Daydream Nation

Noooot into ittttt

I tried to like it but the lyrics and vocals were too much to overcome. The music was at best droning

Not for me

Too punk for me. All I hear is noise.

Had a sonic youth album on this the other day and really liked it. This was a bit of a dud however They’ve upped the noise and lost the songs

27th February 2023 Listened while on the way to and from Showcase. Finished while sorting recycling etc when home in the evening. Long day. Difficult because there were the softer tunes here that I enjoyed, but the more experimental punk I couldn’t get in with again with Sonic Youth.

repetitive in 90s, repetitive now

Not really my jam. Kind of hard punk Brit rock towards the end

My experience with Sonic Youth before listening to this was that I liked a bunch of their songs, but that the majority of their work was unrelenting shoegazey noise. I had some hopes after the first track 'Teen Age Riot' - It's got a real groove and energy to it. The rest of the album doesn't hold up to it though. There's a lot of general meandering and extended takes. I do like a bit of distorted guitar and shoegaze at times, but it gets more and more oppressive the longer it goes on, and this is a long album. I end up feeling completely drained by the end of it.

Bland, uninteresting but inoffensive.

I don't really like much of Sonic Youth's music. I have liked about a third of Goo, but almost nothing on Sister or Daydream Nation (just teenage riot and candle really). Whilst it's good to hear a lot of guitar, I find the general lack of structure and cohesion difficult. Accomplished as they are, it just doesn't appeal. I'm tempted to call Emperor's New Clothes on all the muso critics, but I do think Thurston, Lee and Kim (and drummer... sorry...) are capable musicians and trying to be unconventional in a post punk hardcore manner.

First impression this morning upon just seeing the name "Sonic Youth" was something bordering between anger and frustration. But fk it - we'll give it a shot - even though I am (was) petulantly expecting noisy low-fi awful vocal indie trash... .... a curious thing though.... this first song "Teen Age Riot" is way way different than my expectations. It's more polished than I'd feared - it's a bit more structured - the vocals aren't (yet?) completely annoying... ehh but then here comes "Silver Rocket" and I just don't get the appeal. It's far from the worst thing I've heard but it's sloppy and while there are bits that I can see were honed and perfected by bands like Smashing Pumpkins for example, this is a lot of what I'd feared - noisy, tempo swaying, and not really catchy or dramatic - if you're going for pure energy as the overwhelmingly prominent feature in your music then you'll probably feel the exact opposite of me in terms of enjoying music. Double album and i'm on song 2. Sigh. This is gonna be a long morning. Ehhh to save myself the trouble of live-blogging this ("The Sprawl" - it's the vocals, ugh, it's just not appealing let alone good) let's sum this up after the hour of discontent...: So many of these songs just devolve into nothingness - not only am I not against experimentation, I think it's important to branch out - but branching out isn't 4-5 minutes of two chords back and forth and 3 guitars meandering aimlessly over the top. That's just a mess. Would have been nice if a strong producer would just yell at them to clean up your rooms and come out in a day and let's see what you have. Because many (most?) of these songs start out pretty nicely - it's just they can't cross the finish line. "Candle" is alright (minus the vocals yeah yeah) - some really progressive and interesting twists and turns that again, I can definitely hear in bands that were to immediately follow. Overall dammit - there is some occasional intrigue here which almost makes it more frustrating - I like a fair amount of the unique guitar playing (e.g. "Hey Joni" uses some good aggressive rhythmic playing; muted chords, harmonics) that actually are reflected in a number of early 90s bands I like infinitely more. So perhaps some credit is due here. It's just ... the songs, man. Sum: This album is like a relay team with a good runner off the blocks and then handing off to a bunch of guys in potato sacks carrying giant bags of ketchup. It's a goddamn mess that could have used better coaching. 3/10 2 stars.

Great album

egregiously overrated

Heavy, sprawling and distorted. Sonic Youth may a band that are easier to respect than to enjoy. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Teen Age Riot Date listened: 06/01/23

Poor recording quality and noisy guitar fills make this uninspiring at best. Not sure what’s so special about this album. I think the name “Sonic Youth” gives this band and their work an extra push into credibility.

