'Antenna' by Sonic Youth on Q TV

[transttorner]

9I wish lee did open hes m on this song 

[SauloPerceval]

Cool, but I think Sonic Youth is better with eletric guitars.( Sorry if I wrote something wrong).

[IdrawUme]

I think they deserve to be pretentious if they want to be. who are you?

[bille77]

thumbs up for SY being terribly pretentious.

[willzer808]

i've tried to bring myself to like sonic youth, i really have, cause they've a cool name and for other important reasons, but every time i hear one of their songs, well, they just sound like a 12 year old wrote them, and i do not see what is great about them. I must be missing something. This song seems so bland and uninspired..

[hixanthrope]

Important to see the difference between pretentious and out of your mind on drugs(past), or just perma-fried(present). I know this because I identify personally.

[fac443]

This is probably the first time I can see Thurston Moore's face.

[theycallmeoneeye]

and you thought everything was going to be quiet and mellow because they had acoustic guitars...SONIC YOUTH!!

[FreekvanSummeren]

That arrogant host thinks his introduction is the actual performance. What a loser with his wikipedia story and looked-up-from-the-dictionary words.

[stereosanctity7]

they should do this live...

[sk8tachiick5729]

@stereosanctity7 what i dont understand the song's perfect

[stereosanctity7]

@sk8tachiick5729 ???

[shakeyourdimsims]

@sk8tachiick5729 the songs perfect is perfectly understandable

[JeffroTV]

The guy is reading of of Wikipedia. Him and Chris Bores keeps wikipedia in business!!!!

[kicksex]

I love the fact their rockin out on acoustic's...gives me hope yet!

[godamndude]

damn what pedal is that? sounds awesome

[DyLaNqUiNtErO]

@godamndude I think it's a boss dd-1. It's a delay pedal. When you max out all the controls and you slowly decrease the delay time, you get that weird sound. It is pretty awesome.

[brw0044]

@DyLaNqUiNtErO self oscillation. not to be a nerd but I think a friend made him that delay pedal.

[TheYouthSurge]

@brw0044 you're right, it's a custom effect called the Radio Box made by his friend

[TheYouthSurge]

@DyLaNqUiNtErO it's not,

[diegokanibal]

Perfecto!

[whoiscuriousgeorge]

I've loved this song since I first heard it, and it sounds great arranged for acoustic guitars. It's awe-inspiring that these legends have kept going, never compromised on their artistic vision. So many years of great music.

[otentas]

Oh , i almost forgot the most important thing ...ANYONE WHO BELIEVES OTHERWISE CAN SUCK MY LONG HARD NOISY THROBBING COCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[otentas]

Do all governments suck ? Yes they do .

Despite that fact a government is created by the politicians who get more votes than the others...

My point ? PEOPLE SUCK ! Who gives a fuck if many believe that Sonic Youth is a pretentious band ? An idea followed by many people is not always right. Sonic Youth is THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ELECTRIC GUITAR SINCE...well i don't know since when but they rule (excuse me for bad english -i am greek)

[speakbraille]

i am the most pretentious band ever

[heroin33]

I'm guessing your "Fine Art" canvases are not too far removed from the tapestries of shit you weave here. Sounds like someone has been sodomized by Morrissey one too many times. And maybe a "Serious Music Critic" or two as well. You have my deepest sympathy. No pun intended. One thing we would all like to know is, how is it possible to maintain that stupid look on your face and grin like an idiot when the fires of hell are raging in your rear end? We all marvel at your absent pain threshold.

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

Sonic Youth = Most PRETENTIOUS band of all time

[dj7eight]

anyone know what the pedal is that lee is using to get that sound?

looks like an older ibanez flanger... has to be modded somehow...

[dj7eight]

sooo awesome to get to see their reactions to that essay the dude wrote, it sounded like a verbal blowjob.

good form lee N thursto, good form.

