Goo

Sonic Youth, the Pixies ... both bands that I'm just not cool enough to get. Or maybe the whole point is that there isn't anything to get, other than a bunch of art-rock turds insisting how influential and important both are, even though they never really escaped opening act status for bigger bands in their era.

Just not a fan of this style I guess. It's not bad, it's just not good either. 2/5

Before I listen I ponder the big questions of life: Will I skip the first song? 1 star or 2? The first song was good, melodic even. Then they got into that shtick where a decent song ends in extended feedback. By the end we're back to unlistenable. 2 stars because it was ok to begin with.

This is a typical Sonic Youth album for me. I can tell there's some talent within the layered guitars to make appealing music... but then 90% of the time a song gets ruined by awful vocals, screaming, or one of the guitarist just deciding to untune the guitar and fuck around. So idk, maybe art rock or whatever bullshit they want to call it just doesn't appeal to me. Also they bullied Nardwuar that one time, so I have some disdain any time their music comes up.

Love the cover!

I never could get the hang of Sonic Youth.

Fine. Some good songs, but overall passed me by.

Not the best early 90s rock I’ve ever heard

1/10, 10%

Noisy but not in a way I found nice. Like slam poetry.

08/02/25 I wasn't a fan of the album, it was quite boring.

Maybe I'm just not feeling very punky today. I'd always heard good things about Sonic Youth but this wasn't really for me. Kool Thing brought me back to my parents basement in 2007ish playing Guitar Hero 3.

Favourite song - Tunic (song for karen)

Ehhhhhh. I get what this album is going for and I kinda appreciate it, but I just don't *enjoy* it very much. It's very cynical and aloof in a way that I find tiresome. Musically, this would've been much more interesting if it were released 15-20 years earlier, but for 1990... I dunno. Not every album needs to push the envelope to be good, but this album actively returns to sender. It's just too cool for me, I guess. eye roll/10

Not quite

Like sonic youth. Not this album

I wanted to like them more, but I couldn't. Noise rock isn't my thing it seems - the songs have no directions and lack melodies, it's just quite an annoying and pretentious album. The production work is good, though, it doesn't sound dated at all. 2 stars.

I didnt really care for this album as a whole. Nothing bad about it I just didn't vibe with it.

i like one song on this and i can’t remember what it is

Some solid glam rock, unfortunately it's tainted by an aura of pretentiousness.

Meh, not a fan. The guitar went on for way too long on some tracks. Wannabe punk that didn't hit. 2 for me.

Blech 2/5

Just a lot of noise. Annoying noise.

If the vocals/talking wasn't so cringe inducing i would have rated it higher. It really got the feeling of rebelling teen band where no one really is a great singer but the guitar quality is decent. Kool thing is the only song i recognized and it's a Okey track so that's kool.

the majority of this album was fine songs and the rest was just bad noise

The first half of the album is much more accessible. I know Sonic Youth loved to make noise, and that really comes across throughout the album but especially in the second half. I liked several songs on the first half but really thought a lot of the back half wasn't worth listening to.

Can’t relate

# Playlist track - Dirty Boots # Notes - I've been to a Sonic Youth concert before. SWU Festival. I has kind of hyped to see them, as I have learned of how cool and disruptive and interesting they were. Long story short, it was one of the worst I have ever seen. - I was pleasantly surprised when the opening track, "Dirty Boots" didn't sound like the shitty, pretentious never ending guitar scratching I heard years before. - My joy was to be short lived, tho. As the album goes on, pretty much every track delves into a formulaic noise that just doesn't cut it for me. It's cool when you see it once or twice, but the album never moves away from it and ends up a bit boring and predictable. - I was glad when it ended.

I liked the general sound of this album. The last 4 tracks were particularly bad. 'Mildred Pierce' is literal trash. Most of the songs have a prolonged annoying section. I think I like this genre, but this album is not it. Lyrics are major yap. Almost gave it a 3/5 for the sound of it, but after those last 4 tracks it's gotta be a 2/5

Eh

It was alright, but not really me

Very same-y after a couple tracks

My friend Dave and I frequently discuss the albums in the project. About this one he said: "I don’t like those guys at all. Sometimes you dismiss music that I like as 'just noise'. But they really are just noise."

