In Kim Gordon’s book, Girl in a Band, mentioned that she was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person’s. Ah I love her, I love her book, I love this song.
This whole album is just... Transcendent. Someone else commented that there’s something special about this song. I feel the same. EVOL is totally special and they captured something from beyond
THIS is the first song I heard from Sonic Youth and I was immediately hooked. I used to stay up late watching "120 minutes" on MTV and found such good music! ...Back when MTV was good. KIm Gordon's new album The Collective shows she still is an amazing talent.
Man.. i just wish i was alive earlier to see them in a show before they split. It's one of my favourite band but i'm sure it was a great experience to see all of them playing together.
@@sonicleaves Saw them on mushrooms at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1999. Best rock show I've ever seen. Thurston still looked like this skinny teenager with the floppy hair. The sounds were so lush. I felt like a dog trying to bite waves at the beach as Lee's beautiful guitar tones lapped up to the gallery.
Managed to catch them at The Barrowlands twice, once in the 1990 and 2004, caught them at T in the Park festival one year as well. The 1990 gig was a life changing moment , I had never seen anything like it, I swear I have hearing damage as a result, complete sonic assault 👍
This video (and song) is what turned me into a Sonic Youth fan. First saw it in a common room of an Ohio University dorm, spring of 1987 (back when MTV showed videos!). Blew me away. Bought "EVOL" and "Bad Moon Rising" at School Kids Records the following day.
Hey, I'm from Athens (actually The Plains - remember that village, about 5 miles away?). Born in '79, went to OU for a year and then transferred to OSU. Sonic Youth fan too. I enjoyed your comment, especially the School Kids reference.
I'm suprised MTV showed this video since Sonic Youth was mostly underground in the 80s. Then again they probably showed it late at night or something. Wait a second....that sounds nice actually.
MTV showed videos throughout the aughts, just in diminishing quantities. Their 90: original programming was the minority. Anyone remember Dead At 21 with Jack Noseworrhy?
whats crazy about this band and esp this song is its completely timeless. this is 1986 but it doesnt sound like 1986. it can be just as relevant today. maybe even moreso today.
Mid to late 80s was a fantastic time for underground rock. Everything started getting really interesting when early 80s hardcore started to break down.
When this came out, mtv was pushing corporate rock and hair metal. This song and video offers such a stark contrast between music as art and music as mere product. A cheap video off of an indie record and it holds up better than the big budget mtv hits of its era. It really is special.
I’m just now starting to dig deeper into SY’s catalogue before the Goo/Daydream era so I had NO IDEA they ever sounded like this… completely blown away. This feels way ahead of its time… can anyone recommend other music like this from that era??
This was one of the first SY songs that I fell in love with as a teenager. It was many years ago, but listening to it reminds me of that feeling of fascination for having discovered something so special. While I love the entire discography of the band, the first albums hold a special place in my heart
There was this conversation about which SY album is the best and this guy said "their best one is the first you've heard" and this is so fucking true because i Iove so much Evol
My heart just exploded inside my chest, raining millions of sparks into feelings; the same way it does when I see his face, and feel our connection is still strong. Love the restoration!
this is just a beautiful work of art. The combinations of sounds and her voice trips your soul into different feelings and dimensions. Thank you, Sonic Youth!
It's just so incredible listening to this again after so many years- EVOL was both dreamy,radical and way off the grid with what was expected for US guitar bands from the mid-late 80's ...there was no template so it all sounded new not contrived in any way. And it still sounds new .
Check out the album "Spinhead Sessions", fully instrumental recordings from this Evol era, much in the mood and dreamy atmosphere of this song, harmonics, reverb drums, slow tempos. Very different to Made in the USA ost, longer and more solid tracks. This period is one of their peaks. Vinyl sounds amazing.
