Unfortunately for Ween, the standard ace in the hole that could always be used to convince the non-believer -- a live performance by Ween -- is no longer to be had. You'd never know what Ween really sounds like unless you watched them play for a couple hours.
Sadly, it's looking like the same can be said of Sonic Youth. You would totally understand Sonic Youth if you saw them play.
I'm another dude who digs both bands, but I was not fully sold on either until I saw their shows.
I could never make it through an entire Smiths album. Dude is whiny as fuck.
I am the absolute worst judge of popular opinion. People tell me things are popular and I'm like "wut?", and then I pull out some record that is seminal in my life and everybody's all like "wut?"
For fun I googled "top 100 bands". The following is a selection of bands from several resulting lists. I have heard 1 album or less of material from:
Alice In Chains The Allman Brothers The Band The Bee Gees Black Sabbath Bon Jovi Boston James Brown Judas Priest Coldplay Deep Purple The Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Fleetwood Mac Foreigner Genesis Grateful Dead (I know) Iron Maiden Jefferson Airplane Jethro Tull Journey Orbital Parliament Funkadelic The Police Elvis Presley Prince R.E.M. Rush Slayer Sly and the Family Stone Soundgarden Steely Dan Stone Temple Pilots U2 Yes Van Halen Stevie Wonder Frank Zappa ZZ Top
I could never make it through an entire Smiths album. Dude is whiny as fuck.
I am the absolute worst judge of popular opinion. People tell me things are popular and I'm like "wut?", and then I pull out some record that is seminal in my life and everybody's all like "wut?"
For fun I googled "top 100 bands". The following is a selection of bands from several resulting lists. I have heard 1 album or less of material from:
Alice In Chains The Allman Brothers The Band The Bee Gees Black Sabbath Bon Jovi Boston James Brown Judas Priest Coldplay Deep Purple The Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Fleetwood Mac Foreigner Genesis Grateful Dead (I know) Iron Maiden Jefferson Airplane Jethro Tull Journey Orbital Parliament Funkadelic The Police Elvis Presley Prince R.E.M. Rush Slayer Sly and the Family Stone Soundgarden Steely Dan Stone Temple Pilots U2 Yes Van Halen Stevie Wonder Frank Zappa ZZ Top
Unless you are a prostitute, "seminal" does not mean "popular."