Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo

[Brandon17JC]

bvom

[klinkerkk]

The music of Sonic Youth, the drawings of Raymond Petibone, one of the greatest bassists on earth from one of one of the greatest bands ever existed talkin' 'bout GOO, a sexy Kim in pink dancing besides a cool guy, This is art punk, man!. I wish those times could get back nowadays.

[ScottLahti]

Their friend Goo just says "PA":

Sticky goo on Pa. turnpike disables over 100 cars

news.yahoo.com/sticky-goo-pa-t­urnpike-disables-over-100-cars­-120956851.html

[dotteddream75]

hey goo I love yoo

[cybernaut667]

directed by Todd Haynes says in imdb dot com

[hensly77]

I had one of those marshal amps

[batterycock]

kim looks like a women in this video

[Monkeyboy92037]

@batterycock a woman looks like a woman? stop the presses!

[jbhf1]

the intro is like latchkey kid

[frankkubb]

@3:01 Ha! never noticed the skip on the record, yet Kim still manages to pull it off...<3 S.Y.!

[999manman]

'Goo' is #2133 on the Top girl's names for 2011!

[ArkHaid]

kim knows it very well

[jesskaru]

Raymond Pettibon did the art!



[grizzwaldo]

@jesskaru  Mr Black Flag man....

[maxeypad]

P.U.!!!!

[darrenfinizio2]

entertaining video....not a big fan of this chapter in sy's career though.........maybe steve albini had a point.

[mradamcooley]

@darrenfinizio2 Exactly. SY are one of the best bands ever, but how does a band go from an epic powerful masterpiece like DAydream to something like this.. or Dirty... you know? But then, WASHNG MACHINE, THOUSAND LEAVES, NYC showed they had plenty of power, what a trilogy of abums right there.

[darrenfinizio2]

@mradamcooley I LOST INTERE3ST AFTER SISTER TO BE QUITE FRANK.

[Gmancrap]

Who did the art?

[dragondagger23]

Sonic Youth is kick-ass but why the hell is she wearing an amp as a belt

[VickieIsHere1]

Oh gosh, kim looks adorable in ANYTHING. even a god awful pink spandex thingy.

[W4RW017]

Wait is Kim "Goo"?

[StraightPunkEdge93]

Kim is such a badass.

The world needs more women like her :)

[badazzpresidents23]

@StraightPunkEdge93 Check out Lydia Lunch if you haven't heard of her. She's collaborated with Sonic Youth before and is absolutely brilliant.

[TheMorningCoffee]

this is so shit. Worst band ever.

[iangarnettify]

@TheMorningCoffee why watch then?

[StraightPunkEdge93]

@TheMorningCoffee DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HotTimeHarv]

The was shot / directed by famed photographer and underground film maker Richard Kern, who also directed other Sonic Youth videos such as Death Valley '69. Cheers...

[WhiteBoy41]

I dig Kims Goo.

[AxDdWn9491]

the begining reminds me of a cheesy porno

[89cheapmonday]

disturbing. but i love it.

[Remembermylai]

How can anybody dislike this?

[moflombi]

@Remembermylai Obviously, Kim was dressed up in a jump suit, and that symbolizes sky diving, so obviously someone who watched this video hates sky diving.

[Remembermylai]

Dig my goo!

[julosx]

Ha ha, the good old early 90's when there was some PMRC to SMASH !

[TheOusooner56]

1:36--"She likes to wear green underwear"...what the hell is that all about????

[HotTimeHarv]

@TheOusooner56 - I thought it was "She likes to wear clean underwear", but either way, what the Hell is that all about"

[HeartYukitty]

@TheOusooner56 It's about Goo!Pay attention people!

[TheOusooner56]

@HeartYukitty oh of course...that explains so much....geez...!!

[HeartYukitty]

@TheOusooner56 I know.You're welcome mate.

[Rottenhaus]

Watt looks kind of like Lenny Bruce, in this.

[joed424]

Mike Fuckin Watt

[robinsena123]

kim looks like a pink power ranger :D

[AlternaTurk]

This is so cool, Iistening to music with the resonance of the room has a different feeling to it.

[youngcnillzof9th]

i always thought this song was about a lesbian

[MyScarletFall]

Who's the bloke with the long hair at the back? I'd love to dance with him!!!