Sonic Youth makes me feel the same inside today (im 41) as it did 25 years ago, I can't think of another band I can say that about. And really it has to be the right day or I can't do to much of it, its just to cathartic. PS- May favorite SY memory was body surfing to Diamond Sea in the early 90's at Lollapolooza, as if a dream)
LYRICS: Met a stranger on a train He bumped right into me I swear I didn't mean it I swear it wasn't meant to be Must a been a dream From a thousand years ago I swear I didn't mean it I swear it wasn't meant to be From the bottom of my heart He was looking all over me Together ever after He said "You take me & I'll be you" "You kill him & I'll kill her" Kiss me I swear it wasn't meant to be I swear I didn't mean it Kiss me Kiss me in the shadow of Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt Kiss me Kiss me in the shadow Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt It's just a dream It's just a dream I had Nononoooooh Swear it's just a dream Just a dream Dream I've had No No No No Take me to it Take me to her Maybe Maybe it's just a dream It's a dream It's just a Just a No Met a stranger on a train Bumped right into me Swear I didn't mean it Swear it wasn't meant to be Must've been a dream From a thousand years ago Kiss me Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt Kiss me
Absolutely and positively one of the truest masterpieces of our time such a beautiful work.. I've been listening to this song since the mid-90s... Even now I hear this and call out into the unknown... For love lost within the shadow of a doubt... Must have been a dream from 1,000 years ago...🗿🔥
i think thurston said something along the lines of "Evol was our goth album". i can definitely see that. I know bad moon rising exists but to me, this is their halloween album
I’m happy you guys or whoever runs this continues to upload. I’ve listened to basically everything you guys have gone on to do but haven’t had the pleasure of see a lot of the videos since I was too busy being a egg in my madre in your prime, haha. You guys influenced a lot of my music taste and writing. I bought Washing Machine at a thrift when I was 13. Bought it to put the album art on my wall but it ended up being one of my favorite albums till this day at 22. You guys turned me into the raging hipster turd that I am today and I love and hate you for it!
Keep in mind that if you only have 480 max as the quality as I do with this video, you're not fully hearing this song. The full CD-quality is definitely better than the amount of lossy compression used to squeeze a song down to 480.
Met a stranger on a train He bumped right into me I swear I didn't mean it I swear it wasn't meant to be Must a been a dream From a thousand years ago I swear I didn't mean it I swear it wasn't meant to be From the bottom of my heart He was looking all over me Together ever after He said "You take me & I'll be you" "You kill him & I'll kill her" Kiss me I swear it wasn't meant to be I swear I didn't mean it Kiss me Kiss me in the shadow of Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt Kiss me Kiss me in the shadow Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt It's just a dream It's just a dream I had Nononoooooh Swear it's just a dream Just a dream Dream I've had No No No No…
Just a reminder that some people (many) seized it when it was going off back in the day...artifacts of sincerity that are timeless. The Youth will always care enough and be radical enough to leave things like this behind in time.
Thank you so much for this upload. I hadn't seen it since 120 Minutes when it was released. It will forever remind me of my best friend who was murdered at 18. Forever young.
I went through a time where I was taking acid nearly every weekend. I was listening to SY, Tera Melos, early Black Sabbath, Santana. When I mean to tell you I felt sometimes like I was having an out of body experience while listening to SY and Black Sabbath, I mean I feel like I lost my mind a little bit. Love the feeling of losing my mind. I know that sounds terrible.. but idk I really liked the feeling. I was testing my shit too. So I know for a fact I wasn't tripping on drain-o. Lol
@@ChiralSpirals Jajaja "Estás en lo cierto" "Es correcto" "Así es" "No te equivocas" "Tienes razón" U make my night funny (ahora yo espero haberlo escrito bien)
@@crdov_a😅 Necesito volver a aprender mi español. Estoy feliz de que te haya hecho reír. Los dos escuchamos a los Sonic Youth, eso es lo que importa. 🖒✌
Super Appreciate!! New Orleans Louisiana ◇ StephopalOpal aka Big Mama of music and Peace and ASMR attempts..Frkn Sonic youth..Thank you!! They are always beautiful!!
Sí para mí, el mejor junto con "Sister", "Daydream Nation" y "Washing Machine". Creo que leí, no sé dónde, que el título de la canción era por la peli de Hitchcock del mismo nombre. La mejor del disco junto con "Expressway to you skull". ;)
In Kim Gordon’s book, Girl in a Band, mentioned that she was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person’s. Ah I love her, I love her book, I love this song.
The gays have been doing since we were persurcuted....
I've started to read the book. I'm for the chapter in which Thurston moves into her apartment
I thought it was about Strangers on a Train
I read both their books. Thurston's fascinating, Kim's inspirational. Steve and Lee need to chime in now...
I didn’t know she had a book I know she and thurston Moore aren’t together anymore
There’s something special about this song
It’s very atmospheric and textured and Kim has a unique vocal style.
The whole Evol is special
Oh okay👀
It's the entire Rimbeau flaneur ex foliation factor
You ever wake up from those dreams where you are living a better life and then reality hits back?
@The Antique Ambient Piano mods like hawnestly, ban Raytheon.
@The Antique Ambient Piano Wingsofredemption is beyond human understanding.
literally just happened to me this morning
Exactly....
