Are you sure this is at the MUDD club? The filming looks like Amos Poe's on TV Party. Well then again, I know they did a TV Party episode AT the MUDD club once, so maybe this is it?
i think it's brilliant. arto lindsay started playing guitar in 1977 and as far as i know never learned an actual chord. i think it's great. unconventionalism at it's best. if unconventionalism is a word.
I wish more bands had the courage to make music as adventurous as this.
Most end up imitating what came before, making slight evolutionary changes (technological/musical).
DNA made music that had never existed before (and Arto Lindsay's STILL making great music).
When you decide to just go out there and create something radically different (without worrying about mainstream, critical, and even financial success), eventually you'll hit on something that becomes distinctive, even revolutionary.
To those of you complaining about this music... how the hell did you even find it? People seeking this band out ought to know what they're in for. Turn on your radio and fuck off!
The recorded versions of these songs are alot better. On this performance they sound loose, sloppy and not at all together. Which turns the songs from noisy, grating rock to a mess, and it's actually kind of hilarious. Also, they all look like they hate their lives.
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in my opinion both lindsay and ikuo mori have done a more interesting and absolutely better music after start with this trio. if they´re on drugs, they´re it´s bad drugs + bad trip. that time, this might have been quite cutting edge, now i think it´s just quite old and quite ugly.
i was messin around with music and gutair for fun look up orion eats babies by skunk cabbage then check the myspace im not saying im good just sounds like it
that is just not true, but you can go ahead in think that way but just know that it is not good or bad, its only what you make of it, just because its so diffrent doesn't make it FOR REAL, a chuck berry song could carry the same emotion, you smug douche bag
rockon!!!!!!!!! bonzo76 no new york was a classic comp along w/ let them eat jelly beans...the band suicide, how do you download them you type there name and all of a sudden sumtin happens cop r at the door i know shut up squeaky bonzo76 rockon!!!!!!!!!!!!1
art generally speaking is supposed to push boundaries...i have no problem with ppl playing music that sounds like everything else but its nice to have artists like this push the envelope
anybody who loves DNA should give thumbs up to those who post NEGATIVE comments about them and thumbs down to those who post POSITIVE comments about them. you know what i mean?
Hi. I saw this video like two years ago and it changedmy life. Thank you very much from los polvorines, a little town of argentina. Please,watch aur homemade and lo fi videos
DNA was so ahead of their time...just like Kraftwerk was ahead of their time..although Kraftwerk was only 35 years ahead of their time, I believe DNA was 75-100 years ahead of time....I'm sure a youth shall be born that will listen to this as if it was bubble gum music!
look DNA is an awesome band and their compilation DNA on DNA is an amazing album. you know question music blah blah and all that is great but this sounds kinda bad. maybe its the audio quality... but from what I have heard on the album is great. maybe this wasn't their best live set I don't know. I would hope that at other times they played better cause they all seem so out of it and generally unenthusiastic. would suck if they always sounded like this because on the record they fuckin rule.
anybody can do this really just gather a bunch of people who can't play their instruments, play random shitty chords, and yell out random shit while acting retarded and there ya go!!
i don't know why so many people gave you negative marks for this comment:
"anybody can do this really just gather a bunch of people who can't play their instruments, play random shitty chords, and yell out random shit while acting retarded and there ya go!!"
in think you are complimenting the band by saying this. that quote sums up why i love DNA. and the best part: DNA was a group of perfectionists who practiced constantly. isn't that funny/cool in a way?
Then you shouldnt listen to No Wave. You totally are missing the genious behind DNA and all No Wave. Your idea of it is completly wrong. Go listen to some blink 182
I bought the EP "A Taste of DNA" when it came out. I vividly remember my roommate's reaction when I first played that EP. He absolutely hated that record. Never before or since have I seen a person respond so angrily to an album. Of course, I loved the album, and I played it continuously. It must have grown on my roommate, because after a week, he went out and bought his own copy.
god this is amazing. DNA has done so much to deconstruct the traditional aspects of "song" while destroying all that was pop in NYC. DNA was such a progressive band. It's so funny how people will speand so much money on Marshal amps, guitar lessons, and Stevie Ray Vaughn chord books. Keep shreding your sick BC Rich, you uncreative asshole.
I don't understand why we can't like the music for what it is or isn't without others being condescending or accuse us of liking this because they don't. I don't even know why I like it I just do. The organized distortion and the structure is unconventional I couldn't resist. I don't have any hipster friends or much friends at all. I'm the only one who listens to this genre of music. Who I'm trying to impress? That doesn't make much sense.
arguing that DNA's music doesn't take any talent to create is completely missing the point
it's essentially the same argument as saying "my kid could paint that" when looking at a Picasso
listen to the music Lindsay and Mori made post-DNA - they're both incredibly "talented" musicians... they didn't make music like this as an excuse for not being able to play
but even if they did - what does it matter?
