Daydream Nation

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1,001 albums... I have a troubled relationship with Sonic Youth's middle-class, no-wave rebellion. I did buy Goo at the time and played it an awful lot for a year or two but I've never quite bought into them like many others do. That said, Teenage Riot is a lot of fun even if it sounds a bit like an early New Order track and Kim Gordon, in particular, has some great moments on this album. Overall, even though it outstays its welcome, I enjoyed it a lot more today than I have in the past (I did buy it a long time ago but it's spent most of its life on the shelf). Might dig it out again soon. Then again, might not.

Fine but not one that blows me away

Rockin' nerds. Overlong, but still a jam.

Tämä oli mininun kirjoissa vähemmän Sonic Youthmainen levy, kuin listalla aiemmin vastaan tulleet. Tuntui vähemmän taiteelliselta/kokeelliselta kevytversiolta.

Sonic Youthin paras ja arvostetuin levy. Vaikka ymmärrän levyn ja bändin suosion, en ole oikein koskaan päässyt täysillä sisälle yhtyeen musiikkiin. Hyvien indierock-kappaleiden seassa on liikaa kokeellista kikkailua. Erityisesti tämä korostuu Kim Gordonin laulamissa kappaleissa. Vaikka levy on parempi kuin edellinen SY listalla, ei tämä edelleenkään nouse suosikkieni joukkoon. Peruskolmonen on kuitenkin ansaittu.

Another difficult one. I feel like Sonic Youth is good for one real killer song on an album...and then the rest? Teen Age Riot is a bit of a bore for the first 80 seconds but it's quite good after that and has everything there is to like about the band - pace changes, off tempos, picking and strumming, distortion and wall of sound all in one. Add in blunt lyrics and the album should be really good. I wanted to like it more, but ultimately it felt too uneven. I'd say I really enjoyed about every third song (The Sprawl, Total Trash, Candle, and The Wonder/Hyperstation - they blended together) but the rest was sort of meh. Maybe the songs were too long (i.e., self-indulgent). I listened to it a bunch of times too, over a week. Super talented but I just couldn't get there. Makes me feel bad as an alternative rock fan but that's my conclusion.

I feel like I'm right at the intersection between the Velvet Underground and indie bands that followed like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. This album is a little too distorted and noisy for my delicate sensibilities, but the melodic instrumental stretches are nice.

Better than the last Sonic Youth album I had on here (Goo) but not one I can see myself coming back to. Too long to hold my attention. Teen Age Riot is a banger though.

Een hele zit. Hier moet je toch met iets meer aandacht naar luisteren. Dat lukte deze keer niet. Maar voordeel van de twijfel en dus 3 sterren.

Niet alle nummers zijn even goed, maar over het geheel is dit een van de beter beluisterbare Sonic Youth albums. Hier zijn het nog voor het merendeel echt nummers met een kop en staart, ipv eindeloos gepiel en gefeedback. En ook Kim Gordon's zang is hier nog best te pruimen, in tegenstelling tot het bronstige gehijg en gesteun op latere platen.

Better than I was expecting

Very minimal exposure to Sonic Youth beforehand. Probably better after a few listens.

teen age riot is well known but unlike melvyn im not into teens anymore

Was okay, not a big fan

7/10

Interesting sound although a little harsh for my taste

Probably need to come back to this one. It should be up my alley but it just seemed one-note and on the nose. Maybe that's the point. Teenage me would have loved this.

Hurtigt, råt, godt! Trods det amerikanske islæt, stadig godt.

Ahead of its time but clearly an inferior album to what they create later in their career.

Just too messy and unremarkable to be anything more than average

Quite heavy on the distortion, would like a little respite every now and then. Anger seems to bleed into the performance, sending decently composed tracks into bustops full of nuns.

not bad

I was surprised how much I liked this album and is another one that was way ahead of its time. The vocals were weak for me and prevented a 4 start rating

Great early grunge sounds supported by solid music throughout but I’m a sucker for vocals and both male/female leads are lacking. Great instrumentals, good variety of sounds, decent garage band lyrics.

This album is alright, I guess average. It doesn't sound bad, I just feel like most of the songs sound similar and it goes on for 70 minutes.

I think of Sonic Youth as a band that the kool kids were into. I get it, there is a lot of fun in the driving tempos and guitar work. I found myself enjoying quite a bit of the album…but not all of it. Perhaps it is my lack of youth, but the extended instrumental breaks and noise solos were a turn off for me.

This is a band that I've seen on other people's T-shirts but I've never really listened to. And now I've listened to them. It's not at all that I disliked them. Not at all. But I can't really say that I liked them either. The music is fine but didn't make me feel a lot of feelings: good, bad, or otherwise. The instruments are standard rock band. Songs are melodious but not really pretty. A lot of the singing is more like pitched talking or yelling. And again I'm not saying this is bad, just not for me. Here are the songs that I appreciated: Teen Age Riot, 'Cross the Breeze, Eric's Trip, and Total Trash.

I enjoyed listening to DAYDREAM NATION for the most part. The album combines punk with some catchy pop melodies and a lot of instrumental experimentation. The experimentation sometimes come off great, but there are a number of places where the songs and experiments go on a little too long. Still I did like a lot of the music. Some of the standouts for me were: "Teen Age Riot" - loved the opening and it is catchy "The Sprawl" - especially the ending "Total Trash" - except the ending (experimenting was a little too long) "Candle" - pretty good with some catchy lyrics "B) Hyperstation" - this one is interesting and I think at times would not be among my favorites (along with the other two in the trilogy at the end) -bordering on too much - but I appreciated the odd tunings, lyrics, and crazy sounds they were getting out of their instruments At times I found myself wishing that the distorted, fuzzy guitars were cleaner and let the melodies shine through a bit more. I found the listening experience better on higher-quality headphones than on speakers. The fuzzy guitars came out better and I was able to distinguish more subtle bits of the music. This seemed equally true playing on quality computer monitors, home stereo or car stereo. This album is definitely ambitious and really feels like it was clearing a path for a lot of 90s music. DAYDREAM NATION likely won't become a regular listen for me. Still I very much appreciated the opportunity to make its acquaintance.

