Daydream Nation

It's experimental and influential, de-tuned guitars and distortion, avantgarde art and noise rock with tons of punk energy. The songs carry on and drag you to madness. This was the precursor to the grunge explosion and it is an awesome piece of art. I do wish they made this into two separate albums, it is a bit long. Too good and too influential to be anything but 5 stars though.

im pretty sure this is what was playing that time I was kidnapped and tied to a radiator for a week?

I listened to this when my friend came over, chained himself to the radiator, and wouldn’t leave for a whole week!

There's good stuff here. Just way too long

Honestly, Sonic Youth has always been a blind spot for me. A band that I feel as though I should be into, but I’ve never been able to get there. Fast forward to today and this album hit for me more than others I have tried. Not sure how to explain it. Not sure but 3.5 stars rounded up because Teen Age Riot is a banger.

Edgy cool sound, I liked them

Pretty enjoyable, if a little self indulgent . I get why my friends who like this are so into it.

favorite tracks: Teen Age Riot, The Sprawl, 'Cross the Breeze, Candle

Its not the best sonic youth album, but it is still worthy of 5 stars. In this one you can really hear how grunge emerged from post punk, and how this record shaped rock in the 90s.

There’s only so much scratchy guitar I can handle unfortunately, had to turn it off towards the end.

gostei bastante, é um álbum que voltaria a ouvir e talvez até amasse se conhecesse em outra época, mas algumas faixas são muito noise e cansa um pouquinho mesmo

alguns momentos bem legais mas achei meio cansativo

start here to catch up

Tuneless and tedious

I know a little bit of Sonic Youth with 7 total songs liked by them - but none on this album. Just noticed this is 14 songs and is an hour and 10 minutes long. Looked it up on Wikipedia and it was a double album - which makes sense. I feel like this is one of those albums that you're "supposed" to like. But honestly most of it doesn't grab me at all. A lot of it feels very monotonous - and not in an intense way. I think I like their longer, jammier songs the best - mostly because these songs are better when nobody is singing. Both the guy singer (Thurston) and girl singer (Kim Gordon) really are not good singers. I can see how they influenced bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins - but I think those other bands have many more better songs. I ended up "liking" 3 songs: "Teen Age Riot", "The Sprawl" and "'Cross the Breeze". And all of these are just "ok" to me and not great songs. I'll have to see if I still like them in the future as they pop up on my playlists. This album is further proof that most artists cannot pull off a double album. These double albums usually have way too much filler. Maybe they think they're all really good songs, but they just aren't. Seems like most artists succumb to this in their career eventually. Liked songs on Spotify: 3/14 Rating: 2/5

Great sound. But the vocals take this album down.

i have to tell you. i tried so hard to like them. i was an angsty teen and all but i could never get into sonic youth. sometimes I think, they just aren't THAT good.

Previously only listened to Sonic Youth through Guitar Hero 3 (Kool Thing) and Rock Band 2 (Teenage Riot). Probably won't expand much after this, feels kind of samey.

I was surprised to learn that this was their fifth album - I thought they actually emerged between 88-91 - and that they'd pretty much invented alternative rock even before R.E.M. I quite liked the first track and realised that Thurston and Kim (alt rock's power couple!) had rather different creative approaches. You can hear the elements of 'noise rock' emerging and the 1990s rock approach, along with the Pixies, was certainly establishing a blueprint. I'm not going to express an actually liking for the general musical character on offer here but the approach to guitar playing certainly was original.

Correcto

It's just a wall of sound. Good for suppressing thoughts, but it feels like I stopped listening after the first couple of tracks. Favourite Track(s): 'Cross The Breeze, Teen Age Riot Least Favourite Track(s): Providence

Bien.

First time listening to this album. Enjoyed it.

"I hate this fucking magazine! These stupid girls think they're so hip, but they're just a bunch of trendy, stuck-up prep-school bitches who think they're 'cutting edge' because they know who 'Sonic Youth' is!"