I can see something worthwhile in it. you don't. why argue?
I can see what you're saying, but it gets to a point where you really can't judge this AS music. There's no question that there is artistic validity being shown here, but I think it is so deviated from what's considered music that it gets to a point where it ceases to be so. I think it's more appropriate to place into forms of auditory art; like revolution #9 or something.
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I can see what you're saying, but it gets to a point where you really can't judge this AS music. There's no question that there is artistic validity being shown here, but I think it is so deviated from what's considered music that it gets to a point where it ceases to be so. I think it's more appropriate to place into forms of auditory art; like revolution #9 or something.
Just becuase you can't pigeon hole the genre of DNA dose not mean they suck. And yes I'm directing this comment to all you people saying "what is that?". In fact it makes them even better that you are asking that question I ask it to myself every time I hear DNA. There is almost nothing to compare them to. Thats what makes them so great.
All you haters, even if this band did suck (which they don't), in the grand scheme of things does it really matter, and are you negative comments simply a reflection of your own feelings of inferiority. Perhaps, if you had something creative to contribute you'd have something positive to focus your attention on. How many of you even play guitar?
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I've played REAL guitar for two years now, I have enough knowledge to know this shit isn't very hard to play, nor does it take alot of time to create it. As for the fucktart two comments above you, just because something is different doesn't make it good. I'm familiar with no wave, but this shit is bad...i mean, ITS FUCKING BAD.
i love people who are seriously concerned with what "hipsters" are listening to, and go out of their way to not like a band solely because "hipsters" enjoy them.
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Ha! I can't believe thats why you think people don't like this. Are you all musically challenge or something? You think this noise is music? Please, don't be ridiculous.
Yeah whatever ya bloody scoundrel. what are you doing looking up DNA's videos if you detest them? Tracks like 'new fast', 'lionel', 'not moving' and 'blonde red head' are fucking awesome and i don't think i'm cool, most of my friends are deadshits like you who think it's crap.
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cant even make it through the whole thing. horrible pretentious garbage. this is probably the worst band ive ever seen, and ive seen some shit in my day. i just hope all 3 of these losers are dead by now. who the fuck would applaud that? kill the audience members too , burn the whole fucking club to the ground, mincey boy hungry garbage.
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mikehunt knows whats up. People don't really like this, they just pretend they do to tell others they don't know what music is so they feel like they're "cool".
halk the bands i love wouldent be who they are if not for this band. the locust, le shok, ex models, bad dudes, all got there insperation from this band and other from this time.
Oh really? I'm not a hipster. I like all kinds of music. I like this band, you don't, fair enough but don't go make stupid ill-informed generalizations about people and genres of music.
this is sooo good, the camera techniques compliment it as well, I like the bass, I am DNA as a whole can't be beat, but the bass really helps to gring out the dischord of the guitar, They all support eachother, This seems more real for me then a lot of pop music, and current rock,, it's just so raw.
this is incredible. it sounds melodic to me, i don't understand why it is not melodic. i probably just do not know the exact meaning of melodic, but it sounds beautiful to me. the succession of the notes sounds beautiful. and the rhythms are gorgeous. it must have taken such concentration to play in that band. and is the drummer a man or a woman? who knows. amazing.
No, sonic youth is a great fucking band. This is n't that i don't get it, its just people listen to this kind of shit to tell others that they don't know what "real music" is.
Basically, you're all trying to be sophisticated and cool.
this is great. I can understand why kids wouldn't like this. it doesn't follow the predictable pattern of shit bands like MCR and Fallout Boy. Bands like this made Sonic Youth who they are. What too young to even know who SY are? hahaha
Doesn't that beginning bass line remind you of "The Bug" by Jerry Dallman & the Knightcaps (on the original _Hairspray_ soundtrack)?
Oh yeah, for any of you guys out there that still don't believe in Arto Lindsay's talent, you should hear his intricate (and very melodic) Brazilian samba guitar playing, à la Jobim. So there :-p
another thing, while i'm at it... who gives a fuck if he can or can't play, anyway?!? if rock... or any music... were all about technical skills, you could kiss goodbye 99% of the idols. it's about feeling, in my opinion. say something. make me feel. surprise me. make me remember you. fuck all the rest of that crap. that's the same shit i used to hear about swans.
i have a difficult time understanding how anyone who has seen arto live could say he couldn't play guitar. i'm actually laughing. so much of his recorded music around "proves" he can play in the most obvious ways. but like i said... it's just funny. it doesn't upset me. no one can make me feel bad about my taste. in fact, i pity the fool whose life is so pathetically hollow that he has to go around trying to insult other people's tastes because he has none of his own. oooh. touche!
