Is there anyone who has been with SY from the beginning?
 

It seems many here have heard first EJSTANS or ATL and then become SY fans. So Sy was then over ten years old band. Is there anyone, who heard their first mini-lp right when it was released? I just has been wondering, has all who found SY in eighties become something else, I mean that they don´t listen SY anymore? But you all, tell in this thread when you jumped into "Sonic-train"! My first album was Goo maybe half year after it was released.

my affair with sy started around 91/92

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...5&postcount=29

errrr 2004......

My first SY was Confusion Is Sex probably about a year or so after it was released. I won't pretend it shook my world. In fact I didn't think it was all that great.

It wasn't until I bought Bad Moon Rising which I got as soon as it was released in the UK and I saw them live in 1986 supporting Jesus and Mary Chain that I became a "fan".

The setlist for the gig:
1. Inhuman
2. Shaking Hell
3. Tom Violence
4. White Kross
5. Secret Girl
6. Marilyn Moore
7. World Looks Red
8. Expressway

1991 for me also..

I'm a youngster (compared to SY). I was just a baby when BMR came out, and probably not even a sperm cell when the first EP came out.

I'm a Jet-Setter... started paying attention to them in about '96, and became a real fan in about 99.

92-93

'89

Looking back on SY's career it seems that they didn't really promote our get the early EPs out there. Its not their fault, it was about three times as hard then as it is now. They seemed pre-occupied with the ART and not the promotion. So it would have been difficult for anyone to hear this music if you didn't live inside NYC.

My first exposure probably would have been 90 or 91.

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i didn't get into them until 2004

which is pretty cool because Sonic Nurse is a top contender for best album

Wow! So it seems now you´re the only one here who have been with Sy so early. That don´t suprise me at all you don´t like CIS at first. I think if it had been the first lp to me also, I wouldn´t have been very excited about it. I bought it after jet-set and I thought then it had it moments, but I thought it was very far away for example EVOL, DN, Sister, Goo and Dirty. Of course I now think it´s very great, but I still prefer a little more time after BMR.

Now I understand a little, why Lee is answering "not at all" when some interviewer ask him in "Master-DIK" are they like Jesus and Mary Chain...I think you have seen very great gig!

99 or so for me

I know there are people on here who were into SY before me. They're just being shy.

It was a good gig to have gone to, seeing SY in their prime.

I have a little detail question about original CIS (if you still have it). Is it Neutral or Zensor -version? Is there Inhuman on the last song in the a-side or the first in the b-side? That´s not of course very important, I am just curious. I have Blast first-re-release where it is the last song on the a-side, but in some magizines it is put the first on the b-side.

Yeah, I think Neutral didn´t make any promotion of those records. And before Blast first they have problems with the european releases. And I have understood that there was also some problems with Homestead. When you also listen their very first live that´s in the first mini-lp re-release, it would have been possible that they never become that what they are now.

And yeah, in the eighties specially in the first years the music style was totally different as SY had. So they´re also one of the pioneer bands.

The college radio stations I djred at had these as promos, what would you expect them to do back then? I don't think there was really any large music mags to advertise in. There was nothing. It was nearly impossible to get out of town gigs.

Friend lent me a copy of DDN around the time it came out.

2005 for me (i think)

I didn´t expect them to do anything, I just said they didn´t do anything and if nobody promotes an record it´s quite impossible to anyone to hear it. Specially that time when there wasn´t even internet. We were just talking about that fact it´s impossible to many persons who have listened SY at the beginning.