The thing about most pre-00s sonic youth is that the songs are not individually distinct and don't go anywhere. That same post punk rut that so many bands got stuck in. This album is no exception. Except for the very end none of the songs really stand out nor come alive. Totally meh and unexciting background music. 2.5/5 -> 3/5

Hugely influential at the time it came out. Nothing like it.

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988) ★★★☆☆ I'd tried Sonic Youth years ago and found them boring, so I wasn't sure what to expect revisiting them with more adventurous musical tastes. Turns out I enjoyed this album quite a bit more than I expected. The guitar work is easily the highlight. There's a lot of feedback, distortion, and unconventional playing, but much of it is surprisingly engaging. Songs like "'Cross the Breeze," "Eric's Trip," "Total Trash," and "Hey Joni" were particularly enjoyable. I also liked how "The Sprawl" developed during its extended instrumental passages. The vocals were a little more hit-or-miss. I generally preferred Kim Gordon's delivery to Thurston Moore's, although even that depended on the song. "Kissability," for example, didn't quite work for me musically. At 70 minutes, it's a long album, but it held my attention better than I anticipated. The experimental guitar passages often gave the music enough character to keep things interesting. I still don't see myself reaching for this album regularly, but I can definitely appreciate what Sonic Youth were doing and hear their influence on bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. I'll likely revisit it and explore more of their catalog. 3/5 stars. A pleasant surprise and a band I'm glad I gave another chance.

What can be said about indie's first sprawling pillar that hasn't already been said hundreds of times over 35+ years? This is an immaculate collection of songs, but not for any conventional reason. For starters, none of them are structured like normal songs except "Teen Age Riot," the opening song for the ages. Next, most of the songs are barely held together by the drumming, and the instant that relaxes for even a moment, the multi-guitar attack devolves into utter noisy chaos. Lastly, none of the singers are winning any awards with their muffled, half-spoken performances. And yet, all of these elements, worth relatively little on their own, coalesce to form this massive double record that signalled the arrival of a new kind of rock (for the people whose ear was turned to the underground, anyway.) There's just something indescribable, magical even, about the strange dynamics and swirling dissonant feedback that makes up a good part of this album. For having so many of the songs go past the 7-minute mark, there's nary a minute wasted on these songs. To me, these are some of the quickest 70 minutes I've ever spent listening to a double record. With Daydream Nation, indie rock found its first guitar heroes, and while their performances are far from technical, relying mostly on incomprehensible tunings and screeching punk ferocity to get their point across, there's something so distinctly well-measured about it all. It's not to say that the band is restraining themselves; rather, it was a sign of things to come as grunge and the alternative explosion was just around the corner. By the time grunge took over, Sonic Youth's far-reaching influence could be heard in just about every multi-guitarist band's approach to the instrument, and their sense of non-linear songwriting was a prime innovator for what would later come to the indie rock sphere as the 90s progressed. This has long been a favourite album of mine for a very long time, largely due to how well it's stood the test of time in the face of all that influenced. It stills sounds as eccentric, aggressive and essential as it did in 1988, and revisiting this album has only reinforced those same notions. An early arrival and late departure from the burgeoning alternative sphere, and an album to which virtually every subsequent band owes a little something. Key Tracks: Teen Age Riot, Silver Rocket, Total Trash, Rain King, A - The Wonderboy

9.5 / 10

I know that I am supposed to like this, but I just don't. The distortion is annoying. Everything feels far away or turned down a little too much. I've tried since I was a teenager to get the appeal of Sonic Youth. Alas, I am just not cool enough.

Absolute bangers front to back

Probably the best Sonic Youth album I’ve heard.

I liked this a lot better than the other Sonic Youth album I previously got. The songs had an euphoric feel to them, and with a few minor tweaks some of them wouldn’t look out of place among an indie 2010s playlist.

