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Originally Posted by screamingskull
didn't they used to say back in the 80's that they weren't refering to themselves with their band name, that The Sonic Youth were an idea of a group of young rebellious people. That you had to think of their band name as if it had a 'The' in front of it. Kim said "the rolling stones aren't really rolling stones are they".
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Actually their name comes from Fred "Sonic" Smith and Big Youth. They've never claimed to be youthful at all (by the "heighth of their popularity" Kim was already approaching 40!) In fact, the name has always been ironic since they were considerably older than most hardcore punk bands when they used to play shows with some of the bands from that scene too.
The fact that dumbasses like the guy that wrote that article don't get it at all has always been the point of the whole joke. Sure the "band is being mocked by fans for their outdated name", yeah right, Sonic Youth fans don't have a clue about their favorite group according to that dork.