Thurston Moore performs 100% by Sonic Youth (6 Music Live Room Session)

Watch Thurston perform Sonic Youth classic 100% and discuss his reasons for signing with a big record label with BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq.
You can catch the full masterclass with Thurston Moore and Steve Lamacq here: www.bbc.co.uk/p...

[@deloreanized]

This is more like 25%

[@gabriell6380]

Shut up

[@therajgreek420]

was quite funny though

[@grahamgould2732]

yeah, this song doesn't quite work with just one person

[@ahvideplaneet]

The Math checks out!

[@pongod5751]

Thats funny as fuck

[@terryhaircastle5702]

5:00 kinda hilarious to imagine that dude is just on his phone playing angry birds

[@natewall4500]

@@teskosuicide agreed

[@kenb9762]

Ah yes a campfire guitar classic! ;-)

[@patrickfoster4586]

If anyone is interested in the tuning he is using: Just randomly twist on the tuners until it sounds like the worst mistake you made is breaking up Sonic Youth.

[@clumsysandbocks5650]

brutal

[@elvers9877]

Hehehe oh dear

[@amauri3565]

LOL

[@HolyGhost66]

Savage

[@hippiesmile2851]

..and breaking up a marriage. Boom!

[@jackmariano5165]

Lmao when people say he is playing the song poorly. It's literally a noise rock song, the original is just as chaotic. But I do agree that it isn't nearly as good with only Thurston

[@GeetarGai]

4:47 What I do when I'm listening to Sonic Youth

[@wesleyalan9179]

Man, thats funny!😅🤣😂

[@chrishull5740]

The guy like 60 I think he can be forgiven for wanting health insurance

[@macherorules4593]

fuck you asshole

[@esmerilemela1]

Dude you are a fucking idiot

[@setphaser]

“and all you men are slime” my fave sonic youth line. always knew Thurston would prove it true.

[@nico-ke1nn]

OOP-

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

oofff

[@furythruster4794]

stfu

[@zerronyx1362]

Now if thurston had written that line about women there wouldve been aa rather large outcry

[@brettharvey716]

@@zerronyx1362 100%, no pun intended

[@bacongl]

Sonic Youth was one of my favorite bands for a long long time and influenced me bigtime musically. Really really miss them.

[@DrillForAbsentee]

LOL @ "I played some of those chords wrong." I've always admired Thurston's wit.

[@wesleyalan9179]

5:07 ....absolute skill

[@DeSaintGermain]

Wesley Dunn or you can buy a Metal Muff

[@wesleyalan9179]

Hahaa, yeah, i used to have one..

[@joshuaknight7079]

Absolute shite

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@joshuaknight7079 🤣

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@andresr7344 😆

[@FuggYew666]

Finally I can see the chords for this song.

[@theWARMJET]

I love SYs concepts and ideas and atitude 💚

[@Spitson7771]

Man it feels weird to hear Thurston start to have that old man voice

[@michaelmalone7231]

soon he'll be yelling at the neighbor kids to get off his lawn!!!

[@theWARMJET]

He was playing just his part of the song, thats why it is not that Simple for some to see the picture. To me its superb, abstract and wild playing

[@stratocluster]

theWARMJET Absolutely man ;)

[@Indonesiansurftravel]

100% it's amazing to see only part of the puzzle you can see and hear even more how unique his guitar playing is.

[@jamescroy9464]

Agree I think it's great

[@theWARMJET]

@fox pals not a shreder 4 sure

[@theWARMJET]

@fox pals :D

[@valen5567]

4:54 his face of happiness.

[@existentialdraintest]

it's cool how his singing stills the same of the young thurston and when he starts talking is totally different.

[@opcja9829]

I Think its totally opposite

[@evangelineshadden]

how can you play the chords wrong!!! the guitar is in F#F#F#F#EB! man, that was amazing. weird seeing him rock out without lee...

[@Stewieboy1995]

lee's the best

[@liamhensley9409]

I hope thurston reads this, sonic youth is one of my favorite bands and they got me into learning and moving forward on playing guitar especially thurston so thank everyone in that band

[@mypenisisunbelievablysmall5650]

I don't think he's gonna read this

[@gabriell6380]

Same :)

[@gabriell6380]

Jake Warrington - GFX, Cinematics and More! I agree .