Quite powerful, but prob won't listen again

Kind of droning one-note. Pretty typical of the genre.

Every song almost sounds good.

So…I gave it 2** initially, which is wrong. But is it a 4****? Maybe not yet for me, could do with more hooks. But interesting and I will listen again.

I can totally see why people would enjoy this (I might well have done so myself back when it was released) but it's not for me, I'm afraid.

So, this is our first of 5 Sonic Youth albums! This one reminds me a bit – believe it or not – of Hawkwind, the way they lay down a riff and stay with it for a long time – though Hawkwind had a crisper guitar sound. Lots of dark energy and good lyrics. The lead singer(s) sound at times like Lou Reed and/or Iggy Pop. I would give it a higher mark without the long-drawn-out guitar feedback endings, though I know that’s is their shtick.

Moments of greatness, moments of droning that is grating to my ears.

I have a couple sonic youth CDs, bought used well after they were in their prime. I've listened to them here and there but nothing has ever grabbed me. I think this record is consistent with that. This is a band that people assume I love because I'm in FAWNN. Not true. But there are moments. I see this record was made in 1988. That's impressive and refreshing. In the context of all the shit rock music being made in 1988, I'm thankful.

If you're going to be a punk band, keep your songs in the 2-4 minute range. There's no need to "explore" these songs and drag them out to 7-8 minutes. Having said that, the ones the fell around 3 minutes, I actually enjoyed. Hey Joni, Candle, Kissability - pretty good stuff. The other songs were mostly great punk songs, just broken up with a bunch of unnecessary nonsense. I can definitely hear how they influenced 90s punk/rock though - I'll give them that.

I've already had Sonic Youth Goo come up earlier, so my reaction to this is similar. I'm not wild about "noise rock", but I see the influence on bands that came later. I like Goo better than this album, but just barely. 3.2/5

Great to listen to for historical reasons but I'd probably need some more time with it to fully appreciate the musicianship. Don't fret, I'm as dissapointed as anyone given how much I was looking forward to listening to this album.

All the things I like about Sonic Youth are here, but then there's sort of twice as much as I actually want? I love any band that can make noise entertaining and Sonic Youth has given me some of the best noise I've ever heard. Still, this one does go on a bit.

It’s just okay.

Meh, ei silti mitään paskaa.

Leuk album. Lekker voor in de auto of op een festival.

Never heard this one before, I liked those rhythm changes and themes but it drags a bit

Not as good as Goo

Really good album…tad too long. Almost 4 stars but I’m going with three

Would really give it a 3.5 - 3.75. Good rocking album that wears its influence on 90's grunge on its sleeve. Does it belong on the list? YES Average: ★★★ 1. "Teen Age Riot" ★★★★ 2. "Silver Rocket" ★★★★ 3. "The Sprawl" ★★★ 4. "Cross the Breeze"★★★★★ 5. "Eric's Trip" ★★ 6. "Total Trash" ★★ 7. "Hey Joni" ★★★ 8. "Providence" ★ 9. "Candle" ★★★ 10. "Rain King" ★★★ 11. "Kissability" ★★★ 12. "Trilogy: The Wonder" ★★★ 13. "Trilogy: Hyperstation" ★★★★ 14. "Trilogy: Eliminator Jr." ★★★★

Non ho mai sentito un album dei Sonic Youth per intero, questa era la prima volta. Non mi sono dispiaciuti, ma è come se le mie orecchie siano un po' sature quando si tratta di queste cose. Forse sto invecchiando e sono stanco. Il sound è comunque molto familiare perché indubbiamente hanno influenzato molti gruppi negli anni a venire. Molti dei quali tra i miei preferiti. Li ho trovati molto più sperimentali di quello che mi aspettavo conoscendo solamente le greatest hits. Voto: 3

Bland

Fun album. Early alternative.

Very aggressively punk rock, enjoyed the first half of the album

In conclusione: Qua sono in seria difficoltà. I Sonic Youth sono praticamente i padri spirituali dell'80% dei gruppi che amo e infatti quando iniziano a fare quei riffetti di chitarra zozzi e disperati io mi sciolgo come se avessi di nuovo sedici anni. Però non è un album di facile ascolto, anzi ho fatto sicuramente fatica, i pezzi come struttura mi sembrano molto "abletoniani": sequenze ripetute per più tempo del dovuto. Però questo gli dà anche quella qualità ipnotica. Il vero punto su cui sono in difficoltà però è il fatto che lo spirito punk mi fa arrivare in modo diverso anche la struttura strascinata. Cioè non è del tipo "non siappiamo scrive" è del tipo "non ce ne frega niente di scrivere secondo i canoni e non ce ne frega niente che a te non te piace", cioè la pesantezza è parte del messaggio artistico, è una pesantezza spontanea e quindi anche comunicativa. Detto questo molti pezzi suonano un po' troppo come uno sfogo personale, per quanto sincero, piuttosto che un genuino tentativo di comunicare. Mi sa che mi vedo costretto a dare un 3 anche se moralmente sarebbe un 4.

Good for a listen through. Loved the energy, at least in the music. Although many of the songs were indistinguishable. Vocals were generally lazy or spoken which kinda killed the vibe for me. Also could have done without the longer tracks that devolved into distortion and screeching etc.

3, solid grunge with a great opener.

Interesting but each track similar to the previous one

Can see how it's contributed to the evolution of punk. Punk sounds and beats but much mellower, more melodic. Almost a bit Preoccupations - ish. Enjoyed it but didn't quite feel enough for a 4. 3/5

This is an album I wish I had as a kid, for sure.