"I could get on stage with a guitar and start playing random shit and yelping, its not hard."
No one said you couldn't, and no one said it was hard. This music isn't about technical proficiency... it's about expression. I'm sorry you don't like it, but your dislike of it doesn't mean other people don't derive value from it.
Or I could put it this way - you don't get it, fuck off. I think the former is more polite.
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It seems like you can pretty much do anything and label it "art" now these days,it started here in the 80's and now we still have the same shitty god awful music today. This isn't soothing to the ears and it doesn't give me any sort of energy.
Its fucking repulsive for christ sake, get it through your heads you fucking hipster college idiots. I could get on stage with a guitar and start playing random shit and yelping, its not hard.
why are you even bothering to comment? just because this band has reached a moderate amount of respect over the years it still doesn't make them famous. you just feel somewhat angry because it's not up your alley. well i like it so why don't you mind your own business and keep your comments to yourself.
hahahaha, ye totally this is more like the voice of jesus, its completely on another level. if there was somthing like supergodmanart this will be it. just saying its art does no justice
Youtube comments are hilarious. It blows my mind that people could turn a DNA video into another "who's the best guitarist in the world' pissing contest.
Anyway thanks for posting this, audio is nice and clear. Excellent snapshot of No Wave. I saw Arto at a bookstore a few years ago, he's developed a very nice singing voice, though he still can't play guitar for shit. ;)
arto can actually play guitar,and is a real musician he pretty good at brazillian music. if arto is in a class by himself that class was taught by "Derek Bailey" arto wishes he could be Derek Bailey
Arto Lindsay is still one of the finest guitar players of all time. Up there with R. Grey, T. Verlaine, R. Quine (RIP), N. Young, G. Branca and T. Moore. Sorry Clapton never made that little group!
please dont compare first off arto is in his own class he cant actualy play guitar so compareing him with real musicians as far as skil is off because he made skronk its his style and knowone can touch it learn your music simon ps glen branca wishes he were arto and so does sonic youth
this is rare of rare because not only is every song played very different then how they usualy sound but its the whole live preformence one song is money but this is amazing- oh and its snake on my mind not in buddy know your dna
this makes me so happy and twitchy
misanthropicagenda1 4 days ago
Are you sure this is at the MUDD club? The filming looks like Amos Poe's on TV Party. Well then again, I know they did a TV Party episode AT the MUDD club once, so maybe this is it?
fasolplanetarium 1 month ago
Sounds like he's playing the guitar through a ring modulator.
Kohntarkosz 6 months ago
haha! I love the part of "loirinha safada".
AngeloNoel 7 months ago
Is the picture in the background that of Samuel Mudd on whom the club was named?
fellfootwood 8 months ago
Fantastic
MikeIXWilliams 8 months ago
this is amazing<3
nayniebird 9 months ago
you people r freaks....
Smartperson911 10 months ago
@Smartperson911 Thank you!
JaackPat 7 months ago
i think it's brilliant. arto lindsay started playing guitar in 1977 and as far as i know never learned an actual chord. i think it's great. unconventionalism at it's best. if unconventionalism is a word.
throatripper75 11 months ago
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throatripper75 11 months ago
ikue holding it down.
strippertheband 1 year ago
don king were better.
posthumanhero 1 year ago
I would have loved to have seen Madonna at the Mudd Club.
aquilinonyc 1 year ago
Arto Lindsay is awesome.
horseloverfatjr 1 year ago
I wish more bands had the courage to make music as adventurous as this.
Most end up imitating what came before, making slight evolutionary changes (technological/musical).
DNA made music that had never existed before (and Arto Lindsay's STILL making great music).
When you decide to just go out there and create something radically different (without worrying about mainstream, critical, and even financial success), eventually you'll hit on something that becomes distinctive, even revolutionary.
