Sonic Youth - Disappearer

Music video by Sonic Youth performing Disappearer. (C) 2004 Geffen Records

[@naarparelsduikenmetoompjez5803]

Sonic youth is the twin peaks of music!

[@davesargent8748]

Exactly

[@Soulcairn647]

Shame they never worked with Lynch

[@foxgirl1822]

sonic youth are one of my all time favourite bands and EVOL is my favourite album by any guitar band BUT.....Cindy Lee is the Twin Peaks of music and the more you dig the deeper you fall

[@megazillion2946]

This is my favorite song from Sonic Youth. It's so textural, rocking and dreamlike. I can almost scrape the old Village off my soul after listening to it. Beautiful.

[@romelmunoz7957]

It's a sad thing that they played it live like just a couple of times and then, well... it disappeared from their repertoire.

[@megazillion2946]

@@romelmunoz7957 Agree agree agree, It's underappreciated for sure.

[@lotusglobe2671]

@@romelmunoz7957 For some reason, this song sounds VERY similar to Rats! from Rather Ripped. There's at least one particular chord structure that Thurston and Lee are playing when Thurston's singing "It's been a way too long" that makes me bug out for a sec and bring to mind the line "You can let it shine" from Rats! But I think I like Disappearer even more simply by virtue of the fact that this predated that song by 16 years. And that is a real shame that it only got performed a couple of times. Damn!

[@TraceyAllen]

This album. Was great.

[@noeminolasco6736]

Gazillion is an awesome band name I think

[@ogami1972]

the sense of isolation and yearning is just ...deeply palatable. the lostness. the journey's end. the dark road nights. still amazing 21 years later.

[@MiscellaneousDebris]

*31 years!

[@mikekaufmann5311]

...palpable?

[@davidmorris2834]

Right. It's an existential herdy gurdy spinning in a mindless vortex.

[@marcosbrandaoconto6445]

Preciselly described!

[@jonathandufern7421]

The harmonies are so amazing and the usage of it and then dissonance is absolutely spine chilling. They where really magical. I wish I coul be back in 2004 and see them live again.

[@APAL880]

This is from 1990. If that's what you were talking about.

[@pyruvicac.id_]

@@APAL880 think it`s a reference to the caption that dates the copyright 2004

[@pyruvicac.id_]

@@APAL880 as in whoooos?

[@ipiap]

@@pyruvicac.id_ 2004 was the release date of the collection "Corporate Ghost" containing the videos of SY btw. 1990-2002.

[@tobietera]

Ah yes, the 2000's, Sonic Youth's most iconic and best loved decade 😂

[@Skiptracer1981]

love everything they've ever done, but this song is probably my favourite.

[@Skiptracer1981]

4 years later and I stand by this comment. Easily a top 5 Sonic Youth song and the best from this album. Next up on Goo would be Mote followed by Cinderella's Big Score. EDIT: Maybe Titanium Expose as a close 3rd over Cinderella?

[@lorisutliffe5616]

Same.

[@consternation6]

I'd go for Washing Machine on the album of that name, and I love golden blue.

[@Skiptracer1981]

My favourite tracks off Washing machine are Skip Tracer, Becuz and Saucer-Like. Washing Machine is a really good track though.

[@garysansom2444]

Same here, there's something so haunting in this song and it's followed me since I heard it way back when. defo top 5iver

[@benhuffman4404]

My favorite Sonic Youth song ever.

[@SilentTristerosEmpire]

Every time I listen to one of Sonic Youth's songs I fall in love with them all over again.

[@corkscrewfoley]

I love how through all the noise, SY makes these brilliant melodic tunes. It never gets old.

[@RighteousMommy]

One of my fave Sonic Youth songs...ever. The most significant band of our time. Ever.

