I'd be more excited if noise rock was getting exposure to a wide audience. Most people have never even heard of it, let alone listened to it.

I am more happy that the show is starting.

hahaha

but they're so good, you'd miss them

hahaha, then all you would have left are your Beck and VU albums

ahahaha, so true.

there would also be a large stack of who records lurking off to the side that i no longer feel compelled to listen to.

hahahaha

^ i second this sentiment, becuz i heard the story.
holy hell. :rolleyes:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/08...y_fits_in.html

Thurston Moore Totally Fits In With the Boys From Gossip Girl

Photo: Rolling Stone

At first, our inner disaffected teenager kind of recoiled at the idea of edgy nineties band Sonic Youth appearing on consumer-porn soap Gossip Girl, even if it is our favorite show ever. But looking at this picture of Thurston Moore, Chace Crawford, and Ed Westwick, all looking totally comfortable and compatible, like none of them has ever shot heroin into his eyeballs or anything like that, makes us feel like its not that weird. If it were H.R. from the Bad Brains, that would be weird. But this? Fine. [Rolling Stone]

best news EVAH

i wish that photo was bigger. up the lolz!

So if they relearn an acoustic version of this song, it´s not to far away to re learn the whole song and starting to playing it!!!
This would be the best Sonic Youth news ever, considering it´s one of their best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's my favorite song of all-time by anyone, so yeah...relearning it for show
purposes would be sweet.

"edgy nineties band"? see, the problem isn't selling out. the problem is the risk of losing historical perspective...

Sonic Youth Report In From the Set of “Gossip Girl”

9/3/09, 2:01 pm EST
Sonic Youth have finished filming their cameo for the October 12th episode of Gossip Girl, in which the downtown art rockers meet the uptown rich kids by guesting as a wedding band and performing their Eighties classic “Star Power.” “Kim [Gordon] and I are pretty fanatical viewers of the show,” Thurston Moore tells Rolling Stone. “It’s sort of our dose of Shakespeare every week.” One of the show’s stars, Zuzanna Szadkowski (who plays awesome Polish maid Dorota — Number #7 on our 50 Reasons to Watch TV story in the new issue), tells RS the band was more than welcome on set. “I’m really looking forward to that episode because I think they have a cool contribution to make to that scene.”
A few weeks back, Moore himself sent us an e-mail with a photo of him kicking it with G.G. stars Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick. (His daughter Coco, who is also a huge fan of the show, took the picture.) “Ed and Chace seemed aware of who we are, but they were more interested in Kings of Leon,” says Moore. “Those are their boys.” Moore got a chance to impart some advice to Taylor Momsen, who’s got a budding music career of her own with her band the Pretty Reckless. “I asked her about her [recent] tour and she said it wasn’t exactly the kind of tour she wanted to do,” says Moore. “And I said that it never really is. Then I told her to read Henry Rollins’ Get In the Van.”
Moore has been involved with Gossip Girl before. Last year, he teamed up with ex-Be Your Own Pet frontwoman Jemina Pearl to cover a version of the Ramones’ “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,” which aired as background music. But is there any chance of more Sonic Youth cameos on G.G. in the future? “I’d like to have a role on the show,” says Moore. “I’d love to be a 51-year-old ex-indie rocker who hangs out in some capacity. Maybe I can be kind of an art-rock nemesis to Dan Humphrey or something.”

so fucking inane

‘STAR POWER’ ACOUSTIC SINGLE

An acoustic version of the SY classic ‘Star Power’ will be available Tuesday October 13 via download. This version was recorded over the summer in Portland, Oregon between tour dates and will be featured in the television program Gossip Girl on October 12.
The song will available for download directly from Sonic Youth via the sonicyouth.com store with a limited edition hand printed and numbered ‘Star Power’ poster (see below) with metallic silver ink on matte black cover stock. Also available with a ‘Star Power’ T-shirt, or all bundled together. Or simply download the song - a first from sonicyouth.com.
Through iTunes ‘Star Power (Acoustic)’ will be available the same day as a single with Antenna (album version) as the flip side.

 

Holy Christ cakes.

fingerlickin' good!
gotta replenish my visa.

cool!

Kim's singing it, bitches!

spoiler alert...

is that photo from shooting the episode or was it already broadcasted (sorry, I'm lazy to go on the first page and find out myself)?

Nice dress, too. The others look classically dopy. <3 sonic youth

Thurston is critical rock in that picture. I've never seen a scene of Gossip Girl but the Youth still have that transcendent irreverence about them. They still don't seem to fit. What a rocking geek.

and the song sounds good!

If they were a band, what would they be called?

I vote for T & The Douches.

I think T and the guy on the right swapped pants.
the all brown-grey-ish look is a winner.

Damn you! :p

i only found out recently that chuck bass is actually english. maybe his teeth gave him away.

i can't wait to watch this on tuesday!!!

I wonder how many people from the forum will become hardcore fans of the show after this.

SY Gossip Grrrls.

Are there any prices on the packages yet? Any pictures of the t-shirt? I'm psyched to get that poster!

made myself watch two episodes today and I must say. I was enjoying myself. I don't know if that's good or bad.

I don't give a fuck about anything that happened in that show. Sonic Youth
played an acoustic version of the greatest song ever recorded and that's
all that matters. That was my fucking Woodstock, people.

Well...that was odd...but enjoyable, nonetheless...

The show now created a serious goal for me...being married by Kim...that would be the shit, I must admit.

I am beyond thrilled that we will get to DL an uninterrupted-by-whatever-
dramatics version. And without a doubt, Kim must do more weddings.

I usually don't like acoustic versions of songs that were originally electric, but that sounded great! And I love the fact that they played the whole song (or most if it, from what I could tell). But as great as it is, Starpower seems like a very strange song for a wedding!

I didn't watch rest of the show. Was SY appearing as SY? Or just some random wedding band? The producers should have made them follow up Starpower with some cheesy wedding standards, like Celebration or I will Survive!

Yes. They were appearing as Sonic Youth.