance (saxophonist, keyboard player, songwriter and singer, legend from No Wave movement, frontman of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, James Chance and Les Contortions, and, of course, The Contortions) And Reference to: 38. Butthole Surfers (in a poster) 39. Throbbing Gristle (in a t-shirt) More: Legalize Pot Free City
0:12 Jon Spencer with Pussy Galore 0:20 Richard Hell 0:28 Richard Kern film?? 0:37 Bruce Pavitt 0:45 Johnny Thunders 0:46 Jeff McDonald 0:47 Patti Smith 0:54 Pee-wee Herman 1:11 Mark E. Smith 1:28 Black Flag 1:35 KISS 1:39 Iggy Pop 1:41 Harvey Pekar 1:42 Jack Kerouac 1:45 Susanna Hoffs 1:46 MC5? 1:54 Henry Rollins 2:07 The Beach Boys 2:10 Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow 2:12 Elvis 2:13 Sun Ra 2:23 Iggy Pop 2:27 Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield 2:28 Neil Young (holding yellow beer can, thanks Daman Lidison) 2:37 Jay Mascis swinging his guitar at Lou Barlow 2:42 Daniel Johnston 2:59 Mike Watt 3:25 Joni Mitchell 3:28 Ian McKay (thanks The Healing Company) 3:31 William Burroughs 3:34 Nick Cave (thanks mugre) 3:34 James Chance (thanks Daman Lidison) 3:35 Tom Waits 3:40 D. Boon 3:43 Blixa Bargeld 3:51 Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas) The following are supposedly in the video (according to IMDB), but I couldn't locate them. Maybe you can? Jad Fair Lydia Lunch A̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶A̶l̶d̶a̶ (was actually Mark E. Smith) Bonus points of anyone can identify whose boots are shown at 1:13
I guess "the Alan Alda cameo" is actually Mark E.Smith at 1:11 (so, to me you're right about Mark!) and that you're possibly wrong about Tom Waits at 3:35: I think that's James Chance (but I'm not sure). At 2:28 (after Neil Young/Buffalo springfield) it's hard to say, but it could be a frame from Neil Young "this note's for you" music video (... because of the yellow can of soda...).
@@damanlidison Thanks! You are exactly right about Neil Young. That shot if from the end of his music video. As for the James Chance, I think I had him mixed up with Nick Cave, not Tom Waits, because right after is definitely Tom Waits.
I love the video because it reminds me of my teenage years of wildness, craziness, fun, concerts, randomness, emotional, heartbreak, anti-social, and complete disregard of older people, popularity, and the norm.
A band that has combined polyphonic ideas of gregorian chant, via twenty first century guitar and music concrete. And has made it acceptable by non-christian appeal.
it was only a few years ago but when i was in 8th grade i rlly got into nirvana and all the sibling bands that came w them, and their influences, one of them being this band. it was a covid year, so i rlly just got to stay home, watch skate videos and listen to music that was new to me but several years old. i remember hearing this song and playing it regularly and how great and almost powerful it made me feel. i was in a hick town, where next to no one was privy to the genius of this song. it made me want to live life to the fullest. and whenever i hear it, it’s like God telling me to not be anxious, to just breathe. i’m gonna live up to my eighth grade promises
i was in 8th grade 10 years before this album even came out so I have different reference points (Velvet Underground was a main one), but I was also in a small hick town nd I felt exactly the same. :) Rock on!
Music has such an amazing power to transport you back to the emotions and memories that were attached the first time you heard it. This song came out my last year of high school - I was 17 and getting ready to go to the Army. I had done some “loose” stuff when I was a kid, and it was time to “get my shit in a sock” and grow up. But this song - and a bunch of others - was calling me to go wild. Years later I found that lost teenager and managed to get into a few “riots”. Now I’m old, I found the balance between riotous and responsible over the intervening 35 years. But still listening to this song in 2022. So great.
Thank God, I'm not the only person who keeps replaying the breakdown at 2:35. There's something so beautiful trapped in those 30 seconds leading into the end of the song.
This song, more than any other, gets me the closest to that feeling of being 18 and having your eyes opened to world. 35 years later, 1988 seems a hell of a lot cooler than I realized, at the time.
A native Californian, but was fortunate to live in NYC in the 80's. Saw Sonic Youth perform a couple times there. There was nothing like living in that city at that time, and Sonic Youth were definitely a part of that.
This is one of the coolest things ever assembled. Between the band and the song and the footage in the video, this is a time machine to the cool looking stuff before I really existed.
This brings back memories of long summer days spent in our rehearsal room with friends we spent hours talking and making music with, our first concerts in a friend's garage or garden when his/her parents were on vacation, the first sweethearts we now only have fond memories of, all our dreams, unfulfilled plans to conquer the world, to do things better then our parents did... Everything seemed possible and there were no limits. It really felt like we ruled the world during that short period of time that flew by without anyone of us realizing how precious every minute was and that none of this would ever come back...
