Goo

I get that this was a huge influence, and being a grunge guy I am supposed to love it, but it deploys a bit too much of the distorted wall of sound that has come to turn me off more and more within this endeavor. I definitely hear the influence on bands like Nirvana, Screaming Trees, and Dinosaur Jr., and certainly tip my hat in thanks for those, and it earns a 3.5/5 and my eternal gratitude, but Kim Gordon's vocals still make it hard to round this one up.

So our second encounter with Sonic Youth on this project and well, I guess I am full blown fan now. Listening to this album today was like bathing in the waters of early 90s alternative rock. A place I feel most at home, to be honest. So much familiarity I can reach out and touch it. All the hours playing Kool Thing on Guitar Hero III. Of hearing Chuck D of Public Enemy be the Hype man on that song. The distorted guitar sound that takes me back to my preteen years. The textures to these tracks are just so good. I blasted it all day long. I admitted on the first Sonic Youth album we had, "Ditry" that I'd heard of this band more than heard anything from them. No with two album listens under my belt they have my attention. I can't wait until the next album we get from them Looking forward to it now.

(4/5) I said it last time and I'll say it again, there's NO need for five Sonic Youth albums on this list. Do they deserve a spot? 1 or 2 albums? Absolutely. 'Essential'? Sure. They were the precursors to some of the best of the 90s. I'd say this mid-career, peak album and one of their earlier ones is sufficient. We had "Dirty" a month and a half ago, and it was OK.. I enjoyed this quite a bit and it's definitely their most radio friendly. There's still some noise ("Mote" among others) rock, but overall pretty good stuff. My younger self would have likely rated it higher.. I'm too old and cranky to fully love them anymore. They're the hot girl in High School I never asked out because I was a weenie and now she's not looking so hot 35+ years later.. and neither am I.

If I listened to this cold, I would certainly rate it a 1. As it happens, I just listened to an even worse album, which makes me look at this one more favourably. With that in mind, I'll give it 1.4, which of course rounds down to 1

Apple Music's description of the album spent a lot of time and text explaining Sonic Youth's business savvy and their unique management of money without "selling out" than they spent on the music. It is a good album by a band doing some good things, however, it feels more self-indulgent than innovative. Perhaps that is the point, but it didn't move the needle for me. And if you don't connect, it remains more noise than transformative music.

This Noise Rock album feels like walking through a city street where several rusty machines are grinding away, each producing its own irritating rhythm. The distorted guitars scrape, wobble and clash, while the bass and drums keep a loose, driving pulse underneath. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore deliver their vocals with a cool, detached attitude, as if they are barely impressed by the noise surrounding them. There are catchy moments, but they keep getting tangled up in dissonance, feedback and awkward changes of direction. The sound is less relentlessly chaotic than some underground rock, yet it never quite settles into something comfortable or memorable for me. I feel like an outsider watching this strange machinery at work, trying to find a pattern in its movements but mostly waiting for it to stop.

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Closed Artwork: 😎🚬✏️ Production: 🎙️🎚️😮‍💨 Music: 🧐🍷🫩 Rating: 🥽(🥽)/5

[Did you notice when you read one of these listener rating reviews, how some of these are just so damn long? I mean, who has the time to write this stuff? How many drafts did they take? The factors they use to come with a rating is the similar math used to place people on the moon. As if they are writing so that they will be picked up by a record label, or some editor at Rolling Stone who happens to be scrolling and says "Wow! What insight!!!! Let's hire this anonymous wind bag - they can fill pages!" Please spare us! I do not care if the rhyming scheme is similar to Gregorian Chants, or this being their 6th album is so far inferior to number 4? Get a life.. now, my diatribe does not count as a review; it is purely commentary from listening to 1,008 albums so far] Here is my actual review: OK album by a purely overrated band. (See? simple. Now, throw a number on there and on to the next)

mix of styles, some experimental

Dirty Boots - 86 Tunic (Song For Karen) - 87 Mary-Christ - 88 Kool Thing - 83 Mote - 90 My Friend Goo - 78 Disappearer - 87 Mildred Pierce - 63 Cinderella's Big Score - 84 Scooter And Jinx - 60 Titanium Expose - 85 Goo - 83

Well goddamn I loved this. Sonic Youth is pretty effortlessly fucking cool. I mean Jesus Christ, that album cover is sick. And the album name? Hell, the band name? This is an alternative group in every sense of the word, and not in a cringey way. Aside from clout points though, the music here is genuinely really captivating. It's noisy, sloppy, angry, but very focused and intentionally aggressive. Really, really good album when you want to feel like a misunderstood loner.