This will be the second Sonic Youth album I’ve listened to after Dirty. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a fan of Sonic Youth - my experience so far has been some decent songs, and some dull/annoying songs. Let’s find out how this one ranks! Songs I already knew: None Favourites: Teen Age Riot, Kissability This album started pretty strong, and it had me thinking I’d prefer this over Dirty. However, after only a couple of songs things went downhill pretty quickly. I’d find very few songs hooking me, to the point where 3-4 songs could pass and I wouldn’t even particularly realise. Certainly, even straight after a song had finished, I wouldn’t be able to tell you how it went. I think this kind of music (noise rock) just doesn’t click with my brain. Overall, I didn’t particularly enjoy this album. I can appreciate parts of the music, but overall it just wasn’t enjoyable for me.

Nothing too exciting here - lots of these now feel like filler rather than seminal

2. Kinda neat and experimental, but not much else going for it.

It surprises me every time when I find out that Sonic Youth was around in the 80s. I literally cannot name a Sonic Youth song off the top of my head but I always think they were part of the grunge/punk movement of the early 90s. Anyways this album is entirely to long. All the songs definitely could have be shortened significantly. The music itself was alright if you remove all of the distortion. I am not listening to it again.

Did not really enjoy

Oh dear... it's a no from me, I just don't get it!! I find it way too chaotic and noisy to get the point of the lyrics which do seem really cool when I read into it a bit. It's just stressful to me. Having said that, I can see how influential they are and specifically listening to this album. They just influenced a lot of music I also don't enjoy... I can also appreciate the musicianship, with creative tuning, insane guitar playing and distortion, and also the creative genius behind the noise. Unfortunately, although I appreciate the "fuck you" passion and the artistry, it's too noisy for me.

After listening to this and "Dirty" in the last few weeks, I've come to the conclusion that I'm not a Sonic Youth fan.

Much too rambly for me

Well, it's a bit too much noise for me. 2

noise rock has to be special for it to do anything for me 3/10

not enough vocals or dynamics. Songs felt kind of boring and I only got half way through the album before giving up

Too repetetive

Meh

Meh.

Vähän tylsä levy, tosin en ehkä keskittynyt ihan 100%. 2/5.

LOUD. NOISY. Not very good. 2/5

If im being honest, their sound grabbed me at first but just bcame repetitive for the remainder of the album. Will have to give it another go soon. Best: Teen Age Riot Worst: Undecided

Opener is decent, but not much for me after that.

This is frustrating because the opener, Teenage Riot, is exceptional. But the rest of the songs are buried under a bunch of unpleasant distortion and fuzz. Not looking forward to the other 4 (!) Sonic Youth albums we'll have to endure, since my understanding is that this is their most accessible.

Didn’t get much out of this. Seemed like a lot of noise.

I just… it’s like they made every production choice I wouldn’t.

Didn't enjoy this, and it was way too long.

not a very easy listen

I listened to the radio somenthing of Sonic Youth but It's not the kind of music I like.

Not that bad of an album however I don’t see myself returning to it. It was pretty good with the instrumentals. Some songs I enjoyed more without the singers. Felt like both singers weren’t that great. 5.4/10

Not a huge fan

Daydream Nation is the third album from Sonic Youth that I have reviewed for this 1001 album list, and I still have one more in my queue from the band that I haven't had a chance to review yet. My review for Daydream Nation is the same as for the previous albums. Some of the music is okay, but it doesn't take long for the band to make enough noise and clatter for me to dislike what they have recorded. "Cross the Breeze" starts out okay, but once the vocals come in I'm done. I do not like the vocals from Sonic Youth. "Teen Age Riot" was the one track I thought was okay. Daydream Nation isn't terrible, but I did not like this album.

Just not for me

I was not a fan of this album. The guitar riffs seemed very generic and monotone. Vocals were not exciting either. Found myself skipping a lot of the songs. I could have sworn I liked whatever other album they had on this list but this one missed the mark for me.

So many Sonic Youth albums on this list. I'm not getting it. Maybe they are really talented musicians and it takes someone who knows and understands music to get them. To me, it's just ok. I didn't hate it... actually, I think with time I could start to enjoy it. But, after one day of listening... nothing stood out. 2/5

Post-punk had been done earlier and much, much better.

Nothing special. They were a pretty good concert, however. There were a couple of songs that had a hook to them, but that's about it.

A younger me would have liked this but found the dissonance quite stressful to listen to. May be different in the right mood, but had to stop halfway through this time

Can't really finish it. Too much noise.

