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