what do they mean to you?
 

It's been so long since I've logged in here that I lost my account. It's just recently after about a year or so of being quite lacklustre about listening to sonic youth. in fact I havent bought rather ripped yet, their first release since a thousand leaves that I havent ran out immediately and bought.

I guess the title of this thread is just to get some idea of why others like sonic youth. they've always been quite a private thing for me as no one I know likes them passed maybe dirty or goo. I was looking at the tab site tonight and noticed i had been credited on the mary christ tab when I had mailed a shit attempt at the riffs and so was inspired to work out saucer like (my fave youth song). trying it now.

I spent so much of my time being obsessed by them and now I seem to be being sucked right back in. there is a dreamlike quality to what they do that just pisses on so much other music that I hear. they have never ever bored me. only ever enraptured me. I remember the first time listening to evol when I was 16 lying on my bed admittedly slighty stoned but just falling in love with each voice but particularly their guitar sound. I suppose without hopefully sounding too corny it was the revolution that we all were born to late for. a music that changed my world but none of my peers. it was just so damn brilliantly different and exciting.

Great post, welcome back! :)

Yeah, good post. I know what you mean about being sucked back in. I haven't been quite as obsessed with them recently but I've just been completely blown away by some clips on Youtube from one of their gigs last week..

Sonic Youth mean to me as much as a band could mean to a human being.

As I posted before, this band represent that kind of America, that I always kept dreaming about....smart, rebellious and hip. To my greatest dissapointment, visiting USA has made me change my mind to a great extent.

I love this band.

cheers

When I think about it, I have no idea why Sonic Youth mean so much to me. What I do know, though, is that they have been one of the few constants in my life in the last twenty years. Friends have come and gone, jobs likewise, but my love of Sonic Youth has always been there.

Obviously the band's music is a large part of what has kept me interested, but that can't have been the only thing, as there have been a couple of albums that I have thought were fairly poor. I think a greater part of it than that is that, to me, the band represents an independent spirit, in the music that it makes, in the way that it presents itself, and in the way that it deals with its fans. It also, these days, represents the hub of a community - that community being this message board - and the spirit of this message board in turn represents the spirit of the band.

Aaah, shit, I'm waffling. I love Sonic Youth. I just do. Okay?

do you think it was more of a dream or was there an america like it at one time?

I don't know, for me as a non-american it's fairly hard to answer this question. It was more of a dream, that kind of dream that I got from reading Kerouac's and Ginsberg's books :) .

And when I came there it was all just fat people and "Hey, how are you doing" all the time.

[quote=sonicl] . It also, these days, represents the hub of a community - that community being this message board - and the spirit of this message board in turn represents the spirit of the band.
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I completely get you on that. I psent years on the nirvana fan club message board as well and every time you say anything you get crucified. people here discuss everything without resorting to ridiculous insults.also its great to be able to go to gigs and meet people from here.

well, there are exceptions here, too.

what do they mean to me?
the soundtrack to my life.
earlier stuff is just like some soundtrack to a road movie.. love that vibe.
newer songs are more poppy but nothings wrong with that. cant get enough of pink steam for example.
some of their songs are just pure love. like 'hits of sunshine'.
and the weird improv noise stuff.. man. i love those too.

so sonic youth is the soundtrack to my life.
it depends on what mood im in, i put on one of their records and i feel happy.

sonic youth is also the self-chosen self-enforced soundtrack to my life.

They rule all. their music has never gotten stale for me. I have gotten burned out a bit, but it was not because the music was boring. I always find new bits to savor, new squall , new skronk, and skree that I ahd not noticed and I love it.

They mean maaaan!They totally mean it!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Rob Instigator again.

Unisonic?

that you?

active:
Atari's Picks #6

Atari's Picks #7

Atari's Picks #8

You tell me, and while you're telling me, please explain why gonzo-sonic Rob didn't download any of them or at least comment on #7.

hey man I have downloaded all of these and they are great and the covers ar beautiful and I have been rocking number 7 in the car for a week now shiiiiiiiiit

sonic life!

Thanks, now we understand one another a little better.

I'll take on the onus of putting these together and you'll enjoy them.:)

fuck yeah I enjoy them.

The amount of songs they've made means it's impossible to get bored of SY. And There is so much I need to hear by them too!