Generally liked the soundscape but certain songs seemed to drag and overstay their welcome. I wish it was a little tighter, but I also enjoy it for what it is. I largely preferred the first half ("Teen Age Riot," "Silver Rocket," "'Cross the Breeze") over the second half ("Providence," Trilogy series), but "Candle" and "Kissability" were standouts too. I guess I didn't form much of a solid opinion on this album; I prefer Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore's voice to Lee Ranaldo though. Probably a three! STAND-OUT TRACK: "Teen Age Riot" HONORABLE MENTIONS: "Candle," "Silver Rocket," "Kissability"

There are some really cool guitar tones here, but overall I didn’t enjoy the consistent harshness and it struggled to keep my interest I am trying to like Sonic Youth, but I think that’s the issue; I shouldn’t have to try.

Que tanto con este grupo?.... Tercer disco que me toca y no les encuentro el gusto

Mangler revidering

10/7 Boring and bland

called in by the noise generations activate to break up the old

The first version of this that came up on YouTube was 34 tracks, the next version had a more reasonable 14 (still half aṣ̌ dozen more that any album has a right to). And indeed had they called it to a halt at that point they may have received a half decent review from me. Instead they ran out of talent, and instead of completing it with something worth listening to, it descended into a cacophony of white noise feedback and static. And in the process, destroying any plus points earned from the preceeding tracks. Sorry people, you should have quit while you were ahead. 1

A belting album. Gets you straight away from the intro of Teen Age Riot, then doesn’t loosen its grip. Got all the elements I love… noise, distortion and a little bit of anger here and there.

I first came across Sonic Youth shortly before this came out with their Ciccone Youth release on Blast First Records. Their version of Get into the Groove is as odd as it is immense. The one thing you knew you were going to get with Blast First was a lot of noise put to record in what used to be known as 'US Hardcore', but now called 'Noise Rock'. Blast First never failed me in getting my fix of oddball Americana. This record is basically SY tidying up many of their rougher edges and in the process making (for them) a clean sounding coherant record. Yes, they were still specially tuning their many guitars in non standard ways, but when you are as cool as Moore, Ranaldo and Gordon, which gives a fuck? (My mum, she didn't like them at all because of the wierd tunings). This album is their best pre Geffen effort and with songs like Teenage Riot, Silver Rocket and Eric's Trip with their wonky accessibility. Then you have uncompromising attacks like Rain King, Kissability. They are like a smack to the head. Tremendous stuff.

This one took me a few sessions to get through. The loose nature of the guitar and vocals add to the charm, and I enjoyed the dual vocals throughout the album. 3.5/5.0

For a band with exactly no hits, they have 5 albums in the Top 1001 (EVOL (1986), Sister (1987), Daydream Nation (1988), Goo (1990), Dirty (1992)) which is complete and utter bullshit. There's no way they were that influential when album 1 sounds just like album 2. Gross mis-justice. That puts them in the top "5 albums" tier alongside The Byrds, Brian Eno, Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and The Who. WTF?! If you can tell when one album ends and the next begins you're a fan, otherwise Sonic Youth kinda sucks. There were so many better albums released at the same general time that aren't listed on here by an author with blinders on. 2 stars. Since 1988, no one has listened to this album, the listener counts are a joke. No hits, no hooks, a lot of noise, no legacy or airplay, none of these songs were covered, what got this on a list of MUST HEAR albums??

716/1001 2026.10.05 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

Amazing album! It was very experimental. There was a lot of feedback on the guitars which added to the already experimental sound of the album. It was definitely ahead of it's time and had some influence on music afterwards. Amazing album!

I can’t really connect to Sonic Youth, I’m afraid. The first song starts off cool and is pretty good. But after that it’s just okay: it’s distortion and cool rhythms, but in a way that makes me lose interest pretty fast.

The first review I read on the reviews page starts “ I could listen to the intro to teenage riot for probably a solid hour.” Unfortunately the rest of the sing doesn’t live up to it and it’s mostly downhill after that… 2.5

Started off really well. That is until the singing began. Was hoping for better but where does hope get you? 2/5 1/10/26

Guitars are really good, but I feel like some of the songs are distorted just to be distorted. Lyrics are awesome. Drums don't seem like anything special. Overall good album, but not great.