A couple (3-5?) good songs, a lot of noise. For 1989, seems like it's meeting a cultural moment of resistance with too much reservation and meaninglessness?

Listening to this record is like being present at the birth of many styles I like. So influential and avant-garde. I don't get why other reviewers are complaining about the voice, it is fine and it fits perfectly.

Den Vorgänger "Dirty" finde ich ja super, hier fehlt mir dagegen so etwas dessen Durchschlagskraft und Coolness. Es sind einige gute Songs dabei, "Kool Thing" ist ein ziemlicher Hit, aber auch ein paar komische Experimente sowie gute Ansäte, denen dann aber der letzte Wow-Effekt fehlt. Ergibt knappe 4 Sterne.

Das war atmosphärisch einfach große Klasse, das hat Spaß gemacht!

Das war ziemlich cool und smooth af. Muss ich mir unbedingt nochmal anhören. Gehen wir erstmal mit ner optimistischen 4 rein.

Das ist tatsächlich deutlich bekömmlicher als der Sound den das andere Sonic Youth Album hier hatte, gefällt mir aber genauso gut.

My first time hearing a Sonic Youth song or album, and it was a pretty decent one. I wouldn’t say it blew me away or made me an outright Sonic Youth fan, but it wasn’t terrible. 3/5.

Listened on a plane to Hawaii as god intended. Finger drumming and head bobbing may have annoyed people but I’m on vacation so to heck with them

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

2.7

Guitar was cool but didn’t like the uninterested and scattered vocals. Just didn’t really connect with it, probably didn’t give it a good enough chance

The band's first album on a major with a less experimental approach to songwriting. I expected to love this. But even though it's a solid alternative rock album I don't get the same highs as on 'EVOL'. First half of the album carries the second which meanders a little too much.

A famous cover, bustling night breeze

a little noisy

Two is a gift to the musicians

I actually liked this one better than the first sonic youth album. The music is solid, but the voice is so bad. A solid 6/10. Top song... Dirty Boots

I actually liked this alot which was interesting because I didnt like Evol. This album is a lot more approachable.

Album has a couple of really good songs and then it also has some really bad songs. Overall the album is ok but nothing phenomenal. Sonic Youth has always been a band I could never understand the high praise for. For the most part their music is average alternative rock. Album sits between a 5/10 and 6/10, so I gave it 3 stars.

It's as good as everyone says it is

Day1027 - i don’t listen to most albums more than once but i've been playing this one all day