[heroin33]

Pretentious is a word used by stupid insecure people to sling at things they can't understand. The indictment for the ignoramus. And that is the end of your argument; you cannot elaborate. Sonic Youth were bleeding all over their guitars in the ghettos of New York City while you were soiling your diaper and they will still be bleeding all over their guitars when you are in your coffin. This is something you need to come to terms with. Only a pretentious "poseur" would google said word. SONIKLIFE

[geminidublinRETURNS]

@heroin33 LOL @ you...Shoot the messenger? Sonic Youth = Pretentious ...Serious Music Critics agree. Tough titties

[geminidublinRETURNS]

@heroin33 Actually I was living in NYC as a teenager when Sonic Youth were latching on to the Art crowd like Talking Heads before them...Ghettos my arse...I think I'm in the mood to create a Facebook Group "Sonic Youth is the most PRETENTIOUS band of All Time". Never mind WHat you Sonic Youth Dickriders are actually SAYING...Just FEEL the HOSTILITY. Suck my dick.

[austinsideburns]

@geminidublinRETURNS

i love sonic youth's music, but i'm a big fan of your attitude. they do come across like cunts

"feel the hostility" classic line!!! l'm gonna steal it...

[spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

@geminidublinRETURNS Being pretentious is a good thing in their case. If they weren't pretentious, they wouldn't be able to create this good music. The Smiths were shitty. Morrissey is a fucking pussy who created music that was amateur at best. Talking Heads are good though.

[nicolasdurruti]

@heroin33 Awesome falcon punch.

[Grauenstadt]

@heroin33 Oooh, he said "spate"! Thurston is rolling his eyes.

[RHCPguitarist4]

@heroin33 You're pretentious

[TheNutzerdame]

@heroin33

BLA BLA BLÄ

[nick4man3]

@heroin33

This whole paragraph, by definition, is pretentious.

I'm not disagreeing with your opinions about Sonic Youth, they're the fucking greatest, I'm just sayin'.

[TheJumpeen]

@heroin33 A wonderful response

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

type "sonic youth pretentious" into google...i rest my case

[Anopholes1]

I knew they couldn't put down the effects, even with acoustic guitars, they are creative though

[jdest77]

I just typed faggot on google and you, commenting guys appeared! What a coincidence!

[sonicmoore]

This my Favorite Band in the world!!

[grzesieksz]

who is for sonic youth unplugged?

[MattBaumann777]

@grzesieksz Sonic Youth unplugged would be right good. Imagine Wish Fulfillment or Empty Page unplugged.

[SYR81]

i love how when the dj is talking about them, lee is cleaning parts of the guitar and thurston's sitting in that pose. hahah its funny how you act when some one is giving you gracious praise. sonic youth=best band ever.

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

SONIC YOUTH..."one of the most PRETENTIOUS bands ever" surely...

[Thermotic]

justify that? they're the complete opposite.

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

"The opposite of Pretentious" LOL, they latched on to gallery artists like drowning men who couldn't swim...if Talking Heads are now accepted by critics as pretentious in retrospect then these poseurs are Uber-pretentious. Shoe-gazing as High-Art...I think not...derivative of the real (UK) deal

[Paralysedmind]

Your comment: "one of the most PRETENTIOUS and PATHETICALLY NARROW-MINDED ever" surely... Fuck off with your negative comments.

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

Hey FUCKTARD, I just typed in "sonic youth pretentious" into a search engine & got many many thousands of hits. Do that & get back to me...Sonic Youth & Pretentious are practically the same word haha

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

I seem to have struck a raw nerve here. PRETENTIOUS

[HMG5588]

Just curious what band do you think is much better than sonic youth?

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

THE SMITHS

[HMG5588]

Yea The Smiths. "How Soon Is Now" & "Headmaster's Ritual" are pretty good tunes. But I bet you listen to The Cure, Depeche Mode, DOA, WAM, Boy George, and every other pussy band of that ilk. Man up and listen to Joy Division, Radiohead, and SONIC YOUTH!!! You DUMB ASS. Morrisey has got to be the biggest pretentious bitch with a microphone out there! And you call Sonic Youth pretentious??? Holy shit. Trade your dress for some pants punk ass.