Thurston Moore always wanted to be leading a “Teenage Riot.” A few years later, whilst touring Germany, he would interview a bunch of German fans who clearly didn’t have any idea what he was talking about, or, quite possibly, what he was even saying. And fair enough. It’s possible that Thurston wasn’t entirely sure. “People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?” Crickets. They have no idea. Of what he is talking about. “I think" Thurston answers himself "we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture, by mass marketing and commercial paranoia behaviour control. And the first step to do that is to destroy the record companies. Do you not agree?” Again, crickets. No teenage riot today. He should have just played them “Teenage Riot.” “Teenage Riot” rocks. “Teenage Riot” is a 10.
One of those albums that I rediscover every 8 - 10 months and wonder why the heck I am not listening to this more often. It isn't like today's music kicks ass or anything.
I am a living breathing fossil of homo erectus, and this record meant so much to me in my youth, along with fire starting, and the invention of stone tools.
Esse som é tão fascinante que eu não quero que acabe. Anos 80 e 90 foram as melhores décadas pra ser adolescente.................... ! Viva Sonic Youth!!!!!😎
God I miss bands like this that weren't afraid to explore what there instruments could do and make glorious dirty Rock n Roll you just never want to end. Sonic Youth got me through so much teenage bullshit.
One of the 1st examples of a pure Gen-X cultural product. Musically and visually setting the table for 90’s Alt Culture. Fills my heart with joy all the clips of their influences because they influenced so many other people. When they appear, ever so briefly, it is an invite to the coolest club.
@@Fjgfhgffhu-x9c أحد الأمثلة الأولى لمنتج ثقافي Gen-X خالص. إعداد الطاولة موسيقيًا وبصريًا للثقافة البديلة في التسعينيات. قلبي يمتلئ بالفرح لكل المقاطع التي أثرت فيهم لأنها أثرت في الكثير من الأشخاص الآخرين. عندما يظهرون، باختصار شديد، فهي دعوة لأفضل نادٍ.
Never been a fan of their albums but they were always among my favorite bands to catch live. Some things are just meant to be experienced live and Sonic Youth were definitely that.
Somehow only just now discovering what is almost certainly the best album to come out the year I was born. Damn, this song and all of Daydream Nation is just glorious.
This came out like a fireball and signaled the underground was going overground. Nobody would have guessed SY had a song like this in them two years earlier.
Yeah, two years earlier they made the brilliant EVOL, followed by the masterpiece Sister. Who would have thought they would soon try to get into mainstream with this crap? Luckily, Goo turned them back in the right direction again.
@@dragmio Goo was much more mass appeal than Daydream Nation. Like, a lot. Yet those two albums are still great in my book, closely followed by Evol and Sister
This is how the story is told in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azzerad. It had all come to a head at an early '88 show at a small club in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The place was far from packed and the band wasn't playing very well. They were halfway through "Severed Lips" when Barlow began making feedback with his bass instead of playing the usual part. "Lou is sitting on the drum riser, just making noise through every song - this one note - and just trying to goad us, taunting us, basically," says Mascis. "And I'm playing and I'm like, 'I think Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And it goes on a little bit more and I'm thinking, 'Yup, this is going to be bad, Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And I keep playing and I keep thinking that, and finally, I think, 'Huh, I guess Murph's not going to beat up Lou. I guess I'll have to do it.'" Mascis rushed across the stage and tried to hit Barlow with his guitar. Barlow raised his bass like a shield while Mascis bashed away at him repeatedly. ("It made a pretty good sound," Mascis recalls somewhat fondly.) After a few failed bashes, Mascis stalked offstage yelling, "I can't take it! I can't take it!" Barlow called after him, "Can't take what, J? Asshole!" and raised his fists in triumph. "I got really psyched, like psychotically happy, and just went, 'Yes!'" says Barlow. "I felt like he'd proved to me that he actually had feelings. He never would react to anything at all, ever." "I remember just sitting there at my drum set going, 'OK, this is my perfect opportunity to pummel both of these guys,'" says Murph. "But instead I just walked off." Barlow followed Mascis and Murph backstage and assured them that he didn't mean anything by the feedback. The band went out again, played what was surely a fearsome cover of "Minor Threat" and drove home in silence. It was the beginning of the end.
I was at that show at the Nighshift. Azerrad pretty much nailed the description dead on. I would estimate there were about 20 people in the club. B.A.L.L. (Kramer of Shimmydisc Records’ band) opened. They left about 10 minutes into Dino Jr’s set. Kind of a lousy night all around.
@@DiegoAcosta-no9kq i know, but they did play a show in central park together back in the 90s i believe. must've been one hell of a show! one of those i'd take a time machine back for
@@videoestres bastante gente puede ser, pero realmente hay mucha gente que conoce realmente el impacto que tuvo sonic youth en la escena alt de los ochenta y noventa, una banda verdaderamente histórica y revolucionaria, pero claro, siempre habrá posers xd
It’s a weird feeling seeing all the people reminiscing on their youth, and I’m in my youth trying to learn this song for my college application. If you guys could tell your younger self one thing, what would you say?
I don’t think a lot of people disliked Sonic Youth, but I remember a lot of people were upset about their last album, The Eternal, when it came out in 2009.