Just, but just, crosses that threshold into “nice music”

Every tune sounds almost identical to the one before it. Not necessarily a bad thing but it means nothing stands out...

Just not into sonic youth these days..lamb chops though

Tracks - Teen Age Riot Candle

I enjoyed this more than Goo. I won't say I'm in love, but there's some interesting bits in there...

noisy in a good way

its aight

Some interesting stuff in there. Great musicality. A bit avant garde for my liking though.

I’m familiar with Sonic Youth - primarily the “Dirty” album which I listened to frequently back in the 90s. I like this album - it has a solid sense of urgency - that feeling of REALLY needing to catch that flight, but for some reason there are 300+ kids in band uniforms already in the security line at the airport. Overall recording quality seems kind of muddy, and the album grated on my nerves at times. I like it / I hate it - might have been what they were going for. Favorite track = Rain King. I will listen to Sonic Youth again, but Daydream Nation won’t be my first choice.

Not massively taken by this but liked the energy and interesting song structures.

A good racket. I enjoyed it without thinking I'll rush back to it or remembering any tracks in particular. 5.8/10

Heavy,gloomy guitar based music, not something I would seek out but glad I listened to it. Interest guitars that remind me of some of Radiohead/smashing pumpkins used in later albums.

A petite dose

Su mejor disco, pero aun así me acaba saturando

pretty good, bit too heavy rock for me

I find Sonic youth hard to love if I am honest

Hatte immer ein wenig Angst vor der SPEX wie auch vor Sonic Youth, dieser vatikanischen Obrigkeit in Sachen Alternative Rock. Zu lange den Bogen gemacht um diese Ikonen und sie nur nebenher wahrgenommen; peripher rangemacht mittels Dekonsruktion dessen, was ich auf der eigenen Suche nach spannender Musik immer als Inspiration genannt bekam und nun teilweise erkennen kann (die Field Recording Ästhetik „Providence“ wird ein Jahrzehnt später ein GY!BE Markenzeichen). Ihr Noise Gewand durchwirkt ein klarer Popfaden. Ich vermute, es gibt sperrigeres Material, aber „Daydream Nation“ will bei allem Gezerre und Gezeter schon sehr gefallen. Ein durchaus erstaunlicher Spagat, aber so viel Ehrfurcht früher herrschte, so wenig Begeisterung kommt nun auf. Wovor man sich als Kind fürchtete, provoziert heut nur ein nachsichtiges Lächeln Furchtlose 3.0

Merke, wie wenig ich mich mit dem Gesamtwerk von Sonic Youth auskenne. Wirklich gehört habe ich eigentlich nur die hier, Goo und Dirty. Und würde sie im persönlich Ranking umgekehrt platzieren. Hier gefällt mir (natürlich) Eric‘s Trip am besten, The Sprawl am wenigsten. Weitere Ausführungen spare ich mir für die (hoffentlich kommende) nächste Runde Sonic Youth. Vielleicht bin ich dann noch mehr Fan! 3,4.

Background Rage, but it has its place

"Teen Age Riot" "Silver Rocket" "Candle" "Providence"

Ok album

El sonido estaba ahí antes de la explosión del grunge. Les faltaba tal vez una visión más comercial, canciones más cortas por ejemplo. Creo que como artistas les daba igual. Se deja escuchar pero no creo que sea algo para tener en bucle.

It’s was fine… some good tracks and some that didn’t do anything for me

The drummer was the only thing that really saved it for me

This was okay. Second album by Sonic Youth which is a bit disappointing. I guess there are a number of artist repeats on here which is surprising to me given over a hundred years of the world's music but whatever. It was about the same imo as the last one.

i have mixed feelings. it’s cool but also just sort of sounds like noise? i might have to try some more from them.

Pretty good. Not a huge fan of the dissonant/noise stuff but I do appreciate some of their music.

"Teenage Riot" is an all-time favorite of mine. Great start to the album but the 2nd half is leaves something to be desired.

Fav song: Eric’s Trip

Liking the straight-ahead indie punk thing they do. "The Sprawl" made me think of Parquet Courts, esp that talk-singy thing at the beginning. Started to get long and repetitive about halfway through. Getting worn down by the consistently dire vibe. Really starting to hate it toward the end - if it ended 5 songs ago I might have rated higher.

Not really my thing, but there are some fun songs and interesting sounds in here. They definitely have a different sound which is somewhere between alt rock and punk.

Enjoyable besides the obnoxious vocals

Not bad, also not memorable.

Why am I not more excited about Sonic Youth? I know I listened to them back in the day, this is music I like, but.. I've always just been 'meh' on them. I'm forcing myself to give them a studied listen this time. Still, I know they are important for when/where they are in the genre... just no spark for me.

7

Nice indie/psychadelic rock, but sometimes bit lengthy

Didn't get to listen to all of it but it was dynamic and varied, which I liked. I also like female singers that don't sing all breathy with baby voices. I need to finish the album!

Better than what I was expecting, some good stuff in there.

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Catchy guitar riffs but very flat album overall with not much progression in sound. Live performances are great

I always only liked some of their songs

1988. Key Songs: Teen Age Riot, Candle

Rock. Nothing really notable about it. Somewhat easy to listen to.

I'd never heard the full album before but I think I've definintely come across something from it before... it's alright, some of it heads towards a lot of the shoegazey metal stuff I don't mind but overall it was a bit long. Come Across was a really good song, but the singing wasn't great. Either way would listen to a few tunes from it again.

3

2.5

Meh

actually, i respectfully didn't enjoy this one. too monotone all the way through, & the disengaged yelling becomes grating pretty early on.

