Sonic Youth Gossip - From moik (evol.org)

Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)

- Sonic Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=3)

- - From moik (evol.org) - SY Vinyl (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=18959)

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Originally Posted by moik

wow - thanks for all the kind words.

chris - send me yr email address and i'll send you the rest of the gear pics.

if you remember evol.org as a sort of busy, crowded page - that was on purpose. i wouldn't do well in today's world of elegant web design. my thinking was that since sonic youth was "difficult" music (compared to mainstream music) that often morphed into total chaos i would make evol.org similarly difficult - that is to say there was NOISE, the backgrounds were often extremely busy and the print maybe a little hard to read on certain pages. and there were sometimes links that weren't obvious and could easily be missed. kind of annoying at times.

i think it said, on the top:

this page is best viewed with netscape . . . and a beer and a ciggie wouldn't hurt either.

btw - i did that page with a dial up - that's all most people had back then; and i learned html by looking at other pages with "view source." and then copying the html tags into notepad. it was a lot of fun. try view source now and it is clear that not many people write html that way anymore!

yeh, and alt.music.sonic-youth was my obsession back than a lot of fun. the best part was when at one point thurston and lee (mostly thurston) started posting to the forum.

i knew they were real,but most of the regulars thought they were fake, you know, people pretending to be thurston and lee. (thurston was fempriest and lee was eyemote) and there were other people who were fake - pretending to be band members. and thurston (fempriest) was purposely ambiguous as to whether or not it was really him. so here were the biggest sonic youth fans telling thurston to shut up and quit pretending he was thurston - it was pretty funny. i bet it is all archived on google "groups."

anyway, thanks for all your kind words.

m

I was too young to really be involved with the newsgroup, but I found this funny archive:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...b92e65412 1b4

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=y1gYmBEAAAA Qv5CrpfBR_x-UmXJbOPFukdEasx1kiYTQavV7mdW13Q&filter=0&

thurston's posts

ah ha this could be a goldmine of quotes:
talkin' 'bout ciccone youth:
"one of my favorite most fucked up rec'gs ever "

'bout "eyes and theet"

"no - that was just a throwaway but fun one for that index magazine cd - we
needed lyrix so i picked up a....magazine!....one called Frank - a uk hip
fashion thing and read / sang the 1st article i opened to - it was called 'eyes
& teeth' - i was reading/singing aloud and the music was basically written
banged out on an autoharp my brother gave me and lee banged a DRUm - steve
mightve done something - kim thumbsed up and we sent it off..
peace - t."

"
It's been alot of fun, but sooner or later the truth must be known. I am
not Thurston Moore, but I am a good friend of his, and he knows all about
the fun I have been having. "
edit: is there a way to save this stuff for off-line reading?

I've always always always loved "Eyes and Teeth." It's probably my favorite b-side they ever recorded, and always wished it was on 7" vinyl. Ooh.

Chris L hates it. As most of you probably do as well.

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this page is best viewed with netscape . . . and a beer and a ciggie wouldn't hurt either.

Wow, that's a blast from the past :)
Already watching a couple of yr 7"s on eBay...

i was there 'back in the day'...used to peep the sy and minutemen stuff.

say - put all the files from evol.org into a zip file and uploaded it as a yousendit file that will be available for seven days (starting yesterday). chris (or anybody else, for that matter) if you need the link email me

ex_magician "@t" yahoo "dot" c o m

moik

oh - and it's funny because the whole thing adds up to only 18-19 MBs.

back then i was limited to how much i could upload and had evol.org on two servers!

aaron (from here, i think) asked for the files so maybe some of it will be used in this website.

m

Hell yes I remember your site!! I was on dial up too back then....ha! Good times, good times. Your site and the Shouting the Poetic Truths of High School Journal Keepers site were great. I think there was another SY site I used to go to, but I can't remember the name.

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Originally Posted by krastian

Was that SonicTooth.com ?

sounds like it was a really good site, I can only imagine. That blue 7" 'kooler thing' really was tempting me, looks awesome, but looks like I'm too late. :(

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Originally Posted by moik

what's up chris? i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people on this board don't remember evol.org. if somebody was, say, in college right now, they'd have been like nine or ten years old when evol.org was up and running.

ha ha - i'm 48! but then again i'm the same age (approximately) as the band members.

moik

wow, moik!!!!
how are you? really fucking great to see you here!!!! i'm now 32, and with the same sonic power inside me!!!!!!!!!

:-)

Wow, blast from the past. That was the second SY site I visited; the first one being the not very exciting www.geffen.com/sonicyouth.html or something along those lines... it took me a while to find out about that SY newsgroup.

I liked the way your site was completely unorganised, a total mess of random links but in a good way.

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Originally Posted by noisereductions

Was that SonicTooth.com ?

Yeah, that was def. one.....I know there was another one too that I can't remember.

how about Saucer-Like? Noone used to go there?

saucerlike was up in 1999. it had a picture of a fist where you could choose the different sections.

Wow. Hey moik. Your site was my absolute SY bible for years, dialling up on my 14.4 baud from South Africa. I can indeed confirm that the site was best viewed with a ciggie and a beer. Welcome back to the land of the living, man. You've been missed.