In addition to posting new reviews and old reviews or features on music I have written in the past I would also like “Nosotros Somos El Oso” to be like your director’s commentary on recent music news. A bit like the blog I did a week or so ago on the Cribs/Thermals split.
Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon (life partners and musical deviants of Sonic Youth, a respectable music collective) have announced that they will begin working with Yoko Ono (not a respectable music collective).
Thurston Moore
For anyone who knows anything about anything, Yoko poopno broke up the Beatles. Both her and the faceless, over-produced, egnima that the Beatles have become in (most of) their posthumous carrer’s are … well … what’s the word? Hyperbole?At least for everyone who’s not forty or in middle-school sadly being souly exposed to the Beatles because of their forty-year-old parents.
The Beatles may or may not be overrated and there may always be the argument over the_best_one, but don’t get me wrong. I love what they’ve done with marketing. Rock Band may have never been as cool without the Rickenbacker and Tele controllers.
But back to topic … Sonic Youth and Yoko Ono? Wiggidy What? There has never been a more undesirable supergroup collaboration ever heard of, except for maybe Wolverine and Shin’s frontman James Mercer. God knows he’s done it with all the other X-men and failed miserably.
Point is, awful electronic loops of Yoko’s voice is not what I want in my my 80′s alt-rock cereal. But apparently somebody does, or maybe the musicians are doing it for fun and fulfilment and they might just have no concern for consumers or angsty bloggers on the internet. But I doubt it.
The problem is a matter of algebra.
This + This = Music I will buy?
Untrue.
And I’m fairly certain most of the population agrees with me. Although this is all just speculation. It would make me so happy if Yoko Ono made noisy, sonicy, house music and they got a ton of respect and success for it.
… maybe not.
I made an interesting discovery, actually that Cymbals Eat Guitars and Yoko Ono actually have the same PR firm, Tell All Your Friends. So if you ever want to try and score a Yoko interview, you’ve already worked with her publicist…