[@thenightbladefeeds]

"We should see how little the people who loved us understood us, and how much the people we loved despised us" - Raymond Pettibon's inscription for the single cover

[@JPNesker]

The way this sticks like the best pop when it’s built on alternate tunings and fuzz is just mesmerizing. The fact that this song just nails it’s nocturnal road trip vibe from the first and blasts off into the stratosphere. Superb. Maybe my all time favourite SY track.

[@Leo-qe3gl]

Great description.😌

[@MrEasye6996]

this song just wants to make me run away.

[@alisterfolson]

Ah from back in the day....get stoned, listen to good music. (Edit 2022) Now, I'm 52, married, 4 kids, responsibilities...but music is still good!

[@buddybaker11]

ALISTER FOLSON You married 4 kids? Damn!

[@blizzardfield]

Tiago Matos lmao

[@blizzardfield]

Tiago Matos that one comma.

[@alisterfolson]

Opps...you know what I meant, lol. "Married, with 4 kids."

[@alisterfolson]

Wow; it's Saturday night...back then, be getting ready for the clubs by now. Now, I'm watching Netflix, while doing housework; kids asleep, etc...still life is ever changing!

[@stateyourrights]

This song is song perfect. I love how thurston catches the listener with his lyrics and melody. I makes me feel like ive enter a new world through my dreams. lee kim and steve all do a great job complementing this driry feel that that thurston is expressing

[@JacksonGeary]

Most influential band of the late 80s and early 90s. They inspired so many other bands that loved them. They should be more popular for that but that's not how the music industry works.

[@vinyldiary6664]

Hum... Melvins?!

[@vegasmona]

Sonic Youth is great they still making their name todays in the music scene between the youngsters, the most crime was the fall of Syd Barrett while he got his hands on a lot of things that inspired great bands such as Blur and Radiohead to name a few, and also how the Pixies never even known for what they do while they deserved it more, Sonic Youth is more popular than both of them and I think it's a crime.

[@sharkfin2033]

space shakespeare I’m gonna disagree. View wise on this platform, SY gets much less than Pixies alone. Blur got a lot too, and Radiohead was very mainstream and did well.

[@rickc2102]

They stepped over the line of commerciality so that others could toe the line and make the dosh.

[@arthur9924]

@@vegasmona The Fall > Pixies

[@metaxuoblivion]

Here it comes again...out of the rain.. I always loved how Sonic Youth would approach their videos; great visceral art!

[@introvert484]

One of my favorite songs of them! I love that energy in 2:49 and onwards :)

[@introvert484]

Oh and 2:15

[@evh5063]

Yeah¡ You´re right

[@ssmith70s]

I remember in early 1992 listening to this on cassette on my Walkman late at night walking around my abandoned college town, just emptiness and exemplifying the loneliness i felt at the time. Three months later i left to work in Alaska for two year. What a great way to start the 2nd side of the LP.

[@rrafahella]

2:17 man, I love this song 🤯

[@iloveaardrijkskunde]

One of the best bands and best songs ever!!!! I've been hearing this song for over 20 years now and it's never get bored!!!!

[@chetrok1]

I concur, furthermore smoke one to it

[@anmam41]

[Thurston] Here it comes again - out of the rain Seems to have a new - kind of same Been it playing on a - simple rhyme The site comes alive and - speaks the mind It turns to me and - it turns to gold It turns to see a - the fast lane slow It's been a way too long It's been the way I gone It's a-coasting on To the west star Looking out I thought I - saw it blink Coming on to me - like a silver eye Pick it up and - turn it on and Head on out to a - western starland It's been a man and gone (?) Now it's a singing song Like a western star It's going my way Looking out I'm back in - time to stay Into the eastern - silent way (?) Comes alive through - through and clearer (?) Ghost arise to - dirty mirror (?) You've been away too long It's been way too long An eastern star is on A disappearer

[@hobojoe1482]

Bumpitty Bump Bump

[@vexnaex]

I was autodestructive, depressed, angry teen. Just started with severe alcohol and drugs... Sonic Youth is soundtrack for that part of my life. Switcher from depression to anger.

