Moore, Thurston Filmography

• I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney (2012)
• Dignity (2012)
• Catch My Disease (2010)
• Blank City (2010)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
• Turn of the Century (2009)
• Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB (2009)
• Wednesdays at A's (2009)
• No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)
• I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store (2008)
• Of the Moon: The Silver Apples Story. (2008)
• Dinosaur Jr.: Live in the Middle East (2007)
• Action (2007)
• Llik Your Idols (2007)
• Kill Your Idols: More. (2006)
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006)
• Noise (2006)
• Cut Shorts (2006)
• Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone (2006)
• All We Are Saying (2005)
• You're Gonna Miss Me (2005)
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
• Punk: Attitude (2005)
• Perfect Partner (2005)
• Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration (2005)
• We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)
• (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale (2004)
• Corporate Ghost (2004)
• Kill Your Idols (2004)
• Sonic Youth Video Dose (2004)
• End of the Century (2003)
• Pavement: Slow Century (2002)
• 25 Years of Punk (2001)
• Sonic Cinema (2000)
• Record Player: Christian Marclay (2000)
• Free Tibet (1998)
• Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (1995)
• The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special (1995)
• Heavy (1995)
• Hi Octane (1994)
• Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos (1994)
• 1994 MTV Movie Awards (1994)
• Hippy Porn (1993)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
• Goo (1991)
• Weatherman '69 (1989)
• Put More Blood Into the Music (1987)
• Submit to Me Now (1987)
• Death Valley 69 (1986)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Benediction - Thurston Moore

With benediction in her eyes,
Our dearest gods are not surprised.
You better hold your lover down,
Tie him to the ground.
Whisper "I love you,"
One thousand times into his ear, kiss his eyes,
And don't you cry girl, he won't disappear.
But I know better than to let you down.
With benediction in her mind,
She'll never get you back in time.
You better hold your lover down,
And tie her to the ground.
Simple pleasures strike like lighting,
Scratches spell her name.
Thunder demons swipe her halo,
And then they run away.
But I know better than to let her go.
With benediction in her eyes,
Our dearest gods are not surprised.
You better hold your lover down,
And tie her to the ground.
Simple pleasures strike like lightening,
Scratches cross her name.
Whisper "I love you my darling, life is just a fling."
But I know better than to let her go.
I know better that to let you go.
I know better than to her go.
I know better than to let you go.
I know better.
I know better.

Famous quotes by Thurston Moore:

"Last year was such a sick show; we're psyched to come back again. We love playing empty shows. It reminds us how D-list we really are."

"When I'm here, I get stressed out because there so much good stuff I want to see, and it's all at the same time."

"I had no interest in an actor who has a band. But then I realized he was just some (New) Jersey kid who moved to New York to play in a band, and the whole acting thing was just something he fell into. Music was his real deal."

"We like each other. We've played together - but it's always at some festival in Brazil or something. So we thought we should really cut across the U.S. together."

"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."

"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."

"We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it."

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."

"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."

"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music."

"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."

"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace."

"Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry."

"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture."

"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."

"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."

"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."

"Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song."

"I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band."

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."