Why no name for SY's fanbase?
 

Just a thought that ran through my head. The Grateful dead have dead-heads. Jimmy Buffet has parrot-heads. Kiss has the Kiss Army. The ICP has juggalos. Lady Gaga has Lil' Monsters.

Is there, or has there ever been, a name for the 800 people around the world that love Sonic Youth? If so, what is it? If not, why not?

That's a great idea. Sign me up for it.

Let me know the result.

What if i'm already in a committed relationship with being a confirmed dead-head? Also, while both party hearty who would win in a bar brawl, the Kiss Army relying on "grown man strength" or the rambunctious now 30 something Juggalos? While meth and general low lifery of the ICP crowd seems a safe bet can we really count out all the bar room brawling experience of the Kiss fan veteranos?

But if they want to brawl about the Dead?

Are we supposed to be making suggestions?

noize heads

the Slavo's

the cinderellas

Eternal Youths
Youth Brigade
Chronic Sonics
Thurston Jugend
Population of the Daydream Nation
The Violent Toms

the radical adults
the fauxhemians
silver panties
the ghost flowers

Sonics

Sonic Lifers.

or

geezer youths

or

sonic teeth

The Inhumans?

i always remember this one : )
at least on this board and in some publications, it seemed to be the name we have!

i like the idea of there being dozens of names emerging after Rob began a thread about it though!! :D :)

i will add "stereo sanctifiers" to this list!!
and then also add "fuzzy faces" and "mille feuille"

that's a great pastry

you have my vote

No one is taking the Juggalos vs Kiss Army bet? VegasInsider just updated the odds and Kiss Army are the favorites at +315 but don't sleep on the sleeper, as while the Juggalos line is -500 they don't get any sleep and a serious meth binge could amp them up enough for an upset

juggalos fight dirty. they would win

That's true, plus Kiss Army follow the David Crosby school of thought which states, "why get into fights when every body knows its better to go to bed with a woman."

indeed.

Phish-heads would be monkey-stomped


What about the Beliebers?

or the three people who love 4 Non Blondes?

I think Sonic Lifers is most fitting for us all.

I think the Beleibers would be into some kind of dance competition. Perhaps they could get into a breaking battle with the Uncle Jamms Army crowd?

It's The Eternal.

:cool:

I agree!

frankly i prefer that we dont have a name.

Who's "we"?

we are too cool to belong to anything I guess....

I agree even I´m not cool (or wool) at all.

but we do belong to smth, this. and its nice. very nice.
no need to take it to the cool etc path. i surely dont think that way.
i played along as you saw, but at some point felt i should be honest.

always be honest.

I was just curious, because every band that has fervent fanatics is given a name by the media, or by themselves. SY must always fly under the radar I guess.

yes, i think its smth like the latter.
sy fans arent that distinguished as of other bands and/or of other periods in time, where music and specific fashion went along.
or are WE??? ...

anyhoo, fan base name game is fun.

We were a pivotal part of the no wave scene and part of the foundation of the mainstreaming of "alternative", "grunge", and "indie" as one of the first underground bands from these scenes to sign to a major label. However it seems clear that Nirvana usurped Sonic Youth's mainstream potential.

the "near-vana's?"

I agree, also the band is dead, I don't have nicknames for dead things.

hmmm

Just listened again excellent acoustic version of Lee´s Home Chds. SY is really not dead to me, it lives in these great solo works! But as important SY is to me, I don´t need to be called in any name as a SY fan, I think it´s more for the youngsters.

The Smashing Pumpkins have ghost child(ren).

Is that a rule that you've ever had to apply in other situations?