[@jesuselgrungero]

Esta canción me transporta a otro mundo

[@evh5063]

+Jesus Radilla Cobain Si, es algo oscura y depresiva, y eso la hace especial.

[@dethcult]

Uniqueness personified is the epitome of Sonic Youth. Love em or hate em they are one of a kind!

[@arefriendsaseptic]

imagine hating Sonic Youth. out!

[@Vermonol]

One of my favorite songs/muiscvideos ever.

[@jamesbob4011]

+Vermonol Me, too. And I'm just seeing the video for the first time today (though I've been listening to them from pretty much the beginning). Who directed it? David Lynch? Love the ice cream.

[@lilacinamomo]

Vermonol i think todd haynes did it, the director of velvet goldmine

[@damanlidison]

@@jamesbob4011 the album "goo" is a "video album" (don't remember if that's the right definition, but...), every song on it has its own official music video. Don't remember every director, but for sure most of the videos were directed by Todd Haynes (as "Lila Cinamomo" suggested in her/his comment) .

[@Canadasvt]

@@jamesbob4011 ice cream was in Oakville at corner of Lakeshore and Kerr. The owner Jim Hill is server.

[@th41ss45]

sonic youth are my favorite band and no matter how time will passed, will still be

[@clementineavoidance2638]

Always been one of my favorite Sonic tracks, it’s how that chorus makes me feel

[@vpgclassic]

This song makes me feel helpless for some reason.

[@chnyuk]

Same thing

[@streetpreacherstudios862]

Just had to check the comment section to see if anybody still listens to them.. ..she's been away too long..

[@KeyboredCoward]

Sure, it's a disturbing video, seems like everybody is high.

[@streetpreacherstudios862]

Yeah, you gotta keep your altitude, in your way

[@KeyboredCoward]

No fall no balls

[@streetpreacherstudios862]

Haha thats some twisted logic, since the fall would probably break them if youre up high enough, but i got ya.. im just too tired mentally to waste my insanity on falling at all

[@fern2336]

Streetpreacher Studios yes

[@dylanvautour7399]

This song means so much to me on so many different levels it's profound. It can make me feel alone at my most loneliest but it also can make me feel totally included, like a secret club. God damn can music make you feel so many different emotions.

[@ssmith70s]

Perfect explication of how this song also makes me feel.

[@lukalapadat92]

One of their best songs.

[@nnikaa3]

THIS BAND IS SOOOOO GOOD WTFFFF

[@EuphoniaPooch]

The guitar in this song is the greatest thing I've heard.

[@missdee4927]

Great song to vibe out to. And I'm still so mad that Thurston and Kim split up. Damn you, Thurston.

[@2koP7]

@Rossriver31 dont mean thurston had to cheat

[@weenis6697]

@Rossriver31 so did thurston. the guy is talented but looks like he smells of old beer and urine.

[@isabelasuplicy2658]

This is in the top 5 Sonic Youth songs of all time and one of the greatest rock songs of all time💎

[@weave_of_k]

this is one of those songs I can never get tired of. never.

[@maddesynjade]

I think this is my favourite song from Sonic Youth, though it is difficult to choose a favourite

[@SolamenteVees]

I played Goo for my 15-year-old. She said they sound like the Strokes. “You’ve got it backwards...”

[@saritajoshi1737]

But strokes don't sound like them. Their main emphasis is vocal melody while that is something not a priority to sonic youth. Sonic youth is noisy, more atmospheric and dark and experimental.

[@maryhodges7152]

The Strokes are, as far as I’m concerned, a poppy homage to the Velvet Underground. Which was also a big influence on Sonic Youth.

[@wrightcarl1181]

02:36 signature sonic youth sound

[@chetrok1]

Right on

[@lennyzefflin9876]

Mycroft Holmes I've always loved that part.

[@SolamenteVees]

That sonic stew is awe-inspiring

[@nednettapp]

When that bit starts I just stop whatever I'm doing and let the music ride over me.