This song makes me sad. I should've had new experiences during my teenage years but chose to barely leave my house. Now I'm 18 and adult life is knocking on the door
You're not the only one, tons of us grew up in high control cults and had no life as a teen. But life is far from over at 18. I had some ragers through my 20's and beyond.
I turned 18 in June and I’ve been thinking the same as u but now I’m thinking fuck it cos we can have fun our whole lives and don’t need to go by the rule book of growing up n stuff
i can see my young self driving my 84 olds delta88 down the highway young and free everybody alive.. i miss those times and this music a friend from work turned me on to sonic youth
I’m not gonna lie when I first heard this song I thought it was from the 2010s, this song was way ahead of its time Sonic Youth were way ahead of their time
When was the last time you watched this? There are less than 375, 000 views of this video on Tubetube. Obviously there is no accounting for taste. I only mention it because it absolutely conveys and illustrates how goddamn blessed we all were to be part of the club and THAT time. The imagery here makes it all come back...flyers, fun, KISS, Minutemen....that's a small club when you think about it all now. It felt bigger then but it was just actually less than half a million Americans who cared about Husker DU, X, Bob Stinson dying....Mission of Burma, The Jazz Butcher, etc. I had never really realized just how small and special our time was. I thought every town had a Al Perry.
I miss my friends listening to this. The world is going to shit and we need to live. Miss having no troubles or preocupations apart from what were we going to do next (thinking about the weekend, every week)
Sonic Youth will be truly appreciated after their time. Even though they are a legendary band I somehow feel that they haven’t gotten their true respect, kind of like Van Gogh
I played this song on my high school radio show during lunch break. And all I have to say my subject for that class didn't last to long. Nor did my friend neither. His flaw was the Beastie Boys.(when they were Hardcore NYC Punk Band)
I'm posting halfway through this video but i'm wondering if somebody get tell me how many different bands are in this video. I saw the butthole surfers flyer in the beginning and a little clip of black flag with henry rollins with hair singing, and then i saw a little bit of iggy pop. I think i saw Ian Mackay from minor threat live onstage and also nick cave with his thumbs in his ears and index fingers pointed up. Weird so many hard-core and punk icons. *Edit* From Wikipedia: The video for the song was Sonic Youth's fourth overall, excluding the low-budget Ciccone Youth videos; the band directed it themselves. It included clips of many icons of alternative music culture such as Mascis, Mark E. Smith, Johnny Thunders, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Sun Ra, D. Boon, Mike Watt, Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Blixa Bargeld and Kiss.
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true Looking for a man with a focus and a temper Who can open up a map and see between one and two Time to get it, before you let it get to you Here he comes now, stick to your guns and let him through Everybody's coming from the winter vacation Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you You come running in on platform shoes With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew Teenage riot in a public station Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper nation for you Now I see it, I think I'll leave it out of the way Now I come near you and it's not clear why you make the away Looking for a ride to a secret location Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin' And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do for now It better work out, I hope it works out my way 'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city ahead It takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand We know it's down, we know it's bound too loose Everybody's sound is 'round it Everybody wants to be proud to choose So who's to blame for the stormy weather You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze It's time to go 'round, a one man showdown, teach us how to fail We're off the streets now and back on the road, on the riot trail
they’re music was so ahead of its time fr. they’re was groundbreaking then as it would be now. in my opinion i don’t think ill ever hear a band that does it for me like they do☹️ wish i was born back then
@@psychocandy-f9 через книгу)) увлекался Нирваной, читал про Нирвану и узнал о Сониках. Курт был их яростным поклонником. Первый ☝️ альбом, который слышал я - это был Гуу)). И кстати это было в 1998 году, то есть даже более чем 20 лет назад. Проблем с покупкой не было, все уже было. Горбушка))) - сила. 💪 После Гуу, альбом - Грязь, любимый 🤩 трек - 💯 %. Сандей - это уже попса. И Суперстар мне нравится 👍. Чапел-Хилл - душевно и сейчас зашел. Грязные ботинки 🥾 и т д
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather And what's a man to do but work out whether it's true Looking for a man with a focus and a temper Who can open up a map and see between one and two Time to get it before you let it get to you Here he comes now Stick to your guns and let him through Everybody's coming from the winter vacation Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you You come running in on platform shoes With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew Teenage riot in a public station Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you Now I see it I think I'll leave it out of the way Now I come near you And it's not clear why you fade away Looking for a ride to your secret location Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation for you Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rocking And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now It better work out I hope it works out my way 'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand We know it's down We know it's bound too loose Everybody's sound is around it Everybody wants to be proud to choose So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze It's time to go round A one man showdown, teach us how to fail We're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail
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2020... i am 64... this was such a GREAT time of my life...i miss my friends.....bob
daniel .sievers man. That’s the saddest comment I’ve read in a while. Probably because it’s incredibly relatable. Thanks for that.
42.....and feel the EXACT same. Thank you for empathizing, sir.
aw :(
30 Me 2
51 ...same...
This is one of those songs you never want to end
unlike - "mildred pierce". that sent me screaming out of the house because my brain needed to breathe.
