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I saw a review in People magazine of all places for Daydream Nation. The picture of the band intrigued me. I was around 14 years old and deeply in love with Megadeth and Jane's Addiction and Minor Threat and the Misfits and the early chili peppers and Jimi Hendrix.
I thought, "these 4 people look like regular dudes!" and the sounds described in the review were just something I HAD to listen to.
Before I managed to buy the album though, I was watching 120 minutes and taping videos (as I did with my VHS for about 6 years) and I saw the teenage riot video and recorded it. I CAME IN MY PANTS> I recognizzed the name, "sonic youth" from the review, and the song rocked harder than anything I had ever heard, anything, and it was NOISY and loud and abrasive and h sang NOT noisy and abrasive,a nd the video looked like NOTHING on MTV, a schizo pastiche of idols and heroes, many of which I could not recognize until years later. I GOT ROCK HARD. My nuts were begging to burst forth a musicl cum of such intensity.
I went and bought daydream nation on the Blast First cassette, anyone remember those? thuirston mentioned once how th Blast First cassettes smelled, they smelled like motor oil or some sort of engine cleaner. I distinctly remember that smell, never ever lessening, and so I associate that industrial smell with the noise on daydream nation. It was also the LONGEST record I owned at the time. I would listen to it like a christian listening to jeebus.
nothing was the same after that
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