First sonic song
 

Okay so i would like to know what was the very first sonic youth song you heard and what did you first think of them as opposed to now? Has anything changed? For example, mine was dirty boots, or schizophrenia. I thought dirty boots was okay but i was like well, this band isn't that heavy or crazy, then i heard schizophrenia and i thought their music was so 'trance-like', like a drug or something. I definitely like them more now than i did, as i searched through their many different styles.

TYPB for me, dirty boots I think.
I wasn't really impressed at first. It took a while to grow on me.

she's in a bad mood.

"Teenage Riot"

it blew my mind then, blows my mind now

First song I heard was Sugar Kane when I saw the video on MTV in the early 90s.
First thought was that it was a great song and that the guy who was singing it was just so incredibly cool... I still think it's a great song nowadays, although I tend to prefer Lee over Thurston now.

100%. The 'all you men are slime' line hooked me.

I saw a picture of the youth in Spin magazine back in 1986 or something, (don't laugh, although they always had lame rock stars on the cover, it had good colums and reveiws) they were looking through the broken windshield of a wrecked car. I picked up the giodano poetry systems LP "A Dimond Hidden In the Mouth of A Corpse" with "Halloween" on it...and just couldent stop listining to it. My girlfriend sent me a tape from Evergreen State collage of the first EP and Confusion Is Sex; y'know, I was in love, and I loved punk rock, noise and my girlfriend...Well that girl is all grown up, a lesbian (some of you would recognize her name) and I am married and happy. I still love punk rock and noise...and I am in love with Sonic Youth.

fuck this thread, let's hear about lesbos!

Bull in a heather & Sunday!

Master-Dik

Saucer like. I reaalllly felt in love with Lee's voice. And loved the guitar tune too.

same here!

100% after hearing about them through a Nirvana article. I was amazed by the sounds of the guitars. And still think the same, they are amazing.

now that is a good story!

i got to know them tru 100 percent in the early ninetees.
i was into skateboarding back then and when i saw the video with jason lee and i think guy mariano in it i got hooked. i bought dirty and i loved every single song on it.

Sugar Kane

Drunken Butterfly
I did not like it that much

kool thing, hated the damn song (now i like it a lot)
then teenage riot, thought it was better than ok but still a mediocre thing.
then schizophrenia, again ok but more interesting.
then sugar kane on later with jools holland and it blew my mind, they had in that song everything i wanted music to be.

Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)

Fell in love immediately

100%
Really liked the drumming at the end of the song. It was love at first hearing!

Silver rocket

Hmm, Pattern Recognition, I might have heard something else before, but I must have been unaware. Something like Kool Thing.

The first time I heard Sonic Youth, it was live ( http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/cc/090191.html ) and I ran away with a screaming headache after ten minutes. So first song has to be Schizophrenia. They were the closing act of a festival, we didn't mind leaving early.
A couple of months later I did get into them, probably via one of my housemates at the time. Or perhaps it was a year later when Dirty was released.

Teenage Riot, from the 'screaming fields of sonic love' album.

100%

Just cos I bought Dirty first and its the first track on it. Loved it then, still love it now. Just thought that Thurston Moore was just a level above what I previously thought cool was. Like what someone else said, I tend to prefer Lee's songs now...

Mote. Instant love and nothing has changed.

not sure exactly, i might have heard "bull in the heather" or "kool thing" or "dirty boots" somewhere, but my first sonic purchase was DAYDREAM NATION on cassette(!), and i totally didn't get it at first. just sounded so chaotic, and i remember being puzzled how they could remember how to play these messy songs. then i worked painting houses with this guy who had a cassette copy of DIRTY (as well a tape of Diecide and Dr. Know, and another of the Steve Miller Band, and i hated those tapes with a passion), and i understood DIRTY tape better at the time. i really liked DIRTY, bought it, then i went back and de-coded DDN, fell in love, and went out and bought everything i could...

I picked up goo because my friend was always saying how awesome it is, I put the cd on and skipped through the tracks, for no reason at all really accept I wanted to listen to the last song first and that was 'Titanium Expose', and oh what a song it is.

(she's in a) bad mood...
i was really scared... seriously! :)

I can't remember.

pattern recognition, probably. I listened sonic nurse after someone recommended them, I think.

it took a couple listens to appreciate though.

My first song was half of Sugar Kane, recorded by my father from an US radio station. Unfortunately, it was the end three minutes of the cassette. They seemed ok, but i wasn't much impressed... "just another alternative band" Then i've found a russian bootleg Mp3 CD with 6 of their albums and a Free Kitten tune. I've listened Bad Moon Rising and i was fucking scared. That's one of their best albums in my opinion.

really interesting what hirsute said about the "how did they play these messy songs?" thing.

i remember the first time i heard melt banana, i guess it was.. uh.. 8 years ago now.. jesus.. that's a long ass time ago.. am i getting that old? god damn.. uhhhhhh.. yeah.. anyway... the first song i heard was "spathic!!!!!!" and i was like, "There's no way they're actually PLAYING this." it just sounded so cartoony, so unreal, and I was just in awe.

i don't think many bands have done that to me, but yeah.. i thought that was interesting what you said.

"Little Trouble Girl"

I thought Sonic Youth had two female singers back then and was really surprised when I realized they didn't :) .

It was a good surprise, I suppose.

Teen Age Riot, and at first I compared them to the Pixies

mackin for doober my ex girlfriend who was a horrible girlfriend but had an amazing sense of music taste introduced me to sy through made in the usa

Think it was 100%...

Bull In The Heather

you bet.

that must have been a tough one to start off with...

Pattern Recognition.
Nurse includes many good songs.