248. Goo - Sonic Youth (1990) 10.27.26 Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 4 Emotionality: 4 = 4.4 rounded down to a 4 "A satellite wish will make it just enough/ You'll be making out with a witch in a coffee truck" We've had one other Sonic Youth album so far, out of the five ( I think?) on the list - Dirty. It got a pretty easy 4 stars from me, and I noted how it sounded to me like their most accessible and radio friendly one to date. That is the most recent one on the list and as much as I would prefer to go chronologically, reverse-chronologically is better than jumping around at random. This one has a few of their best tracks on it, and if memory serves I liked it ok. It's been long enough though, and we've had enough surprises on the list, that I'm not entirely comfortable guessing my rating ( I do that last even though it's listed first up top). If I had to though, it would be similar, maybe slightly higher? Listen, I'm so old now that I've listened to album in recent memory that I thought were new to me and gotten most of the way through them before realizing I owned a copy, so... What I do remember very clearly are the few bigger tracks that I'll note below - all released as singles I'm fairly sure, though I would not have been aware of them when they originally came out as I was sill in elementary school, and wasn't that cool yet ;). I likely saw parts of the music videos probably on 120 Minutes by the time I'd been in middle school and Nirvana had blown up. The combination of aging up and EVERYONE being aware of grunge I think was cause for a small renaissance in programming at MTV and they were probably playing anything with even a whiff of an alternative sound to it that might have previously been stuck in a drawer for a few years. I mentioned in the review for Dirty that my first clear memory of them was the video for Bull in the Heather" which was off of Experimental Jet Set, which didn't come out until 1994, and is also the last album from them that I've heard all of. Sonic Youth was never a favorite of mine, though I did find them to be pretty consistent and always interesting. I never bought their CDs though, and I think part of me did consider them to be a tad bit elitist and full of themselves. Though that could just be me projecting onto them the characteristics of the people I knew to be fans of their music. I'm fairly confident this will be a decent, if not very good re-listen. THE TRACKS "Dirty Boots" - We start with one of their best. Lots of cool moodiness and an almost Stooges-like groove open this one up, and we get the see the band at their melodic best, with the perfect balance of catchy swirling guitar riffs, driving rhythms and an overall dreamy, reverby tone that ties it all together. Moore's vocals are as affectedly disaffected as they always are but we actually get his RAWK voice for the outro, which is still pretty icily sneering. Great stuff and the instrumental ending feels epic and atmospheric. Lyrically it's as much a bunch of nonsense as any given Pavement song, but that's not the point here. The band is pulling you in with it's overall sound. Some messaging will come up on some later tracks, but Sonic Youth is a band that has stayed largely apolitical in the specifics, while FEELING very political in it's presentation. I find it quite insane that this track did not make it onto the Hits Are for Squares greatest compilation they put out. "Tunic (Song for Karen)" - A song dedicated to Karen Carpenter, and I hope unironically so. It seems pretty earnest, but with these guys it can be hard to tell sometimes. I think in interviews I've seen Gordon and More seem pretty authentic and not at all like snobs, so I'm fine taking them at face value here. I could certainly see how some could see some of the lyrics as flippant or hurtful. But given Gordon's general vibe and comments I've seen this feels much more like commentary in the subject of eating disorders, public perception, and the heartache and loneliness that can get masked by success. It's actually pretty emotionally affecting, especially for a Sonic Youth song. Instrumentally its appropriately dark and serious in tone, and only lightens up at ALL in the guitar parts that rise up in the verses when the lyrics are meant to read as self delusionary or maybe as some sort of consoling voice from the afterlife telling you it's all ok now. It was never ok I think is whole point. Of you get a chance check out the band's cover of the Carpenter's "Superstar" which I think feels just a tiny bit more tongue in cheek, even though they clearly like the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI&list=RDY21VecIIdBI&start_radio=1 "Mary-Christ" - This is a fun energetic one and we get Moore's rock and roll voice again. All the religious and romantic imagery mixed together makes this feel like some sort of psychosexual therapy session, and the frenetic pace makes it seem way shorter than it's already comparatively short run time. Short, punchy and full of some cool vocal hooks. This feels like a much more palatable ad authentic version of what we'd get almost 10 years later with the droves of garage rock revival bands. I wonder if the Hives ever covered this? ( edit: apparently no, but they have played on the same bill a few times!). This one closes out with the main riff from the next song s it fades out, and is a nice bit of connective tissue. "Kool Thing" - The big single I think, and no wonder. It's got one of their best guitar riffs, and Gordon's delivery on this is possibly their most iconic moment. At least as far as mainstream crossover appeal goes. It's got some heavy reverb behind it and feels powerful and ghostly all at the same time. The Chuck D part used to annoy me a little, but now I just find it charming as fuck. The spoken word parts are way funnier than I recall, though I don't think anyone should be surprised given the pretty hilariously deadpan album cover art. An alt rock classic, and deserves to be on any best of the 20th Century compilation albums that our irradiate, mutant great great grandchildren decide to sell via their iBrain infomercials broadcasts. "Mote" - We get our Ringo track with Lee Ranaldo on vocals! Whenever these pop up, the songs always feel like some alternate universe band to me. Ranaldo's vocals are a bit reminiscent of Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens on this one, and even sounds a bit more polished up and ready for college rock radio crowd consumption. It's still pretty danged great, despite the weirdness of Moore and Gordon taking a backseat. We just had King Crimson's Court of the Crimson King, and the extended instrumental outro reminds me a LOT of the similarly noodly, self indulgent and unmusical part on "Moonchild" from that album. I like them both as they provide some great atmosphere. This one is more chaotic and less mysteriously ethereal, but goes down a bit better as I think it fills out the space better and doesn't leave you worried about where it's eventually going. "My Friend Goo" - And we get to the one big blemish on the album in my opinion. And it's not even THAT bad. It's just really dumb. I get that it's supposed to be, but ugh... that chorus is awful. And over what at least starts as something cool with a really great MONSTER bass line. This just feels throwaway and the rest of it doesn't even have any memorable hooks. "Disappearer" - Another one of their best, and also should have been on that greatest hits album. It's got such a cool detached, and low key feel to it, with the driving beat and the cool as hell ringing guitar interplay. It almost sounds like a lost Joy Division riff that starts it off, and when the bright uplifting bits come in with the chorus it feels like rolling the window down on the open highway and sticking your arm out so your hand can surf up and down on the wind. That moment is brief though because t descends back down with the verse. Great dynamics on this. "Mildred Pierce" - More or less an instrumental with the title repeated over several times, this one is pretty much a showcase for the band to put a laser focus on that awesome alternately crunchy and ringing guitar interplay. All the way up until it becomes some hardcore punk breakdown freakout at the end. Short enough to not be offensive, and lots of cool vibes. "Cinderella's Big Score" - A long instrumental intro builds up in layers and finally gets started proper when Steve Shelley's drums up the panicky pace and when Gordon's vocals finally hit it feels like a giant zit has been popped and the rest of the song is just catharsis and her getting out her resentment. It's maybe the most atmospheric and epic moment on the album, and chock full of interesting textures and hooks galore. Could I hum it? Probably not, but it's almost novelistic in it's breadth and the number of changeups throughout. The ending sounds like some behemoth of a truck's engine stalling out and dying. * "Scooter + Jinx" -This one's a very short instrumental with what sounds like all the guitars filtered through a feedback heavy amp that was then maybe fed into another amp? Pointless? Sure, but it was barely a blink, and not sure I'd eve count it towards the downside, similar how I'll often ignore skits on rap tracks, or instrumental codas if they don't have much new to offer. Best to treat this as a bit of explanation at the end of the previous track. "Titanium Exposé" - ...or maybe a preamble to this track which the feedback carries over into. But almost immediately we get one of the bands cleanest and most driving and sinister sounding openings with the guitars all stumbling over each other and then settling down into a calmer but still more metallic mode. Moore's normal vocal delivery is back here, and plays at great odds to the punchier music, and Gordon gets to answer in the chorus so you get the best of both worlds. Not my favorite track by the band, and certainly not their best - but maybe their most ideal and perfectly formed? This is the track I would recommend to any metalhead fans, with it's not-quite Sabbathy thudding riffing. The song goes into high gear at around 4:20, and we get some of the best melodic guitar bits on the album. the feedback heavy outro that ends with what sounds like an amp being unplugged is the perfect punctuation on the end of this album. HIGHLIGHTS - "Dirty Boots" - "Tunic (Song for Karen)" - "Mary-Christ" - "Kool Thing" - "Mote" - "Disappearer" - "Cinderella's Big Score" - "Titanium Exposé" MIDLIGHTS - "Mildred Pierce" LOWLIGHTS - "My Friend Goo" FINAL THOUGHTS While the music critics of the time were falling all over themselves to heap praise on the them, you get the impression that the band themselves thought this was all pretty funny. And after Daydream Nation had almost immediately cemented them they go a little crazy on this one and start working their way towards that much more radio friendly sound they'd achieve on Dirty. Listening to it now, some 15 or more years removed from the last go, I'm struck by how well paced and filled with great moments it is that stick with me even more so than Dirty. Is this my favorite Sonic Youth Album? Maybe. We still have Daydream Nation and Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star which would be the two other candidates in my opinion. And both sit squarely on the edges of the more mainstream adjacent sound they would dig into on this and Dirty ( the Ciccone Youth album I only heard once and have zero memory of, so who knows) and move closer towards the artier noise rock sound as they echo forward and backward in time from this era. I think this one is maybe most full of keepers out of any of their albums, even if there are songs on those albums I like more. In my brain it's the most consistent album for what is a largely consistent band and doesn't have as many of those middle of the road tracks that drag my overall opinion down. So, for now anyways, it'll take the lead. I'm hoping the trend continues and we keep going backwards one by one instead of jumping around, now that the trend has been established. Possible turn-Offs might include: - some unmusical tangents - spoken word shenanigans - vocal deliveries that sound less than enthusiastic You Might enjoy this if you: - were one of the cool kids in high school who smoked and drank coffee before 1st period - like your guitars to be a bit looser and fuzzier - don't mind the noise PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - I might be tempted to skip "My Friend Goo", but it's not that terrible. It's just so low because look what else on here it's got as competition FURTHER LISTENING Precursors: - The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Stooges by The Stooges - Marquee Moon by Television - Suicide by Suicide - Pink Flag by Wire - First Issue by Public Image Ltd - The Ascension by Glenn Branca Contemporaries: - Bossanova by Pixies - Superfuzz Bigmuff by Mudhoney - Spanking Machine by Babes in Toyland - Smell the Magic by L7 - Strap It On by Helmet - 11 by Smithereens - Ozma by Melvins - Pod The Breeders - Fakebook by Yo La Tengo - Same Place the Fly Got Smashed by Guided by Voices - Ritual de lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction Descendants: - Nevermind by Nirvana - Rid of Me by PJ Harvey - Pretty on the Inside by Hole - Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins - Fake Train by Unwound - The Bends by Radiohead - Box of Secrets by Blood Red Shoes - Post-Nothing by Japandroids - Future Me Hates Me by The Beths

