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Rob Instigator · 08.14.2008, 08:35 PM

My parents used to take my brother and I everywhere, so one night when they were invited to a nice dinner at a parishioner's house (my dad was an Episcopal Priest) we went too. my bro and I would be the only kids there. I was 13/14 and my brother was 11 or so. All the other guests were older couples whose children had al;ready left the house.
we were used to entertaining ourselves so we raided their magazine racks. I was reading an old and beat-up People magazine and looking at the music reviews. One of the reviews was for SISTER. It described a band that rocked in a way that made no fuckinh sense to me, a headbanger/metalhead at the time. they described sounds like industrial machinery walking around or squalls of sound or weird shit. wow. the picture showed these people who did not look like a band, not like def leppard or metallica or judas priest loooked like a band, you know?
A few months later I was watching 120 minutes and recording videos on the ol VHS. The title in the corner read "Teenage Riot/Sonic Youth/Daydream Nation" I hit record and sat in silence listening to the song unfold. it blew my fucking mind. the spazz video flummoxed my eyes, and brain and the flashing faces and people and some I recognized and many I did not. It was glorious.
it is hard to explain exactl;y how fuckijng different and cheap and bizarre and unnerving and cryptic that video was in 1987/88. There was nothing else like it.
I went to good ol sound exchange and found the Daydream Nation cassette. The cover befuddled me. a candle. a painting of a caNDLE. that did not jive with the freakazoids in the video I saw.
I bought it. Back then I read every tiny bit of print in the liner notes and on the cassette. bands would hide shit, they would sometimes leave messages to us , THE FANS.
the cassette smelled like mineral spirits/turpentine. The label was Blast First, which I had never heard of. WOW

daydream nation fucking rules all.

after that there was nothing else/ obsession began, and has continued to this day. I consider myself their #1 FAN! yeah! fuck all y'all!!!!

:P
:P

hahahaha, just kidding. I am stoned. I have had to correct so much spelling on this fducking post.

I had never heard of them other than people magazine and then 120 minutes. other bands did not mention them, like they mentioned the misfits or other such bands

08.14.2008, 08:35 PM	#19
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 28,025	My parents used to take my brother and I everywhere, so one night when they were invited to a nice dinner at a parishioner's house (my dad was an Episcopal Priest) we went too. my bro and I would be the only kids there. I was 13/14 and my brother was 11 or so. All the other guests were older couples whose children had al;ready left the house. we were used to entertaining ourselves so we raided their magazine racks. I was reading an old and beat-up People magazine and looking at the music reviews. One of the reviews was for SISTER. It described a band that rocked in a way that made no fuckinh sense to me, a headbanger/metalhead at the time. they described sounds like industrial machinery walking around or squalls of sound or weird shit. wow. the picture showed these people who did not look like a band, not like def leppard or metallica or judas priest loooked like a band, you know? A few months later I was watching 120 minutes and recording videos on the ol VHS. The title in the corner read "Teenage Riot/Sonic Youth/Daydream Nation" I hit record and sat in silence listening to the song unfold. it blew my fucking mind. the spazz video flummoxed my eyes, and brain and the flashing faces and people and some I recognized and many I did not. It was glorious. it is hard to explain exactl;y how fuckijng different and cheap and bizarre and unnerving and cryptic that video was in 1987/88. There was nothing else like it. I went to good ol sound exchange and found the Daydream Nation cassette. The cover befuddled me. a candle. a painting of a caNDLE. that did not jive with the freakazoids in the video I saw. I bought it. Back then I read every tiny bit of print in the liner notes and on the cassette. bands would hide shit, they would sometimes leave messages to us , THE FANS. the cassette smelled like mineral spirits/turpentine. The label was Blast First, which I had never heard of. WOW daydream nation fucking rules all. after that there was nothing else/ obsession began, and has continued to this day. I consider myself their #1 FAN! yeah! fuck all y'all!!!! :P :P hahahaha, just kidding. I am stoned. I have had to correct so much spelling on this fducking post. I had never heard of them other than people magazine and then 120 minutes. other bands did not mention them, like they mentioned the misfits or other such bands __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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