Sister

Kinda meh - not my type of music

Not the worst Sonic Youth album we had to listen to so far, but still pretty bad. Too punkish, too jarring, too annoying.

Not a huge fan of this album, songs were forgettable and at times skippable. And nirvana did the naked boy better on the cover.

Enough of this band!

Just past the one-third mark in this project and I've heard so many amazing artists. There are also lots of amazing artists I have yet to hear from. And this is the third album by Sonic Youth I've had to listen to. I don't question their place in this list, but I do question three albums from a three year period, especially when I don't detect anything distinctive about one from the other (the others being EVOL and Daydream Nation). Pick one, and let's make room for someone else. Unpleasant sound as an art form. I get it. I got it. Next!

Thank you, no. The album did not jive with me.

Really? Sonic Youth again? I still am not getting it.

I listened to this three times today, and each time grew more and more irritated with it. I’m not sure why I had more trouble listening to this than the previous two Sonic Youth albums (E.V.O.L. and Daydream Nation), but I fear any further listens to figure it out will only further lower my opinion. Noisy. Irritating. Not for me.

Ehh it was aight music wise. Wish the vocals weren’t so drowned out

There were parts of just about every song that I liked. Very small parts though. Mostly unlikeable.

Not that big a fan of Sonic Youth's music and this album didn't really change my opinion. 4/10.

Didn’t find this album all that special. Felt like a sub par alternative or grunge band. Their songs didn’t seem to be strong enough for a good harder rock album but it was also too chaotic for a good alternative album. Feel like their singing style is just droning with occasional anger. Not great. 4.4/10

didnt click i think? painful

Liked it a little, but not a lot

C'est toujours les artistes qu'on connaît le plus moyennement qui nous déçoivent le plus

chiant

Not for me - too noisy and scuzzy.

Not for me.

not a fan of sonic youth idk

2, enjoyed the first half more, didn't like enough of it for a 3

Didn’t really enjoy it, feel like I have a love hate relationship with sonic youth sometimes 4/10

Not my type

Well that was disappointing. Just noise.

Listened to this earlier today and I do believe that I have forgotten every single last thing about it. It can't have been objectionable, but it sure wasn't memorable.

Yeah way too noisy for me to enjoy

Meh.

First song, solid. The rest had their moments of pure WTF. 2.5

it’s one fat mass. i like the vibes but not easy to listen to. might listen again

On the face of it this is just dissonant noise and comes across as messy. I suspect repeated listening would uncover something deeper. Unlikely to go there.

Rock alternativo. Punk. Extraño.

Not the time for this one

Rock alternativo bastante tostón.

This album exemplifies Sonic Youth's barrage of nervous, negative energy, and I don’t like it. There were moments that I liked, but those moments were fewer than I hoped.

WHY IS THERE ANOTHER SONIC YOUTH ALBUM ON THIS LIST?!?! This band is atrocious. Just noise disguised as "music."

Over rated racket.

A couple of songs started like they were gonna be good and then shat themselves.

Garage band performance art. Not as annoying as Daydream Nation but somehow still worse.

Second sonic youth in three days. Did not enjoy this album

Ok

Starts with that one good song then it's a bit meh

The first two songs are nice, the rest is noisy - the annoying type of noisy :(

Better than dirty but still wouldn't recommend this band to anyone.

I’ve heard of the band but I just thought the album was average nothing that brings me back to listen more than once

Once again, not my bag. I can understand the cultural importance of Sonic Youth but can't say I'll be returning to their music any time soon.

Sister is not with out its moments - white cross for example- but in general the whole album sound like the noise the instrument continues to make once a band have dropped them on the floor and walked offstage. The effort Sonic Youth put into playing badly is almost admirable, and I see what they’re doing with the whole bleak, disenchanted thing, but it’s just not for me. All the best though.

Same old same old - another sonic youth album that left me cold and unconvinced what the fuss is

Just okay.

All just kinda ran together and wasn't super compelling. Little disappointed - was looking forward to this after reading the wikipedia

Nah. Why so much shouting?