Sonic Youth é sinonimo de Marcelo. Apesar disso é um banda com a qual eu nunca consegui ter o click e tem uma sonoridade que a mim me deixa por vezes desconfortavel apesar da energia. Certamente haverá mais albuns deles e terei mais uma oportunidade de aprender a gostar

I've never really understood the fuss about these guys.

Ugh, I want to like Sonic Youth so badly, but I just don't. This was literally just noise. On paper, I should love this band and know how big their influence is. But this album was such a struggle to get through. I just don't get it.

I can hear why this is an important album and how it is a precursor to a lot of 90s stuff to come. But I’m not enjoying it at all… 2

certain parts of some of the songs i liked but not enough to make this album enjoyable for me. I really did not like the vocals on this album which is what truly sealed its fate in my opinion

"Total Trash" was alright. Overall so far I'm 2 stars and this is my 4th Sonic Youth album on this list.

As with the other Sonic Youth albums on the list, there's lots of interesting sounds coming out of the instruments, but then the vocals are a let down. 2 stars

Sonic Youth just doesn't do it for me.

Too much yelling, not for me.

It was better than the two other Sonic Youth albums I've had to endure, but they only garnered a total of 3 stars from me so it wasn't particularly difficult to better that. It started out reasonably well, but towards the end it dropped off.

Ei nyt ihan hirveetä, mutta kappaleet on jotenkin sellaisia että niistä ei jää mitään mieleen tai käteen. Ainoo mikä jäi mieleen oli Providence koska se oli tosi erilainen välisoitto. Tunnelma semmonen vähän villi ja se on ok, mut vähän on vaan liian junnaavaa. Parhaat: 'Cross the Breeze, Providence

Given the hipness of Sonic Youth back in the day, I fully gave this a try, really wanting to like this. Teen Age Riot started so promising, but the rest of the album really disappointed. It just sounded noisy and directionless. And long, oh so long. After what seemed like 45 minutes I was shocked that it was only in the fourth song… and still ten to go. Sadly this album is the definition of double album fatigue.

Kinda of depressing and slow but ok.

This band gets worse as they age and are not worthy of three albums on the 1001 Must Hear List. Daydream Nation starts out with the only good song on the album and just goes downhill from there. (2.3*s) Sonic Noise (again.)

I was not excited to see Sonic Youth show up for a 4th time on this list. Their prior albums have been complete misses for me. Daydream Nation has been the best of the bunch but even when it peaks it is still a washed out mess of noise rock that just doesn't move the needle for me. At times the jams are OK I guess, but even those sound like a bit like a garage band playing warm up exercises a lot of the time. After 3 stinkers, 70 additional minutes of mediocre noise rock did very little to convince otherwise that I'm just not a fan. I wasn't there when this was contemporary so there must be an additional side of the story as to how or why these guys are held in high regard. I need to find a Sonic Youth fan to walk me through this as so far I'm completely baffled as to how Sonic Youth continues to show up on this list. Even despite this album being the best of their albums so far it is still a marginal entry for me. Sonic Youth has officially taken over the mantle of the most overrated band on this list for me which is impressive when you have far too many Smiths and Morrissey albums that could be axed/skipped. Keep Daydream Nation on the list for their legacy and then do us a favor and then mercy kill the rest of their entries to save us the time and feature better, more interesting albums/acts. 1.51 stars

I liked a couple of songs (computer age, within you without you, silver rocket, the sprawl, cross the breeze) but not enough to listen to a double album. 2 stars

It’s not just because I can’t hang with the noise, though I understand that’s all some people will really hear in this album. But I did enjoy some of the punk stuff like Eliminator Jr and Rain King. But overall, just because it’s weird doesn’t mean it’s good. And quite a bit of it is just boring weird, which is not my kind of weird. And just because an approach to an album is influential in its time (noise) doesn’t mean it holds up. It’s often an unenjoyable listen. It’s interesting when I put on my cultural history hat, fun to imagine how disruptive and fresh it was once, how this impacted the 90s, etc., but that’s about it. Can we just be honest about that? Do we have to revere all music just because it was historically important? Some music is just better for performance than albums. I’m sure this would have been really cool to see live in 88. As a front to back album though, will not be relistening

La instrumentación está buena, pero las letras quedan perdidas en la melodía. Supongo que es a propósito para generar el efecto del daydreaming.

I don't think I'm ever gonna be a Sonic Youth fan. Someone on here described it as "nonsensical twatery" which I think hit the nail on the head

Never liked their sound...still don't. Irritating whiney punkish rock.

Good bones. Flawed in the finer details. Lyrics are drab and full of cynicism, drums are empty and hollow. Too much noise. But in '88 this pushed some buttons and set people up to be late 80's punks. But in the big '26 almost 3 generations of punk developed after that. Another right time right place album Gen X creams the blue jeams for this band and album but it simply doesn't hold up 38 years later to anyone else who wasn't there.

there were a few songs i could sit through but in general hated it

Partially known. I prefer the music to the noise. After awhile, it all sounds the same.

Meh. Still not a fan.

Sometimes they would have me and then the song would make a left turn and devolve into unpleasant noise or it would go on way too long or both. Not a fan.

Another album where each song starts off promising but then goes on too long, slowly devolving into dissonance.

4/10 Very disappointing - just a lot of noise. 70 minutes for no reason as well. If I were scoring on influence and importance, it might score higher, but I'm not

Quite forgettable. This album really is all over the place, there is just too much of everything on here, its lacking focus. 2/5

I'm just not that interested in the Sonic Youth sound And I definitely didn't need over an hour of it

Dull and repetive anti music that squacks and squeals in the back ground. Again why do they need 6 minutes to say the little they have in 3 minutes. Find his voice very annoying as well. I thought I would have liked this but alas no Who thought what we need is a double album. We haven't enough songs. I know let's extend a lot of them for no good reason.

