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the diamond sea
winner's blues

Schizophrenia as I said, was mine, and I still believe it is one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard, and it still scares the living piss out of me when I hear it today.

same here really...

The "(She's in A) Bad Mood > Protect Me You" lead off to Confusion is Sex are the ones that initially hooked me, and shortly thereafter I developed a particular fondness for "The World Looks Red."

The first time I saw them, I ran away with fingers in ears after twoandahalf song. This was in 1991 at the Ein Abend In Wien festival in Rotterdam. They were head-lining, we were tired. And I obviously wasn't familiar with their music.

First song I liked was probably tunic a couple years later when Goo was released. Or perhaps only a few months later, I had a roommate who did like them a lot. He might have gotten me into them.

I Love Her All The Time.

I remember dismissing Sonic Youth after hearing Confusion Is Sex (the first of their's I'd heard), but Bad Moon Rising got such a great review from Edwin Pouncey and it had such a fantastic cover, I gave them another chance. I still remember going into my local Our Price knowing it would be pretty hit or miss as to whether they'd have it.

That started my (brief...ish) love affair with Sonic Youth.

'Cross the Breeze.

Oh, I guess I completely wasted my time and misread the OP. Well, first favorite SY song, probably was Theresa's Sound World.

that's not the answer to the question ;)

The Sprawl

Are people listing their first favourite or their overall favourite?

First favourite: DV 69
All time: Brother James or (increasingly) I Got A Catholic Block.

I've posted what was my first favourite SY song.

thread title duh

Teenage Riot. I was riding my bike home after I had one of my first encounters with a lady friend. The song came on and I realized that my prime moments of youth had only begun

Bull In The Heather.

When I was 15 a couple of mates of mine who were the cool slightly (I grew up in North Wales, there isn't 'very') alternative kids put me on to Sonic Youth but I didn't get it. They wired me Hits of Sunshine and Wildflower Soul (must've been in 2000 or so), bit weird, I dug Zep and shit man, didn't connect. Always had an ear for a pop tune though and, after one fateful evening pot-lucking it on Audiogalaxy (yay! old-school P2P reference!), I downloaded Sunday, Teenage Riot and BITH. The first two seemed pretty cool but there was something about Bull In The Heather... The weird sounding guitars that still seemed kinda catchy, the deadpan vocal delivery (aged 15, growing up in the sticks, only child so no cool big brother etc etc) was completely new to me... The sexiness!! The obtuse lyrics, the... is that a maraca there? Is the guy using it instead of a drum stick? What's the deal with these weird chiming notes (harmonics, as I have been loving and abusing in equal measure in the ensuing decade)? Why, despite none of it making sense, does it make so much sense?!?

No bullshit, it changed my life. I listened to that three-and-a-half minute song on a loop for eight hours, pulling an all-nighter to do so. Strangest part? I can never remember the order the lyrics come in. Somehow that song still seems to exist apart from everything else.

nice to see dirty boots gettin repped. mine too. after i had listened copies of dirty, ddn, and sister my friend burned fr me. got goo and i was hooked

then tunic blew my mind again

I remember I heard Teenage Riot when I was like 13 and really liked that song but I never really got into them until I was in grade 10. Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could be Your Life is what really got me into SY (along with every other band in that book)

Bull in the Heather. when I heard that it was the first time I ever had an orgasm.

Shadow of a Doubt!

sugarkane...I know it is "structured" but hit me when it came out