Thurston Moore

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.

Cast

1991: The Year Punk Broke

Kill Your Idols

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

25 Years of Punk

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

I Need That Record!

Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

Louder Than You Think

Self (archive footage)

Day Trip Maryanne

Record Player: Christian Marclay

Ecstatic Peace Archives

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

Kill Your Idols: More.

Llik Your Idols

Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

Turn of the Century

Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

An Introduction to Harmolodics

Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

From the Basement

Self - Sonic Youth

Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

The Road to Ruane

Don't Bring A Dog

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

Self - Sonic Youth

The Hardcore Collection

(archive footage)

Sublapse Video Mag 1

365 Day Project

Changing Fashions

The Public Image Is Rotten

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

Teenage Superstars

Pavement: Slow Century

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

Desolation Center

Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

Put More Blood Into the Music

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

Swans: Where Does a Body End?

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

Welcome to My Castle!

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

The Sparks Brothers

New York Rock at the BBC

Self - Sonic Youth

Skeeno H.C. Rules

Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

Self - Sonic Youth

Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011

Self (uncredited)

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

Self - Narrator (voice)

Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

Sonic Youth: 930 Club

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

Tibetan Freedom Concert

Crew

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Executive Producer

Writer, Director

Submit to Me Now

Original Music Composer

Things Behind the Sun

Original Music Composer

Original Music Composer

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Executive Producer

I Was Jack Goldstein

Original Music Composer

Original Music Composer

Rock My Religion

1991: The Year Punk Broke

Original Music Composer