Toocold 1 year ago
@Toocold the only thing new or revolutionary, is that people think this stuff is great. I think it's ok, mainly the bass playing.
shinybald36 1 year ago
@Toocold I highly highly highly reccomend scissor shock then!
mradamcooley 1 year ago
To those of you complaining about this music... how the hell did you even find it? People seeking this band out ought to know what they're in for. Turn on your radio and fuck off!
anthonyaranda 1 year ago
The recorded versions of these songs are alot better. On this performance they sound loose, sloppy and not at all together. Which turns the songs from noisy, grating rock to a mess, and it's actually kind of hilarious. Also, they all look like they hate their lives.
mostenmolsen 1 year ago
This isn't art. It's crap. I can give you definitions if you'd like.
davephilpott 1 year ago
@davephilpott Stick to Lady Gaga and Steely Dan, UTTER generic shite :O)
kiribula 1 year ago
@davephilpott Oh I would just LOVE to know what the "definition of art" is... people like you hold evolution back.
anthonyaranda 1 year ago
gawdamn that Lenin always showing up in the most inopportune places!
skvfighter 1 year ago
made me laugh and that \ makes me like this band. i don't even mean that in a bad way.
HDXPC 1 year ago
this band reminds me of primus
ElvisBluntman777 2 years ago
@ElvisBluntman777 Really? How?
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sounds like they tried to copy throbbing gristle just not as hardcore. didnt lunch come before them too? not such an original band.
lloplop 2 years ago
I really doubt Gristle had recorded or crossed the pond by the time these guys got together.
Also, DNA used traditional instruments, TG is centered on tapes, synths and sound manipulation.
fastrnb 2 years ago 3
this is AWESOME, saw Arto in North Beach S. F. playing twenty years ago, he is a fucking rockstar!!
porkduke2000 2 years ago
first song is blonde redhead. hell yeah
telegramsiam2 2 years ago
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it's funny how the guitarsist isn't even "playing" his instrument, he's just kind strumming dead notes.
thenewtalkingguitar 2 years ago
this band is helped found the movement of noise music (you suck)
apeshiitgmail 2 years ago 3
@apeshiitgmail No. Try listening to some Edgard Varese or some Karlheinz Stockhausen. Their music is as noisy as you get.
wormword 2 years ago
woah, it keeps mentiong stockhausen in a kraftwerk bio i was reading earlier, i forgot to look that stuff up but you just reminded me.
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in my opinion both lindsay and ikuo mori have done a more interesting and absolutely better music after start with this trio. if they´re on drugs, they´re it´s bad drugs + bad trip. that time, this might have been quite cutting edge, now i think it´s just quite old and quite ugly.
vulvatronic 2 years ago
We could always count on an interesting evening at the Mudd - sad those days are gone...
moonfaze 2 years ago
You gotta love avant-guard music and the people who love and make it! =D
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Damn the dude with the gutair looks like a nerd.....hahaha..
Bigfatgiantass 2 years ago
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just shit... weird
blindbury 2 years ago
you suck
fredjhenzel 2 years ago 4
i was messin around with music and gutair for fun look up orion eats babies by skunk cabbage then check the myspace im not saying im good just sounds like it
support the skunk
Godlord3 2 years ago
were they on heroin?
wherestheunity 2 years ago 3
you'd think so, but no.
cholocharile 2 years ago 4
This music is FOR REAL, much more directly connected to reality than the plastic commercialized dreck constantly heard everywhere.
lutherheggs 2 years ago 11
if buy commercialized you mean "someone might actually want to buy it"
fleursubli 2 years ago
that is just not true, but you can go ahead in think that way but just know that it is not good or bad, its only what you make of it, just because its so diffrent doesn't make it FOR REAL, a chuck berry song could carry the same emotion, you smug douche bag
bettudont 2 years ago
@lutherheggs better than anything ive heard in the past decade @ least
f1l173 7 months ago
@lutherheggs well arto lindsay went on to make plastic commercial music, but it wasnt dreck
geobruf123 2 weeks ago
rockon!!!!!!!!! bonzo76 no new york was a classic comp along w/ let them eat jelly beans...the band suicide, how do you download them you type there name and all of a sudden sumtin happens cop r at the door i know shut up squeaky bonzo76 rockon!!!!!!!!!!!!1
luvumo2day 2 years ago
this video is funny but wierd tho
Droy990 2 years ago
BLACK MAMBA!
skatemandan 2 years ago
FUCK YEAH
sconeofark 3 years ago
todo el no wave
gracias a the velvet underground
xcalabazazombie 3 years ago
art generally speaking is supposed to push boundaries...i have no problem with ppl playing music that sounds like everything else but its nice to have artists like this push the envelope
SonicYouth5469 3 years ago 2
Sightings are the ultimate evolution to all the NYC no wave stuff. Anyone who digs this, would love Sightings.
bowman134 3 years ago
Wow! Great stuff! Kinda hard to dance to, though...
WingedDiskRecords 3 years ago
anybody who loves DNA should give thumbs up to those who post NEGATIVE comments about them and thumbs down to those who post POSITIVE comments about them. you know what i mean?
