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yeah i found that site; it's not so much knowing what they are so much as the hassle (I only own one guitar) and I just find it pretty interesting and unique, as far as I know, that they do this.
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Oh and more post worthy I guess is that there is a !new album! coming out sometime in 2009, according to interviews.
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About the tunings, sometimes they have "catchall" tunings that they throw the songs into during performances, at least on the older material. The GGDDee songs can still be played on the F#F#F#F#F#F# guitars, etc. If I remember correctly, the reason that New York City Ghosts and Flowers was such a reboot for them - was that during the preceding tour their van full of their army of hot-rodded strangely tuned guitars was stolen.

I usually keep my Fender Jagstang in a SY inspired tuning just to play around and have fun with. I take it in every now and then and annoy my band mates with "Brother James"
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Trees Outside the Academy is good but Psychic Hearts is pretty fuckin bad.
I like Psychic Hearts. Queen Bee and her pals is probably the best song he recorded solo.

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Can anyone recommend some more stuff along the lines of Sonic Youth please? I grabbed their entire discography the other day after hearing some of their noisier stuff. The mellow tunes/noise dynamic is just amazing.
Dinosaur Jr and Husker Du maybe. And I dunno, Deerhunter? "Along the lines" of Sonic Youth is pretty tough. But they're all pretty noisy and atmospheric.
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I like Psychic Hearts. Queen Bee and her pals is probably the best song he recorded solo.

i dunno man, that song right there is pretty much everything I don't like about thurston moore's songwriting
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ok ill try these guys out tomorrow but if anyone has any recommendations on what albums to start with i will take them!
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idk i'd start with Daydream Nation. then try Goo, Evol, and Dirty.
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you should check out pavement, sebadoh, dinosaur jr, and maybe check out some shoegaze bands like jesus & mary chain.

what do you guys think of sonic youth's latest album, rather ripped? i listened to it for the first time a couple of days ago and it is brilliant.
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Thanks guys, I already looked up My Bloody Valentine but I didn't enjoy their stuff nearly as much as the description made it sound like I would, but shoegazing stuff sounds promising still!
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mbv have a pretty particular sound, but yea, it's not very close to sonic youth besides being kind of noisy.  check out slowdive.  they're not very similar to sonic youth either, but they are more accessible than mbv.
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I should rephrase, mbv isn't bad and I don't dislike it or anything. I don't know why I put that word 'nearly' in there (because i am stpud).
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