Gen X Slop

Distorted guitars with added dissonance. I liked parts of the clashes and chaos but it just goes on for way too long. The lady singing feels more like shouting and it does start to grate after the first phrase. Album duration felt like an age to listen to, especially with numerous 7 minute tracks. Noisy for the sake of noise. 2/5

Enjoyed the prior Sonic Youth album much more than this one

A lot of strumming making a racket I often lost what was going on in the song. They have a few great songs where I think the riffs are clearer.

Not for me

Eh...

Lite för långdragen för mig, inte bara sett till antalet låtar utan också att varje låt inte kändes riktigt distinkt från en annan

Lo escuché mientras terminaba la entrega

Totally get that this was revolutionary and inspired a bunch of other musicians but this sounds like noise to me. I don’t get the appeal, and I do like alternative rock music. (2)

maso meeeee

It’s aight. Not exactly my cup of tea, but high energy youth angst is a vibe, for sure

After my first listen, I really wasn’t keen. After a second listen, I like it slightly more, but it’s still very much not for me. I can respect this album for being highly influential, but even the better tracks like ‘Teen Age Riot’ I thought were just okay. Though there are some more melodic tracks, overall it’s too noisy/abrasive for my taste (I found Kim Gordon’s vocals particularly annoying), and too long, especially given lots of the tracks are pretty samey. Noisier tracks can be effective in small doses, but over 70 minutes I just found it rather grating.

Nope. Sorry. Couldn’t cope.

Didn’t age well

It had more talent than Robert Wyatt, but it was still just a lot of noise to me:/

A couple songs were ok but not a great album

Some of the songs had real promise but then they would just turn into a distorted mess. And it just kept going and going...

I’m disappointed that I couldn’t get into it. Heard good things about Sonic Youth but it didn’t capture me at all.

Heard it before. This album is pure Sonic Youth but sadly I'm in no mood to listen to them today. Teen Age Riot is a banger though 2/5

me standing at the back of a gig with a warm tin trying not to yawn while lots of people with cool hair very earnestly 'get it' at the front.

Highlight: Teen Age Riot

Enjoyed it in parts, prefer Dirty as a more rounded album and maybe more accessible than this one. Wanted to give 2.5 to this one.

I'm not that familiar with the groups work but parts of the album were quite a good.

Every Sonic youth song starts off sounding promising and halfway through turns obnoxious.

I didn’t get a chance to listen to this album yesterday, and by didn’t get a chance I mean I didn’t want to. We’ve had them before. I gave it a 2 then and I’m giving it a 2 again for the same reasons.

A bit different from the first Sonic Youth album we reviewed but a couple of the tracks kept the same distorted and chaotic guitar sound that I didn’t care for the first time around. The music was tolerable on this listen but the lyrics were pretty bad and the vocals were absent of talent. I’m still not a fan of the band but the rock & roll kept me from wanting to fast forward past every single song this time around.

I’m over this whole “wall of sound” thing. So, I’m gonna write my review in “wall of sound” style just to regain a little sanity. Here goes: People build walls either to keep things in or to keep them out so they are usually made of stronger stuff than sound I prefer my walls made of wood and sheet rock or brick and mortar but almost anything substantial will do in a pinch but you need something palpable to make an effective wall remember Wall of Voodoo, the 80s band who had that cool song Mexican Radio I’m on the Mexican ray-dee-ohh I’m on the Mexican whoa-oh radio Whoa Joey Lawrence said “Whoa” on television Yeah that was his character’s catch phrase on Blossom the character Blossom was played by Mayim Bialik who also hosted Jeopardy a game show which takes place in front of a giant wall The Wall is an album by Pink Floyd and also a movie that was about the second world war but also a rock star and drugs it was pretty confusing also confusing is the whole “play this album while watching the Wizard of Oz” thing or was that Dark Side of the Moon I’m not sure but I know that a lot of drugs werre involved in both albums speaking of drugs I think you have to be pretty stoned to enjoy more than a few minutes of Sonic Youth’s music I mean seriously chemically enhanced all I can imagine is people spinning around in circles while listening to this music but they’re wearing turtlenecks and berets and shit I’m not sure but I know it definitely is not my scene and if I were to end up at one of their concerts I wouldn’t be dancing, I’d be standing … against the wall.

Sometimes I enjoy the lengthy soundscapes Sonic Youth birth, but I really need to be in the mood. Dirty hit the nail on the head, captured the sound but didn't overstay their welcome. This album has the sound but ironically like a daydream it is a little aimless and wandering. And that is a good thing if you are in the mood.

I had a hard time with this. Noisy and boring.

Ok so this was a slog at times…and at others it peaked my curiosity. I can’t say I won’t be back but not sure I’m up for another listen anytime soon.

4/10

They really are not my thing. It’s a lot of the same song over and over. It is also rather noisy and not as melodic.

Meh

Fik hørt halvdelen. Det støjer for meget til, at det rigtigt bider sig fast.

Grunge, and not so great at that

Sigh… it’s Sonic Youth—critics’ catnip, a tangle of art-punk guitar clatter that promises revelation but mostly delivers endurance tests. When they ease up on the avant-garde throat-clearing, you can hear the band they might’ve been: “Teenage Riot” rides a relatively straightforward groove that almost passes for alt-rock accessibility, while “Total Trash” taps into a scrappy 60s garage-band pulse that suggests these noise sculptors actually like rock music. “Candle” opens with a pretty arpeggiated guitar figure and blooms into an intriguing soundscape, though the vocals remind you why their admirers call it “challenging” and the rest of us call it something else. Ambitious, sure—but ambition alone doesn’t make the feedback worth the wait.

Kinda boring outside of Teen Age Riot

Not a fan. Always thought this band was more noise than music.

