Sister

Copy and paste from the other two Sonic Youth reviews: "There are some good ideas here, but they're corrupted by and ultimately lost to all the unnecessary dissonance." Only this time, there are even FEWER good ideas and even MORE unnecessary dissonance. This truly sucked. Look, it's safe to conclude that Sonic Youth isn't for me - and I could have told you that after one album - if not one track. I definitely didn't need three albums, and I sure as Hell don't need five.

I don't particularly like Sonic Youth, and I worry that this makes me not cool. This is embarrassing at my age.

Pretty good noise rock. I don't get why Sonic Youth gets spoken about in such reverential tones.

Woof. I want to like Sonic Youth but it's too disjointed. No melody. Just feels like I am hearing someone fiddle around on the guitar for an hour in a cave. 1.5 out of 5.

Una review decía: "hay buenas ideas pero son arruinadas por caos y disonancia". Es tal cual lo que creo. Creo que disfruté unicamente los primeros 2-3 minutos del primer tema y algunos que otros 30 segundos de otras canciones posteriores, pero justo cuando me encontraba disfutando algo automáticamente era arruinado por ruidos sin sentido e invasivos para el oído. Como odio este tipo de álbumes que me hacen perder el tiempo y no me transmiten una pizca de nada. Estrella y media solo porque se que muuuy en el fondo hay algo bueno que podría surgir.

4/10

Like if rock could also be ambient? Not a lot of specifics for my brain to grasp onto if that makes sense but still very lively and interesting. But I can’t say I would return to it

I think I liked it for the most part. Not sure that it sounds super unique but there were a good selection of songs I saved including Hot wire my heart and Schizophrenia. I feel like it’s a cross between nirvana and the chili peppers. Parts of this feel very punk and grunge and other parts feel soft rock

I don’t know what to think anymore

I like this. Palatable punk which is kinda an oxymoron. But I thought it was good. Wish I could write more on it but right now I can’t cuz I’m abt to get on a flight and I wanna know what the next album is. Good stuff tho sonic youth! Hardcore edgy stuff

I really like the sonic youth high points, but this album was mostly noise

Love sonic youth but later albums better🙏

A decent album, but just didn’t do enough to really pull me in. Wild how many Sonic Youth albums are included, and the creator of this book/list just pulled a Jurassic 5 album from the list.

Ok, nothing special

Got Daydream Nation recently & loved it. This album just kinda annoyed me...

Listened before? No Familiar with the artist? Have heard the name, that's it Thoughts: - I don't have much to say about this one... It was good, but not really my thing. Seeing from the reviews that they have other, more noisy albums on the list isn't good news to me though. Favorite track(s): Cotton Crown

I love Sonic Youth. They are one of my favorite bands. This is not one of my favorite albums of theirs, but I still enjoy it. 4/5

Not a great listening experience. Neither the lyrics or musical arrangement has any distinction that makes me understand why this was a must listen.

Ok considering their other releaseS

its ok!! i dont think im the biggest sonic youth head

Not their best but man I’ve missed Sonic Youth. Great album for this great season

justice for nardwuar

Great album, shows the potential of what's to come. Very few duds on here. Amazing to think things get better from here.

And people complain that there's too many Elvis Costello albums. Might go on Reddit and have somebody help me understand the appeal. Please for the love of all that’s good, stop calling Sonic Youth punk. The same as all their other stuff except slightly younger. Edgelords.

Is this a repeat album? Seems familiar. I probably gave that a one too.

Alright, I liked Goo better Favorite Track: Cotton Crown

Was alright

I can only hope that the other four Sonic Youth albums on this list are better than this one. Not a fan so far

Another example of Sonic Youth's ability to conjure unique emotional reactions. Five entries on this list is quite excessive. Then again, so is nine Bowie albums.

Nope, not my style at all.

I liked this genre before everyone else tried way too hard to match this energy and saturated the market.

Oh brother…

The best Sonic Youth album on this list. That said, there are 5 Sonic Youth albums on this list. That’s absolutely insane, there wouldn’t be 5 Sonic Youth albums on a list called “the top 5 Sonic Youth Albums”

Schizophrenia

Woah! Did not realize this type of music was being made in 1987. Gets a little too experimental for me at times, but I really enjoyed. (I listened to their later stuff and that hit even better for me.)