This mostly just sounded like noise to me

Pretty good. Not a fan of talking sections in songs but overall pretty good.

Oh my god, this is exactly what I needed to hear today. This album is healing me.

Holy. Shit. This was really really rather good wasn’t it??

Different and fun probably would not be a go to for me. But it has some interesting vibes

Very good album. Shows a lot of the DNA that would lead into the indie and alt rock scene that is my personal favorite today. A lot of interesting messages for the time, particularly in the feminists messages in certain songs like kool thing or tunic. Overall excellent

Goo by Sonic Youth (1990) Rating: 4.6/5 Short Review: Noisy, rebellious, and effortlessly cool. Sonic Youth somehow makes chaotic, distorted guitars sound beautiful. There’s plenty of experimentation, but the album never forgets to deliver great melodies. It’s abrasive without being exhausting, and surprisingly catchy. Favorite Track: Tunic (Song for Karen). Haunting, melancholic, and strangely beautiful. Kim Gordon’s detached vocals make it even more unsettling.

Very interesting. I like it.

I’ve heard some Sonic Youth before and listening to this album in full cemented how I feel about them. It’s fine. Some songs are pretty good and others are not, so it evens out to fine. I struggled how to rate it, 3 feels too high for something I only really like a few songs. I’ll give it 2 stars, but just know it’s 2.7

Not a fan

This was a pleasant surprise. I actually liked it better than Daydream Nation.

On my Mount Rushmore of SY albums along with Dirty, A Thousand Leaves, and Evol.

Noisy, yes. Cool, also yes.

Kinda expected it to be heavier, fine ig

The most accessible Sonic Youth album, still pretentious and disrespectful of the audience. Like in the punk days you'd go visit friends, they'd have a band (16 - 18 year olds) in the basement and they would be messing around with instruments they were just learning to play, just making obnoxious noise for its own sake. Nothing wrong with that. But no one is taking it seriously. THe first half of the album is ok. The second is unlistenable garbage that sounds like all of the rest of Sonic Youth's unlistenable garbage.

