Research Catalog

Title

Sonic life : a memoir / Thurston Moore.

Author

Moore, Thurston

Publication

• New York : Doubleday, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

ix, 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

• "A memoir tracing the author's life and art, from his teen years, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to his years as a member of Sonic Youth"--
• Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to life in 1981 with the formation of Sonic Youth, a band Moore co-founded with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo. Sonic Youth became a fixture in New York's burgeoning No Wave scene--an avant-garde collision of art and sound, poetry and punk. The band would evolve from critical darlings to commercial heavyweights, headlining festivals around the globe while helping introduce listeners to such artists as Nirvana, Hole, and Pavement, and playing alongside such icons as Neil Young and Iggy Pop. Through it all, Moore maintained an unwavering love of music: the new, the unheralded, the challenging, the irresistible. In the spirit of Just Kids, Sonic Life offers a window into the trajectory of a celebrated artist and a tribute to an era of explosive creativity. It presents a firsthand account of New York in a defining cultural moment, a history of alternative rock as it was birthed and came to dominate airwaves, and a love letter to music, whatever the form. This is a story for anyone who has ever felt touched by sound--who knows the way the right song at the right moment can change the course of a life.

Subject

• Moore, Thurston
• Moore, Thurston
• Sonic Youth (Musical group)
• Guitarists > United States > Biography
• Rock musicians > United States > Biography
• Guitarists
• Rock musicians
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Contents

Epiphany -- Refrigerator heaven -- Flaming telepaths -- Today your love, tomorrow the world -- Carburetor dung -- Don't get too close or it'll burn your eyes -- Call hell -- City slang -- New pleasure -- The wonders don't care -- Another planet -- Can't stay at home, can't stay at school -- Puff the magic -- For what is a prat -- No golden throat -- Mere animal in a pre-fact clamour -- Boys build forts -- You got me -- Natty roach -- Breaking these rocks -- 11,000 volts -- Ecstatic stigmatic -- On the promontory -- Atomic bongos -- I dreamed I dream -- Freundschaft -- Out of tune -- The electric dread -- Forming -- Pinch -- I trust the speed, I love the fear -- God is dead -- Signals, calls, and marches -- Jack on fire -- We don't need freedom -- No idols -- Crucial point -- Chaos is the future -- What makes a man start fires? -- Jigsaw feeling -- Shake throb thrash switch stroke sweep slam brush -- Architektur & Geiselnahme -- Sun in yr eyes -- Sing no evil -- Bop Kylix (dexterity) -- Backstage pass -- Answering machine -- Stop spinning -- On top of a hill -- Horse sings from cloud -- It's always a headache the size of a tow truck -- Choose any memory -- Jacked from sonic matrix -- Together we'll never -- Ruben's beard -- Stain -- Hey bastard -- Arc -- Let me clip your dirty wings -- When angels speak of love -- Secret knowledge of backroads -- The forest and the zoo -- Noon and eternity -- Winner's blues -- Cream puff war -- Latex gold -- Silver breeze -- Zen concrete -- Kali Yug express -- Free noise among friends -- Do you believe in rapture?

Call Number

JME 23-548

ISBN

• 9780385548656
• 0385548656
• 9780385548663 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023005398

OCLC

1368106992

Author

Moore, Thurston, author.

Title

Sonic life : a memoir / Thurston Moore.

Publisher

New York : Doubleday, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Moore, Thurston. Sonic life First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2023 9780385548663 (DLC) 2023005399

Research Call Number

JME 23-548