[MrIganinja]

@MyScarletFall me

[nevcore]

@MyScarletFall that's Joe Cole, Henry Rollins best friend that got shot in their home during a robbery. Read rollins books, talks about him a lot!

[MyScarletFall]

@nevcore Thanks!

[mauiwowie47]

@MyScarletFall I'm pretty sure the guy in the black dancing is Joe Cole, but he was shot and killed back in '91, so you'll never get to dance with him :(

[woowoo1967]

@mauiwowie47 Yep, Joe C.. 

[MTakarabe]

lmao love their dancing.

[WarpxD]

mike watt

[vansrok1]

I just had an epiliptic seizure

[JefferySchmitz]

If you read Azzerads book the band looked at this as a very commercial song (which for them it is) I like the earlier records that were more noisy - Sonic Youth rules though and were at the forefront of the no-wave scene - great band

[Dazestr]

This is such a cool ass video I don't know why but wow!!!!

[posc323]

the disturbing art work in this video was from Greg Ginn's brother.if you don't know Greg Ginn...he was the guitarist from Black Flag,my favorite band.this band was also in the same record label with Black Flag "SST" records :)

[JefferySchmitz]

@posc323 yes Raymond Pettiibone great artist - SY was thrilled to get on SST when they did - only problem with SST was their accounting was a ittle sketchy = )

[nevermindkate]

What the.

This just changed my teenage life..

[MyScarletFall]

I really love Kim Gordon's voice, she's a girl, but her voice is quite low and deep... It's amazing, so not run-of the-mill voice! Nothing to do with the irritating, high-pitched voice girls have-or try too hard to have

[lolita88ism]

What is a goo ?

[unavaiblle]

@lolita88ism well i guess that by the meaning of the song is a really cool girl with an real tattoo... maybe an tennage whore ..

'and all the boy says - hey goo

and she says - hey you

(...)

what se does best is stand and stare'



[jrlynn79]

I wish Kim was my girlfriend ♥

[fullviolence]

FUCKING AWESOME

[Pindakaasmonster]

I play L4D(2) and when they mention the Spitter goo it always reminds me of this song! lol

[windrix1]

I wished Kim and Thurston were my parents.

[Lawlzy72]

kim is probably the coolest girl on the planet

[MissPandora1967]

@Lawlzy72  I agree 100%

[enihcamehttsniagaega]

if joe cole was alive, I would like to dance that song with him lol

[enihcamehttsniagaega]

Kim looks so cute when joe asks her to put on the goo song and she says "ok" and smiles afterwards

[alexwilliamson46]

That's got to be the best video ever made in the history of Rock!!

[thefahkin]

great!!!! i love this video... thanks...

[packysmatt21]

kims hot

[fullviolence]

kim is so hot

[TheSicDominator]

what a hideous costume

i want it

[tubyla123]

Hahaha Mike Watt. Kim's one peice is so funny

[mattisprettycool]

i love joe cole's dance moves. R.I.P. JOE

[mattisprettycool]

Watt is so wicked.

[intheekeyofcrime]

kim's so sexy. i'd say she's a lil thin.. but rockstars.. whaddayaganado, right??

[floorofthepinkroom]

Kim is such a star.

[Bottlenek6]

@floorofthepinkroom hey goo whats new?

[yeahyeahyesok]

maybe the video is ridiculous but we do not care this is a fuckin great song

[windrix1]

yeah because Sonic Youth sure obviously doesn't care.

[badxradxandy]

This would be better if they cut out the first minute where they just talk. Music videos are supposed to be about the music. That said, I love Sonic Youth. =)

[DRUMMERLORD95]

what kind of fucking retard would give my last comment a thumbs down.

[ARedSeasonShade]

I thumbed it up man ;)

[jagXstang]

who cares dude

[DRUMMERLORD95]

what exactly do they mean by goo?

[spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

Half of teenage girls are all "Goo". I should know. I got to school with them.

[badazzpresidents23]

@spicyMcHAGGIS9green Or got goo on them.

[mparusz]

pełna anarchia, zajebiste!

[munnosable]

this is such a ridiculous video lol

[IrishEyedBlue]

Does anyone else think that Kim Gordon has a sort of vaguely similar voice to Nico from the Velvet Underground and Nico?

[her0indragon]

yeah she sort of does.

[ToddlerWithAKnife]

I simply don't get the hype surrounding this band. Sorry.

[frunkus88]

they have such a unique sound how could you not get it?

