Jim O'Rourke and Steve Shelley are the most underrated musicians of the past 25 years

O'Rourke has a great feel for music, that much is obvious. He really compliments the dynamic here.

Absolutely the best band in the world. never has any group been as consistently great as sonic Youth

Jim O’Rourke (Chicago, Illinois; 18 de enero de 1969) es un músico, compositor y productor estadounidense, asociado por largo tiempo a la escena experimental de su ciudad natal. 55 AÑOS.

Mark Ibold is now the new bass player of Sonic youth. Jim O'Rourke was a friend of theirs who played bass and guitar during the Murray St era. He's pretty much freelance and plays with many bands.

I agree, Jim O'Rourke is a mastermind that just knows how to add colour and texture to all the SY catalogue. I'm glad Mark Ibold from Pavement is playing with them now though; the new record sounds pretty good.

I'd forgotten about sonic youth for about a decade, and stumbled across this show when it aired. I couldn't believe it was this good, and didn't have TIVO on the set I was watching. I bought Sonic Nurse and Murray street the next day, and make a point of seeing them live whenever I can. FWIW - Jim O'Rourke was some kind of catalyst for them, the show with him was incredible. One of the best I've ever seen.

This song is beautiful. It's like a rock orchestra. Every part of teh song was fantastic.

Great song, with echoes of the song "Marquee Moon" by Television, penned by Tom Verlaine. I noticed it the 1st time I heard it. In an old Thurston interview, the interviewer suggested what I'd thought too, that there was some Television influence on "Murray Street". Thurston agreed Television was one of SY's predecessors that 's "elemental" to SY's sound. And it was hearing Tom play the Fender Jazzmaster that prompted Thurston to play one too. He's called it it his "favourite guitar".

god bless SY....and jim o'rourke too

Steve Shelley, what a guy. really love his wave on drums

sonic youth by itself is amazing, but with jim o'rourke it's... otherwordly

one of there best songs

Steve Jay Shelley, baterista estadounidense, nacido el 23 de junio de 1963 en Midland, Míchigan. Formó parte de la formación original de la banda de punk: "Crucifucks". 60 AÑOS. (61) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Jim's awesome. One of the biggest bizarre music in this time.

What a great riff the little ascending ditty

Simply great !

trancendant, muscular sounds, moist and victorious, one of the best bands, wah wah statues, electric tunnel...yawza! Great video.

my favorite ♥

That was awesome

So glad I got to see them before they split.

That song is amazing. I don't have any SY records between Washing Machine and Rather Ripped, but I'll definitely buy that album. The song builds up so nicely, it's heartwarming and heart-pounding at the same time.

i love the drummer with one real...microphone... its one real sound made by one real kick!!!.!! I lOve this band!! ì want to be immortal with one band like thats around..lol bye

intellegent guitar play.. this is a treasure, great song!

It's on the album Murray Street, which is great. A little more laid back and jammier than their other stuff, but I love it.

CooooooooooooL! xD

buy them all, it's all fukking great stuff

What can I say...they break with convention.

Fucking Awesome!!

@Bobjb999 excelent post. i always felt echoes of marquee on murray (heh, even the titles are somewhat similiar there)... with all the clean guitar interplay epics and stuff. i wish more songs on it were as good as this one, though i think sympathy for the strawberry is one of their best songs ever, even though it doesn't change over the course of 9 minutes. just something about it.

Thurstons tone rules!!...circa 3.03

comment dude!! nyc ghost and flower is one of the greatest album of all time!!! open your mind!!

Yeah, seems like the only one from the Wilco camp is O'Rourke, who didn't get producing credits for the last Wilco album. There's some awesome footage of Thurston and Nels Cline on KZfaq though . . .

as wilco but he played with sonic youth 2 years live minimimun

Ah, I understand. But on some Jimmy Fallon show I saw Gordon playing bass when they were performing "No Way." And still, there was a second bassist there. What's up with that?

dude, maybe NYC G&F is not the best album of our era (as Lordtarace says), but it is very good still. It's a non noise experimental album by SY. NYC G&F has a lot of beatiful poetry (like Free City Rhymes) but also shows us the reality naked as it is (Small flowers crack concrete). It's very psychedelic and shows the avant-garde and beat generation influence on the band.

@mradamcooley Rain on Tin's my fave off "Murray" too, although I like most of the album including "Strawberry".I saw an interv. online from a few yrs. back with Tom Verlaine & Thurston together.Apparently, they're jamming pals.I'd love to hear them collaborate on a studio release or concerts. I dig Dim Stars, Thurston's side project with Tom's old band mate Richard Hell. I think Hell's a fine singer, imo better than Thurston, Kim or Tom & maybe even Lee Renaldo (who may be SY's best singer).

I'd love to see you play baby! we have our *duo* too of course lol! power ballads hahaha!! XXX

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Can someone tell me what Pedal Jim is using please?

what's the name of this awesome theme?

I don't really understand what place he holds in the band. Is he simply a second bassist? I'm trying to find the Personnel for The Eternal but cannot find it.

este es en Nueva York verdad?

Is that Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, 2nd in from the left?

it's funny usually lee axe isn't loud enough however right here it's too loud and the melody can't be heard. one of my all time favs... on record where everything's balanced.

I swear I hear a phaser, I see a volume pedal, and a compressor. can't see much else there though.

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no I was wrong jim is too loud

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