Then they would have never been able to suck Geffen Record's cock for so long.

No way. Then I would not have had enough time to get into your music. It just sounds wrong.

> Then they would have never been able to suck Geffen Record's
> cock for so long.

oh wow... man, you really put the jerk back in knee-jerk.

As for TM's financial lament: Had they broken up, say, 15 years ago, they would have missed out on 15 years' worth of steady income from touring etc. In the years before their respective reunions, I've seen both Frank Black and J Mascis play to half-empty (no, make that 2/3-empty) rooms. Small rooms. How many fans would have kept coming back, year in year out, to see Thurston play his greatest solo hits?

Only indirectly related: just came back from the Meat Puppets show. Fuckin' WOW.

Man, it's as if Thurston's saying he ain't got enough money....yeesh.

Boy, that's not lame at all!

Just think about what life without NYC Ghosts and Flowers would be like.

Sounds tongue in cheek to me.

between this and the starbucks thing i am pretty much very surprised by the actions of SY co.

amidst all the reunions of the last few years as well as the rediscovery (or first discovery) of legendary 80s indie underground music, sonic youth truly stand far apart from the others.

i havent been a huge fan of everything theyve put out over the years...or their career direction...but you cant deny the respect the band gets from the mainstream and underground alike.

unlike what thurston said, they didnt break up and i hold them in higher regard than the pixies or dinosaur jr in terms of status and accomplishment.

oh, and the new thurston solo cd is actually really good.

Right, so.... I'm pretty sure Mr. Moore is being sarcastic, folks.

Thats taken directly from Spin interview. Full interview is here: http://www.spin.com/features/magazine/2007/08/0709_thurston_moore/

contact music = garbage job there with that little article.

Yeah, had they broken up and reunited, they could have charged as much as $40 for a Daydream Nation anniversary show.

TM is definitely being sarcastic. I have much more respect for bands who continue on than those that break up and reunite.

think about the fall. mark e. smith plays little bar shows. if they had broken up and gotten back together that's some roseland shit.

well said about Mark E smith and the fall.
I wonder how the Pixies and Dino jr feel about TM's sarcastic remarks?
I think it's pretty funny.

It's a PR person's dream to have a band break up and reunite, it gets more press, just like a bands first album gets more press then their second or third album. especially in the past few years with the declining CD sales.
It'll be really interesting to see what bands from the past ten years are still around in 10 years and have released more then 6 albums.
(The strokes, interpol, Arcade Fire, Shins, Wolf Parade) I guess Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller and a few others have managed to do it a little bit.

Dirty was 1992, not 1990. Also, then Washing Machine & A Thousand Leaves would not exist.

i could do without a thousand leaves, but a reunion tour or hell, even a "dont look back" show focusing on dirty would be a total dream.

This Moore quote is from the new issue of Spin magazine.

the dont look back series is the same thing as a reunion anyways...it captures the interest of a particular album rather than a particular band.

anon 9:18, stop riding your pitchfork high horse and just listen to NYCG+F. Its a great record considering the band had pretty much every single one of their guitars stolen from them while on tour in 1999.

i believe it is a joke...
i hope it is a joke

Of course it's a joke. Read the rest of the interview.

I really like Washing Machine. It might be my favorite SY album. 1996

Sarcasm, folks, sarcasm. Everything he says about The Pixies, MOB, and Dinosaur, Jr. is true. However, his comments are sarcastic.

As far as sucking Geffen's dick, you show how clueless you are. Where are the SY records where they "sold out"? They have been true to themselves and gone out of their way to have bands they like play with them. Not everyone can be Ian Mackaye or Mike Watt. They certainly have their credibility intact. You're a fucking idiot.

"It's a PR person's dream to have a band break up and reunite, it gets more press, just like a bands first album gets more press then their second or third album."

Sonic Youth is a "PR person's" dream. The press is constantly all over TM's nuts, dude. And they're called publicists, I hear.

this band has been terrible since day one

I remember very specifically seeing an interview in my younger years of Thurston whining about a certain popular 90's rock band not being 'punk' even though they were deemed as such. Sonic Youth sells ring tones, they put out records on major labels, they do business with starbucks, etc etc etc. I'm pretty sure his ethical high ground is lost at this point.

what a douche

Lighten up guys. He's being funny. Cheers to Thurston and Sonic Youth for over 2 decades of great, exciting music and for always supporting new bands. This guy's involvement in the grassroots ("indie" if you must) music community goes far beyond playing in Sonic Youth. Please do not step to him with your affected iconoclastic bullshit.

thurston moore is the biggest joker on the planet. I would take everything he says with a grain of salt.

cracks me up!

and i'd say that sy have pretty much milked geffen b/c most of the albums since the contract (excepting the early ones) haven't sold all that well and they've had geffen employ their colleagues and friends. all the while still continuing to release on their own label too.

i'd rather see sy selling their music at starfucks any day than let's say, mmmm, i don't know, the latest wilson phillips reunion album or whatever jimmy kimmel "alt-rock" "indie" crap of the month band. but i really wouldn't know what the coffee purveyor purveys, since i don't go there.

(don't you love how "indie" seems to have become as genre, rather than anything with actual meaning?)