JimmyVonJim 3 years ago
yeah
saborranchero 3 years ago
tu madre cabron
thefoolandthefeign 3 years ago
ha, I can dig it
Sollys3 2 years ago 2
Hi. I saw this video like two years ago and it changedmy life. Thank you very much from los polvorines, a little town of argentina. Please,watch aur homemade and lo fi videos
generacionpaluca 3 years ago
Ability is (apparently) overrated.
nondor13 3 years ago
These guys are pretty cool. Good to hear some no wave outside of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
crallspace 3 years ago 3
yes, but that is Gordon Stevenson right? Anyway I can't wait til Teenage Jesus on ATP
viktornolsson 3 years ago
DNA was so ahead of their time...just like Kraftwerk was ahead of their time..although Kraftwerk was only 35 years ahead of their time, I believe DNA was 75-100 years ahead of time....I'm sure a youth shall be born that will listen to this as if it was bubble gum music!
yenyere 3 years ago 2
LOL are you saying this is the music of the future?
good thing we'll be dead.
4darin5 3 years ago
look DNA is an awesome band and their compilation DNA on DNA is an amazing album. you know question music blah blah and all that is great but this sounds kinda bad. maybe its the audio quality... but from what I have heard on the album is great. maybe this wasn't their best live set I don't know. I would hope that at other times they played better cause they all seem so out of it and generally unenthusiastic. would suck if they always sounded like this because on the record they fuckin rule.
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Are you sniffing a lumberjack's anus?
these guys fucken suck.
4darin5 3 years ago
Go listen to Tom Jones.
nhdaniele 3 years ago
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anybody can do this really just gather a bunch of people who can't play their instruments, play random shitty chords, and yell out random shit while acting retarded and there ya go!!
snottyignorant 3 years ago
You couldn't do this if you didn't have any arms or if your band had one fewer person. Oh yeah, not to mention that they did it first.
Gumbyrearygood 3 years ago 2
Yeah well everyone CAN, but not everyone DOES.
oldboot 3 years ago 3
i don't know why so many people gave you negative marks for this comment:
"anybody can do this really just gather a bunch of people who can't play their instruments, play random shitty chords, and yell out random shit while acting retarded and there ya go!!"
in think you are complimenting the band by saying this. that quote sums up why i love DNA. and the best part: DNA was a group of perfectionists who practiced constantly. isn't that funny/cool in a way?
JimmyVonJim 3 years ago 2
Then you shouldnt listen to No Wave. You totally are missing the genious behind DNA and all No Wave. Your idea of it is completly wrong. Go listen to some blink 182
rock7dmc 3 years ago 3
what do you mean exactly? i am interested in your idea, and assume you are right, but i need you to explain in more detail.
JimmyVonJim 3 years ago
i love arto
Bonesyard 3 years ago 4
was this sampled for 'milkshake' by kelis?
blatspanner 3 years ago 4
i love both these tracks !!!!!!!
weaselidiotu 3 years ago
I bought the EP "A Taste of DNA" when it came out. I vividly remember my roommate's reaction when I first played that EP. He absolutely hated that record. Never before or since have I seen a person respond so angrily to an album. Of course, I loved the album, and I played it continuously. It must have grown on my roommate, because after a week, he went out and bought his own copy.
GreenManalishiUSA 3 years ago 3
That's amazing, my experiance has often been that many people don't really want to open teir mind to truly original music.
mick1316591 3 years ago
Huh. Y'know, DNA is one of those bands that I've always heard of, but never really heard.
So now I've heard them. This is pretty neat. Really fun noisy stuff. I like it.
rachelevil 3 years ago 2
god this is amazing. DNA has done so much to deconstruct the traditional aspects of "song" while destroying all that was pop in NYC. DNA was such a progressive band. It's so funny how people will speand so much money on Marshal amps, guitar lessons, and Stevie Ray Vaughn chord books. Keep shreding your sick BC Rich, you uncreative asshole.
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wtf
jehovanator 3 years ago
skronk!
GreenManalishiUSA 3 years ago 3
Arto rocks!
MoltenCoreMusic 3 years ago 4
it's so weird seeing people claim that this is ridiculous noise that no one could enjoy, because it seems fucking fun to me
Zaknrfamaa 3 years ago 9
and oh my first comment was for jocheeeN
beddykatp 3 years ago
I think it is very cool.
I enjoy it.
Fuck what other people think, some people like U2, some people like Joe Cocker, some people like DNA, some people even like them all.