Sigh I tried - but very little hooks

Compared to the last Sonic Youth album I listened to, this one wasn't nearly as unbearable. There were some parts that I thought sounded pretty good, but the whole of the album was still not enjoyable. I'm glad there was less pure noise in songs and more musical sounding elements, though. Favorite track: Teen Age Riot

I wouldn't listen to this again but it was fine background music. Nothing really jumped out at me.

There is just nothing in this music that appeals to me. It is a mix of both boring and annoying in turns

I've heard worse albums but I didn't care for the constant dissonance and endless instrumentals.

I just have a hard time enjoying an album that’s half dissonance. This album was a bit more musical than E.V.O.L. but I still had a hard time getting through it.

It felt a LOT better than the first sonic youth album I listened to. However, there were still many "make it stop" moments, so I still didn't like it.

This is definitely a challenging listen. The music isn't melodic, it's stressful and the guitars sounds like they are in pain the entire time. The vocals aren't necessarily pleasant either... it's a noisy, discordant album that i can only give them credit for doing their own thing. There's something in there, but i just don't get it.

I liked the textures they put off- it feels ahead of it’s time but I didn’t really like the song structures

Seemed a bit confused to me, somewhere between rock, indie and punk. Starts off well with "Teen Age Riot" but goes down hill from there in my opinion and I started to lose interest.

A little too mellow for me

I really didn't like this very much. I'd give it a 2.5. I didn't hate it but it was so noisy and actually pretty boring for me for most of it. Probably was creative but it all blended together for me

Não é um muito minha vibe, mesmo gostando da banda, não é meu favorito da banda, prefiro outros. Confesso que não tenho muito o que falar sobre, não gostei mas é opinião pessoal, logo, não prestei atenção nele.

I liked the first track Teen Age Riot, but then a lot of the album sounded similar. I hate repetition. I also hate noise and feedback and there was way too much of that (like Silver Rocket, The Sprawl, Rain King, and Total Trash - an aptly named song). Oh, and this album is long with its repetition and noise. Giving this a 2 because at least there were moments I liked (Teen Age Riot, Candle), but by the last five songs I just wanted it to end.

Overall didn't care for it. It was weird without being interesting or melodic.

Not for me

Sonic Youth's in my cooler. Get out of there!

Nooit verder gekomen dan dat eerste nummer; de rest is ook zo zenuwachtig allemaal. Prachtige coverart wel!

Ok

Some good tunes but overall didn't blow me away.

Not bad. Not my thing. Distorted riffs and shrieks take away from some of their more interesting tracks.

Not a big fan, couldn't get through all of this one. I don't dislike the grungy sound, but it all ends up being a bit monotonous

Nope. Not sure how this album made the list. 53M listens on the first song and then a combined 17.3M listens for the rest of the 13 songs.

I can hear how so many bands were influenced by the raw, stripped-down sound of Sonic Youth... because to me the band didn't sound like much at all. Everything that came after built upon the blank slate template this band put out with Daydream Nation. Honestly, once I stopped paying strict attention to listening to the album, it was over in a flash. Mostly because all of the songs sounded pretty much the same to me.

“An honest and thrilling listen because of its musical tunings and anthemic songs about post-irony and confusion-as-sex.” But also boring AF.

nah

80’er punk rock, undergrund, råt

I expected to like this, but maybe just not in the right mood for it.

Sonic Youth's fifth album is an alternative rock double album containing quite a few long songs. It is highly acclaimed, being considered the band's best album, and also was probably the inspiration for future alternative, punk, and indie rock music in the 90's. This is the perfect example of an American rock band from the 80's, but unfortunately the album did not perform well on the charts at release. I loved the album and recommend it to any fans of rock, especially alternative or indie.

I did not dig it

Disappointing. I was expecting more than a high school battle of the bands, but I suppose I can hear how they've influenced later bands.

There were some moments and sounds that I really liked or appreciated (not always the same thing). Sometimes a jarring sound can make you think, "Wow! That's interesting!" but then when it repeats over and over and goes on and on it just can get hard to bear. The songs with Kim Gordon's vocals were much more interesting to me than Thurston Moore's. By the time I got to his monotone "Rain King" (or as I would later see Wikipedia refer to it, "the rarely played 'Rain King'" yay!) with its shrill background I wanted to rip off my ears. I think there are days that a bit of Sonic Youth would be just the thing. There were a couple moments where the music matched my inner negative energy and I got it. But an over hour-long double album of constant dissonance wasn't doing it for me today.

didn't really enjoy

Not for me, very noisey without much to say

Oei nee geen fan van. Stem staat me niet aan

Some of these songs are pretty fun, until they remember that distortion is an option halfway through the song and just... do that all the time? Can't honestly say that I enjoyed this, but I'll give it 2 stars just for the few songs that aren't distorted to death.

