SY Fans at DC Show Were WEIRD
 

What weirdos, man. Two extremes, for the most part : People either stood there motionless like statues or they CROWD SURFED?! thru even the softest of songs (which "...Ripped" has a lot of.) Go figure.

I was there, and a lot of Sonic Youth fans are annoying as hell. I was standing next to these boys with perfectly ripped jeans. They were basically playing Who Knows The Most About Sonic Youth as loud as possible. Then, a bus went by and they were "Is that them? OMG It's like a bus. What's that bus doing?"

Shut the fuck up. It's a bus.

Those boys were probably the crowd surfers. Haha.

Yeah, Sonic Youth is for nerds.

Some things kind of bothered me, but I guess I'm sort of a grouch at shows. For one, kids yelling out for songs and shit, but that happens anywhere. It still just seems rude. Before the band came out everybody was a lot of kids were freaking out to see the setlist and trying to push through and were yelling back the songs to people. I mean, I like to be surprised, so that's lame for me. Otherwise I was just hearing conversations that hurt my soul but were also kind of funny. These kids were talking to this older guy and he kept asking them what band's they've heard of and talking about how old he was when Dirty came out and sutff. "You know what I really like though? Sufjan Stevens? Have you guys heard of him? No? He plays like ten instruments, it's crazy. You should check it out. Sufjan Stevens."

Adults yell out for songs too. I remember standing by a 45 year old guy screaming Catholic Block the whole show. I got pissed at the Pixies concert because there were a bunch of dirty hippies there. I was fucking sick as hell at the Pixies show but I went anyways.

I wasn't generalizing-- there were a lot of people yelling out songs. Everybody around me was really young and most of the shouting I heard was from them. I was just speaking about what was going on around me.

my only sonic show, was great. Everyone was chill and cool. There was a small group of moshers in the front. About halfway through some guys stood next to me, about my dads age and started talking, beer in hand. Then there was this one guy right infront of blocking most of the stage. The farthest person from the stage was maybe 30-40 feet away. I remember walking in while the markers were playing, my dad hated it. (he braught me there). I bet some people here are older than my dad...

i was very shocked to see that at a dc show, i was up front for the early show and it was very calm, great time to get many pics in

got a birds eye view from the balcony for the late show, i have never seen that kind moshing and crowd surfing before, i get nervous about some crowd surfers ever since some guy tried to grab kim in montreal, but this crowd were better then that this time, like the girl at mid-set got and stage and danced a little, and 5 people got on stage for brother james, shit was madness

Yeah, the early show was real calm. pet was very high energy, but people didn't seem to really wake up.
My jeans are ripped because I pet cats, climbed trees, grew my hair out, and went crazy.
There was one guy standing in the middle who made me laugh. He didn't look the least bit interested in anything that was going on. Actually, he smiled once. I enjoyed that.
It was cool that they didn't just play through the new stuff, cuz im not familiar with it, though it was really good live. I liked the diversity.
Does anyone have the setlist for the early show?

...figures pretty much everyone in dc is gay or a hippie, i'm still sorta pissed i didnt go, i hate crowd surfers, i went to one concert with my friend seeing her favorite band and she pulled some crowd surfers hair and like pulled her down and punched her in the head, and my friend goes "YOU AINT RUINING THIS FOR ME" i pretty much just stood there and laughed and the girl ran off. good stuff,.

dc is being taken over by lawyers, high-ranking federal employees, and yuppies of all kinds-- and their bratty kids. the largest employer is the u.s. government, and the lobbyists come right after. artists, musicians, general bohos, have been on the way out for some time now.

i used to live there in the heyday of urban decay. rats, crackhouses, whores, muggings, and a healthy underground scene- ah, those were some great times!

now for a good crowd go to baltimore. it won't disappoint.

Haha, Baltimore has its rough crowds too.

My first Sonic Youth concert was almost too good...the between-song banter between the band and the audience still makes me laugh.

At the second one, the crowd was annoying and ruined everything.

I like crowdsurfing.
Tell yr friend not to punch me.