RabbitHolocaust 3 years ago 5
what the hell it sounds like a cat fight
georgenewbike 3 years ago
Yea,DNA
hooounddooog 3 years ago 4
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jocheeeN 3 years ago 3
I agree with every word I understood :)
I don't understand why we can't like the music for what it is or isn't without others being condescending or accuse us of liking this because they don't. I don't even know why I like it I just do. The organized distortion and the structure is unconventional I couldn't resist. I don't have any hipster friends or much friends at all. I'm the only one who listens to this genre of music. Who I'm trying to impress? That doesn't make much sense.
beddykatp 3 years ago 6
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Are these Yoko Ono's misfit children?
chipedge 3 years ago
hey dont vote this comment down, yoko rules man
Zaknrfamaa 3 years ago
yoko ono is a racist
jangun 3 years ago
You guys are idiots!
All you hear id the normal melodic music crap everyday of your fucking lives!
That's the reason why you don't appreciate music when it totally becomes an art!
You can't appreciate their music because to you it's just noise
And that's what makes you all fucking idiots!
Stop telling me that you're the best guitar player out there because you aren't!
Adrammelech 3 years ago 3
We have many relatives and families to check DNA we can determine if they are our relatives.
fiamm100 3 years ago
arguing that DNA's music doesn't take any talent to create is completely missing the point
it's essentially the same argument as saying "my kid could paint that" when looking at a Picasso
listen to the music Lindsay and Mori made post-DNA - they're both incredibly "talented" musicians... they didn't make music like this as an excuse for not being able to play
but even if they did - what does it matter?
I can see something worthwhile in it. you don't. why argue?
TimNicholas 3 years ago 18
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I can see what you're saying, but it gets to a point where you really can't judge this AS music. There's no question that there is artistic validity being shown here, but I think it is so deviated from what's considered music that it gets to a point where it ceases to be so. I think it's more appropriate to place into forms of auditory art; like revolution #9 or something.
fadsyt 3 years ago
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I can see what you're saying, but it gets to a point where you really can't judge this AS music. There's no question that there is artistic validity being shown here, but I think it is so deviated from what's considered music that it gets to a point where it ceases to be so. I think it's more appropriate to place into forms of auditory art; like revolution #9 or something.
fadsyt 3 years ago
trust me, dude
there's music a lot weirder than this
and A LOT weirder than "Revolution #9"
and it's definitely still called music
and I still listen to it as music
and isn't all music just 'auditory art' anyway?
it doesn't really matter though
call it whatever you want
TimNicholas 3 years ago 22
@TimNicholas Yea i'd call it pretentious audio defecation.
Rankmoistmeat 11 months ago
@Rankmoistmeat cos yer a moron
wi11ydapimp 8 months ago
@wi11ydapimp lol you're hilarious.
Rankmoistmeat 8 months ago
@TimNicholas What1? There is!? Tell me please!
Kento617 10 months ago
Ikue Mori!
sisterenrodentia 4 years ago
awesome awesome
wherestheunity 4 years ago
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i like some weird shit but this is fuckin wank
jaytotale 4 years ago
It may not be hard to play or create but it is hard to comprehend. Maybe if people looked beyond how hard some thing is to play, they would get it.
KristopherWP 4 years ago
Just becuase you can't pigeon hole the genre of DNA dose not mean they suck. And yes I'm directing this comment to all you people saying "what is that?". In fact it makes them even better that you are asking that question I ask it to myself every time I hear DNA. There is almost nothing to compare them to. Thats what makes them so great.
KristopherWP 4 years ago
All you haters, even if this band did suck (which they don't), in the grand scheme of things does it really matter, and are you negative comments simply a reflection of your own feelings of inferiority. Perhaps, if you had something creative to contribute you'd have something positive to focus your attention on. How many of you even play guitar?
bullrooster 4 years ago
bigman1225 Nintendo Guitar Hero doesn't count
bullrooster 4 years ago
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I've played REAL guitar for two years now, I have enough knowledge to know this shit isn't very hard to play, nor does it take alot of time to create it. As for the fucktart two comments above you, just because something is different doesn't make it good. I'm familiar with no wave, but this shit is bad...i mean, ITS FUCKING BAD.
bigman1225 4 years ago
Well, I've played for 21 years and I say DNA is one the most important bands of the last 40 years. So there you go, chief.