Couldn't find much to enjoy.

Ei

De eerste minuut van dit album is zo wazig dat je bijna geen zin meer hebt om verder te luisteren. Gelukkig komt er daarna verandering en hebben we (een beetje trage) punkrock met een poppie zanglijn. Het tempo gaat snel omhoog bij het eerstvolgende nummer, maar de zanglijn maakt plaats voor een wat meer typische Engelse punkstem; En dat voor een Amerikaanse band, haha. De interesse is nu wel gewekt. Vooral als er ook een vrouwelijke stem ten tonele verschijnt. Het album is verder toch niet heel bijzonder en blijft een beetje op een bepaald niveau hangen. Uiteindelijk is het eerste nummer "Teen Age Riot nog het leukst. **

Het album begint voor mij best goed, maar wordt gaandeweg de rit steeds minder interessant voor mij. Ik denk dat dit komt omdat de sound steeds ‘rommeliger’ en meer kenmerken van punk vertonen. Jammer. Het eerste kwart van het album 3/5, daarna 1/5.

I can appreciate the experimental nature of this album, but it mostly sounds like noise to me.

Nope. Not a 1 but this is not the right music for me. It's like if punk and grudge had a kid and that kid turned out to be an asshole.

Nup

Similar to the Kinks album, some good tracks but overall, it's fine but most tracks didn't leave much of an impression Fav: Total Trash, Kissability

I can see why people like this, but I am not those people. Maybe I’m old now but this is definitely the “noise” and “racket” that people have been complaining about through the years. The first song had a mini song in it that I liked. I truly didn’t hate the album but I didn’t like it. Giving it two stars because at this point I’m pretty confused about ratings if I’m being honest.

Starts off alright, slowly descends into random noise, 5/10

Too indie for my rock.

Never cared for Sonic Youth. Not even in my youth.

Yeah, definitely not 70 minutes interesting.

Last couple of songs some what redeeming. Just not very interesting, regardless of the influence it's probably had on a lot of music I like.

Decent opener, rest is meh

Not for me

Like nearly all SY albums Ive listened to, it just does nothing to me. I wish I liked them, I really do. Feels like the first run through of ideas and not tightened up or built on.

Started promisingly enough. Reminded me of Ash in parts and I like them. Descended into noise though. A mixed bag.

Not for me

Preferred Goo over this album. They experimented a lot with discord in this one.

I liked it better than Goo. 2 out of 5

Its ok

Inte för mig. Inte helt uselt, men inget jag kommer lyssna på igen.

Oof. Not really a fan. I mean as with most of these albums I could see why it’s important, I see where it influenced a lot of artists after it. It feels like Foo Fighters ripped them off a bit on one of their better tracks. Maybe that Catfish and the Bottlemen song I like too. But most of this album sounded like noise with extra steps.

Meh

Nothing special, but not offensive to the ears either. Just very forgettable hardish rock Struggled to make it to the end.

I am sorry

Not bad but way too long for the type of music they’re playing

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.

Offensively boring

Shit band, shit people. Justice for Nardwuar.

No me gusta nada.

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!

nah but i like the album cover

Nkt for me

bored

Not my jam

★½

Teen Age Riot was a good start, but it went nowhere for me after that.

The band’s name did ring a bell, but the music didn’t really. I don’t really like the music either. One star...

Elevator music of the 1900s? I didn't really engage with this one. Just background noise grunge.

Expectation: -> I've known about this band for years as it's been alongside others that I enjoy. Expectation is that I won't have a revelation today. After listening: -> This was heading toward a 2 rating and then it hit me that I don't really like any of this. Re-listening did not help like it often does for me. Track ranking: Joni Sprawl Rocket Riot Eric Kiss Breese Trash Wonder Candle Hyper Elim Rain Providence

Tüübid lihtsalt jammisid tund aega ja panid selle albumiks. Lood pole ei meeldejäävad ega meeldivad. Vokaal on kas olematu või sitt rääkimine. Juba esimestest lugudest oli aru saada, et see plaat on lootusetu. 1.4/5

I tried to find something in this album to like but in the main it just seems to put me on the verge of a headache. I realise this American discordant punk noise still has its fans but I'm not one of them. It is a collection of very energetic songs but they all sound just a bit wrong and annoying (perhaps that's the point??). The energy transmitted would go down better watching live no doubt but I would only last one song! The last 3 tracks were terrible and left me feeling exhausted. I got through it though which means reluctantly it must warrant at least 1 star compared to the sickos like Kendrick Lamar. I won't need to hear any more Sonic Youth however thank you.