Yes I do
Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, REM, Husker DU, The minutemen, The Replacements - mid to late 80s Alternative/college rock was an incredible era for music
The post-hardcore the 90s would not be what it was without the alternative college Rock of the 80s
This whole album is just... Transcendent. Someone else commented that there’s something special about this song. I feel the same. EVOL is totally special and they captured something from beyond
it has a quality of indigenous music. Incantation, ritual, chant.
EVOL is my favorite SY album
@@emaheiwa8174 its been called their goth album. Its a top 5 SY album for me
the xxyyxx album did this in a way imo....
@@CherylJFishthat makes sense!
THIS is the first song I heard from Sonic Youth and I was immediately hooked. I used to stay up late watching "120 minutes" on MTV and found such good music! ...Back when MTV was good. KIm Gordon's new album The Collective shows she still is an amazing talent.
Man.. i just wish i was alive earlier to see them in a show before they split. It's one of my favourite band but i'm sure it was a great experience to see all of them playing together.
I was lucky enough to see them in 2009 on the Eternal Tour, my mind was blown, it was amazing.
@@sonicleaves Saw them on mushrooms at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1999. Best rock show I've ever seen. Thurston still looked like this skinny teenager with the floppy hair. The sounds were so lush. I felt like a dog trying to bite waves at the beach as Lee's beautiful guitar tones lapped up to the gallery.
Managed to catch them at The Barrowlands twice, once in the 1990 and 2004, caught them at T in the Park festival one year as well. The 1990 gig was a life changing moment , I had never seen anything like it, I swear I have hearing damage as a result, complete sonic assault 👍
Saw them open for Pearl Jam to this day never seen/heard anything like it. They had a screen behind them just showed people walking the entire set.
I saw them twice. They were Amazing. Also, I was young
I remember when I was in collage I used to watched this clip over and over while smoking weed. Good times.
It's so calm, yet romantically dark.
This video (and song) is what turned me into a Sonic Youth fan. First saw it in a common room of an Ohio University dorm, spring of 1987 (back when MTV showed videos!). Blew me away. Bought "EVOL" and "Bad Moon Rising" at School Kids Records the following day.
Hey, I'm from Athens (actually The Plains - remember that village, about 5 miles away?). Born in '79, went to OU for a year and then transferred to OSU. Sonic Youth fan too. I enjoyed your comment, especially the School Kids reference.
ursaminorjim Did you buy Sister later that year?
@@stronkman9157 I most certainly did! This time at Eide's Comix in my hometown of Pittsburgh, P.A.
Still have it! Avedon/Disneyland cover and all!
I'm suprised MTV showed this video since Sonic Youth was mostly underground in the 80s. Then again they probably showed it late at night or something. Wait a second....that sounds nice actually.
MTV showed videos throughout the aughts, just in diminishing quantities. Their 90: original programming was the minority. Anyone remember Dead At 21 with Jack Noseworrhy?
whats crazy about this band and esp this song is its completely timeless. this is 1986 but it doesnt sound like 1986. it can be just as relevant today. maybe even moreso today.
Mid to late 80s was a fantastic time for underground rock. Everything started getting really interesting when early 80s hardcore started to break down.
It totally sounds like 80s but just in Sonic Youth style
When this came out, mtv was pushing corporate rock and hair metal. This song and video offers such a stark contrast between music as art and music as mere product. A cheap video off of an indie record and it holds up better than the big budget mtv hits of its era. It really is special.
Kim is Art.
That's what alternative rock is about
I quite agree with you!
This group is one of my all-time faves! Besides Siouxsie Sioux
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@@barbararenton8009 bb
They can't just have both Sonic and Shadow in their title and get away with this.
sonic youth predated so many sounds of alternative and indie rock it's amazing. the velvet underground of the 80's.
So, so true
They were *definitely* the most *pre-eminent* underground band of the era
Im glad to be alive right now
starlty513 I'm glad you are.
Yeah that's the ideal feeling. We must use this time wisely.
I’m just now starting to dig deeper into SY’s catalogue before the Goo/Daydream era so I had NO IDEA they ever sounded like this… completely blown away. This feels way ahead of its time… can anyone recommend other music like this from that era??
I don’t have a suggestion but I’d love to find more material similar to this sound as well!
Einsturzende Neubauten’s Letztes Biest off their 1985 album Halber Mensch
F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You Black Emperor kinda sounds like EVOL
Daydream Nation is massively overrated in my opinion.
@@syrinx9196totally is not, its SY at their creative peak before they became more polished in the albums after this
sonic youth is the king of guitar sounds.
One of their best songs. Top 5 favorite for me.
