describing them to generations would be hard.I would do it like this,

"Have you ever heard random sounds forming into a melody, and the ahve you heard a melody build and crescendo, and then have you heard that same melody shattered into a thousand pieces and then ahve you heard al those pieces slowly gather themselves back up into a semblance of the original melody? that is sonic youth!"



sonic youth splitting up would suck. they are WAY more important than my own personal life problems.

hahahaha!!! Matisyahoooooo

what a doof!

lets not even discuss it, sonic youth will never split up or die, they will live forever.

I expect I'd probably wither away and die.

Yes. That seems to be the best way.

WOuld described them as the the most famous unfamous band ever. They are the only one I know that has pretty much the same amount of fans the whole time, not to big so the become a sellout and not to small so the can live on it. I mean anyone should be interested in that kind of a band

I would convince my self that it was some conspiracy that everything disappeared and when I couldn't find any anything I would start thinking that I lost my mind. Next thing you know, I'll be muttering to myself in a homeless shelter in New York City.

Wow, i'd wanna listen to THAT band.

Try this :
http://sonicyouth.com/archives/mp3-selector/index.html:D

hang my self with a beat down amp cord

Then every time and every way I attempt to describe them to future generations would be itself "magically wiped." I would not be able to make a "trace of their existence anywhere."

paris hilton is not innocent... haha just wanted to say that.

I'm kind of the opposite. They've held together so well compared to me and my problems. I can't imagine having gone through my divorce without getting Thurston to sign a Patti Smith album for my ex-wife and playing Washing Machine over and over back in '95. I swear they must have released that album just because of where I was emotionally!

As for answering the original question, Rob took care of that perfectly. Nothing to add.

Funny you should say that. My marriage started to fall apart right around the time when the first Rather Ripped tracks were released on SY's myspace page. It was a pretty depressing time, but Incinerate really helped pick up my spirits.