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

type "sonic youth pretentious" into a search engine...only works with sonic youth, not smiths...338,000 examples of people calling them PRETENTIOUS

[HMG5588]

Just because 338,000 people think one thing, you think the same as they do? Why? How about this: When any artist writes a poem and creates a melody to express that poem as a song, where is the line that defines the pretentiousness of it from the unpretentiousness? Arn't songs an amplification of a human experience that requires a certain level of pretence to convey an emotion that no string of words can communicate? Is having an imagination a pretence?

[ArrestEricSchmidt]

I've made my point about these poseurs

[HMG5588]

No no no. Not by a long shot. The only point you've made is that you have no ability to debate. I bet you voted for Obama too.... just because "everybody" else did. You see folks!!! Look at what 's happening to our country!!! Non body has a spine!!! Clint Eastwood was right. America is being run by a bunch of mindless twits marching right to fucking Hell!!! And damn near everyone is goose stepping right along!!! Why??? Because everybody else is so why not me? Fucking ridiculus!!!

[nelyberries]

@ArrestEricSchmidt ,,,,, hahaha the smiths suck faggot cock you loser..... name one band influenced by the smiths ... if you can find one i bet they are totaly unknown cause it will be shit ...

[yootoob975]

lol the Killers are really big on the Smiths actually..

[MadOldMan]

I put the term" art pretentious" into google and got 1,790,000 results. I guess art must be pretentious.

[geminidublinRETURNS]

@nelyberries Mark from ArrestEricSchmidt here...not a single serious music critic has posited Sonic Youth as the most important indie band of all time. Many have given The Smiths this accolade. I'm a huge fan of genuine avant garde Art practice, My degree is Fine Art: Painting. I LOL'd at your pathetic homophobic putdown of The Smiths...the Killers are rubbish, but Radiohead are hugely influenced by the Smiths, & you can find their live cover of The Headmaster Ritual right here on YouTube

[holly03000]

Honestly... Why'd you take the time to track all this information down if you're not into them? Why be so aggressive via YouTube?

I really like Sonic Youth and that they're so into experimenting with their style. I think it's respectable. You're comment isn't though.

[geminidublinRETURNS]

@holly03000 Mark from ArrestEricSchmidt here...a few months ago I stumbled across this vid & made "the most PRETENTIOUS band of all time" comment...months later you guys are still here moaning about my comment, still butthurt, trying to pretend my comment meant that I'm anti-avant garde in some way lol...I was asked at the time who a more important indie band would be & I suggested The Smiths...I didn't go to any "trouble" lol. "Pretentious" sticks to Sonic Youth like flies to shit. PRETENTIOUS

[holly03000]

@geminidublinRETURNS I didn't know you'd stumbled on it. I'm still not 100% with the Sonic Youth is pretentious thing. But I think The Smiths are good as well so no worries.

[geminidublinRETURNS]

@holly03000 I'm not asking any fans here to stop liking Sonic Youth. If you type "sonic youth pretentious" into google, you will get vastly more hits than if you type "any other band pretentious into google, & of course I'm mean substitute the words "any other band" for the band you wish to search for...Try "talking heads pretentious" or "the smiths pretentious" I GUARANTEE you "sonic youth pretentious" has vastly more hits than any other combo. Did I create all those links? No. A Conspiracy? No

[holly03000]

@geminidublinRETURNS It's really alright. I'm not asking for any further explanation.

[ChronicSeizureRules]

amazing.

[heliatode]

thurston looks like he wishes that guy would shut the f up... or he's gonna puke

[bengativo6]

lol. i say the same thing ..

[cradthemoontripper]

i can't get enough of this song. I remember waking up to it on the radio a couple months ago. A weird start to a day. Thanks for putting the video up. Those guitars give me a chills.

[degausser505]

Fucking awesome.

[eggjoe122]

Sweeeet!

[reginaron]

wow the vocal harmony is, is there a word for it !?! Yer guitar parts are wierdly ,oddly, good. Both meld together quite well. This song felt good.

:do i get the letter of the day? I have a word that starts with q. lol

[TheRedScareIsAlive]

I just think they're uncomfortable with being talked about, especially while they're in the same room

[angelathea]

Haha They look so bored when he's speaking :P

[goomic]

YEAHHHH!!!!!