Last year saw the release of albums by Chelsea Light Moving (Thurston Moore), Body/Head (Kim Gordon) and Lee Ranaldo and the Dust. I tried to listen to each but it was boring and I was shocked at how little I cared anymore.
Now if you took the best songs from each of those and tried to make a Sonic Youth album out of them, would it have been any good? Even if it wasn't, would we have liked it if "Sonic Youth" was slapped on the cover? There was a time when there would have been multipage message board threads about just that but it seems like no one else cares anymore either because I never saw any such threads out there or even hardly any discussion about any of those albums themselves at all.
It's one thing for Sonic Youth to break up, another for Thurston and Kim to get divorced and for the depths of how shitty things have gotten between them to come out and pretty much make it clear that this is not a hiatus and that there will never be another Sonic Youth recording ever again, but it hit me hard when I realized that their future endeavors would not even come close to filling the void that they left as a band, and that they might as well have died in a plane crash or something.
I know it's weird to complain about a band breaking up after they were together for 30 years but they were still making long-players that I enjoyed up to the very end.
Now if you took the best songs from each of those and tried to make a Sonic Youth album out of them, would it have been any good? Even if it wasn't, would we have liked it if "Sonic Youth" was slapped on the cover? There was a time when there would have been multipage message board threads about just that but it seems like no one else cares anymore either because I never saw any such threads out there or even hardly any discussion about any of those albums themselves at all.
It's one thing for Sonic Youth to break up, another for Thurston and Kim to get divorced and for the depths of how shitty things have gotten between them to come out and pretty much make it clear that this is not a hiatus and that there will never be another Sonic Youth recording ever again, but it hit me hard when I realized that their future endeavors would not even come close to filling the void that they left as a band, and that they might as well have died in a plane crash or something.
I know it's weird to complain about a band breaking up after they were together for 30 years but they were still making long-players that I enjoyed up to the very end.