[@chetrok1]

Man this song always grabs me , its heavy Sonic Youth is beyond any other sound

[@Darren-D.C-Cross]

MAN I LOVE THIS SONG.

[@anthonymayor2167]

the bridge is my fav part.

[@asdfghjkl4570]

my fav track from my fav album ever ❤️

[@nwchrista]

This album changed my life. I'd listened to Daydream Nation some months before and wasn't turned on by it... So, I was ready to give this one a listen and never listen again when it came into my mail as one of the tape of the week auto delivered tapes in my record club... But when the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tracks played, while in my car, heading to college algebra, I was so stunned by the sounds that I literally sat through a red light in an intersection until being forcibly dislodged by several very pissed off drivers, honking behind me. It was literally mesmerizing. This track, as well as Mote, the last song on the 1st side, and the next song on side 2, Mildred Pierce, blew me away completely. I wore the cassette tape out and bought the CD years later. Goo and Dirty remain two pristine pearls of audiophilia that stand alone at the top through all the alternative bands that came in the wake of the Sonic Youth, who blew the doors off the genre and paved the way for bands like, the Cure and Nirvana... Who are usually given credit for opening up the Alt music scene.

[@Leo-qe3gl]

Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Leipzig/ germany.🙂

[@soldjaskng]

unique SY sound of guitars that's why i love it

[@Laneganswake]

They are just too fucking cool :0

[@Spartahhh]

Man this song got me through some rough college days blasting this during the am rush with a cup of coffee did the trick

[@petitwougan2040]

L'Age d'or des guitares soniques

[@krissisu1111]

Goo is one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all f#!king time. Period.

[@1ksweatyrikers455]

I sometimes wish I could be as cool as this video clip

[@robertgriffith3139]

Saw these guys in Hawaii in '90 for the Goo tour. One of the best shows i've ever seen.

[@Nightmike1989]

One of their truly best videos from one of their truly best albums.

[@isalegal]

best video best song best band wow

[@syro2014]

I love this song. idk why. It makes me feel something that i can't describe.

[@ryancarse9630]

Those silver costumes they're wearing remind me of Smashing Pumpkins Rocket video

[@austintrousdale2397]

Sonic Youth walked so Smashing Pumpkins could fly 🚀

[@SonicJaneStooge]

Most obvious statement ever but man Kim Gordon is so beautiful.

[@thepotsguyps4650]

She looks like if the leadsinger of twisted sister transitioned to a woman. But i cant deny this is the best band ever. She cant really sing but her voice goes with the style of music so well and its again the best band ever

[@micahnewman]

@@thepotsguyps4650 She has always looked a little like a dude to me too, TBH. :-) Still looks great, though, and can't deny that dark charisma.

[@helloskinny510]

Wait wait wait! Sonic Youth's vocalits is a woman??

[@kevinkim5566]

@@helloskinny510 not for this song there is woman bassist in Sonic Youth who also sings

[@edgarathelred2802]

lol she is a dog dude. Maaaybe shes a good musician...

[@JamieTannerPresents]

it is such a beautiful sound I can never forget. sonic youth please come back and tour again

[@kryptichands968]

Sonic youth 2024!!!! One of my favorite bands since 90....

[@callalaaa]

this song helps me to sleep i love SONIC YOUTH

[@koh-anne5041]

This is my favourite song.

[@leserpentine3607]

Such a classic! We play it on repeat.

[@Leo-qe3gl]

3:03 one of my favorite moments in music history (0-2022)

[@datingrobots]

Sonic Youth é uma das melhores bandas do mundo. E esse clipe é incrível, muito lindo!

[@amycanbe]

Amazing track

[@AGBEBAKU]

amazing!! i miss those years

[@moyjuz6015]

I N F R A V A L O R A D O no hay otras palabras para describir a esta canción, infravalorada hasta por la misma juventud sónica

[@dani_rocd]

y es buenísima, mi favorita del album

[@futuristica1710]

This song among many other SY songs live rent free in my mind. All the chaos of the world resonates with this. All the chaos in my heart.