Meh.

It’s alright

Een dag later vind ik het nog steeds geen fijne muziek.

Gong.

not a big fan

Not really my thing. Quite dreary.

Not a fan

Pas tres musical.. je n’ai pas tout ecoute. 2.75*

Zu viel Lärm, zu wenig Abwechslung

This album is all over the place. Some of it I’d consider decent, if a little bit clunky. Like a high school garage band. That part has me in the three star range. But then you get into the droning single sustained sound that makes you feel like all but one member is on a cigarette break. That’s solid 1/2 star territory (depending on the sound). I’ve had the urge to skip to the next track frequently. This could be the most masterful work lyrically but I have no idea what they’re saying so I’d never know. This would be 3/10. So I’ll round it to 2 as it isn’t quite down with the one star stuff.

It's not bad, but it's not my taste

I just don't think I get Sonic Youth.

not my vibe

No, definitivamente el Noise no es lo mío y me falta capacidad para apreciarlo. Además, en algunas canciones hacen una voz aguada y pusilánime que contrasta demasiado con el acompañaiento.

Meh

I can understand that some people like it. A very interesting historical album that was very important in the world of indie (rock).

This was a struggle

Not great, I find it to be forgettable.

It seemed like generic rock/alternative music to me. I didn't really connect with the sounds or the lyrics and I couldn't find a deeper meaning to most of it. Overall not my favorite kind of music.

Why the fuck does this list have FIVE Sonic Youth albums and not a single Black or Death Metal record? Not even a Queens of the Stone Age album! Your taste in music sucks, Dimery.

Nah

ughhh

Ouch my ears. 1

I'm sorry but that was an instant headache

Not my cup of tea. Too dark.

I think I'm about to like it, and then I'm disappointed. Idk guess I had to be there

I gave them a pass with two stars on the first two albums we had by them. I’m downgrading them to a one because I’m sick of hearing them on this list.

3/10

Noise rock and experimental indie rock built from abrasive guitar textures, repetitive rhythms, detached vocals, and walls of feedback feels like being trapped in a room where several radios are fighting for attention at the same time—restless, intentionally disorienting, and ultimately more exhausting than rewarding. The album's commitment to noise and abstraction comes at the expense of memorable songs or emotional engagement. While its influence is easy to imagine the listening experience feels more like endurance than discovery.

Today, May 27, 2026 I discovered I really do not like Sonic Youth. Too much noise, not enough music.

The last Sonic Youth album I listened to here was pretty dire, this one is equally uninspiring. Duller than a bus timetable pasted on the outside wall of a public toilet. Stuck it out for four songs.

Sonic Youth just aren't my thing. I like other noise projects, but somehow Sonic Youth just doesn't strike me. It's just kind of frustrating how they always sound like they don't know how to tune their instruments nor even really play them properly at all, even after all these years. Once again, this is not a good album by Sonic Youth.

Did not like this album.

I can get down with a bit of discordance and noise to my music when it serves the album but this one strays too far beyond my threshold and became just a cacophony I wasn't interested in attempting to pull apart and analyze for something deeper or more meaningful. Godspeed to anyone who can. Falls in line with Pixies Surfer Rosa to me, but a worse version.

Je me tâte à skip cette album je kiffe vraiment pas beaucoup Mais pour la science je continue J'ai fini et j'aurais peut être pas du continué

just a bunch of noise

Strange music. Not impressed.

More Sonic Youth. All I can do is shake my head. It just sounds bad to me. Awful unmusical instrumentation, terrible singing, stupid lyrics

This band is not bad but they do not deserve 5 albums on this list..

Not a fan of anything on the album really

Once again, just not a fan of the sound of these guys. On the bright side, there was less of the woman’s vocals.

Sain kuunneltua 6 biisiin asti, ei toimi kitaran vingutus.

I endured this because it was only 40 minutes. But what amateur sounding, painful dross.

I just...cant stand this. Unlistenable.

Muito ruim, muito barulho. O rock merece mais respeito.

