astounding and embarrising acts of Sonic stupidity
 

Okay, it pains me to admit this, but I only realised a couple of weeks ago that EVOL was love spelt backwards.

Now tell me your acts of sonic ignorance to make me feel better about myself.


Go!

I couldn't tell the difference between Thurston and Lee the first time I listened to DDN, I thought is was just the same guy singing.

mine was similar but for some reason when catholic block and disappearer came to mind i always thought it was a lee song even tho it's clearly thurston.

All I knew when I first listened to DDN was that there was a girl in the group and it was supposed to be loud and off-the-wall from what I was listening to at the time which was a ton of Pixies.

I find I always get Nic Fit and Scooter and Jinx mixed up, keep thinking the wrong one is on the wrong album.

When naming the album off the top of my head I always leave out A Thousand Leaves and sometimes Washing Machine.

I used to get Eric's trip and providence mixed up?
there is a reason for this but it will only make sense in my strange head and my strange 'feelings' albums tend to give off XD
I can try to explain if anyone wants, but i'd rather not.

I thought Kim was a man.

i remember looking through entertainment weekly before i got into them. this was back when murray street was going to get released and they did a whole story on them. i was like "shit.. the magazine says they've been around forever. maybe i should listen to them".

i thought they were just a full on punk band that did one good album.

Cruel man, cruel.

When I first heard of Sonic Youth, I assumed they were a band of kids or teenagers. Then, I saw a photo of a 30-year old Thurston in a magazine, and that confirmed to me that they were a band of teenagers.

It wasn't until I saw their CD's in a record store, some with copyright dates in the early 80's, that I figured they must be adults.

I thought Lee sung on Candle for quite some time.

you mean other than their fans doing humorless parody threads?

i once, after hearing their name everywhere, thought they were a multi million selling artist.
How wrong i was.

I first thought that the title of their last album Rather Ripped, was "Rather Stripped". I misread that.

Back in 2002 i thought that both the kids on the front cover of Murray Street were Thurston & Kim's. I told my mum they had two kids names Stella and Coco, and she laughed and said "like their favourite drinks".

When I first got into Sonic Youth, I would look up guitar tabs on the internet. If I thought a song was worth playing, I would only bother learning Thurston's part because I thought Lee wasn't as important.

While your reasoning was wrong, some of Lee's stuff (ussually tuned with a lot of doubled notes) can be frustrating to new guitarists who don't quite understand relationships and patterns yet.

It took me a full year back in 1988-89 to realize that lee sung on DDN also. I just thought it was thurston in a lower tone or something.

it blew my mind


also, that the burnin up single was a 33 rpm, NOT at 45

anyone with that single should play it at 45. it fucking rocks hard like the old minutemen

I wish I had a record player : (.

I thought Theresa's Sound World was Lee at first. It is a bit low for Thurston

For some reason I always remember Disappearer as a Lee song, until I actually listen to it or see the video.

I only ever knew them for 100% and Teenage Riot until a few years ago. I liked those songs, but never bothered looking into them more until I found a bunch of tapes at Value Village. Wow.

Before listening to them, I thought SY was a 6 guitars - band, like guitar army or someting like that. In fact, the first time I saw a report about them, it was about Lee and Thurston's cooperation with Glen Branca. I thought Glen was in the band.
I'm an idiot.

I thought Lee was singing on Theresa's Soundworld when I first got Dirty too.

Shit, isn't he? I haven't heard that song in ages, I thought it was Lee.

I bought Rather Ripped. :)

Also, I used to believe that Thurston was the only one who did good songs - I used to only like Teen Age Riot, Silver Rocket, Candle, 100%, Sugar Kane, Youth Against Facism, Dirty Boots, Tom Violence.
And I used to think Sister wasn't very good - I thought it was too "pop" and Schizophrenia was the only good song.

When I bought SYR5 on wax, I didn't bother adjusting the RPM and thought it was just this badass slow, sludgy experimental album. I knew the album was experimental beforehand, so I just assumed Kim's deep slowed down vocals were meant to be heard that way

i wasnt the only one then!! i mean they could have printed 33 rpm on the fucking label!!!

i used to listen to experimental jet set a lot and make excuses for its poor quality!

:( I like EJSTNS!

I LOVE EJST&NS

hence, the username!!!!

It's an awesome album!!!!!!

I know! It gets so much flack here, I prefer it to Dirty.

I also had the Thurston/Lee vocal thing with Dirty (first SY album I heard). It took me months of listening before I realised that Wish Fulfillment wasn't sung by Thurston.

oh yeah, me too!

too much shitting on EJS&NS on Rather Ripped. theyre GOOD albums. lets shit on Dirty!!! seriously, i dont like that album at all

dirty has

wish fulfilment
orange rolls angels spit
JC
Purr
drunken butterfly
Chapel hill
shoot
and fuckingh theresa's soundworld


it blows EJST&NS out of the fucking water people!

EJST&NS has Screaming Skull and Sweet Shine!!!!

Don't forget Skink!

so EJT&NS is 1/8 good. that is still the worst album the Youth ever put out.

i didn't know there was drum samples on dirty.