Except they left out the beginning. WTF?!
Theres a longer version
Right. Feels like losing your bff to a new bff.
59 here
The older I get, the more I appreciate Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., for some reason.
What about Sebadoh
Same here. I'm in my 40s so this stuff was around during my teenage years when I should have been listening to it, but it's only in middle age that I've started to really appreciate how great these bands were.
@@llywelyngruffydd8474 I'm in my late 30s, but have the same problem
Exactly the same here, Fart
Don't forget gg allin and Johnny thunders
Sonic youth were insanely ahead of their time, true pioneers
The people:
1. SY like Ciccone Youth (old video footage)
2. Writer and music critic Harvey Pekar (on Letterman)
3. Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys, hitting the drums)
4. very young Joni Mitchell (It seems, but it isn't Nico)
5. German musician, producer, actor, etc Blixa Bargeld, in a long footage (Einsturzende Neubauten\ The Bad Seeds, 3:43 It's NOT Sid Vicious, It's NOT Sid Vicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
6. German actress Nastassja Kinski (''Paris\Texas'' footage. SY almost got sued by german director Wim Wenders, but everything ended well)
7. Jad Fair (Half Japanese)
8. Patti Smith (several times!)
9. Mark E. Smith (The Fall)
10. Henry Rollins (and The Black Flag, many times)
11. Daniel Johnston (playing accoustic guitar)
12. Neil Young
13. Sun Ra
14. Mike Watt playing an imaginary guitar (Minutemen/Firehose)
15. Iggy Pop (several times, solo and I think, maybe, from some old footage of The Stooges too, I am not sure)
16. Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\Fugazi)
17. actor\writer\director\Woody Allen fave, Alan Alda
18. The band MC5
19. The band Kiss, playing and dancing
20. Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls\The Heartbreakers)
21. D. Boon (Minutemen\ The Reactionaries, walking on a crowd)
22. young Nick Cave (3:35)
23. J. Mascis (Dinossaur Jr.) hitting
24. Lou Barlow (Sebadoh\Folk Implosion\Dinosaur Jr.)
25. Susanna Hoffs (1:46 in a Bangles video). Susanna is a real punk\alt country rock pioneer from Southern California, important figure from the movement Paisley Underground, with Kendra Smith, Rain Parade, David Roback and Hope Sandoval)
26. Elvis Presley dancing
27. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, ''father - or grandfather - of Counterulture'', William S. Burroughs. He worked as a sponken word artist with many bands\musicians (3:31)
28. comedian ''Pee-wee Hermann'' (Paul Reubens)
29. singer\songwriter\actor Tom Waits
30. Legend Richard Hell
31. Writer Jack Kerouac
32. Underground fillmmaker and photographer Richard Kern
33. Legendary Lydia Lunch
34. At 0:12, the classic formation of the band Pussy Galore, with Jon Spencer (from the well-known Blues Explosion, and the bassist Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog)
35. Legendary Buffalo Springfield
36. Jeff McDonald (Redd Kross, 0:47)
37. 3:36 James Chance (saxophonist, keyboard player, songwriter and singer, legend from No Wave movement, frontman of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, James Chance and Les Contortions, and, of course, The Contortions)
And Reference to:
38. Butthole Surfers (in a poster)
39. Throbbing Gristle (in a t-shirt)
More:
Legalize Pot
Free City
At 13 seconds, that's pussy galore
+joão inácio da silva I thought that looked like Harvey Pekar giving Letterman a hard time. thank you.
+officialsuperrad Yep. Pantomiming "Spin Out" on the Uncle Floyd public access show. Hilarious!
+joão inácio da silva
In between Lrgalize Pot and Free City we get a White Panther from the MC5 / John Sinclair related White Panther Party.
+joão inácio da silva: Thank you VERY much for that list.
0:12 Jon Spencer with Pussy Galore
0:20 Richard Hell
0:28 Richard Kern film??
0:37 Bruce Pavitt
0:45 Johnny Thunders
0:46 Jeff McDonald
0:47 Patti Smith
0:54 Pee-wee Herman
1:11 Mark E. Smith
1:28 Black Flag
1:35 KISS
1:39 Iggy Pop
1:41 Harvey Pekar
1:42 Jack Kerouac
1:45 Susanna Hoffs
1:46 MC5?
1:54 Henry Rollins
2:07 The Beach Boys
2:10 Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow
2:12 Elvis
2:13 Sun Ra
2:23 Iggy Pop
2:27 Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield
2:28 Neil Young (holding yellow beer can, thanks Daman Lidison)
2:37 Jay Mascis swinging his guitar at Lou Barlow
2:42 Daniel Johnston
2:59 Mike Watt
3:25 Joni Mitchell
3:28 Ian McKay (thanks The Healing Company)
3:31 William Burroughs
3:34 Nick Cave (thanks mugre)
3:34 James Chance (thanks Daman Lidison)
3:35 Tom Waits
3:40 D. Boon
3:43 Blixa Bargeld
3:51 Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas)
The following are supposedly in the video (according to IMDB), but I couldn't locate them. Maybe you can?
