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I've said it before, and now I'm saying it yet again. There are three basic kinds of Sonic Youth fans: Sonic Youth fans, Daydream Nation fans, and Goo/Dirty fans. The first are the most mature and realistic of the bunch and truly got the SY message of "We're capable of anything--be prepared" from Day One (regardless of at which point in SY's career they caught on); the second tend to be the eldest of the Gen-X fans, and nostalgically remember SY's mid to late '80s material as the best because it was the first SY stuff they heard on college radio as they moved away to the larger centres and started post-secondary; the third are similar to the second, except younger (mostly in senior high at the time, circa 1990-'93) and more trendy--they had to wait for SY to be signed by a major label, make a couple of more commercial-sounding records (helping in their transition from Madonna and Guns 'N' Roses), and watch 'alternative'/grunge culture replace 'preppie', 'glam' and Brit pop as the new mainstream in North America.
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