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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 25, 1958
Place of Birth
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Also Known As
- Sonic Youth
Thurston Moore
0.3 Popularity
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
8.0
Self
Broken English
2025
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
7.0
Self (uncredited)
Pavements
2025
0.0
Self
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
0.0
Self
The Road to Ruane
2024
8.5
Self
Uncropped
2024
0.0
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
7.8
Self
Scala!!!
2024
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Louder Than You Think
2023
7.8
himself
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
Credits
Broken English
as Self
2025
8.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
0.0
Pavements
as Self (uncredited)
2025
7.0
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
as Self
2025
0.0
The Road to Ruane
as Self
2024
0.0
Uncropped
as Self
2024
8.5
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
0.0
Scala!!!
as Self
2024
7.8
Louder Than You Think
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.0
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
as himself
2021
7.8
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
as Self
2021
7.4
The Sparks Brothers
as Self
2021
7.4
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
as Self
2021
6.7
Thick Air
as Himself
2020
6.8
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
as Self
2019
7.9
🎬
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
0.0
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
as Self
2019
6.8
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
as Self
2019
0.0
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
as Self - Sonic Youth
2019
6.7
Punk
as Self
2019
7.8
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
0.0
Desolation Center
2018
9.3
Teenage Superstars
as Himself
2017
7.5
The Public Image Is Rotten
as Himself
2017
7.4
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
as Himself
2016
6.4
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
as Self
2015
7.0
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
as Himself
2014
0.0
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
7.0
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
as Self
2012
2.0
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage)
2012
7.7
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
0.0
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
0.0
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
as Self
2011
7.5
Blank City
as Self
2011
7.1
🎬
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
0.0
🎬
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
0.0
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
as Self
2010
7.3
🎬
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
as Self
2009
10.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
2009
8.0
From the Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2009
6.0
New York Rock at the BBC
as Self - Sonic Youth
2008
6.5
I Need That Record!
as Himself
2008
6.5
365 Day Project
2007
10.0
Welcome to My Castle!
as Self
2007
0.0
Llik Your Idols
as Himself
2007
4.0
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
as Self
2007
6.4
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
as Himself
2007
0.0
Cut Shorts
2006
8.0
🎬
Kill Your Idols: More.
as Himself
2006
7.8
Noise
as Self
2006
4.8
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
as Self
2006
7.7
Punk: Attitude
as Himself
2005
7.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
4.5
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
as Self
2005
7.1
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
as Self
2005
6.6
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
2005
0.0
Day Trip Maryanne
2005
0.0
🎬
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
2005
8.0
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
as Self
2004
0.0
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
5.8
Kill Your Idols
as Self
2004
7.3
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
as Performer
2003
0.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
5.0
Pavement: Slow Century
as Self
2002
7.7
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002
0.0
25 Years of Punk
as Self
2001
6.0
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
0.0
Gilmore Girls
as Cool Dad Troubadour
2000
7.9
Record Player: Christian Marclay
as Himself
2000
0.0
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
as Self
2000
0.0
David S. Ware
as Himself
1999
0.0
Turn of the Century
as Himself
1999
0.0
Free Tibet
as Self - Sonic Youth
1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998
0.0
Classic Albums
as Self
1997
7.7
🎬
Don't Bring A Dog
as Himself
1997
0.0
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
0.0
🎬
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
0.0
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
as Self
1995
3.0
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
as Self
1995
6.7
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
as Self
1995
0.0
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
7.4
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
as Self
1994
6.0
Hi Octane
as Self (Host)
1994
8.3
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
as Fred Cracklin
1994
7.8
Changing Fashions
1993
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
0.0
Grunge Pedal
1993
0.0
1991: The Year Punk Broke
as Self
1992
6.8
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
0.0
Goo
as Self
1991
4.8
Rap Damage
1991
0.0
Notebook
1991
0.0
Weatherman '69
as Jeff Jones
1989
0.0
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
0.0
Put More Blood Into the Music
as Himself
1988
7.0
Lou Believers
as Himself
1988
0.0
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
0.0
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
8.0
Submit to Me
1986
5.1
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
0.0
Tibetan Freedom Concert
N/A
0.0
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
N/A
10.0
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
N/A
0.0