Best school bus crash ever. (Don’t worry, no one seriously hurt.)

Did you know: When some punk stole some of Sonic Youth’s equipment in 1999, it meant that the band could never play the song “Eric’s Trip” again, since live performance required a special old Drifter guitar that was part of the heist. In related “Daydream Nation” trivia (and man, what a good album that is): The final part of the final track, “Eliminator Jr.,” is meant as a tribute (or something) to ZZ Top’s guitar sound.

A 1989 prediction of what computers would be like in the year 2001. Some pretty good calls, actually, although it’s funny to think back to a time when people thought the fax machine would the center of our distributed lives. Notice no use of the word “Internet,” although “ISDN” is essentially a placeholder for the term.

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25 January | 19:40 | Glenn

Thanks for the trivia about SY. Great album indeed. Do you know where to get any live recordings from that area of SY? Glenn

27 January | 15:56 | ckstern

They pretty much nailed TiVo on the head, including the year (in the "Remote Control" section.

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