SYG circa 2006 / "the good ol days" / etc
 

Chris L's recent thread upstairs looking for non-YT'd Sonic Youth vids got me to thinking about some of the older days of SYG... like Tesla brought up the Usenet alt.music.sonicyouth for instance. And I remember around the time NYCG&F came out and the SY site went up but not much was there at the time. And at that time the Paintbox FTP was still up and that's how I got to hear so many bsides and bootlegs back then.

(then was thinking about those pre-SY.com sites... Saucerlike, SonicTooth, Shouting Poetic Truths, evol.org, etc......)

I'm kind of fuzzy about the first incarnation of the official SYG board though. I know I had a diff name back then. And I remember talking at least to Chris L on that board.

But if you go upstairs and go to the last page of threads and just start reading Sonic threads from when the new board started up it's so interesting. Like a time capsule. Was right around the release of Rather Ripped and the s/t reissue.

I don't know. Wanted to start a thread just to talk about some of the earlier days of SY on the interwebs, some of our earlier days as a community here, maybe dig up some cool/interesting threads from wayback.

I don't know. Maybe the announcement of that Chicago 85 show and the idea of the band rolling out archival releases has gotten me in the mood to look back on my own history of following them. Let's get nostalgic y'all.

I miss n'ik heaps. :'(

Fuck 2006. Time marches on.

2006 SYG would have loved this thread. 2012 SYG is an asshole.

2009 was an asshole too. We never got new folks because someone was always mean to them!!

you mean Space? Nah. He's ok once u get to know him.

alright well for me, going back reading stuff about the SY reissue and Rather Ripped just got me really back in time. RR was released about a month before I got married. So I feel like that record just has this real special nostalgia about it that I'm not sure I ever put my finger on until just today.

In 2034, I'm really going to miss Diesel. :'(

well this thread is really eating shit isn't it?

lulz



EDIT:

I found the old board!

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/htt...board/fanforum

At the Make Up gig last night myself, Trick and a couple other friends who
used to post here were reminiscing about the old board. Good times,
great when I was unemployed and suffering insomnia. Met Patrick via
the old forum as well. So there's a check in its column.

you should have posted this in the SY forum so I would have seen it! because yes, after all these years I'm still incapable of participating in the non-SY forums.

i guess this is the first SY site (earlier hits are just that Leaves-era placeholder image)

i have fond memories of alt.music.sonic-youth...not so much of those pre-SY.com sites who always lifted my content. ;)

but i was a brat..at least i got stuff done..

I just want to again thanks Sonic Youth for creating and preserving this community both through the internet and through their many shows and projects which allow for us to always come together. Props!

^come to think of it suchfriends, it literally has kept me connected to ya'll for a decade now. Looking thru those archive.org links, I found a post I made about Diskaholics back in 2002. :)

Exactly, I was just doing the same nostalgia trips too recently :)

kind of awesome. I don't think I've realized that some of you I've been talking to for 10 f'ing years man. I'm gonna pour a drink and toast the board. Cheers. :)

many of us have met up at shows and record stores, many of know each other outside the forum, and at the least, all of us have been able to communicate with each other as a community through this forum to share our Sonic love :)

i remember talking to SisterK on the old board. dont think she's/he's on the new board though

hey SisterK hows it going?

she's been here all along with a new name

interesting....


did anyone else come across with a new name?

pretty sure khchris would have changed his name too?

seeing that old board and some of those names freaks me out sorta. i dont know why...

I suppose it would be amusing if we still had the old clusterfuck of a forum.

"The message boards are down for scheduled nightly maintenence and re-indexing.
They are scheduled to go down from 12:30am PST to 1:00am PST
Please check back later."

I do remember thinking back then if this place would still be around a decade later. I'll probably stick around for another year so I can say I spent ten years of my life on a bloody internet forum.

^? :)

I'm impressed... you gave up coffee?

You lurked for 5 years? What are you some sort of voyeuristic perv?

No mo' orda's

Ooh ooh doctors orders! Am i right?

Hang the DJ. Jand the Dj hang the dK. HE's a BASTARD!!!

he may not be but i am. fuckin a, i like watching.

Fucking hell!! Anyone else i've been talking to for the last 5 YEARS want to own up to some seriously fucked up shit?

I will only watch if Thurston or Kim are involved, obviously.

when i was 12 i inadvertently walked into the hotel room of a naked german girl and it was the best thing ever! she had been tanning by the pool. mmm-mmm-mmm!


now that-- that right there is what's wrong

Blergh! Thurston probably has less body hair than your German girl !! She probably had his mop top under each of her arms.

no, no, she was yummy!

I was cheeto55 on the old board. I remember that old page too C. Lawrence.

that old forum was dope. It was where I first found other Sonic folk. so many people back then namedropped SY but did not know jack shit about them.

I remember signing up for that in either fall 98 or spring 99

One forum, square smilies.

Really, it was a paradise.

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etc. etc.

i liked those two, you twat