TransducerX 3 years ago 5
you're really lame.
koreindian1 3 years ago
i love people who are seriously concerned with what "hipsters" are listening to, and go out of their way to not like a band solely because "hipsters" enjoy them.
dxmkrew 4 years ago 3
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Ha! I can't believe thats why you think people don't like this. Are you all musically challenge or something? You think this noise is music? Please, don't be ridiculous.
bigman1225 4 years ago
you sound 80. and i never claimed it was music. if it were music, i probably wouldn't like it.
dxmkrew 4 years ago
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what;s that!!! it;s fuckin' shit fuck me
zawizyxzawisza 4 years ago
Yeah whatever ya bloody scoundrel. what are you doing looking up DNA's videos if you detest them? Tracks like 'new fast', 'lionel', 'not moving' and 'blonde red head' are fucking awesome and i don't think i'm cool, most of my friends are deadshits like you who think it's crap.
otomwaho 4 years ago
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cant even make it through the whole thing. horrible pretentious garbage. this is probably the worst band ive ever seen, and ive seen some shit in my day. i just hope all 3 of these losers are dead by now. who the fuck would applaud that? kill the audience members too , burn the whole fucking club to the ground, mincey boy hungry garbage.
mikehunt1984 4 years ago
Go abort yourself.
imarobot7 4 years ago
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mikehunt knows whats up. People don't really like this, they just pretend they do to tell others they don't know what music is so they feel like they're "cool".
bigman1225 4 years ago
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haha so true look at all these uppity queers on here.
mikehunt1984 4 years ago
Incidentally, awesome video! :)
timothypillowcase92 4 years ago
halk the bands i love wouldent be who they are if not for this band. the locust, le shok, ex models, bad dudes, all got there insperation from this band and other from this time.
akakaraka 4 years ago
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Guess what? all those bands suck.
no wave= gong show for hipsters.
bigman1225 4 years ago
Oh really? I'm not a hipster. I like all kinds of music. I like this band, you don't, fair enough but don't go make stupid ill-informed generalizations about people and genres of music.
timothypillowcase92 4 years ago 3
Rofl so random.
nikyoutard 4 years ago
arto!!! love the shades!!!
thedeadcellist 4 years ago
Its called NO WAVE. Look it up.
MankindCartoons 4 years ago 3
la gueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
beccaxkalei 4 years ago
I am soooo glad I gave this a listen to. Just proves to me that I have not experienced everything that music has to offer. I totally love this!
koolthingdot 4 years ago 6
this is great. short but sweet. i wish all bands played for 11 minutes and just ended it. yeah!
coconutshards 4 years ago 2
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this is defintely not great.
samuraigurkha 4 years ago
I was there that night. I miss the Mudd Club. It was on Lafayette St as I recall.
muncher64 4 years ago 3
white street, off lafayette
thedeadcellist 4 years ago
this is sooo good, the camera techniques compliment it as well, I like the bass, I am DNA as a whole can't be beat, but the bass really helps to gring out the dischord of the guitar, They all support eachother, This seems more real for me then a lot of pop music, and current rock,, it's just so raw.
geanomas 4 years ago 5
this is incredible. it sounds melodic to me, i don't understand why it is not melodic. i probably just do not know the exact meaning of melodic, but it sounds beautiful to me. the succession of the notes sounds beautiful. and the rhythms are gorgeous. it must have taken such concentration to play in that band. and is the drummer a man or a woman? who knows. amazing.
StandardHarper 4 years ago
the drummer, ikue mori, is a woman. she has a bunch of albums on tzadik, mostly electronic stuff i think.
gkorein 4 years ago
It sounds melodic because it is melodic.
bezgin 4 years ago
shut up scenester.
scrawnyscream 4 years ago
you must be a good fock.
bezgin 4 years ago
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No, sonic youth is a great fucking band. This is n't that i don't get it, its just people listen to this kind of shit to tell others that they don't know what "real music" is.
Basically, you're all trying to be sophisticated and cool.
But you're all douchebags.
bigman1225 4 years ago
this is great. I can understand why kids wouldn't like this. it doesn't follow the predictable pattern of shit bands like MCR and Fallout Boy. Bands like this made Sonic Youth who they are. What too young to even know who SY are? hahaha
totalstranga 4 years ago 5
Doesn't that beginning bass line remind you of "The Bug" by Jerry Dallman & the Knightcaps (on the original _Hairspray_ soundtrack)?