[@liamhensley9409]

Obviously he might not see it but there’s always a chance

[@johnb7800]

Sorry it took a year I’m here and your welcome😂🤯

[@P0GFLIPPER]

I saw Thurston moore band, in 2014 I think it was, in Exeter (Devon) it was one of the best live band experiences of my life, no lie. I had like two beers, but when I closed my eyes listening to the band, with the hammering baseline, solid drums, and two guitar's playing chordialy with each other, I felt my brain floating upwards. Music to trip to, with out the need of outside chemical influence. I have so much time for this dudes music.

[@Jamie-js3qw]

two guitars playing chordialy? With out?

[@filipecoutinho5706]

I think someone spiked your beers ,buddy

[@therevolution91]

@@filipecoutinho5706 2 beers are no external influence. (when you first had a cocktail of everything else in the morning)

[@knock4banquetmeals]

No you literally have to be high for to sound good cuz I'm smoking and just weed right now and this sounds like s***

[@josephk7954]

Flawless performance - Never hit a bum note once.

[@brich2929]

ummm

[@foxontherun4754]

Never heard of you!

[@warmswarm]

@@foxontherun4754 - I've never heard of you either, so what right do you have to comment? What right do you have to an opinion?

[@killali2736]

Legend

[@davegreen1915]

IMHO it just doesn't work without Ranaldo's duelling guitar nevermind Gordon & Shelley holding them together together ☹️

[@mkc1rrc]

Wow, i might even be able to play 100%

[@HermanWaldorf]

watching Thurston, it seems that playing guitar is the simplest thing in the world

[@charlieparker6887]

Love it!!

[@rx9611]

2:42 Here begins the magic

[@alephnull7410]

If a shreds version of this video would be made, it would just be this video

[@SomeRandomHobo44]

if anyone's curious, the person Thurston is talking about around the 2:15 mark ish is Joe Cole

[@doorsheets2637]

Say what you will about the solo performance being underwhelming, but goddamn he never lost that vocal swag 🤙

[@pipsic]

Some comments here. Jesus Christ! :(

[@WeimaranersAreTheBest]

Played in sonic y sharp

[@rk-g4036]

im sorry is it just me or is this shite? 😭

[@amiel3159]

It's cuz hes playing solo, the full song sounds like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/emjShoV9lLmDopI

[@natasmontague468]

I want one of his Jazzmasters. Lee has one Fender made for him too, his has Humbuckers and a Mustang bridge.

[@patrickfoster4586]

Never realised just how much SY depended on Lee Renaldo for the real guitar playing but...yeah. And I've seen them live and have been a fan since the Teenage Riot days.

[@pongod5751]

The arthritis is killing the dude nowadays...this vid being a shining example

[@SonikJesus]

Real fans have always known Lee was SY’s George Harrison.

[@umgfll7950]

Sonic Youth is a group of four brilliant musicians. Individually they are still brilliant musicians, but together they are more than just a good band. SY depended on each of them

[@redacted2275]

​@@umgfll7950No, the comment *has to gobbIe some proverbial sausage* ignoring that SY is an experimental band and "100%" has a noise background throughout the entire song.

[@orangerollsangelspit]

“Real guitar playing” SY is not for u bro

[@danielblanke2584]

Don't know much about Sonic Youth, but the singing and especially guitar playing sounds like someone who tries after to much drugs.

[@violentaftervisions3849]

Holy shit Thurston is an old man now

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

I can never forget you the way you rock the girls They rule the world and love you, a blast in the underworld I stick a knife in my head thinking 'bout your eyes But now that you been shot dead, I got a new surprise But I've been waitin' for you just to say, the Zoftig chick is mine But all I know is you got no money, but that's got nothing to do with a good time But can you forgive the boy who shot you in the head Or should you get a gun and go and get revenge A 100% of my love up to you true star It's hard to believe you took off, I always thought you'd go far I've been around the world a million times and all you men are slime A gun to my head, goodbye, I am dead Wastewood rockers, it's time for crime, hey Traducir al español Fuente: Musixmatch Compositores: Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley Letra de 100% © Sonik Tooth Music.

