1. I was familiar with their name, and the Silver Rockets/Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth documentary happened to be on TV. I watched it and bought Daydream Nation a few days later.
2. The Smiths and the Ramones
3. My dad thought most of DDN was pretty aimless, like SY were just jamming and going nowhere. With my dad I share Nick Cave, The Byrds and with my mum the Sex Pistols, The Pogues.
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