Goo in your Hand - Sonic Youth get "Fucked Up"

Cross-continental band brawls always cause for a bit of excitement and whether completely serious or not, inject a little humor into the wide world of genre music - last year it was low-fi favorites Wavves that took a proverbial beating from the oh so colourful Psychedelic Horseshit, by way of a hilariously candid interview with The Washington Post. Even though I have head frontman Matt Whitehurst's commentary on Wavves and the whole low-fi movement trillions of times, it never gets old. Granted, I think Wavves pretty much blows musically, and the whole low-fi movement (in my opinion) is drab and over-hyped - but that's all yesterdays news.

It's 2010 now and we have a new batch of band beef to giggle at (thank god it's sans low-fi......)

This time it's Canadian punk/hardcore band Fucked Up taking a stab at label mates Sonic Youth - all orchestrated by Brit photog and raucous rouser Ben Rayner. Rayner has some history with Wavves as well - he succeeded in breaking up the band on stage last year at Primavera - too bad Whiteburst wasn't there to assist him with insults....






Rayner


This is this low-down on the haps:
Vbs.tv interviewed Sonic Youth for their program Soft Focus during the My Bloody Valentine ATP festival across the pond.
In some question/answer hodgepodge, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore ended up stating that Fucked Up's musical style should be called "dude-core" -
which Fucked Up thought was pretty fucked up and in response to being branded as bros, Fucked Up and Rayner recorded an EP bashing Sonic Youth.




The title track in the EP is "Cranking to Sonic Youth," which according to Rayner (and brit-speak), cranking means "crying and wanking simultaneously," while listening to Sonic Youth - which really sounds like a sad state of affairs.



Rayner, in an interview with Vice, detailed the lyrics to the song:
The verse: "Cranking to Sonic Youth/ Goo in your hand/ Goo in your hand"
The chorus: "You love Thurston and you love Kim/ You love art and you are thin"

Sonic Youth has yet to make a retort to the collabo - but here's hoping something awesome or equally spooge-tastic will come out of it.
You can check out the "Goo in your hand" track on Vice.