When I first heard the song I was sure it was Thurston Moore imagining a marriage to Marilyn Monroe - there’s surely only one ‘Marilyn’ and in the context of a Sonic Youth song, only one ‘Moore’. The Yorkshire Ripper connection makes a lot of sense too especially given the hammer reference, perhaps Thu was prompted to ponder when reading about the Ripper case...also a UK band from the mid 80s called Sutcliffe Jügend (Youth) may have prompted his interest. I think the song is a conflation of both the real and imagined MMs... a real dream.
When I first heard the song I was sure it was Thurston Moore imagining a marriage to Marilyn Monroe - there’s surely only one ‘Marilyn’ and in the context of a Sonic Youth song, only one ‘Moore’. The Yorkshire Ripper connection makes a lot of sense too especially given the hammer reference, perhaps Thu was prompted to ponder when reading about the Ripper case...also a UK band from the mid 80s called Sutcliffe Jügend (Youth) may have prompted his interest. I think the song is a conflation of both the real and imagined MMs... a real dream.