Jad Fair
Lydia Lunch
A̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶A̶l̶d̶a̶ (was actually Mark E. Smith)
Bonus points of anyone can identify whose boots are shown at 1:13
I guess "the Alan Alda cameo" is actually Mark E.Smith at 1:11 (so, to me you're right about Mark!) and that you're possibly wrong about Tom Waits at 3:35: I think that's James Chance (but I'm not sure).
At 2:28 (after Neil Young/Buffalo springfield) it's hard to say, but it could be a frame from Neil Young "this note's for you" music video (... because of the yellow can of soda...).
It’s good to put a name to the faces thank you for writing this comment.
RIP D Boon
@@damanlidison Thanks! You are exactly right about Neil Young. That shot if from the end of his music video. As for the James Chance, I think I had him mixed up with Nick Cave, not Tom Waits, because right after is definitely Tom Waits.
@@risraelsen 👍!
I love the video because it reminds me of my teenage years of wildness, craziness, fun, concerts, randomness, emotional, heartbreak, anti-social, and complete disregard of older people, popularity, and the norm.
Oh man I'm 63 and I know just what you mean. It hit me just like that as well, about 30 years ago or so. Still I've got ears enough to enjoy.
ttorres89 yes now instead you lick the boot
@@Mercel29 nah, he started paying his own taxes. It's a part of growing up
And look at you now, a garbage right wing pro gun q a nut.
I can see my future self in ya Sir
A band that walked a fascinating tightrope between mass pop appeal and pure abstract expressionism.
A band that has combined polyphonic ideas of gregorian chant, via twenty first century guitar and music concrete. And has made it acceptable by non-christian appeal.
Such a true, profound and underrated truth you posted. Well said
Perfect description.
it was only a few years ago but when i was in 8th grade i rlly got into nirvana and all the sibling bands that came w them, and their influences, one of them being this band. it was a covid year, so i rlly just got to stay home, watch skate videos and listen to music that was new to me but several years old. i remember hearing this song and playing it regularly and how great and almost powerful it made me feel. i was in a hick town, where next to no one was privy to the genius of this song. it made me want to live life to the fullest. and whenever i hear it, it’s like God telling me to not be anxious, to just breathe. i’m gonna live up to my eighth grade promises
I live in a country town in the interior of Brazil. And my feeling with this song is the same as yours.
i was in 8th grade 10 years before this album even came out so I have different reference points (Velvet Underground was a main one), but I was also in a small hick town nd I felt exactly the same. :) Rock on!
I miss, no, appreciate 10 hole DM's and NYC in the 80's. Great time to be a teenager. Even on the Upper East Side.
Music has such an amazing power to transport you back to the emotions and memories that were attached the first time you heard it. This song came out my last year of high school - I was 17 and getting ready to go to the Army. I had done some “loose” stuff when I was a kid, and it was time to “get my shit in a sock” and grow up. But this song - and a bunch of others - was calling me to go wild. Years later I found that lost teenager and managed to get into a few “riots”. Now I’m old, I found the balance between riotous and responsible over the intervening 35 years. But still listening to this song in 2022. So great.
Thank God, I'm not the only person who keeps replaying the breakdown at 2:35. There's something so beautiful trapped in those 30 seconds leading into the end of the song.
i think it has more to do with the fact that mascis is hitting barlow with his guitar....
I JUST KNOW THIS SONG IS GONNA BE SO NOSTALGIC WHEN IM OLDER. I listened to this sm at 16
Criinge
One of the greatest rock songs of all time
Probably the best song I’ve heard in my life
I wish this didn't cut out the intro. That's what got me hooked on that song - that slow intro into BAM PUNK ENERGY!!
Agreed, the longer album version is better. This video is super cool, though.
This song, more than any other, gets me the closest to that feeling of being 18 and having your eyes opened to world. 35 years later, 1988 seems a hell of a lot cooler than I realized, at the time.
Sonic Youth will always find a way to get heavy rotation in my heart.
A native Californian, but was fortunate to live in NYC in the 80's. Saw Sonic Youth perform a couple times there. There was nothing like living in that city at that time, and Sonic Youth were definitely a part of that.
Just saw Dinosaur Jr for the first time the other day, and now I'm going down the rabbit hole and wishing I'd heard of them sooner.
I just started listening to D jr too like a month ago.... its very adjacent
This is one of the coolest things ever assembled. Between the band and the song and the footage in the video, this is a time machine to the cool looking stuff before I really existed.
Great song! Daydream Nation is one of the best album of all times.
This brings back memories of long summer days spent in our rehearsal room with friends we spent hours talking and making music with, our first concerts in a friend's garage or garden when his/her parents were on vacation, the first sweethearts we now only have fond memories of, all our dreams, unfulfilled plans to conquer the world, to do things better then our parents did... Everything seemed possible and there were no limits. It really felt like we ruled the world during that short period of time that flew by without anyone of us realizing how precious every minute was and that none of this would ever come back...
