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Sonic Youth

Butthole Surfers. 1986.Photo by Jerry Milton

Mary Says: It wasn’t easy to be influenced by and reference music you were interested in. It wasn’t as easy as it is now, when you can just look it up on your iPhone. You had to work a little harder to be physically influenced by things. I think there was almost an element of being influenced by [reading about something and] imagining what it sounded like. I think people were still in phase of trying to make new rock, music that hadn’t been made before. [You were] trying to create your own thing, more than now. Because now, all types of music exist at the same time. You don’t feel like you’re in your own space as much anymore.

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