I bought Dirty when I was 12 after reading some reviews about it being a good place to start.

dude, same thing. Though I bought Dirty because it had the most songs.

I did because it was the only one in stock. I'm glad I started with it though, it's got easy to digest songs. If I had started with DDN I think they would have been pretty long to hold a 12 year old's attention.

Yeah. I was heavy into nirvana at the time so it helped.

I was listening to the pumpkins loads and some guy on a forum said that Siamese Dream and Goo are his favourite albums. I couldn't find Goo till a few months later.

I think I got Murray Street second. Can't remember when I got Goo. I got all the major ones within a few birthdays though.

I got all their albums in just under a year. I had a bit of trouble finding EJSTNS though.

Living next to bullmoose is great, they had everything in stock at the time. I had to order Confusion online though.

In 1984 I was flipping around the left side of the dial and came across the tail end of "She's in a Bad Mood". My life was instantly and forever changed. I picked up Bad Moon Rising soon thereafter a few months after that traded in a bunch of Styx and Rush albums for a copy of 360 degrees of Simulated Stereo by Pere Ubu.

Bought DDN in October of 2004, haven't looked back since.

Sonic Youth 37 and I got into SY at the same month of the same year. Epic!

1992? I was 13 and I bought Dirty because I read some great reviews. Actually, I was going to buy The Lemonheads, but the cashier at Tower Records was really cute and was wearing a SY shirt. When I was that young this seemed like a great way to impress this girl. Obviously, she never asked me out (or spoke to me), but I did get REALLY into Sonic Youth.

I maintain that ATL is overrated.

That's irrelevant. Pumpkins have nothing to do with the amount of glorification that SY fans put into ATL. Perhaps I should have specified that it is overrated by fans. It's not a bad album, just don't see why everyone thinks it stands out from SY's other achievements.

I was in high school and my brother came back from uni with a stack of CDs. I took to them like a fly to shit and one was Daydream Nation.

Nah hits of Sunshine just drags on at the end. I like Karen Koltrane though.

I still like some variety in it though, you know? Like it's just them playing a short two chord progression through a flange box with no changes for ages.

About a year ago, actually, after spending all of the 90's making fun of one of my best friends for liking them (for there is no limit to a high school metalhead's elitism). I heard "Kool Thing" on a total whim a while back and was surprised at how dark it was, so I picked up Goo and was impressed by it (especially "Mote" and "Titanium Expose"). Went back an album to Daydream Nation and was absolutely blown away - seriously one of the best albums I've ever heard in any genre. I still get goosebumps every time "Rain King" comes on.

Took me 17 years to "get it", but I finally did! I only wish I was still in touch with my friend so I could tell he was right.

This is probably very typical for a SY fan in his early 30s:

around 91 when I was 13-14. I friend of mine got some mixtapes that I copied, with punkrock and all the classic 80s stuff: SY, dinosaur, big black, black flag etc. All these bands kicked so much more ass the current favorites like Billy Idol (duh)

And then, of course, Nevermind came, and nirvana became like the BEST BAND EVER. So I based on what I heard on the mixtapes and Kurts t-shirts I bought Dirty when it came out, and that was record so noisy and rockin ´It was the coolest record I´d ever heard! They where even cooler than nirvana... :eek:

1992
a friend of mine put dirty on
totally not yet really impressed while digesting your usual Nirvana fanatacy
was untill 1994 and the utterly blessed EJSTANS I got into them
then heard Washing Machine exclusively on Belgian radio with Lee and Thurston commenting on the new tracks
>>>>> SOLD!!!!!