.............Sonic Youth on Gilmore Girls! That's right, Sonic Youth! On Gilmore Girls!
Well, not so much Sonic Youth as Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, with their daughter Coco. They perform a version of "What a Waste" from the Rather Ripped album in the final episode of the sixth season, "Partings".
Watch it here! And stop that jumping right now!
Of course, the big talking point of this episode wasn't Lorelei Gilmore making the mistake of going off with Christopher and ruining what she had with the perma-capped Luke, but that Sonic Youth were stepping all over turf belonging to the town troubadour played by Grant Lee Phillips of Grant Lee Buffalo fame. How dare they! Grant Lee Buffalo were a greatly underrated band, so please enjoy below two versions of "Lone Star Song":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA3Gq-Z3gRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgyYcdVZj9Y
What next for Sonic Youth? Being the subject of excoriating comments from Steve Albini, that's what:
“They chose to join the mainstream culture and become a foot soldier for that culture’s encroachment into my neck of the woods by acting as scouts. I thought it was crass and I thought it reflected poorly on them. I still consider them friends and their music has its own integrity, but that kind of behavior—I can’t say that I think it’s not embarrassing for them…. Had Sonic Youth not done what they did I don’t know what would have happened—the alternative history game is kind of silly. But I think it cheapened music quite a bit. It made music culture kind of empty and ugly and was generally a kind of bad influence.”
Ouch. Should make for a chilly atmosphere backstage at the forthcoming New Year's Eve ATP Strange Days extravaganza. Still, no-one does comedy like Steve Albini:
When you doing the big piano scene from Big? That were mint.
ReplyDeleteI was actually going to do the "Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Pop" song....
ReplyDeleteYou know, Elizabeth Perkins sleeps with a 13 year old in that film. It's true. I watched it last week.
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