Didn't make it halfway. There was enough mediocrity to avoid the 1 star but man that wasn't very fun - Wacky start. Better find its way from here... - 1h10m ... I'm not feeling great about this one - Okay wait vocalist is super chill. If this holds I can vibe - Nvm that got lame fast. 1h 10m of this will result in a 1-2 star rating

Been dreading this one for a while. I have really varied feelings on individual tracks, so I think for this one I'm going to rate/comment on them individually. - "Teenage Riot" - 4 - considering how much I was dreading this album, this track was a surprise. I enjoyed it quite a lot. Good start! - "Silver Rocket" - 1 - hated the vocals, hated the noise section, don't see the point. Fuck off. - "The Sprawl" - 2 - honestly just found this one boring, and didn't like the vocals that much (they were better than Silver Rocket though), they're (presumably deliberately) flat, and I find it really grating - "'Cross the Breeze" - 2 - largely similar to "The Sprawl" - "Eric's Trip" - 3 - bit mixed, not my favourite, the intro was bad, the rest of it was fine. - "Total Trash" - 2 - Started as a 3, ended as a 1. - "Hey Joni" - 3. - "Providence" - 1 - absolute dogshit. - "Candle" - 2 - this one is pretty inoffensive, stoner rock, would have been a 3 if not for the shitty noise section, I honestly can't understand why anyone would want to listen to that. - "Rain King" - 2 - not my vibe. - "Kissability" - 2 - Return of the Flat Female Vocals... I kinda liked the energy in this one but it's pretty repetitive and the discordance is just grating - "A) the Wonder" - 2 - repetitive, flat tuned crap. Grating vocals. - "B) Hyperstation" - 1 - really repetitive, irritating riff, irritating vocals. I feel like if you gave a few random emo kids electric guitars and told them to write and perform a song, it'd sound something like this track. - "Z) Eliminator Jr." - 2 - haha we're so quirky and edgy we skipped to Z. Oh yay more shitty vocals. The backing is energetic and has moments but mostly it's bad. Averages out at a low 2, which I think is about right versus my previous ratings. I'm not going to listen to this again, and I'm not looking forward to this band's other entries.

Teen Age Riot was a great song. It almost reminds me of a song that would've played in a 90s-2000s coming-of-age movie. I don't like how the songs are so long. The rest of the album, I did not enjoy.

Gehört nicht in diese Sammlung.

I thought Sonic Youth were a grunge band, not one that laid the groundwork during the 80s. Elements of a less tuneful Pixies in the sound. Give them credit for influencing grunge scene to come, but I didn't love the album.

i think i might be a sonic youth hater. except you incinerate, i can never hate you.

I don't know why - because it feels like it should be My Kind of Music - but Sonic Youth has always left me cold. Nothing about it grabs me.

the noise part of the noise rock was a bit too much

# Album Name: Daydream Nation # Artist: Sonic Youth # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Great opening song. Most people will have heard Teenage Age riot. Sadly, thats where the fun ended. Theres too many 7 minute tracks which just seem to go on and on and on and on some more. It really doesnt need to be that complicated. Too long, too much noise. Very dissapointed because ive heard a lot about this album. # Top Tunes: Teenage Age riot / # Would I listen to it again? No

Listened to half Not my thing

O álbum até começou bem, com algumas músicas numa pegada de punk clássico, mas rapidamente caiu no mesmo problema de álbuns que tentam ser experimentais demais, que é ser zero musical. Muitas bandas dessa época foram nessa vibe de fazer músicas tenebrosas, com passagens extremamente dissonantes e falar que era proposital. Desculpa de gente que tem preguiça de aprender a tocar direito. O fato de uma música se chamar "Total Trash" diz muito sobre isso. A verdade é que várias outras músicas podiam ter esse título também. Melhor do álbum: "Teen Age Riot". Pior do álbum: "Total Trash".

it wasn’t bad just not my thing

It's a no from me dawg

I grew up listening to a lot of punk and now I find I have outgrown it. The albums I listened to in my youth are great, as they bring back memories of friends and experiences. I never listened to Sonic Youth and find it hard to listen to now. Its not bad, just not for me.

Pas convaincu par la proposition, très lisse

Didn’t really do anything for me

In general, I'm not a big Sonic Youth fan, but the first half of this album was surprisingly listenable, for the most part.

no m gusto

Unable to lean on nostalgia, I found this album too noisy and a little boring.

Most of them start well, but they all eventually descend to noise. I wanted to like it but just couldn't.

I am 8 tracks in and hoping for something to grab my interest besides Teen Age Riot. Perhaps my receptors have been scrambled by pop music and sugary cereals, but I have found many tracks to be too long with little payoff. The singing has also been unconvincing. There is certainly something to be said about using dissonance to provide contrast and interest within music. 3 minutes of continuous dissonance however can start to grate, especially if the reprieve isn't stellar. Update: I enjoyed Hyperstation. Cool lyrics, nice musical progression, and while long, it felt like it actually had a reason to be. I also thought the vocals on Eliminator, Jr. were fun. Going through the album again, I think one of my biggest problems with it is that many of the tracks sound like the same song being played at different tempos.

I see its influence but the heavy distortion / punk leaning sounds are not for me. Select songs were impactful but I got lost in the noise from song to song.

A thrilling collection of guitar ideas bravely stretched to the length of a workday. Influential, sure—but sometimes feels like the band forgot to stop tuning and accidentally hit record.

Once again, not what I was expecting. Disappointing.

Yeah, that was boring.

Ei tää ny

Vähän oli erikoista räimettä. ⭐️⭐️

Olipa renkutusta

Sonic Youth may have been an inspiration to others, but there is a reason they never rose to prominence like the bands that were inspired by them. Quirky, undefined, experimental. This album lacks anything cohesive and intriguing. It’s ultimately forgettable. To be found and perhaps enjoyed only by the most devout disciples of SY.