Long but pretty good overall

Would've been a 2, I wasn't really enjoying it but there were some riffs I could get behind, but then the songs in the second half just sounded exactly the same as one another. They weren't very good songs either.

I love the proto-90s grungy guitar distortion sound bleeding through in one of the best bangers to come from the 80s that wasn't just synth noise.

This is probably a four, but I gotta be in the mood for them. I like everything about them but their pretentiousness. Teenage Riot was a big RockBand song for me too.

Offensively boring

I wanted to like this but wasnt for me

Daydream Nation Sonic Youth 1988 Genres: Rock Styles: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Avantgarde, Noise Rock 1. Teen Age Riot (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Arranca como un homenaje fantaseado a J Mascis (de Dinosaur Jr.) como presidente imaginario de una nación alternativa — una oda de Moore a la idea de "hacer que las cosas pasen" en vez de esperar a que otro lo haga. Funciona como himno generacional de la escena indie/underground de fines de los 80, con un arranque etéreo cantado por Gordon antes de que entre el riff principal. -Comentario: se me hizo eterna, insufrible. 2. Silver Rocket (★★☆☆☆) -Contexto: Un estallido veloz e histérico después del clima soñador del tema anterior. La letra es una sucesión de imágenes de ciencia ficción/velocidad (cohetes, cascos psicóticos, amplificadores en llamas) que no cuenta una historia lineal sino que transmite una sensación de descontrol acelerado, casi como una parodia de canción de rock espacial pasada de revoluciones. 3. The Sprawl (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Inspirada directamente en la trilogía Sprawl del escritor de ciencia ficción William Gibson (la "Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis" de sus novelas); la primera estrofa está tomada de la novela "The Stars at Noon" de Denis Johnson. Es un retrato hipnótico y repetitivo del consumismo y el vacío urbano, con la frase-eje sobre bajar al negocio a comprar más y más y más. 4. 'Cross the Breeze (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Uno de los momentos vocales más intensos de Kim Gordon en el disco. Es una canción confrontativa, casi al borde del grito, sobre desafío y provocación religiosa/sexual, con una tensión constante entre la voz y una guitarra cada vez más caótica. 5. Eric's Trip (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Basada en el monólogo lisérgico de Eric Emerson (superstar de la Factory de Andy Warhol) en la película "Chelsea Girls". Ranaldo recita un fluir de conciencia inspirado en la Beat generation (Kerouac, Dylan) que imita ese estado alterado por LSD, con guitarras que se disuelven en ruido. 6. Total Trash (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Un boogie desangelado que se va desarmando en caos hacia el final. Está atravesada por la epidemia de crack que golpeaba a Nueva York en esa época, funcionando como un retrato de deterioro urbano y personal que empieza casi festivo y termina hecho pedazos sonoros. 7. Hey Joni (★★★★☆) -Contexto: El título homenajea "Hey Joe" y a la cantautora Joni Mitchell. Ranaldo canta una letra surrealista, con imágenes de disparos en un campo vacío y una "jukebox mental hermosa", que también dialoga con la novela "Neuromante" de Gibson (la idea de "conectarse" a un sistema roto). No es un relato biográfico de Mitchell sino una fantasía poética alrededor de su nombre. 8. Providence (★★☆☆☆) -Contexto: Un interludio instrumental hecho con un solo de piano grabado por Moore en la casa de su madre con un walkman, el sonido de un amplificador Peavey recalentándose, y dos mensajes de contestador que le dejó Mike Watt (de Minutemen/fIREHOSE) desde un teléfono público en Providence, Rhode Island. Es más un objeto encontrado que una canción compuesta. 9. Candle (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Tiene una introducción de guitarra melancólica y hermosa, y letras dispersas sobre el viento y el desorden cotidiano, con un guiño al disco "Tonight's the Night" de Neil Young (que trataba sobre la muerte de dos allegados de Young por sobredosis). El clima general es agridulce: nostálgico pero con un cierre más liviano y hasta optimista. 10. Rain King (★★☆☆☆) -Contexto: Escrita por Ranaldo como homenaje a la banda Pere Ubu, y posiblemente a la novela "Henderson the Rain King" de Saul Bellow. Es un tema paranoico, de imaginería fragmentada, en la misma línea de fluir poético que "Hey Joni" y "Eric's Trip". 11. Kissability (★★☆☆☆) -Contexto: La más corta e intensa del lado cuatro. Kim Gordon se mete en la piel de un tipo con poder (productor, director) que seduce con falsas promesas de estrellato a alguien con menos poder — una crítica directa al "casting couch" y al abuso de poder sexual en la industria del espectáculo. La letra es deliberadamente incómoda y repulsiva a propósito. 12. The Wonder (★★☆☆☆) -Contexto: El título sale de una frase del escritor de novela negra James Ellroy sobre ese misterio inefable que, según explicó Moore, "para bien y para mal, es lo que impulsa a alguien a levantarse todos los días". Abre el tríptico final con un clima expansivo y ambicioso. 13. Hyperstation (★⯨☆☆☆) -Contexto: Le da título al álbum entero (de una de sus líneas). Continúa la línea cyberpunk/urbana de "The Sprawl", con una sensación de flotar entre la alienación de la ciudad y una especie de trance o "estación" mental — el tema más largo y expansivo del disco, con largos pasajes instrumentales. 14. Eliminator Jr. (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Cierra el disco y está inspirada en Robert Chambers, el llamado "Preppie Killer" de Nueva York (caso mediático de finales de los 80). El nombre es un chiste de la banda: sentían que sonaba a un cruce entre Dinosaur Jr. y el disco "Eliminator" de ZZ Top, de ahí también la "z" del Trilogy (haciendo de cierre y guiño a ZZ Top a la vez). -TOTAL = ★★⯨☆☆ (2,54) -Me resultó largo, insufrible, insoportable, con canciones extremadamente largas que pudieron hacer mejor y condensar su mierda en la mitad del tiempo... sinceramente no es algo que vuelva a escuchar otra vez voluntariamente.

