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Originally Posted by kingcoffee
I'd say that SY are very important to modern popular culture. It's just that most people don't know it. Without SY, we wouldn't have had the explosion of Nirvana; at least not on the scale that it had happend on. In fact, most of the alternative rock culture would not be the same without Sonic Youth's influence. We would have a very different music culture right now if it were not for Sonic Youth. It's just a great disservice to the band and good music in general for most people to be so ignorant and unkowing of the existance of such innovative and genius artists.
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Maybe indirectly? I can buy that, but even that is a bit of a stretch. That's like putting all of Nirvana's fame & fortune in a tiny ball and saying, "HA! this wouldn't be yours if it weren't for SY!".
That really remains to be seen. We can't "automatically" say Nirvana's success is directly linked to SY. Who's to say that Nirvana themselves "wrote and performed" their own songs?