i'd like to make it clear though that i don't think all the younger posters are stupid or pretentious, just a good chunk of them.

its the older ones.

plus they're pompous

truw

1. Yeah, that's gross
2. I like AtSonicPark, BatReleaser, and Uhler
3. what's music rep?
4. You mean the people complaining about SY signing to Matador
5. They'll be back, quitting here is like quitting masturbation or heroin. (Was is Glice who said this place is the last refuge of the spent masturbator or was it floatingslowly?)
6. I do



Melly's on my IM buddy list, he messaged me while I was away a week or two ago, and I've been meaning to message him but I haven't seen him on. So do I miss him? I can talk to him whenever, so whatever.

I miss Melly. He's a lovely personality.

Hey Nef, PM me when you get a moment :)

Love and peace to all else here xxx

Aw, you really left while I was gone? That sucks. Well, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, I guess. Good luck with everything, man. You know you're still greatly appreciated here.

I drop off the board usually when school starts, partly because of homework and partly because I live on campus and there are too many people here to get any alone time. I end up trying to fit in reading and stuff with my free time.

who DOESN'T like sy?! greatest band ever

same to you.
Drop me a PM, as you promised.

thanks for the neg rep, i'm guessing to must be a middle aged guy who likes flirting with teenage girls?

more like a 17 years old who appreciates good music?..

np, you truly deserved it. worst post i've read here in a while.

I spent quite a while lurking before I started posting, and the two things that put me off the most were a lot of general immaturity, regardless of the posters' ages, and a lot of people whose main interests seemed to be massaging their own egos and getting other people to massage their egos for them. Considering that SY is a band that has so much revolving around it that is worthy of some kind of intelligent discussion, there is a hell of a lot of really pointless stuff posted here.

I think that's my way of agreeing (most of) with the above. I still like Sonic Youth though, and I'll continue to post here because there are a lot of cool people who do have worthwhile stuff to say.


As far as Melly goes, I was aware of him, but I don't miss him as much as I'd miss the use of a limb. There are plenty of other people here.

Why people post on a Sonic Youth board who don't like Sonic Youth is certainly a good question.

Who's posted in the past week and whether they are gone for good, not such a good question.

I like Melly. Doesn't seem he is dead, so hopefully we'll see him around.

Well, people can respect Sonic Youth and like the culture that revolves around them without necessarily being into the band's current output. They can often be the ones with the most worthwhile stuff to say, because they've expanded their horizons.

I don't see how liking the band's current output is exclusive to expanding horizons. Maybe if all you listened to were Sonic Youth, but then you'd have entirely missed the philosophy of the band, and I've never really met anyone like that.

Mind, I wasn't thrilled with much of Rather Ripped, but I find most people who take the "Sonic Youth haven't done a good album since ----" insert Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo, etc. to be rather short on expanded horizons (far too often they haven't even listened to anything the band has done since that album).

Yeah, I expressed myself pretty badly there. My meaning wasn't that people who have remained SY fans have musical tunnel vision. I'm a bit too tired at the moment to try to put my meaning better.

Agreed, nefeli. Dissapointment with the recent band output doesn't take away an inch of my devotion for the band as a whole, for the years I spent listening to them and the for the amount of feelings and memories their music made me have.

you're rather *cough* right :(

im looking forward to their first matador release though.

btw heard back from melly (as many of us have) and happily he's busy with life rather than with the internet.