I really just don't understand why anyone would sit down and willfully listen to this band.

Like BCNR forgot how to be melodic.

My favorite park was when it ended. :,)

Was this popular because it had the new alternative sound and there just wasn't much else to turn to at the time? I honestly can't remember, and I'm not remembering why people thought this was so great at the time because it's just dull now.

cool album cover but no for me

Just more sonic garbage. 1 star or F-.

Noise

Doesn't do anything for me

Wow this was terrible. Like hard to listen to but not in a good way

Not for me!

I don't think noise rock is for me

This sucked. I couldn't wait til this ended. The vocals are not good at all. There are some redeeming instrumental parts here so I will give it 1 instead of .5 lol. Liked Songs: "Schizophrenia" , "Tuff Gnarl" , "Hot Wire My Heart" (I guess????)

I imagine if I had fulfilled my lost dream of music the results would have sounded a lot like this ~ not musical. This is awful to listen to.

Like, Sonic Youth just has to be an elaborate prank, right? There's no way that a bunch of music critics didn't get together to convince everyone that this crap is actually good over a few drinks late one night as joke.

Argh..I knew it was in the late 80s.. but simply tuning all tracks to the right notes will make the album much more pleasant. All tracks are slightly off tune.. whether it’s intentional (plus I doubt it), it was very unpleasant. And they love semitones as well. I just don’t like it sorry.

Oh brother

A struggle. Really don't understand Moore and Gordon's God-like status at all. I clearly have to try harder.

Average indie pop

Borderline unlistenable.

This is the third damn Sonic Youth album that's come up. I get it. Sonic Youth is noisy and obnoxious and terrible. No, I don't need to hear any more of it.

noise

Not enjoyable in the slightest. Started out ok but got worse with every song. Just a random bunch of sounds with some terrible singing over the top. Not for me at all. 1.5/5

Sonic Youth can do better I’m sure

Oh man, 1987 was an amazing year for music, one of the best ever. Not this album, though.

Hard to hear the lyrics - mastering? I can see where emo bands got their inspiration

School kids still learning to play instruments.

I really think this must have been a really cool stuff back in the day , but to me it just sounds awful. Everything sounds out of tune , and the composition is just deliberately annoying. To me it’s like cilantro, not a matter of taste , but pure physical rejection.

no thanks. was mostly noise.

I like a lot of bands that are in the same realm as Sonic Youth but there’s been 3 or 4 Sonic Youth albums on here by now and with every one, I wonder if this’ll be the one where it clicks for me and doesn’t just sound like distorted fucking garbage. Nope. Still distorted fucking garbage.

I like Evol better

Nope. The big one is the only one you have to hear. This is superfluous. 1 star for time wasting.

Pierwszy track obiecujący, ale im dalej w album tym bardziej nie da sie sluchac

Just straight up really not for me, I didn't really get anything out of this one

This album stressed me out so bad.

Was it better than the last Sonic Youth album on the list? Yes. Did I enjoy it? No. Would I listen again? No. Enough said!

Didn’t like this sound.

Absolute bullcrap. Another unnecessary plop of Sonic Youth for the 1001 List. This is in the same ballpark of tetchy, tedious, tuneless, drawling hipster twonging as Daydream Nation but without quite the same ambition, scope or tiniest plausible claim to being as iconic or essential. Swing out this Sister from a tall window towards the nearest hyperactive volcano field.

Was going back through this trying to figure out which one was my least favourite and I kept thinking each one was. That’s how shit this album was. Too edgy too grungy not for me. Specific rating- 1.1 Fav song- schizophrenia Least fav- tuff gnarl / all