These guys are old as shit. More like Sonic Old

Mielenkiintoista. Kuunneltava mutta ei yhtäkään mennyt omalle listalle.

This album really put in work to win me over.

Nah!

Glad to see that this is getting the love it deserves on this site. Not sure if it's my favorite SY album, but it was the one that made me a fan back in the day. This was when they started moving toward more melodic musical structures, in their own way. The guitar playing from Moore and Ranaldo (and often Gordon) is second to none, whether compared to anything that came before or anything that came after. Steve Shelley in particular becomes a force of nature here, going from an experimental drummer to a precise, aggressive pounder of sorts. It's basically a turning point in how their idiosyncratic sound would become more accessible and ultimately influence an array of alternative and grunge bands for years to come (before they would get more experimental, artsy, and tuneless, even after signing to Geffen, believe it or not). As much as I—and everyone else—love "Teen Age Riot," it's really the sequence of "Silver Rocket"/"The Sprawl"/"'Cross the Breeze" that does it for me. Noisy, dark, intriguing, going from pensive to head-bangingly heavy and fast at times. Some of the best vocals Gordon ever committed to tape, as well. I saw the latter two songs twice in concert (before they broke up), and it changed my life in terms of what "heavy," "experimental," and "live" could be. I'm also a huge fan of the wild "Total Trash," the haunting "Candle," and the first two parts of their "Trilogy" suite (ESPECIALLY the apocalyptic "Hyperstation"). You can tell that they weren't inspired by rock music alone. One of their favorite artists was Joni Mitchell, as seen in their noisy ode "Hey Joni"! I'm not a huge fan of Lee Ranaldo's songs, however, nor the final part of their "Trilogy" suite (a bit too aggressive and tuneless, and the final track is a dumb cock-rocker disguised as something better). SY were never the greatest fans of editing everything, but regardless, this remains one of their most accessible albums. I prefer EVOL and Sister a bit more than this one, but it's still a classic. 4 stars.