Noise Rock is about right.

When to listen: before a bar fight. I know Sonic Youth are iconic, but they can be iconic somewhere else. The tuning stuff is cool, the artistry is cool, I’m not cool.

Found myself quite bored with this one

Olvidable

I know at the time it was released it was considered ground breaking. I've never been a punk rock fan and this is awful

I tried. I gave up about halfway through and started skimming through the tracks very rapidly. I need melody. I need discernible instruments. This was unpleasant noise. Sorry.

Horrible, did not enjoy, anxiety provoking music

Very noisy

Don’t think I made it through a single track without skipping. The album notes talked about “long instrumental pieces” and nearly evading seemed to have a stretch where the vocalist stopped mumbling or whining, but the spaces were filled with noise not music, so instrumental seems a misnomer. Overall just what you’d expect, loud, annoying crap to make you angry.

My preference, when it comes to music, is melody, rhythm, beat, and if possible, a good story. Maybe this album has some of these elements. I wouldn't know. It was loud and discordant. Sometimes discordant works, like jazz. As far as this album is concerned, it did not work with me. I was very happy with the last song ended and I could remove it from my list.

Listened to the first three songs and...rubbish. DNF

barulho, so barulho - 1/10

Total Trash is an apt description.

Stopped listening halfway through. Repetitive and noisy.

Eliminator, Jr. Is the worst song I've heard I think. Why is this on this site? 1001 albums you must listen to???????????? THIS? Rating 1/5

Mostly screeching noise but once in a while there’s something I like

gremlin type beat

dnf

I always thought Sonic Youth was a flash in the pan group. I had no idea they were so influential in the music scene and after listening to this album, I'm not sure why other people thought they were. I just decided that there was something that I was missing as once I heard this album, I decided that I can go the whole rest of my life without hearing another from them.

Booooooooriiiiiiiing. Même pas écouté en entier. Marre des albums de rock prog.

Garbage band

I don’t understand what’s to like about this - it was too long and was just noise. I would’ve probably given it a 1.5*, but it’s definitely not getting 2*.

3/10

Die nächste Platte für den Abfalleimer. Ich werde mich weiter durch die Liste quälen, in der Hoffnung auf eine Perle zu stoßen. Sehr erfolgreich war die Suche bisher nicht!

01) Teen Age Riot - 6,5 02) Silver Rocket - 5,5 03) The Sprawl - 5,0 04) 'Cross the Breeze - 5,0 05) Eric's Trip - 5,5 06) Total Trash - 5,0 07) Hey Joni - 5,0 08) Providence - 1,0 09) Candle - 6,0 10) Rain King - 5,0 11) Kissability - 5,0 12) Trilogy - 5,0 TOTAL: 4,96 (50/100) Current ranking: 714/761

Did not like. Just noise.

I hate these guys

A lot of good music came out of this period in music. It all propelled forward but this was not musical enough for me to like. I don't actualy remember this band.

even they got so bored of their songs that they'd change into making random noise halfway through the recording, if you'd like more of my thoughts on the matter check out Track 6

Nothing much to talk about. Wasn't impressed.

Yaaaaaawn… Diablo Cody was right when she had Elliot Page describe this as just being noise

Two things strike me about this record (and Sonic Youth in general): #1 It sounds like the band puts their tracks together by first jamming, then gluing pieces from the jams together and calling it a "song". Those jams might have been fun to do, but the results never sound like thought-out pieces - they just sound like people randomly scrubbing away on guitars, with vocal melodies tacked on as an afterthought. #2 For all of SY's so-called experimention with alternate tunings, etc., the guitars on these records sound practically unadorned (aside from some fuzz), as though adding any processing would ruin the SY "aesthetic". The bare-bones sound of cheap 'n' tinny pawn shop guitars gets old very quickly though. (Same goes for things like vocals, it's as though the band thinks a decent well-miked and properly treated vocal would sound inauthentic somehow. *Trouble is* that the raw quality of the vocals on this record sounds like the product of incompetent engineering and production rather than something "genuine".)