Sometimes when I am served up an album by a band who have appeared multiple times on this list and I have also previously reviewed I go back to read my musings and to see if my opinions vary. I’ve cut and pasted these below. Saves me having to repeat myself but unfortunately not the torture of listening. Bugger me I’ve just checked the book and still have another two albums by these cretins to go. Is it really credible for at best a division 2 band to have 5 albums on this list? Or put it another way, nearly .5% of the whole list? As I progress through this list I’m realising that when I get an album which I like I find it easy to write about (which I guess I’m stating here the bleeding obvious) But when I get an album which I consider bad it’s harder to come up with comments and emotions that I have not used before. Sometimes a bad album might have been made by an icon and considered globally as a classic. In which case I can say it’s not my barrow but I can appreciate the impact it made on music and deserving to be on this list. Which brings me back to my original point and this bag of shite. I’ve already used all the expletives and dismissive’s for all the other crap I’ve had to listen to. I don’t just like saying ‘not my cup of tea’ in one line as I prefer justify why don’t like it. But as I’ve now waffled on and my review looks long I can now end without saying anything remotely knowledgeable or assessing the musicality of this album and thus fooling everyone except myself. Who reads this anyway? I always knew Sonic Youth were there but had no interest in them at all. Might have heard a track or two before but they must have washed over me as if they never existed. I set off to listen to this album positively hoping I would learn something new but to no avail I’m afraid. Found myself concentrating more on an ipad card game I picked up after track 1. 1/5 7/8/25

Not a fan

SY's fourth album is more let's-make-weird-noises-with-guitars racket that sounds like it was more entertaining (?) to make than to listen to. The tortured-psyche lyrics on this record are also delivered in such a ponderous way that they're more laughable than anything else.

Some of the sounds reminds me of Blur circa self-titled. Or The Velvet Underground. But way more annoying and random. At least I can now properly judge the pretentious people who extol Sonic Youth

Garbage Noise

Eh not my vibe at all, music was fine. 3.1/10

Not sure how to feel about this album... or Sonic Youth for that matter, since this was my first impression of them. The sound of the album was slightly too discordant for my taste, there were no songs that really grabbed my attention or made me want to listen to more of their music. It's like the further into the album I got, the more it just sounded like... random sounds to me. I've heard people talk favourably about Sonic Youth before, so maybe I just need to go listen to a different album of theirs.

1. zchizo - 1.5 2. block - 0 3. eye - 1.5 4. ztereo - 1 5. kill - 1 6. tuff - 1 7. pacific - 1.5 8. hot - 1 9. kotton - 1 10. crozz - 1.5 11. mazter - 1

The beats intrigued me but none of the songs came together.

Most of the album sounds like incoherent noise. Very meh.

2/10…noise rock

lamentablemente no me enganché para nada con sy una pena

rubbish just noise

Not for me 1/5

unfortunately the timing of this album is wrong. now im tired of listening to previous albums and getting sleepy. Yes they have talent and they can play and and and. but they gave me headache.

i know that i like a few sonic youth songs, just don't think i've heard most of this album before. i like the guitar tone, the riffs, and some of the melodies but what irks me is the vocal delivery sometimes meh. also the tracks where kim gordon is the vocalist are annoying here. fav tracks: catholic block stereo sanctity

I did not like this one. At all.

I can’t wrap my head around why Sonic Youth is so highly regarded. For me, this album was a boring blend of noise and stress. Like a collection of dissonant sounds, strange chords, and screams.

⭐️ Sonic youth is not good… I’m sorry. It’s like a bunch of people got together and just strummed chords and made a bunch of shitty sounds and someone read poetry and had 0 concern for how it sounded.

Feels (and sounds) like an inside joke that I didn't get - sounds like an electric guitar wired to a garbage disposal. As I said, I don't get it...

Sister has a more ethereal and atmospheric sound than Goo, but there is still plenty of noise here. There were a few songs on Goo that I kept. No such songs here. Not my thing.

So kinda sad emoish rock. Wasn’t really feeling anything on here and not memorable.

More Sonic Youth, so more of the same - decent 30 second stretches in almost every song, surrounded by discordant and borderline incomprehensible musical garbage. This was better than EVOL, but not by much. Definition of quarter-baked album

I need more melody, less distortion. On first listen it’s a 1.5 for me.

Mid

Not for me

Glad to expand my horizons but definitely not for me.

