Thurston Moore
Born: 1958-07-25
Place of Birth: Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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.
Known For
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005★ 4.5
Changing Fashions
1993★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004★ 5.8
Pavements
2025★ 7.0
Scala!!!
2024★ 7.8
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019★ 0.0
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025★ 0.0
Grunge Pedal
1993★ 0.0
Notebook
1991★ 0.0
Weatherman '69
1989★ 0.0
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010★ 7.3
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002★ 0.0
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007★ 6.4
Noise
2006★ 4.8
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998★ 0.0
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994★ 6.0
Pavement: Slow Century
2002★ 7.7
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995★ 3.0
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019★ 6.8
Lou Believers
1988★ 0.0
Submit to Me
1986★ 5.1
Cut Shorts
2006★ 8.0
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
N/A★ 10.0
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000★ 0.0
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006★ 7.7
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005★ 7.0
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005★ 0.0
Uncropped
2024★ 8.5
The Sparks Brothers
2021★ 7.4
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021★ 7.8
From the Basement
2009★ 6.0
Thick Air
2020★ 6.8
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017★ 7.4
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994★ 7.5
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995★ 0.0
David S. Ware
1999★ 0.0
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021★ 6.7
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992★ 6.8
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003★ 0.0
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016★ 6.4
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011★ 7.5
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000★ 0.0
Broken English
2025★ 8.0
Welcome to My Castle!
2007★ 0.0
Punk: Attitude
2005★ 7.0
Goo
1991★ 4.8
365 Day Project
2007★ 10.0
Kill Your Idols
2004★ 7.3
Free Tibet
1998★ 0.0
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012★ 2.0
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015★ 7.0
Louder Than You Think
2023★ 6.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009★ 8.0
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019★ 7.9
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986★ 8.0
Teenage Superstars
2017★ 7.5
The Road to Ruane
2024★ 0.0
New York Rock at the BBC
2008★ 6.5
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013★ 7.0
Tibetan Freedom Concert
N/A★ 0.0
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019★ 6.7
25 Years of Punk
2001★ 6.0
Turn of the Century
1999★ 0.0
I Need That Record!
2008★ 6.5
Llik Your Idols
2007★ 4.0
Blank City
2011★ 7.1
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988★ 0.0
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024★ 0.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019★ 0.0
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007★ 0.0
Day Trip Maryanne
2005★ 0.0
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003★ 5.0
Desolation Center
2018★ 9.3
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004★ 0.0
Rap Damage
1991★ 0.0
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005★ 6.6
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988★ 7.0
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
N/A★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996★ 0.0
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995★ 6.7
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001★ 0.0
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986★ 0.0
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011★ 0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011★ 0.0
The Hardcore Collection
2012★ 7.7