Nardwuar vs. Sonic Youth (1991) Pt 2 of 2

Pt 2 of 2 of Nardwuar's interview with Sonic Youth outside the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 17 1991. For the transcript and other Nardwuar Sonic Youth encounters check out http://nardwuar.com/vs/sonic_youth/

Postscript: Nardwuar sez "The record that got broken was "Charlie Browning" by The Young Men from Seattle Washington, released in 1963 on the Bolo Record Label. (Bolo 742) I had brought it to the interview because I had heard (incorrecty) that Sonic Youth had recorded a version of The Coasters hit "Charlie Brown" ---t hey really recorded Alice Cooper's "Is It My Body" --- I hypothesized that perhaps that they would be interested in seeing a Northwest take on "Charlie Brown". When I say "Northwest take" I mean that The Young Men took "Charlie Brown" and changed the words slightly to "Charlie Browning" in honour of a local football player. I personally love when songs get "regionalized" and that damn 45 was dear to my heart! Luckily I was able to find another copy a few years later in a Bellingham ,Washington Value Village. Furthermore to my amazement,, I was told, that while opening for REM at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver in 1995, Sonic Youth dedicated a song to me: "Schizophrenia" ! "

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[LucidDream]

Hm. Sure Nardwuar can be annoying to some people but I expected Sonic Youth would be a little more accepting. I've loved their music for a loooong time. And finally when they get a decent interviewer they decide to act like this? Yet if you look at some of the interviews that other people have done with them, they tend to be a bit more serious...despite those interviewers probably didn't even like Sonic Youth or could make all of the cool connections. This kind of makes me see them in a new way.

[MrTaNXC]

This interview made me laugh , but he didn't deserve to have a record broken, he sounded so sad :(

Poor Nardwuar...

[AndyTabelz]

Thurston mentions minor threat.

[AndyTabelz]

Sonic Youth is awesome and so is Nardwuar, they're just generally trolling, being funny. soooooo many don't get this interview.

[terepotere]

Sonic Youth won.

Is this the only one where Nardwuar doesn't win?

[GrungeRockabilly]

@TehChiken Bitch please, the only reason Nirvana got signed to DGC was because Kim and Thurston recommended them. That was in their contract with DGC, that they got to recommend a band to the labelheads, and they would then be bound by contract to sign them.

[eatmyfun]

they tried to fucking put his shirt over his head at the end... fuckin "cool kids" with a jock mentality

[srest777]

Don't take the caaaaaaards hahahahahahahahahahaha crazy burnouts

[grungeiac]

haha, funny interview.

But In all honesty Narduar kind of sucked in this interview. His questions weren't serving him too well, and he was stumbling and stammering withball his words

[TremulantMannequin]

They're not being funny, or witty, or trolling, or cool. They're just acting like immature faggots.

[deadbirdsings]

@fuckamericanidiot - Thurston Moore tends to prattle on like that endlessly and they didn't want to encourage him. Either that, or nobody got the Minor Threat reference.

[deadbirdsings]

@pugghead - "Pandemic of hipsters" -- I love it!