[JUSTING101]

love this song so random

[2bin]

I always thought this was such a silly and unnecessary song from their catalogue. Then again, they had just signed to DGC, so such a bubblegum song was to be expected.

[punkpoetry]

Or could it be that you just find it hard to appreciate the satirical wit of this supreme vignette? Anyone who hangs out in these circles has known "goo" girls (vacuous, trendy, boring scensters) aplenty, and the lyric captures the type beautifully, the music providing an appropriately jaunty and deadpan backdrop

[2bin]

doh!

[nirvanarocks115]

this a funny video and a great song

[sonofdrella09]

A real life record player, whoa!

[jocelynn62985]

Love Pettibon's artwork throughout the video!

[Mklztr]

Hey Goo! What's new?

[AstrotoySeven]

cant believe its been nearly 20 years... Damn Im gettin old.

[j7609]

i know what you mean. indeed hard to believe how long ago this was. i saw Sonic Youth when they toured for this album. and they toured with Public Enemy. quite an interesting couple of groups to play the same night to say the least. such a strange and mixed crowd. but it was an awesome show!

[DrJTG]

@AstrotoySeven Dude I had the cassette - cause I could also play it in my Van with 3 on the tree-cause the Radio had U2 and other crude- yea long time ago.

[locomotifx]

@AstrotoySeven I know what you mean, man (in the unisex sense of the word since). We can console ourselves with the fact that 1990 and 2020 won't seem so far apart to subsequent generations (Y'know..all these rock bands or whatever back in those days) and that great music is cool any time, any place.

[TheDelia955]

@AstrotoySeven I would even be as old as you! sin, I would have liked to be there

[horakhti]

I love how Kim just doesn't give a fuck. I mean look at what she's wearing.

[rickhorror]

its a mixture of kims persona Meth and a little Heroin maybe

[Havenscope]

She gives less of a fuck than I do, and I generally really don't give a fuck!

[lynus111]

Shes a rockstar not giving a fuck is how she gives a fuck. Theres a guy out in the street eating cold pizza from the trashand piss all over his trousers, he doesnt give a fuck, she does.

[HotTimeHarv]

@horakhti Yeah, her outfit sure is swell! Pink superhero spandex and and miniature battery-operated Marshall stack!!! And some groovy shoes...

[Gmancrap]

Yeah, and how Alice Glass is apparently the new Kim.

[platinumdynamite]

@Gmancrap Alice Glass has nothing on Kim and never will.

[Gmancrap]

I'm not arguing with you. I mean, I agree with you100%.

[jayotto123]

these guys are so awesome

[CaughtEsset]

Why does she have a small amplifer there?

[spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

I would still fuck Kim Gordon.

[AlexInToyland]

I don't think she would like to get fucked by u.

[highleyr]

I would too...and I'm verrrrry gay.

[Gukkke]

I just love the guy in the back, He's fucking awesome!!haha

[tamburin]

KIMS CLOTHES <3!! ha

[campkilldavy]

awkward

[fordieform]

omg.. I SO need this song back in my life

-hero

[RPS3000]

hahahahah

[princeoz17]

I love kim, so cool.

[amgsux]

Pink Spandex!

[piemaster64]

hell yeah sonic youth

[metallart7]

amazing

[danielibertine]

hey goo what's new

[thedude00000]

was mike watt stoned haha?

[andrearusso89]

who's the guy near her?

[zeldaxbox007]

thats joe cole

[Fleshjam]

Damn Kim's really sexy! SY rocks!

[doctorluv]

I second that! She's very beautiful here.

[industrialblues]

GOO surely IS the best album from sonic youth

[SimonRamone1]

isn't "goo" like.. the best album of all time?

[lobdsk]

yeah totally

[wildthingsnyc]

hell yeah... gooooooo ogoooo

[corruptedfish]

Joe Cole..

[watnabe]

Jole Cole was a friend of Henry Rollins. He was killed in an attempted armed robbery of Rollins' house. Henry talks about him alot in his spoken word stuff.

[inflatablewhores]

There was an Unsolved Mysteries about that, actually.

[GoreFreak08]

Awesome song! I love the video, hilarious at the beginning teasing Kim about being Goo.. lol!!

[odinwillbeatyoudown]

Mike Watt!!

[jackskellington13]

one of my favorite songs by sonic youth♥☻☻☺♥