[@MrMookRecords]

the opening strummed chord drone at 02:40 had me hoping "Tunic" was comin'

[@nicolassorella5560]

I thought that kool thing it was

[@jonmule-ko4qp]

I've heard Henry Rollins tell the story of Joe Cole's death a couple times and never heard him say "gang violence." From my memory, it was a robbery gone wrong a few days after someone (Rick Rubin maybe?) had come to their house in a limo. Does anyone else recall the story?

[@officialmasqq_594]

Sounds like he's playing through a distortion pedal with a flat battery lmao

[@GiulioDalleVedove]

Hope to see Sonic Youth together asap

[@GiulioDalleVedove]

i know, but i hope they will make peace

[@silentqueue2344]

A snowball's chance...

[@lebowskiunderachiever3591]

Why , to the infinity power , did I not see them when they came to play in Knoxville at the fabulous Tennessee Theater !? Deffinately a hard learned lesson ...

[@JokersNtheOddball]

:crickets:

[@orangerollsangelspit]

Funny to see how after 30 years people still miss the point of what noise rock really is. Go listen to Satriani Santana ect if you don’t like this 😂 T is a noise god he’s not here to play guitar in the way you expect. He’s an anti guitar hero this is why he’s a genius!

[@BrianKishreviews]

there are several better tracks from dirty, but just thurston's part here is still compelling on its own

[@lykosnasefaei]

I like sonic youth, and he writes good songs, ok. Is he capable of playing guitar though?.. the "traditional" way?

[@movimentodoscacos]

@@Halo71Freak Nah, he definitely is capable of playing guitar traditionally. Dude has a folk rock record, ffs. But yeah, Lee is the real deal and blows Thurston out of the water.

[@evilotis01]

yeah. the first SY EP was all in standard tuning, and if you listen to, say, their cover of "Superstar", they can play "normal" guitar just fine. i just don't think they're super interested in doing so. i know it's 2 years after your comment, but for you/anyone else interested, he talks a fair bit about it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmmlpXxom7OJd9k

[@laurelhardymarx]

Out of all the musical performances on KZbin, this is easily one of them.

[@Thundechile]

Megadave plays Sonic Youth.

[@NOWtheband]

Excellence. :-) It's nice to hear it sparse.

[@davidei.4790]

Hey! Some "Lee Ranaldo" May help!..

[@13traaa]

Damn when thurston starts playing any of sonic Youth songs, it seems like he comebacks to his 20s

[@jyjjy7]

He was in his 30s when it came out...

[@owenbraid5451]

Can anyone else join me in saying this is shit

[@rk-g4036]

Yes this is a bottom tier guitarist

[@sonikgoat]

118 people need a hug

[@Drivingformoney]

They took the Glenn branca sound and turned into a radio hit….

[@seanc2061]

JC is such a beautiful song

[@juderichards6588]

I was expecting the chords isn’t he play lee’s part??

[@mightydorchux]

I'm gonna turn on just a little distortion 😅

[@abomination2747]

RAW

[@danbam3411]

Jeebus Chrust NO RUBER

[@maxcuthbert100]

He's taking the piss........isn't he ?

[@antonigolkin6876]

anyone has tabs for this? >__

[@julius7801]

Was he talking about joe cole ?

[@moniekje]

yes

[@mynameismark25]

Julius Balthazar Kopald Never knew much about Joe, but Henry Rollins does a really powerful spoken word performance about what happened to them both on you tubes somewhere. Sad story.

[@Steaminlidz]

Michelle Leon’s ‘I Live Inside: Memoirs Of A Babe In Toyland’ talks about Joe as well. (It’s also, I think, one of the best memoirs of that whole period in music and is really worth a read).

[@drewa1999]

That is a rhetorical question, correct?

[@louie40205]

If you can find a copy, read Joe’s book “Planet Joe.”

[@mattjones7360]

is Lamacq just texting away? lol

[@FMZ101]

Haha, the end!

[@leapsplashafrog]

Anyone know where this tuning comes from ?