This was one of the first SY songs that I fell in love with as a teenager. It was many years ago, but listening to it reminds me of that feeling of fascination for having discovered something so special. While I love the entire discography of the band, the first albums hold a special place in my heart
I’m freaking out. I love this song, and now there’s a high quality video of it! I’m so happy
There was this conversation about which SY album is the best and this guy said "their best one is the first you've heard" and this is so fucking true because i Iove so much Evol
I remember hearing this for the first time in my uni during break, time just stopped and i fell in love immediately with the song.
This song is magic
My heart just exploded inside my chest, raining millions of sparks into feelings; the same way it does when I see his face, and feel our connection is still strong.
Love the restoration!
The first time I saw Sonic Youth in 1998 they played this in their encore...special memories
this is just a beautiful work of art. The combinations of sounds and her voice trips your soul into different feelings and dimensions. Thank you, Sonic Youth!
My favourite Sonic Youth's song. Thank you! Love it.
This song does something to me that no other song does. Late summer 2007, take me back.
My kid still wear the tee for sonic youth.Love you all
Awesome. Just gave my old vinyl copy of this a spin the other night. Esoterically good.
Thanks from Russia. We love Sonic Youth ever!
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It's just so incredible listening to this again after so many years- EVOL was both dreamy,radical and way off the grid with what was expected for US guitar bands from the mid-late 80's ...there was no template so it all sounded new not contrived in any way. And it still sounds new .
Check out the album "Spinhead Sessions", fully instrumental recordings from this Evol era, much in the mood and dreamy atmosphere of this song, harmonics, reverb drums, slow tempos. Very different to Made in the USA ost, longer and more solid tracks. This period is one of their peaks. Vinyl sounds amazing.
Hey, thanks for that recommendation. I like that more ambient and unpolished sound.
Sonic Youth makes me feel the same inside today (im 41) as it did 25 years ago, I can't think of another band I can say that about. And really it has to be the right day or I can't do to much of it, its just to cathartic.
PS- May favorite SY memory was body surfing to Diamond Sea in the early 90's at Lollapolooza, as if a dream)
it was 1995
LYRICS:
Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
Must a been a dream
From a thousand years ago
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
From the bottom of my heart
He was looking all over me
Together ever after
He said
"You take me & I'll be you"
"You kill him & I'll kill her"
Kiss me
I swear it wasn't meant to be
I swear I didn't mean it
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
It's just a dream
It's just a dream I had
Nononoooooh
Swear it's just a dream
Just a dream
Dream I've had
No
No
No
No
Take me to it
Take me to her
Maybe
Maybe it's just a dream
It's a dream
It's just a
Just a
No
Met a stranger on a train
Bumped right into me
Swear I didn't mean it
Swear it wasn't meant to be
Must've been a dream
From a thousand years ago
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Love this song. Tears in the shadows. Miss u Sonic Youth
Absolutely and positively one of the truest masterpieces of our time such a beautiful work.. I've been listening to this song since the mid-90s... Even now I hear this and call out into the unknown... For love lost within the shadow of a doubt... Must have been a dream from 1,000 years ago...🗿🔥
My Brother & I saw Sonic Youth all the time. You kind of take it for granted. WOOF!
i think thurston said something along the lines of "Evol was our goth album". i can definitely see that. I know bad moon rising exists but to me, this is their halloween album
One of the best albums of the era.
I love Kim so much. This is so beautiful it hurts.
...beautiful song from a beautiful album.
This resonates so much emotionally, it’s hard to listen to. The best songs are like that.
So happy to say i saw em live, and got hang with them another time too coolest people I ever met
My favourite song from Evol.
This is one of the songs that first got me into SY. And I still love it as much as I did back then
I’m happy you guys or whoever runs this continues to upload. I’ve listened to basically everything you guys have gone on to do but haven’t had the pleasure of see a lot of the videos since I was too busy being a egg in my madre in your prime, haha. You guys influenced a lot of my music taste and writing. I bought Washing Machine at a thrift when I was 13. Bought it to put the album art on my wall but it ended up being one of my favorite albums till this day at 22. You guys turned me into the raging hipster turd that I am today and I love and hate you for it!
their best song
Keep in mind that if you only have 480 max as the quality as I do with this video, you're not fully hearing this song. The full CD-quality is definitely better than the amount of lossy compression used to squeeze a song down to 480.
Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
Must a been a dream
From a thousand years ago
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
From the bottom of my heart
He was looking all over me
Together ever after
He said
"You take me & I'll be you"
"You kill him & I'll kill her"
Kiss me
I swear it wasn't meant to be
I swear I didn't mean it
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
It's just a dream
It's just a dream I had
Nononoooooh
Swear it's just a dream
Just a dream
Dream I've had
No
No
No
No…
Met a stranger in a dream
Made me
eternal sunshine...