I found it very repetitive! I wish I enjoyed it more.

Dog shit

Nicht aus Spotify

En tykkää

There were some tree surgeons outside and they were cutting the trees. I paused the album and thought my pause button was broken because I could still hear the incessant drone. It occurred to me at that point that it must not be that enjoyable if it doesn't sound much different to a chainsaw.

Bad

I didn't anticipate how bad this album would be. 1 star or F.

Not my kind of music

Super flat, boring sound

The suck. I wish I could give -5.

Two track and it got on my nerves. Not for me.

Dude I’ll edit this if I finish but this is so bad. So so bad. Just noise. I think this would be fun to play potentially but it’s just so grating whenever I skipped a song I felt a huge sense of relief. It’s so cacophonous it makes me feel bad about my life. Isn’t music supposed to make you feel happy or sad or something, not assaulted?

Noise

Ikke min greie.

This is dissonant dilettant crap - truely awful. I don't understand the fuzz about it at all.

Repetitív, és eleve nem az én zenei ízlésem, nem hallgattam így végig

2/10 J'accroche pas du tout :(

No

Total trash

Pretentious rock and roll for boring down and outs who miss Kurt Cobain.

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. At least they named one of the songs right: "Total Trash" is total trash. I'm not getting those 7 and a half minutes back, and I have no desire to listen to it again.

Hummmm...

Terrible all around. Every song on this 70-minute album sounds the same. Every vocal is terrible. The bass has no attack, leaving the whole thing sounding so thin and wimpy. Sonic Youth have gotta be one of the most overrated bands of all time.

p600. 1988. 1 star. Average garage band with average songs spreads what little talent they have too thinly over 70 minutes of discordant noise. Neither important or influential. Don't believe the hype.

*An album with a variety of tunes, most were NOT easy listening. Too many tracks 32?

just noise ...

An album in which every song goes on for much too long. Even the short ones.

Did not like at all. I enjoy some Sonic Youth songs, but this album was mostly unlistenable for me.

YIKES, not into this at all - lots of noise, nothing I could really listen to and enjoy

ow that hurt

“Can’t be much longer” I think as I wearily open the album on Spotify. I’m 4 songs in. Kill me.

Perdón, quizás le falte el respeto a Sonic youth pero no pude escuchar más de 5temas

Might have had more impact if there were fewer tracks. Less is more, I got bored.

Didn't finish. Listened to mazzy star album instead and it was 1/3 of the length and 3 times better

Schrottrock

Het vierde album al van deze idioten! Hier word ik echt niet blij van. Wederom een verschrikkelijke zangstem, valse muziek, een boel gekras. Op de tanden bijten, uitluisteren, en nooit meer opzetten.

Even some rap albums are more interesting to listen to. A rare record of irritability. 2 out of 10.

⭐️ Pretty bad… first song was alright the rest sucked.

No mas.... waving the white flag. 1001 you've made your point. I'll do whatever you ask just please, please no more Sonic Youth. I stand by the guitar sounds are good.

Oh fuck you.

It’s fitting to me that this record has a song called “Total Trash”. This one goes on for far too long, and is filled with noisy riffs and lackluster vocals. It’s not even good as background music.

A bit too distorted and loud for me, the first song was great though

Just didn’t vibe with this. Kinda in and out the whole time.

Nothing here to keep you coming back whatsoever.

Absolutely terrible. A dull, grey 70-minute musical wasteland. Noam Chomsky wrote a book about ‘Failed States’ and I think Daydream Nation was listed as one of them. 1.5 stars.

Jedan od onih albuma koji će mi biti teško poslušati u cijelosti, ali probat ću. Svakako lakše nego kad mi je prvotno Spotify izbacio krivu verziju albuma u trajanju od 2.5h 😅 Ovaj vokal mi je užasno iritantan, a nije mi ni ostatak napet. Joj ti alternative rock bendovi, malo mi proradi crijevo uvijek. Ne mogu. Čast izuzecima, iako sad kad razmišljam, ne mogu se sjetiti nijednog benda iz tog djira kojeg volim. Ovo mi je borderline neslušljivo. Ma znaš šta, puši ga. 1/5, 1.5/10