[@obnoxious612]

Such an unbelievably good song. brings back many memories......

[@vindsvalrpdx]

I was so lucky so have seen them in Seattle, it was the most trippy show as far as reaching a state of rythmic white noise, I was stunned.

[@984268416]

You've been away too long It's been way too long An eastern star is on A disappearer

[@curly_wyn]

Just one of the greatest guitar bands in history!

[@drumdust]

The song that got me into Sonic Youth. Still awesome.

[@Dinohead86]

Fave song of all time. Flawless

[@pristhewonderful]

This song feels like a dream its one of my favorite tracks on goo Thurston is AMAZI NG

[@patagonianratz]

that intro feedback is my fav

[@Max-rn3eb]

woke up with this stuck into my head, i was into goo when i was in a really bad place and just realised how much of a comfort album it is for me. it's a tough listen but it's special to me

[@MembrainJ]

Sonic Youth and and the city of Toronto as the background, works for me!

[@Canadasvt]

Oakville too

[@diegovicen6380]

bellísima canción. lo que ocurre en el minuto 2:25 se escapa a los sentidos. cerrad los ojos

[@evol1901]

perfect for a late night drive

[@setasan]

This is the best Sonic Youth song.

[@gleetub]

So good memories ,all about SY...from 1st EP,the rest is history..the chords,noizz,atmosphere of real lost youth of yesterday,2day. No words for dem,though.

[@AlekseySkachkov]

я бесконечно люблю эту работу и эту песню. я вообще вас люблю,Соники!

[@lorrieprothero2175]

his voice sounds like psychedelic furs in this song.

[@MembrainJ]

Love seeing the streets of Toronto in one of my all time favorite Sonic Youth songs

[@Canadasvt]

Streets of Oakville too

[@forestgreenman]

Haven't heard this song before, I'm a late bloomer. Vocals remind me of Lou Reed.

[@WoodRatGirl]

Such a classic song!

[@theiiird5863]

Sonic Youth - Disappearer [Lyrics] Here it comes again, out of the rain Seems to have a new, kind of same Been it playing on a, simple rhyme The site comes alive and, speaks the mind It turns to me and, it turns to gold It turns to see, the fast lane slow It's been a way too long It's been the way I'm goin' It's a-coasting on To the west star Looking out I thought I, saw it blink Coming on to me, like a silver eye Pick it up and, turn it on and Head on out to a, western starland It's been a man and gone Now it's a singing song Like a western star It's going my way Looking out I'm back in, time to stay Into the eastern, silent way It comes alive, through the clearer A ghost arise to, a mirror You've been away too long It's been way too long An eastern star is on A disappearer .

[@deadcomplexion2806]

just realized Kim looks a bit like David Bowie

[@jacksonpage1580]

"A bit"?

[@dixienormous6969]

Jack Perella I fucking love your profile picture!!!

[@dixienormous6969]

Jack Perella and omg she does look like david bowie!

[@user-pt1ic3ed4m]

Now she looks like Iggy Pop

[@dixienormous6969]

Владимир Эммаус I think she still looks a lot like bowie with a hint of iggy

[@jonv2911]

Complete masterpiece.

[@kalemarefrite]

one of my fav sy songs!

[@JessMichaelWillyard]

Great tune.

[@str0y]

que amor son los sonic!!!

[@codeAlongwith]

Saw them in the 90's on their dirty boots tour of Australia. So good, probably at their height.

[@iffiest.]

came here because of radiohead permanent daylight, i can see the resemblance, both good.

[@bunniangi]

Never gets old

[@jonv2911]

Masterpiece.

[@norbertoosvaldovelazquez275]

Una de las mejores canciones de Sonic Youth! Brillante

[@Jeremy101Jeremiah]

such a great song

[@kotch8]

This is the song that spawned everlong

[@souljubilant12]

I miss you guys.