2 titles of hitchcock films
I would give me soul if I had a soul left to give to hear this live! 😢
Just a reminder that some people (many) seized it when it was going off back in the day...artifacts of sincerity that are timeless. The Youth will always care enough and be radical enough to leave things like this behind in time.
Everyday i wish all this was really just a bad dream.
same
@@Shinzou you're just doubting your shadows
It is a dream
Sonic Youth é lindo, essa banda mudou minha forma de ouvir música
Y la de muchos!
Their videos are my favorite.
This is one of my favorite songs!
Sonic Youth occupe une place très importante pour moi!! Surtout cette chanson
Thank you so much for this upload. I hadn't seen it since 120 Minutes when it was released. It will forever remind me of my best friend who was murdered at 18. Forever young.
La profundidad de la voz de Kim.....sin palabras❤
wonderland honey
Holy fuck this is so cool. It’s like Sonic Youth’s post punk/ goth album and this song is beautiful.
Used to trip on acid and lay on merry-go-round spining ,stretch our arms to the sky listening to this, ha
I went through a time where I was taking acid nearly every weekend. I was listening to SY, Tera Melos, early Black Sabbath, Santana. When I mean to tell you I felt sometimes like I was having an out of body experience while listening to SY and Black Sabbath, I mean I feel like I lost my mind a little bit. Love the feeling of losing my mind. I know that sounds terrible.. but idk I really liked the feeling. I was testing my shit too. So I know for a fact I wasn't tripping on drain-o. Lol
THE VIDEO THAT HOOKED ME ON SONIC YOUTH................. I saw this on some cable program and fell in love. (with KIM and the band)
Acid vibs ✨
beautiful!
Love this song. May 86!
I'm watching this on psychedelics and it feels so good
Sweet it enhances the art. Visually and audibly.
Drugs are bad, don't do drugs kids
Same here dude ! I feel connected to the universe. Total harmony.
Psychedelics will damage your brain, and eventually you will not be able to enjoy any complex music at all.
This video gives me a vibe
sonic youth is the best band in history
Great album, haunting song...gotta love Sonic Youth.
Esta banda es inmortal
Exacto.
Tu es correcto....I hope I said that right lol.
@@ChiralSpirals Jajaja
"Estás en lo cierto"
"Es correcto"
"Así es"
"No te equivocas"
"Tienes razón"
U make my night funny (ahora yo espero haberlo escrito bien)
@@crdov_a😅 Necesito volver a aprender mi español. Estoy feliz de que te haya hecho reír. Los dos escuchamos a los Sonic Youth, eso es lo que importa. 🖒✌
@@ChiralSpirals exacto ✌😂
Kim voice makes me feel desires...such a badass girl, love her!
Sonic Love radiating leaves of happiness from the heart.
Neat video. Haven't seen it in decades. Thanks for uploading it, Sonic Youth channel!
Super Appreciate!! New Orleans Louisiana ◇ StephopalOpal aka Big Mama of music and Peace and ASMR attempts..Frkn Sonic youth..Thank you!! They are always beautiful!!
Warning! Memories are attached to this song, and I like it! x
too late, but thank you.
love this song
te extrañaba, Sonic Youth
Best video
Sou viciado em Sonic youth... E este foi o primeiro clip que conheci deles!! Pirei...
Nice little gem.
I love this song/video!!!
El álbum donde viene esa canción es una obra de arte;)
EVOL?
Sip, todo el album de EVOL es una obra de arte
@@the_emmo si
Sí para mí, el mejor junto con "Sister", "Daydream Nation" y "Washing Machine". Creo que leí, no sé dónde, que el título de la canción era por la peli de Hitchcock del mismo nombre. La mejor del disco junto con "Expressway to you skull". ;)
"Expressway to your skull" quería decir :)
My favorite❤❤❤❤❤
blessed to see this
That image filter is so sick
Como eu queria voces de volta.😑
Well, that was.. beautiful to see and hear..xxoo
Awesome
wow, i have the original pressing of this album from sst. top tier music.
Best song ever...
saw this video for the first time in 98 while tripping on acid
Sonic always youth☝
Rade # it’s always fun to scream
Dj Smokey really goated for this sample
this makes me feel like when i was 17
Omg Sonic Youth is back
So cool video
Amazing ❤️
my favourite sonic youth song
Oh, how I would love them back together..
fun to watch this today