[@gcf7175]

these testiclees

[@patrickfoster4586]

Just start twisting the tuners until it sounds like you made the biggest mistake of your life in breaking up Sonic Youth.

[@ok_jaja]

Best power cords ever

[@eldoabrahamson]

No.

[@MountainBlade]

@@eldoabrahamson yes.

[@mchavez4532]

The saddest performance of 100% 😢

[@henryp9766]

Someone know his Tuning?

[@patsyparisi2620]

Ah fair play to Thurston putting up with that turd Lamacq

[@Fatherjohn76]

Yeah. That thing in the context of Sonic Youth backed by Steve Shelley’s drumming or Kim’s voice or Lee’s counterpoint makes total sense. It worked. But that thing on it’s own, oh man. Kinda cringy like watching a teenager trying to play something edgy to a punk chick circa 1990 or something

[@ghostfires]

Dirty is the best SY album

[@catafalco1193]

I'd love to see how he uses that pedalboard

[@cgavin1]

Turn everything on and off a lot. Just to keep it interesting bump it an octave or two and if you also happen to have a carriage spring laying around slap your guitar body with it while making a vague e chord. YVW.

[@TheMarcusNyberg]

This like a kids who plays the guitar for the first time xD

[@mavisbeeswax8136]

There has never been a cooler band since the Beach boys fact 😮

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Is that Darth Vader's Jazzmaster..?!

[@ponch2100]

Needs more bass , rickenbacker

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales7218]

I can never forget you the way you rock the girls They rule the world and love you, a blast in the underworld I stick a knife in my head thinking 'bout your eyes But now that you been shot dead, I got a new surprise But I've been waitin' for you just to say, the Zoftig chick is mine But all I know is you got no money, but that's got nothing to do with a good time But can you forgive the boy who shot you in the head Or should you get a gun and go and get revenge A 100% of my love up to you true star It's hard to believe you took off, I always thought you'd go far I've been around the world a million times and all you men are slime A gun to my head, goodbye, I am dead Wastewood rockers, it's time for crime, hey Traducir al español Fuente: Musixmatch Compositores: Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Steve Shelley / Lee Renaldo Letra de 100% © Sonik Tooth Music

[@jezza10181]

I think Steve is politely nodding pretending that Thurston can play the guitar

[@1985cactus]

Well, he's playing it.

[@allrain]

Hey kids, this is what a musician sounds like. You're welcome. Btw, look at that "nails on a chalkboard" face at 3:29 LOL

[@fabiopunk1661]

That's only approximate.....jeeeee

[@xntruth9131]

what pedal is that at 5:00??

[@blas6326]

distortion + overdrive i guess

[@daveronhertpark7134]

Turbo RAT boosting a MXR Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz.

[@chrisbliss7]

sweet ass guitar

[@Kkidzz]

'Love Pump' moment.....Lamacq as DiBergi

[@patrickfoster4586]

Perfect! Lol

[@lucad6394]

Cool, tunning?

[@Drivingformoney]

This is pure genius… there will never be another top 40 song that will sound like this.

[@MonkeyBscts]

is there more of this interview anywhere? can't find it on youtube.

[@japerlm8150]

Nice

[@timbrown1834]

This song is all about the drums and bass. He should do something like genetic solo

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales7218]

Thurston Moore 25/07/1958 63 años (64)

[@heggy_69]

IT'S FUCKING HUEY FROM MGSV

[@rowstyles]

it's a no for me dawg

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

I tend to go for sort by new for these types of videos, never too keen on the circlejerk going on in the comments...

[@13thRaven]

Fantastic

[@ibowonar141]

Oh no don't get into the healthcare debate moore

[@superduty4556]

Lil Wayne is better than him haha.

[@axisse]

Awful !

[@theart8039]

No dentists in the USA either obv

[@thisnameiseitherrestricted6270]

100% unlistenable...

[@JokersNtheOddball]

Ooo! Do nic fit next!

[@retlaw190]

Oh wow %100 was written about Joe Cole?

[@HermanWaldorf]

yep

[@dominiccharest4746]

arrrgh souding like Yoko Ono .....

[@dtalley23]

This was cool as fuck to see solo rad