Wow crowd surfing. Yeah the crowd in the first show was pretty quiet....not many people really moving. I was thrashing around in fucking sonic bliss. It seems like there were a lot of young kids there....some with their parents. That's cool, I just didn't like when a bunch of kids tried to push their way to the front. Oh well, they looked really excited to be there.

Ummmmm, what are you trying to say?

That older guy was me you jackaninny. Sufjan Stevens has more talent in his right fucking pinky than you will ever have. let's not be pretentious HATERS. Someday when YOU are a little older you will undertand that just because you are not as good as others in something you can still appreciate them. don't be jealous. daddy's got you. sujan stevens has ALOT of talent. mattt

geddy lee has talent to boot but rush still fucking sucks. and all of sufjan's songs sound exactly the same. pretty, but the same.

Never said he wasn't talented. I don't really have an opinion on his music either way. Not meaning to rip on anybody-- I don't know why, but hearing conversations like that outloud are just kind of amusing to me, and it reminded me of one part of this short in particular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LR2fRIt1lc

Not hatin',

Dan

i still love that video and how he slaps that woman for not knowing what pitchfork media is.

"indie-tastic!"

damn, that was funny

okay, okay
 

Dan, okay i'm fucking old and this link really hits me in a tender spot. what can i listen to or for fuck sake what website can i peruse that makes me seem truly hip...not pitchfork hip but come, on "24 year old the world is my oyster" fucking hip. growing old is weird dan, and i'm trying to just stay in tune, because the YOUTH of the world really are in tune to what is worthy...love me, teach me. really, what can i listen to that doesn't make me SEEM like a pitchfork jerkoff WEIRDO?? love, mattt

haha, i'm not saying anything about your age or what you listen to. if sufjan stevens was my favorite musician in the world, I'd still think it's funny when people talk about him in public. i'll never understand why, but i'm pretty sure for all eternity or however long he stays popular, whenever i hear someone say "how 'bout that new sufjan album-- montana!" i'm going to giggle inside like a child. i guess when somebody gets talked about enough and the exchanges all sort of start to run together it's kind of funny.

and hey, even if i was trying to be judgmental about your taste in music, i wouldn't have a case, because i think i heard you mention gastr del sol somewhere along the line. keep spinning crookt, crackt or fly, and don't let the twenty-somethings get you down.

Eh, DC people are fucking nuts, form my experience. You have to expect weird behavior from them. The same thing goes for other cities as well. Every city has their share of cooky local characters. Boston has some doozies and so does LA, NY, etc.

"Hip" is relative to who you're being judged by. If you're at a Sonic Youth concert, chances are Sufjan isn't hip. But in general, way more people my age like him than SY. Worrying about being hip just makes you put down CDs you'd really like. Don't pass him up if you like him, it ruins the point of music. I listen to plenty of conflicting bands that would be shunned by eachother's fans. It's all good. I'm positive that I'm more content rolling my eyes at their definition of hip than they are trying to make me feel musically incompetent. I like my music, and that's what I go by.

And I kind of feel the same way about how people act at a concert. People go to have fun. It's not my place to dictate how they should act just because I don't like it. You wanna stand there like you're about to fall asleep, do it. You wanna stage dive, do it. (Just don't expect me to catch you.) Whatever you feel from the music. That's what it's about.

Oh...funny posts...I've never seen SY live but I guess that I need some kind of recipe first..."How to act REALLY COOOL at SY show"
I'm not good at jumping inside the wildest crowd.I rather stand out of the epicenter - but I feel that it's not good support for the band. (These calm listeners - always stepping in the corner of the club - irritate me aswell - just look at them - they try to look like...umm..."Mr.Art itself" - I have the same problem and I don't want to be like them...) :-)

I was up near the front for the 2nd show and was pretty shocked when I turned around and the DC crowd was actually jumping around and moving!! I thought there was some unnecessary crowd surfing and moshing for one of the slower songs after Pattern Recognition and but all in all, I was glad to see all that energy up there! I'm pretty sure the band got a kick out of it. Thurston seemed to enjoy the brief moment with that guy who got on stage and was in his face before he stage dived.

Awww, Pattern Recognition, Eric's Trip, Brother James-- lordy, what else did I miss.

^I think that's about it....nothing really out of the ordinary.

yea, i was at the second show, i admit i was having a little too much fun

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