
Thurston Moore
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 25, 1958 (age 68)
- Birthplace
- 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
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Filmography

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie

Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie

Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Movie · as Self

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Movie · as Self

Broken English
Movie · as Self

The Last Critic
Movie

The Best Summer
Movie · as Self

The Wizard of the Kremlin
Movie · as Synthesizer Player
The One. For New York.
Movie

Pavements
Movie · as Self (uncredited)

Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie

Scala!!!
Movie · as Self

Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Movie

The Road to Ruane
Movie · as Self

Uncropped
Movie · as Self

Louder Than You Think
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Movie · as Self

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Movie · as Self

The Sparks Brothers
Movie · as Self

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Thick Air
Movie · as Himself

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie · as Self

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Movie · as Self - Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie

Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie · as Self
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Movie

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Movie · as Self

Punk
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Desolation Center
Movie

The Public Image Is Rotten
Movie · as Himself

Teenage Superstars
Movie · as Self

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Movie · as Self

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

It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Movie · as Self

Station to Station
Movie

I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Movie

Lou Reed - Remembered
Movie

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Movie · as Self

The Hardcore Collection
Movie · as (archive footage)

Blank City
Movie · as Self

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie · as Self

Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie

Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie
Ecstatic Peace Archives
Movie

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Movie · as Self
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
Movie
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Movie · as Self

From the Basement
Movie · as Self - Sonic Youth

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie · as Self

From The Basement
Movie · as Self - Sonic Youth

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 ep

I Need That Record!
Movie · as Himself

New York Rock at the BBC
Movie · as Self - Sonic Youth

Llik Your Idols
Movie · as Himself

Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Movie · as Self

365 Day Project
Movie · as Self

You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Movie · as Self

Welcome to My Castle!
Movie · as Self

Cut Shorts
Movie
Kill Your Idols: More.
Movie · as Self

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Movie · as Self

Noise
Movie · as Self

Punk: Attitude
Movie · as Self

Day Trip Maryanne
Movie

Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie · as Self

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Movie · as Himself
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Movie · as Self

Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Movie · as Self

Kill Your Idols
Movie · as Self

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Movie

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie · as Self

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

Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Movie · as Performer

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 ep

Pavement: Slow Century
Movie · as Self

25 Years of Punk
Movie · as Self

Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Movie · as Self

Record Player: Christian Marclay
Movie · as Himself

Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie

The Hardcore Collection
Movie

Gilmore Girls
TV · as Cool Dad Troubadour · 1 ep

David S. Ware
Movie · as Himself

Turn of the Century
Movie · as Himself

Free Tibet
Movie · as Self - Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie
Don't Bring A Dog
Movie · as Himself

Classic Albums
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Movie

Tibetan Freedom Concert
Movie · as Self

Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Movie · as Self
An Introduction to Harmolodics
Movie

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Movie · as Self

Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Movie · as Self

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Movie · as Self

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Movie

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
TV · as Fred Cracklin · 1 ep

Hi Octane
TV · as Self (Host) · 4 eps

Grunge Pedal
Movie

Changing Fashions
Movie

Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie

Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 6 eps

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 4 eps

1991: The Year Punk Broke
Movie · as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 ep

Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 2 eps

Notebook
Movie

Rap Damage
Movie

Goo
Movie · as Self

Skeeno H.C. Rules
Movie

Weatherman '69
Movie · as Jeff Jones

Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie · as Himself

Lou Believers
Movie · as Himself

Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie

Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Movie

Submit to Me
Movie

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Movie