Its a good Sonic Youth album, but a lot of the heavy lifting of making it approachable is done by Cool Thing, which is a great song.

It was good.

I mean ... it's okay I guess

So they moved to a big commercial label and the label wanted a big commercial label with commercial singles. And they delivered this. When the most commercial thing on it is the droning chant of Kool Thing then you know you'd love to be a fly on the wall when the suits put it on for the first listen. A long way from Kill Yr Idols, but still true to themselves.

This was my introduction to what would end up being one of my favorite bands of all time. The band's nosiest yet but still manages to keep its mainstream appeal. Bravo.

Tiens, encore un album où, quand je vois le nom du groupe et la pochette, je m'attends à trouver ça nul et qui me surprend agréablement. En vrai, je connaissais déjà Sonic Youth de nom et dans ma tête, c'était un groupe de rock indé, une étiquette dont je me méfie fortement. Mais pour le coup, c'était très bien. C'était un peu décousu, parce que le groupe alterne entre pas mal de style, des titres noise rock suivis par des titres plutôt punk entre autre choses. C'est un peu décousu, mais force est de reconnaître que tout ce que le groupe fait, il le fait bien et des tas de passages m'ont beaucoup accroché. Vu le spécimen, il faudrait plusieurs écoutes pour vraiment m'en imprégner, mais je suis fort content de la découverte !

I don't like Sonic Youth. This was better than the other album I've had by them though. I knew Kool Thing. It's okay when the guy sings, but I can't stand Kim Gordon's voice.

gritty, noisy, sometimes murky - a worthwhile listen 4

It always amuses me how the optimistic expectations for Nevermind were "with luck, it could be as big as Goo". Sonic Youth is a band I've never really cared for outside a handful of songs, but about half of those are on this album.

Lo mas alternativo que he escuchado en mi vida. Le doy 3 porque me hizo entender que tipo de "musica" tocaba Allison en ¡Si señor!. Cumple con el cometido de "Noise rock".

I’ve definitely spent more time with Daydream Nation but this one hit especially hard on this listen. I need to spend more time with the entire discography.

I love Sonic Youth

They kind of remind me of a cross between Concrete Blonde and Husker Du? A typical 80's/90's alternative band sound. Not bad, but nothing that really jumped out at me as being amazing.

I really don't like "jamming" of any kind, whether it's jam-band jamming, blues-riff jamming, or - in this case - noise jamming. Just play a f-ing song already. The moments of song that Sonic Youth put forth are pretty good and often great, but if I'm just looking for that part of what they do, I'll go listen to Dinosaur Jr. Marking down because there are too many SY albums on this list.

Here's an album I don't even have to listen to to rate. But, of course, I did. I mean, why miss any opportunity to listen to SY? I'm pretty sure this album marks the band's entry into the mainstream. It's eminently listenable, but is still noisy and experimental in a way that not many other bands can match. Mildred Pierce is my favorite 2ish minute song from SY. The total devolution in the last 40 seconds makes me immensely happy. Tunic and Kool Thing are great songs just for listening. I can play the 1 minute of broken amp noise in Scooter and Jinx on repeat for nap time. It's all so very fucking good.

This album runs out of gas toward the end for me, but has plenty of good stuff. Mary-Christ is one of my favorite Sonic Youth songs. The guitar sound is fantastic and mean on that one. Kool Thing & Dirty Boots are pretty great, too.

Still don't get the appeal. It's fine, and I like this a little better than the other three SY albums we've heard. But that's it.

4/5 - This list will ensure you have heard SY if you've never been exposed; that's without question. I like this one a lot. It has more coherent song structures, and is a classic gen-x album.

Jeg tænkte det måske var noget for mig, meeeen ikke sådan helt vildt begejstret. Åbningsnummeret blev jeg lidt interesseret af, men det bliver en anelse for skramlet til min smag til tider. Det er jeg normalt ikke skræmt af, men der er nok for få payoffs og kontraster fra det til min poppede smag. Det er en svag 3'er, tangerer en 2'er

Ligesom alt det andet Sonic Youth, så starter det rigtig godt og slutter mindre godt. Noise Rock-delen er lidt for noisy til mig. Kool thing er til gengæld så crazy godt et nummer 2.8

Great record

I bought Goo on the strength of the "Kool Thing" video on MTV's 120 Minutes. I still own the CD to this day, but I have not re-visited Goo since. A re-listen was a nostalgia trip back to my little room; when I thought I had my act together but was really a bunched up tangle of anxious sadness. Good times.