This is the second Sonic Youth album I have listened to as part of the 1001 Albums Challenge. I have to admit that I have ignored the band for far too long, probably because I have always steered clear of anything associated with labels such as 'indie' and 'alternative rock'. What's being celebrated here is some very artful noise. On "Daydream Nation", Sonic Youth are closer to the music and vision of the Velvet Underground than to punk rock bands like the Sex Pistols. While I wouldn't want to listen to something like this every day, the raw energy and irrepressible creativity are truly fascinating.

I mean sure....never really got into sonic youth. I guess this is their best?

This is a lot. I like most of it, but some of it is descending into noise. Maybe that's the point.

5 Honestly Sister was better than I was expecting but not anything special for me and so when I saw this (and that it was 70 mins long) i wasn't super enthused. But this is genuinely sick, so much better than what I've heard from them before

Hypnotic and droney. Good stuff. Is it sacrilege to say some of the songs are a tad too long?

rock

late 80's icon

Ok, aber Nirvana isses halt nicht.

I'll keep it a stack I've LOVED some of the Sonic Youth albums this list has put forth (nevermind overabundance of SY albums on this list) but I actually didn't love this one as much as many people do. I hear the fantastic execution and super tight instrumentation. I don't argue with how much quality alt rock is here. I don't know, this just wasn't as sticky for me. After amazing first song, I just fell into a fugue state all the way until the "Providence" interlude. Dare I say that with the passing of time, I've heard lots of bands copy this sound or iterate on it in more engaging ways. "Kissability" was my favorite track. Obligatory Kim Gordon should be the only one handling lead vocals 3/5

Wow!!! I've always heard about how revolutionary this album was, but I'd never really got it until now. This is brilliant! The guitar is so amazing, tone, style and writing is just perfect. You can see how this has echoed down to so many bands I love. Really great

This band somehow passed me by. I always mix them up with Sonicflood, an early 2000s Christian band. Sonic Youth does sound really spiritual, you have to admit.

i waited 1071 albums to get to this one. this is a 5, i think i probably have 10 favorite tracks, my burned copy of the CD that lives in my old car has been played so much it barely works. Rain King is maybe my single favorite track.

