Thurston Moore
Born
7/25/1958
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Thurston Moore
Biography
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
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The Sparks Brothers
2021
★7.4
Broken English
2026
★7.6
Uncropped
2024
★8.3
Pavements
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★6.7
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
★8.0
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017
★7.4
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
★7.6
The Last Critic
2026
★5.0
Scala!!!
2024
★7.8
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
★7.7
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
★7.8
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
★4.0
365 Day Project
2007
★10.0
Blank City
2011
★6.9
Thick Air
2020
★6.8
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
★7.3
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
★7.5
Kill Your Idols
2004
★7.4
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
★6.6
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995
★7.0
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
★2.0
Submit to Me
1985
★5.2
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
★6.7
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
★7.5
Free Tibet
1998
★8.0
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
★6.5
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
★6.8
Punk: Attitude
2005
★7.1
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
★6.9
Station to Station
2014
★6.8
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005
★7.0
Cut Shorts
2006
★8.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
★10.0
Louder Than You Think
2023
★6.0
From the Basement
2009
★6.0
25 Years of Punk
2001
★7.0
Weatherman '69
1989
★10.0
Llik Your Idols
2007
★4.6
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
★7.9
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016
★6.4
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
★6.5
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
★6.7
Pavement: Slow Century
2002
★7.6
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
★6.5
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
★7.0
I Need That Record!
2008
★6.5
Goo
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★5.7
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
★6.2
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
★8.0
Noise
2006
★4.5
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1988
★7.8
Desolation Center
2018
★9.3
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
★7.0
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★10.0
Teenage Superstars
2017
★7.5
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
★7.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
★5.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
★4.5
The Hardcore Collection
2012
★7.7