This is the fourth fucking noise rock album I’ve gotten in a row and I still don’t like the genre. I had a little hope because the previous sonic youth record I got (dirty) was a record I enjoyed a lot. This however I did not enjoy.

Noise - not the good kind

I just don’t like listening to it very much.

yarisinda fenalik basti

First song was too long but their best

No es mi rollo

I was enjoying it until the cacophony that was Silver Rocket… wtf was that. Overall it was just mediocre nondescript and forgettable noise. No thin and

Likes the sound not the vocals

Just not or me. Punk rock is a sound that’s hard for me to enjoy and resonate with. While I understand its cultural significance the sound just isn’t my cup of tea.

I didn't enjoy this album. Others might.

So fuzzy it makes me anxious...like ASMR but bad. Definitely a me problem, but a problem nonetheless

Noise

So confusing

Teenage riot is such a strong opener. The rest is somewhat sludgy noise, not so into it

Meh

Sonic youth are a band I’ve always felt i should like more than i do. There is nothing here than changes that position. Everything is there to suggest i should love this album, but i dont. I dont hate it, it just doesn’t connect for me

Sonic Youth: a band where I am familiar with the name yet am not convinced I'd ever previously heard anything by them. I had about 4 false starts trying to listen to this album. Just kept starting it and then getting distracted and doing something else, then picking it up again, then thinking I wanted to listen to something else instead, then picking it up AGAIN. So many 7 minute songs of intermittently screeching, then noodling, guitars. I have fairly consistently not been a big fan of post-punk so I just think this wasn't really for me. I objectively know that Sonic Youth, and this album in particular, had a massive influence on music in this era, and I sort of liked Thurston Moore's talky vocals, but I have no desire to listen to it again. 2/5

Don't remember listening

Trop de morceaux qui m"ont gonflé

Very influential, but not the best by them

More crud

Not my fav

Not my thing. Too much dissonant, annoying guitar too often. Some times tapping along and then yuck.

Went on forever with no real highlight on the album

Noise, lots of noise, much too long. We are rebels, woo!

Mood bedingt biz zu hektisch aber ich denke ah andere Täg / Wuchenenänd / whatever chöni scho spass ha ah dem Album und dem Punkige. Aber it's what it's und da mer de aktuelli mood had au als Faktor mit ihbezieht chani grad ned über zwei Fieber Daydream drüber gah.

Unremarkable

"Oh, this is just great. First Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, then Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth's in my cooler. Get out of there!" Well at least now I get the third part of the quote. Pretty sure Noise Rock is not my thing though...

I really wanted to like the album, I liked the beginning for its punky vibe which I can appreciate and reminds me of SSX. But then as i kept on listening I realized it’s not for me, too noisy, too many guitars. Sad but true

I really want to like this album more, as I know a lot of people who really enjoy it, who think I would enjoy it as well but I just don't get it. Every time I start to like something, like an interesting guitar part, some slightly off-key, monotone vocal will come in, or some wall of feedback will crash in unexpectedly and ruin it for me. It also feels unnecessarily long. I do respect their uncompromising vision but it's just not for me. I do enjoy a lot of bands that were obviously inspired by them though, so who knows 🤷‍♂️

I can see the appeal, but I’m just not into it right now.

Listen to some of their 90s stuff so wasn't to familiar with this. Like the 90s stuff a little better,. 2.5/5

Bit grungey for me

Well, I guess the good news is that I made twice through this album- which hasn’t always been the case with some of the suggestions on this list. I was never into Sonic Youth and after listening to this album I don’t think my opinion has changed. They are ok, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to them. Struggling between a 2 or a 3 for this one.

This album is 70% distortion.

Meh, I don’t know. I tried and failed to get into them decades ago. Just lost in the wall of noise for much of this album, though some moments did break through.

Too much noise for my taste, although I'll stick with "Sprawl"

Just not very good,

Listens: 2 (barely) Standout Tracks: None I did not care for this album at all. I am not impressed by Sonic Youth (second album on the List so far) and I really hope there isn't a third. There's a lot of noise going on; it felt disorganized, disjointed, dissonant and dizzying listening to this. At 1h 10m I wanted very much for the album to be half as long.

Post-Punk is a bit weird. This is the second Sonic Youth album, and I don't get the appeal. They also described it as "Noise-Rock" and that makes sense. The most traditional punk song I think it Silver Rocket. That one will be going on the playlist. Outside that, it's more miss than hit for me. 2stars

I imagined a Kids In The Hall Sketch, where they're a terrible band but they think they're really good, and they introduce the song: "This one is called, 'I Rode The Bus Today'" and it opens just like "Hey Joni" and after the intro they sing, "I rode the bus today because my car is in the shop! " and then the song ends with a noisy clamor to no applause from the people in the coffee shop. It's a running gag through the episode, where each time they introduce a different song, "This one is called, 'I Rode My Bike Today'" and they play a different intro because it's a 'different song', but then it's just "Hey Joni" again and he sings, "I rode my bike today because I missed the bus!" and the song ends in the same clamor to bewildered looks from a couple of other people in the produce section of the grocery store. Each time it's in a different unusual location - a backyard barbecue, an office building amongst the cubes, the tarmac at an an airport - and each time it's a 'different' song, but they're really all the same and equally as unpleasant to listen to, and no one understands why they're there and think they're so great. That's what this album felt like to me.

Overly monotonistic sound.

Thought I liked this after the first couple of songs, but I could only take so much mediocre indie-punk-rock featuring discordant noisy guitars for so long.

Can hear their influence on a generation of bands but doesn’t connect with me.

Pretty good!

not my jam

Didn’t do anything for me.

idk idk. i really thought this would be my thing and it's just not. ok im halfway through and im just not interested :( what im learning about myself through this project is that i love pop music and vocals and melodies. i never imagined i'd be someone to give Simple Minds a 4 and this a 2 but i am! that's just who i am!

i can understand why this was so foundational for indie rock and i agree with its placement on this list but if i'm being honest it was a complete and total slog. i thought i liked one song off of it but apparently that was just my spotify on shuffle playing something else.