Oh yeah, for any of you guys out there that still don't believe in Arto Lindsay's talent, you should hear his intricate (and very melodic) Brazilian samba guitar playing, à la Jobim. So there :-p
alliereadsbooks 4 years ago
YES!
mradamcooley 4 years ago 4
another thing, while i'm at it... who gives a fuck if he can or can't play, anyway?!? if rock... or any music... were all about technical skills, you could kiss goodbye 99% of the idols. it's about feeling, in my opinion. say something. make me feel. surprise me. make me remember you. fuck all the rest of that crap. that's the same shit i used to hear about swans.
abdroog 4 years ago 6
i have a difficult time understanding how anyone who has seen arto live could say he couldn't play guitar. i'm actually laughing. so much of his recorded music around "proves" he can play in the most obvious ways. but like i said... it's just funny. it doesn't upset me. no one can make me feel bad about my taste. in fact, i pity the fool whose life is so pathetically hollow that he has to go around trying to insult other people's tastes because he has none of his own. oooh. touche!
abdroog 4 years ago 2
loves it!
fearthedreadlox 4 years ago
"I could get on stage with a guitar and start playing random shit and yelping, its not hard."
No one said you couldn't, and no one said it was hard. This music isn't about technical proficiency... it's about expression. I'm sorry you don't like it, but your dislike of it doesn't mean other people don't derive value from it.
Or I could put it this way - you don't get it, fuck off. I think the former is more polite.
caleb462 4 years ago
i love this. anybody who doesn't is a fucking moron. this music spits in your faces, fools!
nonwave 4 years ago
now guys and gals
I walked into cb's in the early 90's and saw
arto, peter scherr and syros baptiste at 3.00a.m.
holy crap... just five star dowtown music
hansonmick 4 years ago
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It seems like you can pretty much do anything and label it "art" now these days,it started here in the 80's and now we still have the same shitty god awful music today. This isn't soothing to the ears and it doesn't give me any sort of energy.
Its fucking repulsive for christ sake, get it through your heads you fucking hipster college idiots. I could get on stage with a guitar and start playing random shit and yelping, its not hard.
bigman1225 4 years ago
doubt you could
ballseatinganusface 4 years ago
why are you even bothering to comment? just because this band has reached a moderate amount of respect over the years it still doesn't make them famous. you just feel somewhat angry because it's not up your alley. well i like it so why don't you mind your own business and keep your comments to yourself.
glitchesandglitter 4 years ago
But you would not know the value of it.
woozlbug 4 years ago
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That wouldn't be art
Art it's supposed to be the tool to get into the artist head.
And if you would like to make such an stupid statement , the least you could do is not to do it on the internet, it so lame.
GESTIONAMELAA 3 years ago
hahahaha, ye totally this is more like the voice of jesus, its completely on another level. if there was somthing like supergodmanart this will be it. just saying its art does no justice
jangun 3 years ago
do you really think art could be interesting if everybody got it?
51221119 3 years ago 5
Youtube comments are hilarious. It blows my mind that people could turn a DNA video into another "who's the best guitarist in the world' pissing contest.
Anyway thanks for posting this, audio is nice and clear. Excellent snapshot of No Wave. I saw Arto at a bookstore a few years ago, he's developed a very nice singing voice, though he still can't play guitar for shit. ;)
GiantEnemyCrab 4 years ago
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fuck it sounds terrible.. i wish i was there
.... with a shotgun and blows this fuckers
cheloko69 4 years ago
Callate y aprende a apreciarlo, pelotudo
Encima tenes que andar avergonzandome a mi, un compatriota
GESTIONAMELAA 3 years ago
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This is fucking terrible, you're all idiots.
bigman1225 4 years ago
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Agreed
SolarPlexus3 4 years ago
God, I love no wave.
jessicagallagher 4 years ago 3
Yeah moih u got it the first song is blonde redhead.Thanx for posting this legend.performance.Its so importent for the no wave/punk era!!
nowaverocker 4 years ago 2
arto cant play guiter you dumb ignorant shit do ur research
jetstarbr 4 years ago
arto can actually play guitar,and is a real musician he pretty good at brazillian music. if arto is in a class by himself that class was taught by "Derek Bailey" arto wishes he could be Derek Bailey
smelterfish 4 years ago
Arto Lindsay is still one of the finest guitar players of all time. Up there with R. Grey, T. Verlaine, R. Quine (RIP), N. Young, G. Branca and T. Moore. Sorry Clapton never made that little group!
simonbnyc 4 years ago
please dont compare first off arto is in his own class he cant actualy play guitar so compareing him with real musicians as far as skil is off because he made skronk its his style and knowone can touch it learn your music simon ps glen branca wishes he were arto and so does sonic youth
jetstarbr 4 years ago
this is rare of rare because not only is every song played very different then how they usualy sound but its the whole live preformence one song is money but this is amazing- oh and its snake on my mind not in buddy know your dna
jetstarbr 4 years ago
The rock!awesome video
RaNiARoCk 4 years ago
blonde redhead?
moih 4 years ago
incredible.
thank you so much.
gangofanthony 4 years ago