Thurston Moore always wanted to be leading a “Teenage Riot.” A few years later, whilst touring Germany, he would interview a bunch of German fans who clearly didn’t have any idea what he was talking about, or, quite possibly, what he was even saying. And fair enough. It’s possible that Thurston wasn’t entirely sure.
“People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?”
Crickets. They have no idea. Of what he is talking about.
“I think" Thurston answers himself "we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture, by mass marketing and commercial paranoia behaviour control. And the first step to do that is to destroy the record companies. Do you not agree?”
Again, crickets. No teenage riot today.
He should have just played them “Teenage Riot.” “Teenage Riot” rocks.
“Teenage Riot” is a 10.
Thirty three years
went by like a blink of an eye
One of those albums that I rediscover every 8 - 10 months and wonder why the heck I am not listening to this more often. It isn't like today's music kicks ass or anything.
I am a living breathing fossil of homo erectus, and this record meant so much to me in my youth, along with fire starting, and the invention of stone tools.
Nice! I dug it down at the water hole right before the bone hurtling in the air turned into the satellite.
This song and video actually changed my life 10 years ago when I first watched
I'll never forget the first time I saw SY in concert at the Lollapalooza in '93 or '94 hell of a good time they gave us.
1995
So lucky I ever saw them in Jakarta 1996. They played with Foo Fighters and Beastie Boys. Good time memories.
Andito S. I love the Beastie Boys. listen to them when I'm pissed.
mantapp
bangke gua baru lahir 2004
Hello from Russia! This great band isn't very popular here, but true fans listen it nearly all the time.
Esse som é tão fascinante que eu não quero que acabe.
Anos 80 e 90 foram as melhores décadas pra ser adolescente.................... !
Viva Sonic Youth!!!!!😎
Nice to see Mark E Smith in the video. My Gran played bongos for the fall.
Might be the best rock “music video”
God I miss bands like this that weren't afraid to explore what there instruments could do and make glorious dirty Rock n Roll you just never want to end. Sonic Youth got me through so much teenage bullshit.
One of the 1st examples of a pure Gen-X cultural product. Musically and visually setting the table for 90’s Alt Culture. Fills my heart with joy all the clips of their influences because they influenced so many other people. When they appear, ever so briefly, it is an invite to the coolest club.
من فضلكم الترجمة بالعربي كي أعرف أرد على جوابك حاليا ما في ترجمة التعليقات بالعربية الفصحى آسف
@@Fjgfhgffhu-x9c أحد الأمثلة الأولى لمنتج ثقافي Gen-X خالص. إعداد الطاولة موسيقيًا وبصريًا للثقافة البديلة في التسعينيات. قلبي يمتلئ بالفرح لكل المقاطع التي أثرت فيهم لأنها أثرت في الكثير من الأشخاص الآخرين. عندما يظهرون، باختصار شديد، فهي دعوة لأفضل نادٍ.
They are Boomers
The music that turned myself upside down, changing my life forever and ever!
Some of the best rythm guitar work ever.
Never been a fan of their albums but they were always among my favorite bands to catch live. Some things are just meant to be experienced live and Sonic Youth were definitely that.
I remember seeing them play at UW Milwaukee around 89-90 with Redd Kross. One of the best shows I ever saw. Man I miss my youth.
Somehow only just now discovering what is almost certainly the best album to come out the year I was born. Damn, this song and all of Daydream Nation is just glorious.
This came out like a fireball and signaled the underground was going overground. Nobody would have guessed SY had a song like this in them two years earlier.
Yeah, two years earlier they made the brilliant EVOL, followed by the masterpiece Sister. Who would have thought they would soon try to get into mainstream with this crap? Luckily, Goo turned them back in the right direction again.
@@dragmio watch out guys we got an EXTREME HIPSTER over here
@@Gamer-hl2qc everybody that he knows is more relevant than everybody the rest of us know
@@dragmio You...... You just suck is all
@@dragmio Goo was much more mass appeal than Daydream Nation. Like, a lot. Yet those two albums are still great in my book, closely followed by Evol and Sister
I'm just a teenager living life haha and I just found this older song! Such a good one, I love it!!
Special guest appearances by Andy Kaufman and Elvis. Great video.
No importa cuánto tiempo pase, siempre vuelvo a esta canción. Gracias Sonic Youth por existir.
What IS IT about this song that brings me to tears?!?! ❤
I return to this video every now and then, when I have lost my way.
I was 18. Perfect timing.
mat fox I had just turned 19. Made it in just under the wire.
I was just a few cells
Complete history of pop culture in one music video, awesome.
wow cool ...it's all coming back to me ..after sooooo long ...what a great song
Sonic Youth's finest pop moment.
it's impossible not to get swept away by this song.
Golden time period and Golden tune. The Teenage Riot continues. Youth Springs Eternal.
2:36 - J Mascis trying to hit Lou Barlow in one of on stage arguments
did J an Lou argue like that really, or was it a stage thing? I never thought J seemed to be a violent guy LOL
This is how the story is told in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azzerad.
It had all come to a head at an early '88 show at a small club in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The place was far from packed and the band wasn't playing very well. They were halfway through "Severed Lips" when Barlow began making feedback with his bass instead of playing the usual part.