This one was polarizing for me. There were some songs I liked a good bit... sonically and some that I really didn't enjoy. The guitar especially I found the timbre unpleasant at times (I guess the discord is international) and there was an element of jam band noodling to the parts that annoyed me. But despite those complaints there were definitely a few songs I would revisit and I get the sound they were going for.

This is kind of ok. I didn't like it as much as Goo. It's noisy and discombobulated. Sometimes it sounds cool and sometimes it sounds too chaotic. Would probably be a fun live band but not something I like sitting and listening to.

Underwhelming compared to the other sonic youth albums I have reviewed

Gab mir so Indie Vibes. Aber gute. 3,5

Not terrible brash loud rock, but the vocal mixing is so bad, it genuinely pulls me out of every track and it’s distracting and hard to listen to

I did mostly like this noisy, brash rock album. Just liked, didn’t love. Somewhat experimental, but clings lightly to a typical song structure. Might be worth another listen someday, but for now I’m ambivalent.

Falta um poquito de sal

Too much scratchy guitar for me

eh, alright

Eh. About as expected for a Sonic Youth album, which is to say it was noise rock that I'll never listen to again. I continue to be baffled by how many albums they have on this list.

I relate to this more than other Sonic Youth albums. Very cool.

No me termina de cerrar este grupo

Too much art for me. Sounds like a band that would be my favorite band’s favorite band.

How did this album quickly get progressively worse with every new song? Plus the album cover turbo sucks.

I thought that the band was possibly Scottish because of the Highland Cows on the top right of the album cover, but they're just American. Anyway, the album was very annoying to listen to, so I don't think I listened to any of the songs until the end, but I guess it's okay if your taste in music is just a bunch of noise and not really a nice melody.

Now that's the good stuff Or bad stuff idk ppl round here tryna convince me noise music is bad Only real bad track here is pacific coast highway, but the rest put one hell of a show by mixing dissonance with melody

Sister is the first Sonic Youth album (cassette) I owned. I had heard EVOL, but still a little confused on whether I liked them or not. I liked the idea of the artistic expression of noise, but it was still new to me and I was still trying to wrap my head around around it conceptually. I had already discovered, and really loved, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. I had listened to Metal Machine Music, but it seemed more like an endurance test than anything that would could put in heavy rotation. I did, however, like elements of in song that still had a foundation in a more traditional song structure. songs like Sister Ray and European Son, or TV Eye was the music that fueled my interest in bands that incorporated elements of noise, distortion, drone and dissonance. Sister was the first noise rock record that I really liked and Sonic Youth became a favorite band. Sister opened the door and Daydream Nation sealed the deal. 4.4

I liked it.

Similarly blah and noisy.

I really struggle to get into Sonic Youth’s music. On paper it’s everything I’d like, but it just usually doesn’t work to my ears. This record gave me two strains of their work that I did enjoy: the cinematic “Pacific Coast Highway” and the good ol’ beat music of “Hot Wire My Heart.” But really, I’d rather just be listening to YLT.

I’ve listened to this a few times now and can’t think of anything meaningful to say.

"Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucks. Its just noise." Elliot Page, 2007 film Juno Schizophrenia pulled me in but the rest did everything it could to push me away. As previously stated, its a progressive punk that my ears are not quiet tuned for. The gaze and aggressive elements come through as sloppy, chaotic and unimaginative. The lack of melody and dissonance drives a wedge between me and the music. I wish I had kinder words but, its still such a hard band for me to release. 2 stars because of the legacy, I guess.

ok, one of the least interesting or innovative sonic youth albums?

Oddly, Sonic Youth is sometimes at their best when they let themselves groove a bit. The post punk produced by Sonic Youth fits right at home with predecessors like Bahaus, Joy Division, and the like, but definitely is something new and different. You can hear the antecedents of grunge in this record, but it stays true to it's noise rock roots.

Some interesting things bogged down by some boring things (idk how many times I can write this exact same review) 2.5/5

Not for me. Weirdly I did love other bands with the same sound, but Sonic Youth completely bounces off me.

Tämä ei kolahtanut niin hyvin kuin aikaisemmat kuuntelemani Sonic Youthit. Ei niin tunnelmallinen ja mukaansatempaava kuin Evol tai niin rokkaava kuin Dirty.

