SONIC YOUTH - "superstar" Tablature

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From: paul.nazaroff@canrem.com (Paul Nazaroff)

"Superstar" by the Carpenters (as covered by Sonic Youth)
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(found on the "If I Were A Carpenter" tribute album)

Transcribed by James Nazaroff (jamie.nazaroff@projectx.com)

<Intro>

Noise, feedback, then:

Fm D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

C# C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

A#m NC----------------------------

e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

NC---------------------------- Fm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

<Verse>

Fm D#
Long ago
C# C
And oh so ...
A#m C#
I fell in ...
C
Before the ...


Fm D#
Your guitar,
C# C
It sounds so sweet ...
A#m C#
But you're not ...
C
It's just the ...


<Chorus>

C# C A#m G#
Don't you remember you ...
C# C A#m G#
You said you'd be ...
C# C A#m G#
Baby, baby, baby, ba...,
A#m Fm
I love you, I ...

Fm D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

C# C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

A#m NC----------------------------
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

NC---------------------------- Fm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

<Verse>
Fm D#
Loneliness
C# C
Is such a ...
A#m C#
And I can ...
C
To be with ...

Fm D#
What to say,
C# C
To make you ...
A# C#
Come back to ...
C
And play yo....



<Chorus>
C# C A#m G#

Don't you remember you told ....
C# C A#m G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C# C A#m G#
Baby, baby, baby...
A#m C#
I love you, I ...

C# C A#m G#
Don't you remember you told me ...
C# C A#m G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C# C A#m G#
Baby, baby, baby, ...,
A#m Fm
I love you, I ...

<more noise, feedback>
<end>



Ok, I play this song with a capo on the first fret and use the chords
Em, D, C, B and Am in the verses and C, B, Am, G, and Em in the
choruses. This seems to sound pretty close, but I think that Thurston
Moore tunes his guitars flat (Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb).

Anyways, this was close enough for me...





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