"Lou is sitting on the drum riser, just making noise through every song - this one note - and just trying to goad us, taunting us, basically," says Mascis. "And I'm playing and I'm like, 'I think Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And it goes on a little bit more and I'm thinking, 'Yup, this is going to be bad, Murph's going to beat up Lou.' And I keep playing and I keep thinking that, and finally, I think, 'Huh, I guess Murph's not going to beat up Lou. I guess I'll have to do it.'"
Mascis rushed across the stage and tried to hit Barlow with his guitar. Barlow raised his bass like a shield while Mascis bashed away at him repeatedly. ("It made a pretty good sound," Mascis recalls somewhat fondly.) After a few failed bashes, Mascis stalked offstage yelling, "I can't take it! I can't take it!" Barlow called after him, "Can't take what, J? Asshole!" and raised his fists in triumph. "I got really psyched, like psychotically happy, and just went, 'Yes!'" says Barlow. "I felt like he'd proved to me that he actually had feelings. He never would react to anything at all, ever."
"I remember just sitting there at my drum set going, 'OK, this is my perfect opportunity to pummel both of these guys,'" says Murph. "But instead I just walked off." Barlow followed Mascis and Murph backstage and assured them that he didn't mean anything by the feedback. The band went out again, played what was surely a fearsome cover of "Minor Threat" and drove home in silence. It was the beginning of the end.
Good call! I always wondered what that was.
I was at that show at the Nighshift. Azerrad pretty much nailed the description dead on. I would estimate there were about 20 people in the club. B.A.L.L. (Kramer of Shimmydisc Records’ band) opened. They left about 10 minutes into Dino Jr’s set. Kind of a lousy night all around.
Oh Man
So glad to have grown up in the Era
the sun ra cameo is my fav part of this whole video. wish i couldve been in attendance for the sun ra and sonic youth concert that they did
Oscar Garcia Did not know that. Must have been great. My two favorite musical units.
A sun ra sonic youth concert would be sick but the clip of him is from his movie space is the place 😞😞😞
@@DiegoAcosta-no9kq i know, but they did play a show in central park together back in the 90s i believe. must've been one hell of a show! one of those i'd take a time machine back for
I was a hardcore punk from the 80s this came right after our best times but I dig it thank you guys
Memories. Beautiful memories. Thank you.
The Year Punk Broke movie. Hated it so much when my roommates played it over and over. How I miss those days.
2:37 infamous J Mascis and Lou Barlow fight in Naugatuck, CT that effectively ended the band's existence.
This song stills the song of my rebellion. So Powerful!!!!!
Listening to this song almost gives the impression that being a teenager around this time was livid. I almost wish mine was like this, now at 24.
The demography was a little older
Sonic Youth. Always the bridesmaid never the bride!
Absolute nostalgia and bubbly feelings.
Big, yet still the most underrated Band there is.
No en realidad es la banda que todos sicen gustar para sonar inteligentes y cool
@@videoestres bastante gente puede ser, pero realmente hay mucha gente que conoce realmente el impacto que tuvo sonic youth en la escena alt de los ochenta y noventa, una banda verdaderamente histórica y revolucionaria, pero claro, siempre habrá posers xd
It’s a weird feeling seeing all the people reminiscing on their youth, and I’m in my youth trying to learn this song for my college application.
If you guys could tell your younger self one thing, what would you say?
I see some 90 year olds as youth
I don’t think a lot of people disliked Sonic Youth, but I remember a lot of people were upset about their last album, The Eternal, when it came out in 2009.
greatest song of all time
Saw them at Memphis in may.... greatest show of my life
This song makes me sad. I should've had new experiences during my teenage years but chose to barely leave my house. Now I'm 18 and adult life is knocking on the door
Lucky bugger. You got to get out and rip it up and get down. Have a blast try it all. Suck up every morsel of like you only get one.
You're not the only one, tons of us grew up in high control cults and had no life as a teen. But life is far from over at 18. I had some ragers through my 20's and beyond.
I turned 18 in June and I’ve been thinking the same as u but now I’m thinking fuck it cos we can have fun our whole lives and don’t need to go by the rule book of growing up n stuff
oh gawd. you can be a child throughout your life.
You're super young and you got the whole world ahead of you.
i can see my young self driving my 84 olds delta88 down the highway young and free everybody alive.. i miss those times and this music a friend from work turned me on to sonic youth
My favorite band of all time!!!
I’m not gonna lie when I first heard this song I thought it was from the 2010s, this song was way ahead of its time Sonic Youth were way ahead of their time
2010s was literally a watered down rehash
When was the last time you watched this? There are less than 375, 000 views of this video on Tubetube. Obviously there is no accounting for taste. I only mention it because it absolutely conveys and illustrates how goddamn blessed we all were to be part of the club and THAT time. The imagery here makes it all come back...flyers, fun, KISS, Minutemen....that's a small club when you think about it all now. It felt bigger then but it was just actually less than half a million Americans who cared about Husker DU, X, Bob Stinson dying....Mission of Burma, The Jazz Butcher, etc. I had never really realized just how small and special our time was. I thought every town had a Al Perry.
