[testrollins][/testrollins]

[ragejg]

if i let you, you would make me destroy myself
in order to survive you, i must first survive myself
i can sink no further, and i cannot forgive you
there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you
ive gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain
i will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice
im shameless now, im nameless now, im nothing now, im no one now
but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked
im naked and fearless
and my fear is naked

[bob saget]

thats heavy rage

[RFtinkerer]

dead inside, dead inside, dead inside
nameless now, shameless now, nothing now, no one now
**** adds up
and you see me naked now

Good stuff.

Best from that album is Crawl Away, IMO.

[ragejg]

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

[RFtinkerer]

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

Do I win?

[methimpikehoses]

looks like the rollins test was a resounding success. Bravo.

[jcrox]

looks like the rollins test was a resounding success. Bravo.

2 people died and another one has been institutionalized. Resounding fer sure.

[ragejg]

[THREAD MORPH]Awesome OLD Sonic Youth review from 1990, explains their sound SO accurately.

Yeah, John hearts Sonic Youth.

I found this review while checking around the web about the the Seattle band Kinski (http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/kinski), and the song "Daydream Intonation" (http://www.pandora.com/music/song/kinski/daydream+intonation) ... lol @ title.

Anyway, review is from here (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D7143DF932A35754C0A9669582 60) and is the google search string that brought me there.

Interview text:

RECORDINGS;
SONIC YOUTH MAKES A GIANT NOISE WITH A LITTLE POP

By JON PARELES
Published: July 1, 1990

LEAD: Putdowns of Sonic Youth were being sharpened long before the band's new album, ''Goo'' (DGC/Warner Brothers 24297; all three formats), turned up in record stores. The obvious prejudgment was that Sonic Youth, after a prolific and lauded career on independent labels, was selling out - going pop - because it had moved to a major label, David Geffen's DGC, thus turning its back on all that was feisty and scruffy and true.

Putdowns of Sonic Youth were being sharpened long before the band's new album, ''Goo'' (DGC/Warner Brothers 24297; all three formats), turned up in record stores. The obvious prejudgment was that Sonic Youth, after a prolific and lauded career on independent labels, was selling out - going pop - because it had moved to a major label, David Geffen's DGC, thus turning its back on all that was feisty and scruffy and true. ''Goo'' works overtime to say it ain't so.

For most of the 1980's, Sonic Youth was the definitive underground rock band - noisy, arty, defiant, smart. Its music, simultaneously brutal and thoughtful, uses unconventionally tuned guitars to create mighty resonances and ear-tingling cacophony as the drums pound away.

It's not random noise. The guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were playing with the composer Glenn Branca's high-decibel guitar orchestras from 1980 to 1982; Sonic Youth was founded in 1981. One of their gambits, shared with Mr. Branca, is to use ''just intonation'' - tuning to exact frequency ratios rather than the compromises of the well-tempered scale - which makes upper overtones ring out clearly. Another is to deliberately tune a pair of instruments less than a quarter tone apart, so that unisons throb, forever unresolved.

Meanwhile, amid the clanging, churning, shrieking guitars, band members shout or calmly declaim terse, elusive lyrics; in a few words, the lyrics mix aggression, lust, sarcasm, bewilderment, hostility, lapsed Roman Catholicism and wiseguy (and wisegal) flippancy, a cool alienation ****tail within the clamor. ''Gotta change my mind before it burns out,'' Mr. Moore observed on the band's 1988 magnum opus, ''Daydream Nation.''

While some fans may just like the giant noise the band makes, Sonic Youth has never reduced itself to the simple heavy-metal equation of loud equals nasty. Its guitars can peal out consonances; its vocals sound unaffected, even when the bassist Kim Gordon is yelling, and the lyrics prefer conundrums to fixed poses. Which is not to say that Sonic Youth can't sound like fury on steel strings.

''Goo'' sets out to scandalize rock watchdogs. Its cover, by Raymond Pettibon, shows a film-noir couple in sunglasses, with the caption, ''I stole my sister's boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road''; the band refused to allow the record company to conceal the caption on the album packaging, a decision that may keep it off some record store shelves. And the lyrics of ''Dirty Boots,'' while never explicit (or even coherent), mention ''Satan,'' ''jelly rollin' '' and ''six-sex-six,'' probably enough to garner a condemnation from certain pulpits. But Sonic Youth isn't as worried about outsiders as about the longtime fans who will be scrutinizing ''Goo'' for signs of accommodationism. They might find some. Sonic Youth is no longer an amateur band recording on a tight budget; the sound is bigger, rounder, more professional than it was on albums before ''Daydream Nation,'' which was recorded in the same studio as ''Goo.'' The new songs are slightly closer to typical rock; along with the drones and squall of the band's early songs there are melodies and guitar hooks, as on ''Daydream Nation.''

