Sonic Youth love songs
 

OK, I want to make a mix CD of love songs/songs that make me think of her for my girlfriend, and I really want to introduce her to Sonic Youth, but the 3 songs I have in mind (Sugar Kane, Cotton Crown, or Shadow of a Doubt) may not actually be love songs...I mean, they could be INTERPRETED as such, but I'd feel weird including a song on mix CD of love songs that isn't intended as a love song.

If I go with any of them, it'll probably be Sugar Kane, as it's the most accessible of the 3. She's fairly casual about listening to music; she doesn't have any real favorite artists and takes pretty much everybody on a song-by-song basis.

why not...Genetic? different kind of love, I suppose.

i love her all the time, hoarfrost, what we know

These are not the droids he's looking for.

Honestly Sugar Kane is probably your best bet... Sonic Youth are such a hard band to introduce people to, especially people who dont devotedly listen to music.

wish fulfillment

you can't have love without a broken heart...

@ Chris Lawrence: Genetic is my personal anthem (especially the second verse), but the song itself seems more about being in love with someone in a relationship with someone else, so I don't think it's appropriate in this context.

@ Nefeli: PCH and Shaking Hell are about rape, which is the exact polar opposite of love. Karen Koltrane's an OK song, but it seems to be about a lost love, rather than a current love. According to Lee, we'll never know who Karen Koltrane was or is supposed to represent, but my guess is she is/was a former lover of his that he might still be involved with had she not died or gone insane from drugs...

shadow of a doubt?

sonic youth love songs....what a name of thread! nice 1!

oh yeah i forgot my personal favorite love song by SY and that is Green Light....it doesnt sound like a love song, but lyricaly? i think it is beautiful lyric.

I love you, golden blue?

Unmade Bed?

PInk Steam.

green light.

snare girl.
hoarfroast

Tuck n Dar, I Love Her all the Time and I guess Superstar and also Incinerate.

Purr, ffs.

sweet shine

Also:

Diamond Sea,
Unwind,
Unmade Bed

Fairly romantic songs.

yep!

I think Beauty Lies In The Eye is the most romantic song I have heard.

Green Light is definitely the ultimate SY love song.

I don't think so. It's the girl's contempt for the guy who wants to exploit her.

The simple answer is clearly Hoarfrost. Or maybe I Love You Golden Blue, but it might just be my intense love of that song clouding things haha. Personally, I'd go with Anagramma, because while it's not explicitly a love song, it just sounds like being in love...

Unwind sounds like a love song, to me. I've got no recollection of the lyrics but the song makes me feel fuzzy.

Actually, I just looked at the lyrics. IT IS A FUCKING LOVE SONG!!!!!

Yr chick'll totally dig it, fo sho.

OH YEAH HOARFROST!



beatiful fucking song. and quite the romantic one at that.

death to our friends?

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. I decided to go with Sugar Kane, because not only is it a love song (of sorts) but it also serves as a good introduction to my favorite parts of the band's music-it's driving, fuzzy in some parts and crystal clean in others, discordant and melodic at the same time, and has a fun, freewheeling feel...

I was originally going to burn her a copy of Daydream Nation since that was the first complete SY album I heard and is generally considered their defining work, but then I remembered it's kind of long and sometimes she can have a short attention span (like me haha).

then give her Murray St.


It's short. and sweet.

in that case my choice would be Moonface!:)

This.
PCH
Even Karen Revisited seems about some unfinished business, regardless of the few lines at the end. It's not like SY are famous for writing conventional love songs anyway. If she doesn't like the less pleasing to the ear numbers, chances are that she'll appreciate the poppier stuff, so you might as well make your choice a less restrictive one.

Also, forget about SY ''love'' songs. Put Duran Duran's ''Rio'' on your mixtape instead of this miserable indie sod stuff. She'll take her clothes off more promptly.

+ pink steam

- unmade bed

Snare, girl + Heather angel

Reena and Massage the History. Rest that come into my mind has already said.

I always feel Reena as a powerful love song
The day I met my partner I went biking for half an hour through the empty streets of Holstebro, Denmark listening to it - and we've been in love ever since :D
p.s. how do i get rid of empty page under my name? Love the song but...feel like something different

massage
 

and Massage the history...power fluid of consciousness....but man/woman love? mmm nahh, feels beyond it
:D

 

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(Vocals Gordon)

Oil dripping on my head
Let's go back to bed
Bring you back to me
Bring you back to me

Oil dripping on my head
Bring you back
From the dead
From the dead
Here's wishing you were here with me
Here's wishing we could massage
History, history
I'm witness to what you do
Anything that you feel
In between, in between
You and me
Bound at sea
Floating on debris
Yr so close, close to me
Yr so close, close to me

Oil dripping on my head
Let's go back to bed
[ Sonic Youth Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
Bring you back
Bring you back
From the dead
From the dead
Wishing you were here by me
Wishing you were here
Let's massage history
All the money's gone
All the money's gone
Funny it was never here
It was never here
Here's a song
Here's a song
To massage along
History along
Come with me
To the other side
Not everyone makes it out alive
Come with me
To the other side not everyone makes it out
Alive
I want you to suck my neck...

Suck

(Vocals Gordon)

Oil dripping on my head

To me these lyrics means a description of very deep love between two persons.

keep posting!

Genteel Death with the best choice in the entire thread. Well that and
"I Love Her All The Time."

the titles change as your post count goes up

I think there is something strangely romantic in Hoarfrost. It's not like, elated or giddy love...more like "grown up" love. It's different.