I miss my friends listening to this. The world is going to shit and we need to live.
Miss having no troubles or preocupations apart from what were we going to do next (thinking about the weekend, every week)
I feel so lucky to have seen them when this was new music.
Sonic youth porque desapareciste ? Fuiste una de las mejores bandas de la era de los 90s y morire escuchando tu musica hasta que llegue mi final 😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you Sonic Youth, for giving us Radiohead and Atari Teenage Riot.
Such a great riff
my fave sonic youth song
Awesome, love this edited version that starts when the song starts rocking
Sonic Youth will be truly appreciated after their time. Even though they are a legendary band I somehow feel that they haven’t gotten their true respect, kind of like Van Gogh
At 2:36 Lou Barlow's thinking "thank God J didn't plays the piano or the contrabass!"
I played this song on my high school radio show during lunch break. And all I have to say my subject for that class didn't last to long. Nor did my friend neither. His flaw was the Beastie Boys.(when they were Hardcore NYC Punk Band)
Not a flaw
this really is a celebration of rock music, amazing
I love sonic youth but I had never watched the music video until now rewatching a rage interview with the Mars volts where they mention this
From 1990s..til.now 2024..subhanallah
I'm posting halfway through this video but i'm wondering if somebody get tell me how many different bands are in this video. I saw the butthole surfers flyer in the beginning and a little clip of black flag with henry rollins with hair singing, and then i saw a little bit of iggy pop. I think i saw Ian Mackay from minor threat live onstage and also nick cave with his thumbs in his ears and index fingers pointed up. Weird so many hard-core and punk icons.
*Edit*
From Wikipedia:
The video for the song was Sonic Youth's fourth overall, excluding the low-budget Ciccone Youth videos; the band directed it themselves. It included clips of many icons of alternative music culture such as Mascis, Mark E. Smith, Johnny Thunders, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Sun Ra, D. Boon, Mike Watt, Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Blixa Bargeld and Kiss.
Kate Schellenbach
Great they recognize Mark e Smith in video.they actually did a peel session of fall covers
waited so long for this video. great song, great memories.
Remember taping this from BBC2 Snub TV. Freeze framed it a lot. KISS, Iggy Pop, Elvis, Mark E Smith, etc
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two
Time to get it, before you let it get to you
Here he comes now, stick to your guns and let him through
Everybody's coming from the winter vacation
Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you
You come running in on platform shoes
With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue
Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew
Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper nation for you
Now I see it, I think I'll leave it out of the way
Now I come near you and it's not clear why you make the away
Looking for a ride to a secret location
Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you
Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin'
And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do for now
It better work out, I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city ahead
It takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now
You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him
He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand
We know it's down, we know it's bound too loose
Everybody's sound is 'round it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
So who's to blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze
It's time to go 'round, a one man showdown, teach us how to fail
We're off the streets now and back on the road, on the riot trail
2:38 is that Steve getting a punch-up? ?
they’re music was so ahead of its time fr. they’re was groundbreaking then as it would be now. in my opinion i don’t think ill ever hear a band that does it for me like they do☹️ wish i was born back then
This album was a refuge from teenage angst.
Я слушал эти треки 20 лет назад. Как же было супер!!!
интересно послушать как это было
@@psychocandy-f9 незаурядно для того времени))) люди, слышащие эти звуки со стороны, были крайне удивлены. 🤣
@@maxigorzi а как узнали про них? какие альбомы нравились, как доставали их кассеты/диски? их же наверно сложно было достать относительно.
@@psychocandy-f9 через книгу)) увлекался Нирваной, читал про Нирвану и узнал о Сониках. Курт был их яростным поклонником. Первый ☝️ альбом, который слышал я - это был Гуу)). И кстати это было в 1998 году, то есть даже более чем 20 лет назад. Проблем с покупкой не было, все уже было. Горбушка))) - сила. 💪
После Гуу, альбом - Грязь, любимый 🤩 трек - 💯 %.
Сандей - это уже попса.
И Суперстар мне нравится 👍.
Чапел-Хилл - душевно и сейчас зашел.
Грязные ботинки 🥾 и т д
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man to do but work out whether it's true
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two
Time to get it before you let it get to you
Here he comes now
Stick to your guns and let him through
Everybody's coming from the winter vacation
Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you
You come running in on platform shoes
With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue
Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew
Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you
Now I see it
I think I'll leave it out of the way
Now I come near you
And it's not clear why you fade away
Looking for a ride to your secret location
Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation for you
Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rocking
And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now
It better work out
I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head
Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now
You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him
He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand
We know it's down
We know it's bound too loose
Everybody's sound is around it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze
It's time to go round
A one man showdown, teach us how to fail
We're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail
Doni Darmawan: Spirit desire spirit desire we will fall
Mark e smith, mike watt flash across the screen briefly
And the band plays on
久々に聞くと、ヤッパこの頃のソニックユースは素晴らしい！
This song is a vicarious melancholy teenage past.
a vital piece of history