Koji je ovo kurton od albuma. S ovim komentarom bih mogao uvrijediti Karla, ali pošto ovdje pišem osobno mišljenje napisat ću da sam slobodno mogao i preskočit ovaj album Kužim da su oni kul i inovativni i da su imali praktički za svaku pjesmu novu intonaciju na instrumentima, ali ovo meni zvuči kao kombinacija nojza, granđa i Panka, and not in a good way. Red nojza, red plitkih melodija u granđ stilu, pa malo šarafanje delay pedale, pa malo buke, pa idemo opet u pjevanje s nasumičnim, najružnijim akordima koje prsti mogu odsvirati Gle, vjerojatno ovo live zvuči jebeno, popiješ 5-6 piva, zapalis pljugu, iskrades se na WC pa povučeš liniju žutog, pa nazad kljucat ispred zvučnika dok ti bend radi tinitus Ovo je jedan od onih albuma gdje vjerojatno ne mogu ništa lijepo napisati. Pa ću samo poslušati do kraja, dat jedinicu i idemo dalje Ok evo nešto lijepo, rade super buku. Ono kad između pjesama ili usred pjesme naslone gitare na pojačalo pa onda pojačalo radi feedback. Ne znam dal' mi se uho naviknuli ali hey Joni mi je ok sjela Nakon toga su mi opet đanki muzika koja jako ne želi biti pop Rezime, da je ovo album od 20 minuta, bila bi koja zvjezdica više, ovako ostajem s prvom gnjušanjem. Vjerujem da bi mi album ušao pod kožu da se natjeram ovo poslušati još par puta, ali to se nikad neće dogoditi

just terrible

This wasn't what I expected. It was a hot day. I was busy in work. I had too much coffee. This album sounded like it was recorded in a garage. TOO MUCH NOISE.

"Total Trash" ... ja, kommt hin

Pure noise pollution. Obviously influential but not my taste.

Too Much Noise.

Abusive.

Muito adolescente para meus ouvidos

Did not enjoy, bunch of whiney grindy sounds

meh, just meh.

Coincidentally this came only three days after "Goo" which I didn't like too much. After three songs, it started to heavily annoy me. Some of the songs seem to never end. Actually they do, but only after more than seven minutes… Not my cup of tea.

Sonic Youth have never been my jam. This, being one of their earlier albums, features pretty terrible production and I've always found their songwriting to be pretty amateurish. I've never understood why they get the acclaim they do because even during their peak, there were much better bands creating significantly better music in very much the same vein.

Meh, track 6 puts it succinctly, Total Trash

Morris, Joseph, Emma, Milo, and Madi could do better

The alleged "genius" of this album must be over my head. Sounds like a bunch of high school kids making noise in the garage.

I didn’t enjoy. Had a hard time listening all the way through.

1. teen age riot - 1 2. zilver rocket - 0 3. the zprauul - 0 4. crozz the breeze - 0 5. ericz trip - 0 6. total trazh - 0 7. hey joni - 0 8. providence - 0 9. candle - 1 10. rain king - 0 11. kizzability - 0 12. the uuonder - 1 13. hyperztation - 1.5 14. eliminator - 1

eh

Just not my thing

1.... Aturde

Not a fan, just guitar feedback and drony, angsty vocals. Noise!

I can't put my finger on why I found this album so irritating, but I couldn't finish it

A name I knew but had never listened to. Famous for having a woman, Kim Gordon, in the band. Albums that I listen to while I’m working suffer if they’re noisy and distracting like this as I wanted to get it over with so I could concentrate. Is that fair? Possibly not. Do I care? No. Listen to again (possibly) - The Sprawl

Might be the worst record I've ever heard. Just a bunch of industrial noise!

Oof, not much good to say about this album. Weak/yelling vocals paired with instruments making noise (fuzz and feedback) that occasionally broke into the faint sounds of actual music. A painful listen.

Loud, angry screaming. Not at all something I would listen to. Maybe was a voice for a certain young group of people who needed to be heard.

Nope. Not a fan of talking and lots of dissonance noise. Some interesting guitar chords though. Skip a few and eventually stopped listening.

Noisy Noise Rock.

Nicht meine Musik . Blechern, dünner klang, schlechte Sänger , einfallslos , repetitiv

So i quite liked the music but could NOT get past the vocals. Couldn’t get to the end of the album tbh.

I only listened to part of the album. Not my type of music.

Now I know why I didn't listen to this work in college. Many of my friends in architecture school were Sonic Youth fans. I don't enjoy their sound. It's probably amazing for the period when set against pop rock, but to my ear the music has nothing on Bauhaus and The Cure.

