@shruggzdastr8-facedclown
Seriously, Karen was an under-appreciated instrumentalist (drummer), singer and songwriter -- her music may have been too mainstream "poppy" for heavier rock fans, but there was a depth to her lyrics that most pop songs of her times didn't dare have.
@LongGone77
This song still haunts me. I don't think most people realize what they're listening to, or what it's about.
@cosmicheretic8129
A powerful tribute if there ever was one. Sad and haunting but liberating as it gives Karen a voice she was denied while living.
@hollyccam
ive suffered from anorexia and bulimia for a large portion of my life. this song is almost to painfull for me to listen to but i love it
@Wrox55
this song has probably one of their best melodic hooks
@elizabethhann4028
Such a shocking, haunting song. The best tribute to Karen Carpenter that I've ever heard: ambiguous, guilty, fascinated. And some days I think that Kim Gordon is one of the ultimate rock'n'roll heroines. She's certainly one of MY rock'n'roll heroines, anyway.
@myrtomoschou69
Listening to this while in recovery from ana is so painful yet so beautiful at the same time. I love sonic youth
@weave_of_k
when I was a kid who lived in a small town in Alaska(1990) I felt like the song's mood perfectly fit the depressing, dark, beautiful winters there. the guitar work, kim's voice/lyrics, everything about this song. this one's a masterpiece to me.
@seahorsemcgee9760
This whole album is the perfect album to run away from home to
@tristamprice534
You said honey, you look so underfed. That's one of only two songs that ever made me cry. The other is Motorhead 1916. 52yo male here.
@73maf53
The guitar work on this track is on another level đź‘Ś
@robinbrown4706
"You look so under-fed" Kim and Karen, two very different people musically but empathy oozes throughout. Only the Sonics. đź‘Ś
@jmckenzie962
Even without knowing what this song is about it makes you feel emotional - but after I found out about Karen Carpenter and what happened to her this song made me almost cry. Such an unfortunate story of an amazing woman killed by society and the pressures of stardom. Huge respect to Kim for giving her a kind of posthumous voice that she was denied while living.
@orangerollsangelspit
This video is pure genius. They are my favorite band but after rewatching this video after a while I feel in love with them again…..Brian Molko was right when he said they are the best rock and roll band ever. I would’t be the same person without them <3
@jolokia2788
This song to this day STILL shakes me to my core. Goosebumps from start to finish.
@pookieSR71adams
Never listened to Sonic Youth before, just am now because I came across this song as a Karen Carpenter tribute. As a huge Karen Carpenter fan this song is insanely haunting. Even down to the stuffed animals...something Karen collected and kept to her dying day. The lyrics...are like they fell out of the lyrics Karen wanted to sing but was denied the chance of...just like her solo album. I know other fans like to put this song down but they don’t get it...Karen was so much more than “lead sister” she was a woman with a voice denied and subject to horrible emotional and psychological abuse from her mother and (here’s where Carpenters fans will clutch their pearls and then send me nasty DM’s) her brother and to a lesser extent A&M who thought of her only as their virginal pay pig. The world only knows of Richard because of his sister who started recording at 14 (which Richard still won’t release to this day) but you can hear her on the “Magic Lamp” Looking for Love record and her cover of California Dreamin. I’m glad this song exists.
@HaleG9
to me this is by far their best song - still gives me this chills
@ClassicsCinema
The subject matter is so sad but this song is so special. Haunting... And the video, it's genius. Sure it's not commercial corporate eye candy, just thank heaven for that.
@wwiiinplastic4712
I miss this band so much. I will always treasure the time I found myself standing behind Lee at the Federal Post Office building on Vesey and Church about a year before 9/11 (I worked in Building 5 of the WTC) and I got to have about 15 minutes talking to him about music and the scene in general. Just two guys talking about rock.
@OneBentMonkey