"As youth culture and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business what are the youth to do? Do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bourgeois capitalist process that is destroying youth culture. By mass marketing and commercials—commercial—paranoia behaviour control and the first step to do is to destroy the record companies. Do you not agree? This is called—Hey, did you know that Punk Rock finally broke in '91? It's called Teen Age Riot." And so the anthem begins—the seven minute epic, with lyrics about “platform shoes” and “Marshall stacks”—needing nothing but “a cord and a pedal.” It features vocals from Sonic Youth’s two frontpeople, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, their influence beckoning in the 90s alt-rock boom of everything from grunge to riot grrrl to shoegaze. In true indie fashion, it’s the most laidback call-to-action you’ll ever hear—just a hint of punk anger souring the edges. (The cherry on top is that it was written about a world where Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis became president of the United States.) While Pixies may have been responsible for the whole quiet-verse/loud-chorus thing, Sonic Youth shaped the noise. Guitar work like that from “The Sprawl” defined the future of riffs, with all the ways they snaked through catchy and dissonant phrasings. The sing-song melodies such as those found in “Total Trash” laid the groundwork for the pristinely-instinctual melodicism of grunge. The noise passages, such as the one in “Silver Rocket,” brought the blown-out guitar tones and experimental edge. Lyrically, it borrows from beat poetry. Allen Ginsberg’s handprints are all over it (“Rain King.”) It was this abstraction, combined with punk’s blunt calls to action, that shaped the words millions would be singing along to over the next decade and beyond. Despite its influence and age, Daydream Nation still holds up. On October 18th, it turns forty, but even though Sonic Youth is disbanded and both Kurt Cobain and rock are dead, we’re still living in a daydream nation—or a free speed nation, or a hyperstation, or a Speed King Nation, or whatever you want to call it. A social hellscape of urban deserts and sanitized consumerism, where your only constant is a Boss DS-1 and a prayer that you are, in fact, as much of an outsider as you claim to be. It’s perhaps said best in the semi-epistolary “Hey Joni”: “I remember our youth, our high ideals/I remember you were so uptight.” If the politicians and the boss at your minimum wage job won’t listen, then perhaps your only way to be heard is through a Marshall stack; Sonic Youth is an apt name. For fun, I made this playlist of songs that you can hear Sonic Youth’s influence in—particularly influence from this album: Radiohead—Permanent Daylight Nirvana—Radio Friendly Unit Shelter Hole—Star Belly my bloody valentine—sugar Bikini Kill—Thurston Hearts The Who Dinosaur Jr.—Whatever’s Cool With Me Pavement—Texas Never Whispers Beck—E-Pro Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Fever To Tell Babes In Toyland—Bluebell Sigur Rós—Svefn-G-Englar Sleater-Kinney—I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone The Jesus Lizard—Monkey Trick Slint—Good Morning, Captain

Ehh… meh.

Shit band, shit people. Justice for Nardwuar.

No me gusta nada.

Bouveau pour moi!

Day987 - in a time of hair bands, which i love, the seeds were being planted for grunge just a few years away

SYs bästa men det kanske inte säger så mycket. Här finns embryon till shoegaze, nåt mer atomsfäriskt snarare än hårt. Jag hör också mycket Velvet Undergrounds White light, white heat. "Teenage riot" är förstås en bra låt, "Candle" är i det närmaste pop. Men det är spretigt och därtill ojämnt. Måste tillstå att den är sämre än jag mindes den Medel tvåa

Det låter egentligen inte dåligt. Men det är framförallt för långa låtar. Halvera tiden och betyget hade kunnat höjas ett pinnhål.

I 70 jävla minuter slamras det på. Ett enkelalbum hade man nog kunnat stå ut. Det finns ändå embryon som låter mer intressant än de tidigare SY-album vi haft. Men nu! Jag orkar inte. Bara två SY-album kvar! Kämpa!

Rätt skönt skränig rock. Men på tok för långt. Alla låtar med Kim Gordon på sång hade med fördel kunnat slopats. Bättre än mycket annat i boken.

Felt more approachable than some other Sonic Youth albums I’ve heard

Maybe this is better than the other Sonic Youth album I listened to on this list but I still don't really dig it.

e ovo je dvostruki album koji mi se dopao! ne znam zašto mi se ovo sviđa, kao i prošli njihov album koji sam slušao (»goo«), po svoj logici ne bi mi trebalo biti nešto, al baš mi se dopada

Beautiful noise - I love Sonic Youth although maybe not especially this album but that could just be because I'm less familiar with it, and it's the kind of music that grows on you.

Enjoyed more than I expected and want to dig in more.

liked it?

Very good rock band to me

An album I've tried to get into a few times, but isn't really my scene. I like moments on this one, and maybe one day it will hit home with me, but for now it's a solid 8/10 and deserving a revisit.

Meh.

Fantastic album from an enormously influential band. What often gets overlooked among the experiments with noise, distortion and alternate tunings is how melodic a lot of the songs are. "Teenage Riot" is a perfect example. Once the song kicks off, it's an earworm.

nah but i like the album cover

Nkt for me

bored

Still not sure about these guys. But they are growing on me.

From the top drawer

After finding Sister almost unlistenable, I was pleasantly surprised by this album. (Not sure pleasant is a word that goes with Sonic Youth). High intensity and raw- more than just noise.