Pretentious art school wankers meet Y2K high school rock. Not terrible just a typical album of the era.

Fun guitar riff in the first track 2.5

I find it boring

Mostly noise and not a fan of the vocals. Probably 2 stars.

2/10. Disappointing. I expected a lot from this album because I was listening to Kool Thing even before I knew about this album and Sonic Youth. But there is nothing surprising about any of the songs on the album, neither in terms of lyricism nor in terms of music.

Oh sick, the second Sonic Youth album in three days? Niiiiiice. This one was WORSE than 'Dirty.' I could, for the most part, stand what was going on on 'Dirty,' but this album I could not. The woman lead singer still sucks ass. This is music made for 90s teens who love smoking cigarettes in the bathroom and love calling people "posers." The songs with the guy singer were ight.

Not much there to keep my interest. Again, to do some interesting stuff with guitars. That's the only redeeming quality.

Just did not really connect with this recording. A lot of repetitive guitar and distortion. A couple of interesting songs lyrically but not something I feel strongly about.

Uninteresting and pretentious. I'm really surprised this band has such a cult following. Do people actually enjoy their music or is it more of liking it makes you look cool kind of thing? I do enjoy noise rock but I also want to have it go somewhere or have some interesting ideas on top of it. This album simply doesn't deliver. The best example of that is my favorite track from the album - Mote. It starts off real good, everything clicks, the vocals sound cool, you have this underwater effect in the chorus which feels a bit dated but fits in well with the rest of the song.. and then they just decide to kill the rest of the song with a bunch of noise that goes nowhere. I feel like they're telling me we're too cool to go with the typical song structure, catchy melodies, no, let's just end the song and go with something for the real connaisseurs. I have to say, if I was a teen that would definitely work on me. Maybe I'm just too old for that

I think this record started off pretty promising with 'Dirty Boots', and 'Tunic (Song For Karen)' that I particularly liked. But after sitting through everything I feel like the melodies and delicacies are lost in too much noise and distortion. This definitely peaked at the end of 'Mildred Pierce' which just turned into some scream fiesta for no good reason. In summary it had some decent songs at the start, but nothing to warrant any higher rating.

Man what a pretentious album. The riffs are actually quite good but the lyrics are so pretentious it hurts (especially the spoken word). The tail end of the album nearly warranted a 1 star, but going to give it a weak 2.

De jongens en meisjes verveelden zich. Geen een had zin in voetbal deze keer, het was zulk nattig weer. Ze besloten een bandje te stichten in de garage van Suzy's ouders. Ze pakten hun gitaren en het drumstel van Johnny's broer. Ze drukten op 'opnemen' en gingen raggen. Veertig jaar later zette Roel deze plaat op. Hij vond er niet veel aan. Einde van dit verhaal.

Ik dacht dat dit al veel ouder was. Als ik de eerste klanken hoor, weet ik eigenlijk niet waarom. Het is behoorlijk jaren '90. Later snap ik het. Passages als het einde van Mildred Pierce, nemen in mijn hoofd snel de overhand. En dat creëert niet geheel terecht het labeltje punk. Dat soort delen (met in de hoofdrol My Friend Goo) verpesten een plaatje toch voor mij.

Not sure what to think of this one...which is great! On one hand, it's not a very good album. Lots of noise for the sake of noise it seems. I found myself checking to see how many songs were left on the record multiple times - which is generally a sign of an album I am not enjoying. But on the other hand, there's some catchy stuff here and there, and this being the first Sonic Youth album I've listened to, I can see the musical influence they had on several bands to come after them - several of who I do enjoy quite a bit more. So there is that feeling of "if not for this, then...." that I felt way more listening to this album than I do listening to someone like Robert Johnson, for example - even though I'd much prefer his actual music. In the end though, I found it more boring and tedious to finish than exciting and interesting, so while 2 stars is maybe a bit harsh, I think it's fair.

There are songs on it i'd liked prior to getting this album, unfortunately I didn't find much more to enjoy. Gets one star knocked off for 'My Friend Goo' existing.