Struggled to get into this one

No engagement. Wasn't awful.

Meh.

Could never get into Sonic Youth, even though they have that strong association with neil Young. This was no different Some songs were good and loud, and some were just loud.

Didn’t listen to all of it, but not exactly blown away by the first few tracks.

Some of the vocals are not my favorite but overall not a bad album. I think I'd like it more if it was only instrumental. May just not be for me.

Not great everything samey, liked A the wonder the most

Oh no 70 minutes of Sonic Youth definitely not looking forward to this at all. Let's see if this album can break the streak of the other four albums getting a 2. Can't believe we have 5 Sonic Youth albums on here. To be fair Teen Age Riot is actually a pretty good song. But in classic Sonic Youth fashion they put their best song as the first on the album. Did not like too much after that, just a bunch of noisey dribble. Probably their best album so far, maybe it is because I listened on a speaker rather than headphones, but still not enough to get it out of a 2. We will go 2.8

Had its moments but way too long. I hope we're done with Sonic Youth.

This album was OK. It definitely had a lot of noise. I had a hard time focusing in on this album but didn't actively dislike it. I just didn't find it very interesting. 4/10

Another iconic band that I have mixed feelings on. Some cool ideas on here, but I just can't get into the whole Noise rock thing. I needed a bit more structure.

Não me cativou. Estava à espera de sentir uma ligação boa a este álbum, tinha as expectativas super altas, mas não aconteceu e tenho pena. Vou tentar dar uma outra oportunidade no futuro…

I know Sonic Youth is a legendary band but this isn't the genre for me. Didn't enjoy it and found it to be pretty grating. 3.5/10 (1.75/5)

it's ok, not catchy

Comes off like a chaotic jam session from a local amateur band where the microphone’s on the fritz and there's just a lot of noise. It feels more like an experiment than a cohesive album.

Not for me

why is this on the list

2/5. Boutique Punk is the only thing that comes to mind when listening to this album. And I don't like punk for the most part.

Bad

Not really my cuppa, never was into them back then. Listened again and I still don't really like them.

Not great

Cool

surprisingly ok.

Mid

Nem rossz, de nem is jó Ugyanolyan a hangszerelése az összes számnak: semmilyen

mmmmmmmmmm sometimes i felt it and other times i was bored as hell LMAO

I don’t get Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth you could never make me like you.

I still don’t like Sonic Youth. This album was mixed horribly and was too long too

I have been hearing SY songs since the beginning, but never really warmed to this album I did enjoy many moments - suprising sounds, phrases and arrangements, but no one entire song here really hit an emotional chord with me Teen Age Riot came the closest, but still not a tune that I'm going to want to seek out for another listen any time soon Songs from other albums have made it into my collection over the years, but this one is a swing and a miss for me - I vote for EVOL, Goo or Washing Machine over Daydream Nation every time

Það er einhver lína, sem ég hef í hausnum, þar sem hljómsveit er öðrum hvorum megin við að vera góð eða bara að spila eitthvað rugl. Þessi sveit jaðrar við línuna en er mestmegnis röngum megin við hana.

I dunno if having had to listen to two of their albums already colored my opinion (it probably has), but I hate Sonic Youth. Yes, this album (like some of their others) has brief sections that are pleasant and sound good and are doing interesting things musically. HOWEVER, the vast majority of this is just screaming, be it from a fuzzed out guitar (that's also out of tune because that's aRtSy) or someone literally screaming. I don't understand what's supposed to be so profound about Sonic Youth. I just don't get it. It's just painful. Also this album is way too long.

Didn’tget much if chance

that was really hard to finish. i really think i would have liked it more if it was an instrumental album

I prefer EVOL and Goo way more.....bloated...

Rock, 1988 -> 2

Similar to the other Sonic Youth album on this list in that there's really not much that stood out. The girl's singing was rough, but the guy's was a bit better. Just kind of noise overall though. 2/5

Not really my thing. Just didn't vibe with it.

An album I should like but I don’t

So noisy and boring

Nabacano, ujednačeno, bez tačke i zareza, suvišno, beskorisno. I jedna polovina ovog duplog je previše.

Noise

Ambient music as far as I’m concerned. Probably need to listen closer. Just not sure I want to. The Sprawl was kinda noise

Disappointing. The music is good but repetitive and becomes dull. The lyrics and the singing are poor. I struggled to see what the point of it was.

In something of a huge bit of heresy, this is not my favourite Sonic Youth album and in fact, I find it a bit of a chore pretty much right after Teen Age Riot concludes. I’ve had phases where this and Sister fight it out for top SY but those days are well in the past now. I admire what these happy go lucky kids accomplished in this era, but I very much prefer the later O’Rourke period that kicks off with my actual favourite Sonic Youth album, Murray St. (Goo is a close second and tomorrow will be my fav, etc). In general I have a like/disinterest relationship with SY and as my tastes largely seem to be consolidating around songs with less fat, well, the shorter, concise focus or calculated, rehearsed sprawl of the later years suits me better. I could go on at length about how boring they were live in their ostensible heyday but that would also be dull.

3 from Sian 1 from Deb

Inexplicably popular. It probably was influential/cutting down edge in its day and should be listened to for that reason, but today it sounds clichéd and repetitive. Given its pedigree, it should hold up better - but it hasn’t.

# Playlist Track - Teen Age Riot # Notes - Tried Sonic Youth a few times now. Even went to see them at a festival years ago. I kind of get the appeal, but definitely it's not for me. - Not enough substance to justify over 1h playing time. Everything starts sounding the same and the riot blends into noise that I just can't get to like.