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…
Known For
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Self
The Sparks Brothers
Self
Irma Vep
Original Music Composer
Heavy
Original Music Composer
Demonlover
Original Music Composer
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Self
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Self
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Filmography
Acting (111)
Movies (103)
Broken English
2026as Self
The Last Critic
2026
Pavements
2025as Self (uncredited)
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025as Self
Scala!!!
2024as Self
Uncropped
2024as Self
The Road to Ruane
2024as Self
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
Louder Than You Think
2023as Self (archive footage)
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021as himself
The Sparks Brothers
2021as Self
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021as Self
Thick Air
2020as Himself
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019as Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019as Self
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019as Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019as Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
Desolation Center
2018
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017as Himself
Teenage Superstars
2017as Himself
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016as Himself
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015as Self
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014as Himself
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012as Self
Blank City
2011as Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011as Self
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011 Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010as Self
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
From the Basement
2009as Self - Sonic Youth
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009as Self
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009as Self
I Need That Record!
2008as Himself
New York Rock at the BBC
2008as Self - Sonic Youth
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007as Self
365 Day Project
2007as Self
Llik Your Idols
2007as Himself
Welcome to My Castle!
2007as Self
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007as Himself
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006as Himself
Noise
2006as Self
Cut Shorts
2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006as Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005as Himself
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005as Self
Day Trip Maryanne
2005 Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005as Self
Punk: Attitude
2005as Himself
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005as Self
Kill Your Idols
2004as Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004as Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003as Performer
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002
Pavement: Slow Century
2002as Self
25 Years of Punk
2001as Self
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001as Self - Narrator (voice)
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000as Himself
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000as Self
The Hardcore Collection
2000
David S. Ware
1999as Himself
Turn of the Century
1999as Himself
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998
Free Tibet
1998as Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998 Don't Bring A Dog
1997as Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995as Self
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995as Self
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995as Self
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994as Self
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Changing Fashions
1993
Grunge Pedal
1993
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992as Self
Notebook
1991
Goo
1991as Self
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Rap Damage
1991
Weatherman '69
1989as Jeff Jones
Lou Believers
1988as Himself
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988as Himself
Submit to Me
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Television (8)
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021as Self
Punk
2019as Self
Gilmore Girls
2000as Cool Dad Troubadour
Classic Albums
1997as Self
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994as Fred Cracklin
Hi Octane
1994as Self (Host)
Late Show with David Letterman
1993as Self - Musical Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993as Self - Musical Guest
Crew (19)
Movies (18)
Black Lodge
2022Executive Producer
Fire Music
2021Executive Producer
2020
2021Music
Street
2011Music
Clean
2011Original Music Composer
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010Music
I Was Jack Goldstein
2010Music
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007Music
Demonlover
2002Original Music Composer
Things Behind the Sun
2001Original Music Composer
Heavy
1995Original Music Composer
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992Title Designer
Goo
1991Director
Goo
1991Writer
Hippy Porn
1991Original Music Composer
Submit to Me Now
1987Music
Made in U.S.A.
1987Original Music Composer
Rock My Religion
1984Idea
Television (1)
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