I hope there is no more sonic youth

I’ve liked some of their previous work that’s been on here - not huge on this one

I do not like this kind of music

This is my first exposure to Sonic Youth. Schizophrenia carries this project. That is a cool song with cool riffs. 1987. What an interesting time to be a human. I am assuming because I did not live through that. You can see how this song led to what would come in the 90s (Radioheadish?). Rest of the album seems disconnected and angry. Less my speed. 3/10

My favorite SY album!

blah

A very pre-grunge grunge album. No doubt influential, and pretty decent in what it is, just not something that beats everything else in the genre, imo.

Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and Sonic Youth’s in my cooler! Get out of there, you kids! 3.5⭐️

Probably a 3.5 but it gets a little too fuzzy/noisy at points so I'm gonna round down.

Sonic Youth have some moments of beauty, even great beauty, but also an emotional deadness that leaves me feeling blunted and a little depressed. This album tends more to the latter/less the former than some, imo. Or maybe there’s a whole palette of greys here that I’m just not cool enough to see, I dunno.

Hard pass.

Raw and loud. Love it.

not a fan

Just didn’t get it.

I didn't really connect with this album and overall I don't really connect with this band much at all, aside from a few of their hits. They feel like a group that I should enjoy more, but I just don't.

This album begins with a 42 minute slog of a track that - oh wait, I just checked. It's only four minutes, it just feels 10 times longer than that. Now repeat that same experience for all 11 songs. Points for at least being distinctive, but my main complaints are the basslines (literally the same note played over and over for every song) and the complete lack of vocal melody, which is an issue when there is so much apathy in the performance.

more or less the same album as the other sonic youth albums on the list; nothing really sets this apart. we didnt need a 3rd sonic youth album much less a 5th

Not my thing

Eh, reckon I'd enjoy this more live

Wieder ein schönes Album von einer nicht-schön spielenden und singenden Band, diesmal klarer in den 80ern verortet, sphärischer, dudeliger, aber auch spielfreudig und wirr genug für Stress beim Hören.Hach

Wieder: Ich bin überrascht vom Erscheinungsjahr und hätte es blind auf mid-90s geschätzt. Auch hier trifft das meinen Nerv total und Schande über mein Haupt, dass ich vorher keinen einzigen Sonic Youth Song je gehört habe. Wenn auch m.E. ein wenig schwächer als "Dirty".

Ugh I kept trying to listen but gave up before I could finish.

This could have come out last week, a definite sense that current Grunge and Shoegaze lean heavily on this. It didn't do it that much for me but a good listen.

This album is experimental, post punk fucking rock. Enjoyed a lot. Not necessarily easy listening, with all the feedback and off kilter guitar tunings. But very cool.

Sonic shite. Marginally better once I imagined it to be an alternative soundtrack to Stranger Things.

A particular grungy style I don't really vibe with.

First few tracks have that raw energy of older American bands, The Ramones, New York Dolls or The Dead Kennedys but in a toned down way. Later tracks are more experimental, like we'll do whatever we like. Overall not a bad album but I won be rushing put to buy it.

This is a Sonic Youth album, and it sounds like all the other Sonic Youth albums on the list.

*Lucille Bluth voice* I don't care for Sonic Youth.

Doesn't quite reach the highs of Daydream Nation, but it's still noisy and melodic and cool as hell

Maybe I wouldn't have been into this album a year ago, but with this being the first time I listen to Sonic Youth, Sister reminds me of some new bands that I've really enjoyed recently, like Gurriers and NewDad. I was actually listening to Gurriers right before putting this album on, and I can hear Sonic Youth's influence on Gurriers' music. I liked this more than I would have expected, so Sonic Youth will be on my radar from now on.

Not my cup of tea. Thought I could dig but never really got into it. Respect it so it’s probably a 2.5

This is my 4th Sonic Youth album overall, and 3rd from this list. My most recent one before this was from maybe a week ago. I liked this, especially the drums, but I worry I'm getting a bit weary.

I was excited to hear this one -- that excitement died really quickly. Just a lot of noise, really. Bummed about this one!

Leuk, meer mijn smaak. Soms een iets te roestige sound: elektrische gitaar dacht ik, kan teveel zijn om album in 1x te luisteren.

rym 3.90 Noise Rock/Alternative Rock 久仰大名的音速青年，没有让我失望，但应该还可以更好才对。不断上紧的弦，混乱粗糙，一股巨大的混沌能量。 pock: Catholic Block, Tuff Gnarl

A really solid album from a really solid band Best Song: Schizophrenia Rating: 7.5/10 Stars: 4

just noise