Sonic boom

Just in case you haven't been paying attention at the back, Memories Can't Wait is a new fortnightly feature on The Art Of Noise, this week's installment of which finds me - in the company of fellow bloggers including Paul, Skif, Ian and Swiss Toni - relating the tale of how I was drawn to Sonic Youth like a teenage moth to the flame of Gerhard Richter's candle on my classmate's Daydream Nation T-shirt.