Nah

So many of these songs go on for too long. Not a fan of the vocalists. Teen Age Riot is probably the only song I'd listen to again. The rest all felt messy and too grungey/screechy for my taste. Was hard to finish this one.

Did not like this album

Not into this one :x

Boring, monotonous, depressing.

It's noisy to me.

Another one that’s not for me. Can’t hear anything in this that would justify it being on the list.

Just a bit shit

While E.V.O.L. left a bad sound in my ears, I tried my best to listen to this album objectively. And, I'm happy to say that unlike the aforementioned album, this actually resembles music. That being said, I don't care for 92.1% of this album. There are a few minutes here and there that exhibit interesting sounds, sounds foreshadowing something like modern day progressive rock: The first 30sec of Track 4, Cross the Breeze, and 30sec in the last 1/3; 40sec of into in Track 6, Total Trash; As a token of good will, I'll give them all 2min 41sec of ambient track 8, Providence; and 1min 9sec of intro of track 9, Candle. That's 330 seconds—5.5 minutes—out of 70 minutes of music that was palatable. I struggled to finish listening to this album, and it's highly unlikely I will ever return to it.

Jag tycker verkligen inte om det här albumet. Alldeles för skrikig rock och alla låtar lät likadant, kommer inte ihåg namnet på en enda. Gillade inte nån låt alls så har ingen favorit

this is bad so very bad 1/5 maybe 0 if possible

Wayyy to many songs and each is like 7 mins long -5/10

Not my cup of noise

A cheerful version of Joy Division, but boring. Just a wall of noise.

Um albumzinho bem medíocre, nenhuma música marcante

Noisy

Dramatically pedestrian. Awful off key singing, its jarring, flat and tuneless. The tunes are borderline The Fall, its that bad. Geez they've gotten away with a lot of rubbish this lot, I know Goo has some good moments but this is dreadful. There's a whole lot of noise covering up their lack of any discernible talent. I made it to Hey Joni and cracked.

Ya know, you had a good song there for a bit. WTF is this shit? Jesus fuck. I only made it halfway. Unlistenable. The one star is generous.

It stressed me out.

Ear grating

Incoherent.

It started off being mediocre with the hope of getting better. But it most certainty did not. The album progressively got worst so much to the point it was on volume one where I could barely listen. Not only was the music just plain and boring but also the singing was intolerable. I don’t know which came first- the album or my bad day, but I think the former based on my recollection of it.

This album felt insanely long, and some songs were too long for no good reason. The melodies weren’t memorable enough to back up the excessive instrumental breaks that occurred on most of the songs. I’m trying to get into 80’s music more, but I don’t think I can get into this album. It’s just not for me.

Oh come on. I've already had to listen to two Sonic Youth albums. Mercy, album generator, I beg of you. Teenage Riot is just about tolerable. The rest is not. I liked this album less than E.V.O.L. and Goo, neither of which I liked much at all.

No, not my kind of music.

This fucking sucks. Hard pass. At least it makes you appreciate how great other artists are? On the other hand, I hate the velvet underground and Lou reed too, so… Sounds like Hawkwind or Motörhead without uniqueness.

Shit

I like other sonic youth stuff, this one not so much. Lot of jamming and unintelligible singing.

Rock alternativo. Se me hace pesadísima esta gente... Un 1.

Not a fan

Not a fan at all.

Un po' tipo gli smashing pumpkins, ma più piacevoli. Non sono male, ma mi dà la sensazione di essere permeato dal messaggio "Siamo giovani e incompresi" che trovo noioso.

Mostly not conducive to IT work for me Noteworthy track: Total Trash

Rock alternativo. Se me hace pesadísima esta gente...

I like to call this genre "sustain guitar depressed teenager music". The album "Peripheral Vision" by Turnover is another honorable case. Anyways: Not my case, this album.

sorry, but l didn't like this one at at. But I did listen to it.

First album I didn't make it through to the end. Not because of time constraints either....

ew

Boring grunge, so far.

awful

Like punk, but if I wanted to listen to punk I would listen to harder punk. Providence interlude was really cool though

this album really is "Total Trash".

This was truly not for me. Jam band but they don’t like harmony or anything catchy. I guess it was a moment in time but it’s not on my watch.

Not an album that i would listen to again.

Not to everyone's taste, but gave me the feeling of indie rock I missed so dearly.