Is it possible to like an album cover more than the album itself?

Terrible

Kool Thing

Perfect blend of noise, hooks, and sleaze. SY pushed their experimental side as far as possible while weaving in choruses and melody.

Not for me

chill

3.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sonic-youth/goo/ It feels like somewhat of a blasphemy for someone with my musical taste to not have listened to Sonic Youth much, yet here I am. Of course, I know this classic album cover from all the H&M shirts, but I've never really sat down to listen to it properly. Glad that I did it now, and that I can say that it's not really enjoyable for me upon first proper listen. I will check it out more, because I feel like this will strongly grow on me, but for my initial listening experience it was too much random noise, and not in a good way. In all fairness, I was not super focused and the speakers sucked, so it's not all too fair. Hence, I will give it another chance sometime later and rate it with the expected growth in mind.

I can see why some might cream over these guys, but I can't escape a sort of fake pretentiousness that I get from them every time I listen. Might just be a complete misread but it's not for me.

The vocals were meh but I really liked the instrumentals. Super moody, creepy, ominous. I liked the protracted endings a lot with just the instrumentals.

Sounds like a complete teen age riot haha. I do not much a fun of such music, even these guys were in Kyiv back in 1989 and change perception of Ukrainian rock scene back there.

Started strong but ended weird-3.5

曲としては、女の人のヴォーカルがメインでそれに楽器隊がついていくみたいな印象だったけど、それがたまにぶっ壊れてめっちゃギターとかがでしゃばってくるのがおもろい。ヴォーカルに合わせて動くパートも良い感じだけど。ギターの壊れ方が楽しい、ノイズみたい。

Marko - 2 Sara - 2

Proper good racket this. The guitars sound incredible. Some of the hip talking is a little dated but this rocks.

I am going to listen to this six times through and them I am going to fight God because I will have no mountains left to climb.

hell yeah

Pro: Chuck D, Kool Thing, Tunic, Mote, Disappearer Con: My Friend Goo (contender for the dumbest/ worst SY song ever)

Segundo disco que me toca de Sonic Youth, y llego a la conclusión que no me gusta el grupo

This was the album that made me fall in love with Sonic Youth, and is probably my 3rd favourite album from them, after Dirty and Daydream Nation.

Enjoyed some of the sounds on this album - it was a good listen.

Sonic Youth is a band I feel guilty for not liking.

Accessible while maintaining some of the weirdness/experimentation of their earlier albums.

love opening intro. rest of it is okay. very hard.

Not bad...not great but I enjoyed the hardness

This is one of my favorite albums by Sonic Youth!

I don’t know why we needed five other Sonic Youth albums in this list because this one feels like the only necessary one. This was super rockin’ and interesting, and I especially enjoyed the songs where Kim was lead vocals.

3/5

Noise Rock/Alternative Rock Favorite Songs: Dirty Boots, Tunic (Song for Karen), Mary-Christ, Kool Thing, Disappear, Cinderella’s Big Score, Titanium Expose Least Favorite Song: Mildred Pierce This album is definitely up in my overall alley in terms of what I typically listen to non-electronic wise. Has a good range of some great rock songs on the album. Will be adding this into my music library. 8/10

I'm not much into punk or noise-based music. So this would not be the kind of thing I would listen to. That said, I do appreciate that this is quite good for the genre. It has a unique sound, attitude, and is inventive. I can't rate it high personally, but I can see how someone would. I'll give it three stars, but I almost gave it four.

not really my thing i guess

Definitely Sonic Youth's most commercial album. Gen X hipster stoner shoegaze. I was a touch too young in my musical tastes when it came out. But when I did discover it, I dug it. I still dig it. If a Sonic Youth album made its way to my vinyl collection, it'd probably be this one.