Jesus
 

How many SY songs have the word "Jesus" in the lyric?

Additionally, how many songs contain other religious/spiritual terms?

How many contain religious/spiritual themes?


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Secret Girl: "Must be dead and gone to heaven"

Kotton Krown: "Angels are dreaming of you"

Silver Rocket: "Splice yr halo and take it to a moon"

Starfield Road: "Jesus is screaming your name" (One of my most favorite T lyrics ever).

Androgynous Mind: "Hey sad angel walks and he talks like a girl"
"God is love"
"Hey hey are you gay? Are you God?"
"God is gay, and you were right"
"God said it's alright"

Satan is Boring?
Catholic Block?
Kotton Krown?
Radical adults lick Godhead style?
Snare, Girl (..."guide this child to heaven"...)
Karen Revisited ( she screams religion kills more than it saves you man)
Ineffible Me (for seceral reasons, but here's one:
Reductionist lie
Fundamentalist
Alibi
Hate castrater")
Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
Schizophrenia (Jesus had a twin.... Come on, you know the rest! Too obvious)
Androgynous Mind

Man. The bitterness over the enforced guilt of catholicism really stuck with Thurston. I can relate.

"lets go walking on water" "now i feel like satan's daughter"

How are you going to forget Do You Believe in Rapture?

"Burning eyes see Jesus coming
Jesus comes to pave the way"


Interestingly I always felt differently, I wouldn't exactly call it bitter. True, there some glaring criticism, but in truth there is also a fairly obvious spiritual theme across a lot of Sonic Youth's music for many years, as attested by many tunes on this thread. I mean really, are there any outwardly negative songs about faith? I can't recall anything as similar as Subhumans, "No I don't believe in Jesus Christ, my mother died of cancer when I was five.."

Holy shit. Good job everyone. Just remembered another: "Satan's got her tongue."

Man, I should've asked what songs DON'T have a religious/spiritual component.

And yeah, I thought it was cool of Thurston to be so openly religious on "Rapture" and not givin' a fuck.

Well bitter was the wrong word. I had a similar childhood actually, in terms of religion, and I'm not bitter. I'm actually quite sentimental about my religious upbringing, which lasted until my mid teens (when I started listening to... Well, guess who?). I don't think he's bitter.. But I think it's left a permenent impression on him.

Also, I don't think that line in Rapture is necessarily Thurston being openly religious. I think it's more poetic than anything else. He's definitely talking about religious thought, but I don't think he's exactly singing the praises of Christianity. Could be wrong though.

Me too. Who knows what's in that dude's head.

I didn't necessarily think that either, but clearly its not overtly negative either. Music is what the listener makes of it as much as what the artist intends it to be. So if a religious person like myself can find meaning and substance in my life through a few carefully crafted words from Thurston's head, that works for me. Put it this way, whenever I was at a Sonic Youth show and that song came up and that verse was sung, I still chanted a loud chorus of, "JAH, Rastafari!" as if I were at a roots reggae show ;)

Oops, did I forget White Cross? I was thinking "white Cross" but I don't think I actually included it.

Heather Angel.

Heather Angel.
Tuff Gnarl ("Saints preserve us," etc.)

Yes. White Cross "I cross myself. It doesn't help because I'm not smart enough."

Great thread!!!!

Sonic Gail we missed you.

Guys, have we all missed Mary Christ?

true!

heres some more

The Empty Page
God bless them all when they speak to you
I’m Insane
Sex in heaven
Murded angels
so help us god
Children of Satan/Third Fig (whitey album)
Anti-Orgasm
Anti-god is anti-orgasm
Tunic
I'm in heaven now - I can see you Richard
Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Heaven's up to something, heaven's up to something
Disconnection Notice
Angels turn on heaven's light
Shoot
And I won't be asking a devil for a bus fare please
What We Know
Heaven’s not about your reputation
Shaking Hell
Snare Girl
And they can guide this child to Heaven
Starpower
Spinning dreams with angel wings
Diamond Sea
You reflected into his looking glass soul
Saucer-like
You sink a bit whenever angels fly

sonic life, babies!

I miss yall tooooo. I work too much these days. I been bein responsible;-) xo

Burning Spear: 'In my bed I'm deep in prayer'
Ghost Bitch: 'I had no belief before/ til I had this dream last night'