Where ''Daydream Nation'' had some extended guitar infernos, the songs on ''Goo'' are more compressed, though just as guitar-intensive. And ''My Friend Goo,'' whose chorus is ''My friend Goo just says, 'P.U.' '' - a perfect four-year-old's couplet - could be a hit single but for its bristling noise.

Yet Sonic Youth still evades ordinary rock. The songs don't go anywhere in an old-fashioned harmonic sense; chords and ringing open intervals follow one another but don't lead to any conclusion - the band's sense of sullen dislocation is built into its tunes. The odd tunings make power chords sound unstable rather than solid, while the band's guitar distortion remains proudly untamed. And Sonic Youth's attitude is stubbornly unsettled. ''Goo'' mixes memories, ruminations and direct confrontation. Mr. Moore, Ms. Gordon and Mr. Ranaldo each write lyrics and sing lead vocals, and they continually sidestep each other. Where Mr. Moore used to be fond of the word ''kill,'' lately he has grown obliquely positive (although the guitars demolish any wistfulness). In ''Disappearer'' and ''Titanium Expose'' (written with Ms. Gordon), he sounds almost romantic. But in ''Dirty Boots'' and ''Mary Christ,'' he purveys some fractured leering. While Mr. Ranaldo ponders trust and its dangers in ''Mote,'' Ms. Gordon's songs plunge into the fray of desire versus self-preservation, stirring up the band's most frenzied music. Her voice is low and conversational, husky with cigarette smoke, and she is Sonic Youth's bluntest lyricist, though hardly simple. In ''Kool Thing,'' the verses flirt - ''let me play with your radio'' - while the choruses chant, ''I don't wanna/ I don't think so''; partway through, Ms. Gordon asks a male voice (Chuck D. of Public Enemy), ''Are you gonna liberate us girls from white male corporate oppression?'' And in ''Cinderella's Big Score,'' which revs up with two minutes of churning guitars, she starts out telling someone, ''If I could give you anything, I would give you a kick'' and concludes, deadpan, ''Come a little closer, honey - we can be so near.'' Sonic Youth may have started out determined to sound like no other band; its early clanging dirges were as rootless as anything in 1980's rock. Now, with its new catchiness, Sonic Youth has only become that much more dangerous.

[ragejg]

I'm really digging having OpenPandora installed. :D:D:D

[ViN86]

if i let you, you would make me destroy myself
in order to survive you, i must first survive myself
i can sink no further, and i cannot forgive you
there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you
ive gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain
i will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice
im shameless now, im nameless now, im nothing now, im no one now
but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked
im naked and fearless
and my fear is naked

that's a ****in awesome song.

Tool > *

[bob saget]

HAI

[ViN86]

HAI

get back in your closet bob before i give you a mushroom bruise.

[methimpikehoses]

:eek2:

[ViN86]

:eek2:

HEY HEY... nothing to see here. move along pedestrian.

[DiscipleDOC]

get back in your closet bob before i give you a mushroom bruise.

That's what you get for being too nice. Next time he ask for a breath of fresh air, YOU go outside, take a deep breath, and then go back inside and breath on him. PFFT! Newbs....:rolleyes2

[methimpikehoses]

You guys are scaring meth. :(

[DiscipleDOC]

You guys are scaring meth. :(

Who let you out? Get back in that closet!

*smacks meth on his head with a shovel*

[ViN86]

That's what you get for being too nice. Next time he ask for a breath of fresh air, YOU go outside, take a deep breath, and then go back inside and breath on him. PFFT! Newbs....:rolleyes2

i knew i should have PM'd you for advice about letting bob out of the closet. :(

[TheOneAndOnly]

Yeah.

er...

Well anyways...

HAI

[ViN86]

Yeah.

er...

Well anyways...

HAI

What the hell did you just say to me? :|

[TheOneAndOnly]

HAI

Even a deaf person could read that...:p

[ViN86]

HAI

Even a deaf person could read that...:p

meditate on this, i will.

[TheOneAndOnly]

You're well on your way to becoming just like me.

Fap.

[ViN86]

You're well on your way to becoming just like me.

Fap.

the fap is strong with this oneandonly.


:bleh:

[TheOneAndOnly]

The fap will be with you....always.