Sonic Youth's "Sister" started off okay, but quickly became a repetitive and annoying listen. The guitar riffs were particularly grating, and the album failed to hold my attention. As an alternative rock fan, I was hoping for something more engaging. 1/5

Why, oh why, is Sonic Youth so effing overrepresented on this list?! “Schizophrenia” is probably a 4/5. The rest of this album can go fuck right off. Terrible way to start the new year. It can only go up, I guess.

I wouldn't say I like this album. I wouldn't say I like the singers' voices, nor do I like the background music. I just highly recommend that you don't listen to this album.

I think it's absolutely

"Worst. band. EVER." -Comic Book Guy.

A total waste of time.

Drivel start to finish

To me it sounds like they just learnt to play instruments. Enough to make 'music' but not enough to play for other people to hear.

Altough I like some later songs by Sonic Youth, none of them are on this album. I don't understand the purpose of this kind of "music" and really wonder, what it evokes in people, who can enjoy it. Unfortunately this seems impossible to me....

Shit like this is what makes Gen Z the absolute worst.

There were very brief moments where I thought I was getting it, but mostly I didn't get it.

Is this deliberately trying to sound like shit? Whoever mixed and mastered this album should be shot behind a woodshed. Some tracks on this are genuinely hard to listen to. Like there are some actual glimmers of good riffs and stuff in here but they’re deafening while the vocals are tuned so low it sounds like they’re in the next room singing through the wall. I actually thought my headphones were broken on a couple of these tracks because I had gotten one of the EarPods wet the other day, but I listened to something else when the album was done and it sounded fine so I guess the album just sounds like that.

Nothing I have heard from Sonic Youth during this entire 1001 albums has moved me from the position that they are shit.

I absolutely love some Sonic Youth songs. These are none of them.

Awesome thanks. Keep up the great work!

Terrible

Gitarrenkrach

*More* Sonic Youth? Oh come on. I've already suffered through three of these. Are you testing my mettle? I'll listen before I rate it but I already know what I am going to rate it and I don't feel bad about that at all.

not my thing.

Noisy Painful to listen to

Noise

Not sure why this album gets any attention at all, and do not understand it's critical acclaim. Senseless guitar noise with monotonous vocal trash. Garage band that needed to stay in the garage with the doors closed and the car running.

Gefällt mir nicht

Ass

Not my style

Too rough. But creative along the post-punk scene.

I am so sick of sonic youth. When I saw that we had this album, I took a deep breath and mentally prepared myself for the hell. I was going to hear the first song I thought wait maybe this isn’t the worst thing, but as the album proceeded, I remembered how correct my thoughts were.

Sonic Youth on a weekend is the same kind of torture that young boy in the lower right is gonna get when he walks too close to his older brother's front bicycle wheel as he rides by. I get that we're not gonna like everything, and perhaps actively dislike others, but a FOURTH ALBUM - let me type this again - a FOURTH (for those in the back: FOUR. 4. IV. IIII. 1...plus 3 MORE.) ALBUM from this bullshit band .... just seeing their name makes me want to make them go play in the street with their Lou Reed records. I wanted to leave just the first sentence as my complete review but I will admit that after a few minutes it seems they actually made - for them - some slight effort into what they would call composing. So my extra unnecessary words here are the equivalent. I am respecting the art! Obligatory objective sentence: We *need* completely different and varied music forms - it expands everything and all possibilities, even if we/I don't like it. But! Enough of this bullshit - Sonic Youth are one of the rare acts that achieve one thing: I actually get more angry/agitated the longer I listen to them. I can't even count the ways. I still cannot believe 4 slots of my first 700 are taken up by this carnie act. Thousands of awesome and unheralded acts weep... 2/10 1 star

Noise.

Not for me.

Static noise

couple of cool riff ideas here and there but it gets kinda boring. songwriting is like, idk. ok i guess? at times. overrated as fuck band. also thurston moore disrespected Nardwuar on camera so he can go kill himself for all i care.

