Actually that makes pretty good sense. I'm going to see Sonic Youth either way, but only because I heard about them playing here first (also someone bought the ticket and said "your going right?") um.....yeah. I haven't see either one of them live so I figure that it wiser to see Sonic Youth since they are so much older and wont be around for much longer. Death Cab for Cutie will be touring for years to come unless something tragic happens of course. As far as a debate between the two go, that really wasn't my intention. It's hard to compare the two becasue their music is so much different. It would be better to actually debate the mouse and Sonic Youth than Death Cab, there isn't really anything sonic about Death Cab in my opinion. but that's me. John *************************************************************** Think of it this way: Say you can go see both of their shows, but you have to choose which to go to first. Who will give a better encore? That is, if they will even do one. So, you chose the one to go to that you want to see an encore of and leave the other one early. And you pick that one b/c encores are usually awesome. So, since you picked that one because of a good encore, maybe that means that you like them better; so go to that one. That made a lot of sense in my mind, but it looks kind of jumbled here, sorry. Phil