Hmm, Pattern Recognition, I might have heard something else before, but I must have been unaware. Something like Kool Thing.

The first time I heard Sonic Youth, it was live ( http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/cc/090191.html ) and I ran away with a screaming headache after ten minutes. So first song has to be Schizophrenia. They were the closing act of a festival, we didn't mind leaving early.
A couple of months later I did get into them, probably via one of my housemates at the time. Or perhaps it was a year later when Dirty was released.

Teenage Riot, from the 'screaming fields of sonic love' album.

100%

Just cos I bought Dirty first and its the first track on it. Loved it then, still love it now. Just thought that Thurston Moore was just a level above what I previously thought cool was. Like what someone else said, I tend to prefer Lee's songs now...

Mote. Instant love and nothing has changed.

not sure exactly, i might have heard "bull in the heather" or "kool thing" or "dirty boots" somewhere, but my first sonic purchase was DAYDREAM NATION on cassette(!), and i totally didn't get it at first. just sounded so chaotic, and i remember being puzzled how they could remember how to play these messy songs. then i worked painting houses with this guy who had a cassette copy of DIRTY (as well a tape of Diecide and Dr. Know, and another of the Steve Miller Band, and i hated those tapes with a passion), and i understood DIRTY tape better at the time. i really liked DIRTY, bought it, then i went back and de-coded DDN, fell in love, and went out and bought everything i could...

I picked up goo because my friend was always saying how awesome it is, I put the cd on and skipped through the tracks, for no reason at all really accept I wanted to listen to the last song first and that was 'Titanium Expose', and oh what a song it is.

(she's in a) bad mood...
i was really scared... seriously! :)

I can't remember.

pattern recognition, probably. I listened sonic nurse after someone recommended them, I think.

it took a couple listens to appreciate though.

My first song was half of Sugar Kane, recorded by my father from an US radio station. Unfortunately, it was the end three minutes of the cassette. They seemed ok, but i wasn't much impressed... "just another alternative band" Then i've found a russian bootleg Mp3 CD with 6 of their albums and a Free Kitten tune. I've listened Bad Moon Rising and i was fucking scared. That's one of their best albums in my opinion.

really interesting what hirsute said about the "how did they play these messy songs?" thing.

i remember the first time i heard melt banana, i guess it was.. uh.. 8 years ago now.. jesus.. that's a long ass time ago.. am i getting that old? god damn.. uhhhhhh.. yeah.. anyway... the first song i heard was "spathic!!!!!!" and i was like, "There's no way they're actually PLAYING this." it just sounded so cartoony, so unreal, and I was just in awe.

i don't think many bands have done that to me, but yeah.. i thought that was interesting what you said.

"Little Trouble Girl"

I thought Sonic Youth had two female singers back then and was really surprised when I realized they didn't :) .

It was a good surprise, I suppose.

Teen Age Riot, and at first I compared them to the Pixies

mackin for doober my ex girlfriend who was a horrible girlfriend but had an amazing sense of music taste introduced me to sy through made in the usa

Think it was 100%...

Bull In The Heather

you bet.

that must have been a tough one to start off with...

Pattern Recognition.
Nurse includes many good songs.