Sounds like noise to me. Artists talked more than sang. Felt my nervous system get stressed and unsettled while listening

worst music I heard in my life

Some of it wasn’t horrible is about all I can say. Not my jam

Most of this album is just noise and it gave me a headache. Wikipedia says that this "album furthered the band's move away from the no wave genre towards more traditional song structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach" - what a load of pretentious bollocks. If this is their move to more tradional song structures then I hate to think how dreadful their earlier albums must have been.

Not my jam.

It was not good. Some of it was tolerable, but most of it just needed to end. It is better than a one but it is not a two.

Too dissonant for these 56 year old ears. Might have been able to get into it when I was 20 (the year it came out), but I doubt it.

I most like 99% of indie rock. I have found the 1% today.

Just a bit shit

Boring

I don't really feel like revolting. Also it was a little revolting.

As Juno once said, “ Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked... it's just noise.”

I finally understand Sonic Youth's contribution to music: how NOT to make music.

This album is the polar opposite of another album released in 1987. Def Leppard’s Hysteria couldn’t be farther in artistic direction than the tin pan, string bending, synth and vocal mashup demonstrated most aptly by “Pipeline/Killtime”. Wikipedia says Sonic Youth pioneered “Unorthodox Guitar Tuning.” Another description is ‘Noise Rock.’ Maybe ‘unorthodox noise’ is the best description for this album.

This is the sort of thing first-year uni students and music journalists pretend to like in an effort to seem deep and mysterious. In reality it's just artless non-Seattle alternative that sounds like it took longer to record than it did to write. Worthless shit. 1/5.

Eh, I guess I’m not their target audience.

This was like 90% noise to me. I guess it doesn't help that I don't like Sonic Youth.

Didn't vibe at all. Made me feel uneasy

pretty boring, actually

Nee, lass mal.

Gross, another Sonic Youth? "Sonic Yoot"

Yuk!

Did not enjoy this album, apart from the first song. 1/5 stars.

its just noise

I thought I had pretty eclectic tastes when it came to music but I have found very few albums on this list so far that I've actually liked! I can't get thru this album either, 4.5 songs listened to.

não gosto de sonic youth não sei como pode ter tanto album deles nesse lista, já é o terceiro

Considering the 90’s was my prime, I anticipate I’ll be fond of most albums from the decade. Excitement builds even more when it’s music I’ve either not heard of previously or from a band I never took time out to listen to critically...Sonic Youth fell into the latter category. I’m beginning to learn though, in this category there is mostly a reason I never did dig any deeper. This album sums up everything I’ve ever presumed about it and it’s bands music. Overhyped, bland, boring, kinda indy/grungy rock music. Please sir?...can I not have anymore? 1 Star!

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Schizophrenia, Catholic Block Cutting Edge: Stereo Sanctity Overall Notes: This is how I imagine this album was pitched: -Hey guys I've got a great idea for an album. You play your guitar, you play your drums, I'll vocalize over it. No planning, just playing. I'll just let you know when you should be loud and when you should be quiet. -Oh so you're shooting for a jazz/improv type thing. -No. We will be recording our parts in separate rooms. We will be creating noise. I did not like this. It is so exhausting listening to this kind of music. It drains me like no other. I feel bad putting this on the same level as that fucking Metallica album that I also graded a 1 because I can tell that this was artistically a statement, but I did not have a good time listening to this and I did not gain anything from listening to it. 1.5.

I wish that I like this more than I actually do.

Could die without hearing that and I wouldn’t mind. It really wasn’t for me. *

Niet geluisterd

I know Sonic Youths name enough to know there is some sort of bigger picture/cultural reason they're important. I however, do not know those reasons and therefore do not care. Damn. I really didn't enjoy listening to this album. If you're into distortion and atonal yelling, this is definitely your cup of tea. Favorite track: Schizophrenia

no real opinion of the album, idk if I was completely checked in to give it a proper chance. No real favourite songs, the sound of it kinda feels like a shitpost tbh

Really not my style

Not fussed

Would give it zero if I could. Every other album on here I've been able to find something to enjoy and respect, even if it wasn't my favorite. Not this. Unlistenable for me.

i luv mi mommy