The parts where they actually played music were okay. The parts where they dragged chairs around and screached were not. I was happy when it ended. Stand-out: Dirty Boots

01) Dirty Boots - 6,5 02) Tunic (Song for Karen) - 6,0 03) Mary-Christ - 6,0 04) Kool Thing - 6,5 05) Mote - 5,5 06) My Friend Goo - 6,0 07) Disappearer - 6,0 08) Mildred Pierce - 3,0 09) Cinderella's Big Score - 6,0 10) Scooter + Jinx - 4,5 11) Titanium Exposé - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,55 (56/100)

Sonic Youth are boring. The iconography of this front cover is the best thing they've ever done.

Mostly boring and pretentious. Art rock should still be interesting, which this album definitely isn't. A few good punk moments.

I commend the amount of experimentation that went into this album. Unfortunately, for me, most often this experimentation leads to songs that lack any kind of cohesion, which trickles out into the album as a whole. I can't say that I connected with anything on the record outside of momentary interludes on certain tracks.

Started out alright but turned much too noisy towards the end. I was sick of this album about 30 minutes into it. My Friend Goo may be one of the worst songs I have ever heard.

I feel like they're a good punk band, but there's just so much unnecessary crap thrown in everywhere for no reason

It’s cool noise I feel no need to ever listen to again

Sonic Youth's "Goo" is a solid effort that showcases their signature noise rock sound. However, it lacks the raw intensity and experimentation of their earlier work. While tracks like "Dirty Boots" and "Kool Thing" (featuring Chuck D) are catchy and energetic, the album overall feels a bit more polished and accessible, which some may find detracts from their appeal.

Three of five (!) Sonic Youth albums down and I gotta be honest, I get why they're here but I have a hard time believing anyone legitimately likes this. So many song at a minimum end in something weird and unpleasant. This one is slightly better than Daydream Nation, which was slightly better than E.V.O.L., but not enough for another half a star. Kim's voice is cool though.

I didn’t like them back then and I still don’t like them now. This is not very good

Punk rock sound from 1990, I'm sure this is influential but it's hard to swallow

I like the actual music, but I have never been a fan of the singers. I like their attitude and messaging. Their singers have always turned me off.

Good stuff from my youth

It seems as if the noises were supposed to represent the music.

Started off pretty good but my interest tailed off by the end

Ik kom hier gwn niet in

Not enjoyable

- It's kinda boring and static. There's just not that much for me to latch onto ..... maybe it's me .... -

music was good, especially the guitar but i didn't enjoy the vocals as it was talk singing a lot of the time. and that is what ruined the whole album for me.

I've read so much about what a pivotal figure Kim Gordon was, but can't seem to enjoy her music.

Quite a few people seem to dig Sonic Youth. I’m not one of them. Overall, Goo was noisy and dull, but not unlistenable. Makes me think of clove cigarettes and teenagers drinking coffee trying to be edgy.

I think I wanted to like it but kind of just didn’t. Every song felt like it should have ended but then there was like 2 minutes of guitar noise or some bullshit. 4/10

2 I didn’t really enjoy it. Just a lot of noise and poor vocals. Only kinda ok song was cinderellas big score

I always assumed Sonic Youth would sound cooler than this but nope. about as alt rock as you can get and a little on the heavier side. none of the tracks really stood out to me, but Kool Thing goes pretty hard and sounds sorta like a Foo Fighters song.

This album was not for me at all. But I have a good friend who loves Sonic Youth so I’ll give them an extra ⭐️

I can't decide if I don't really know Sonic Youth, or if I think they are a different band than what I'm thinking of. I was kind of surprised to see this as 1990 because it sounds more mid 90s to me. I guess that's a good thing as maybe they were more of a trendsetter. This album really reminds me of high school, but not during my time there personally, but the vibe of the album is very high school drama club and that seems to remain a fairly consistent vibe over multiple generations. Lyrically many songs had me picturing the SNL skit about a high school theater show. Everyone all in black, speaking what is very deep thoughts for teenagers. Overall it's kind of a mixed bag for me. The only single I recognize is "Kool Thing" from guitar hero. Favorite track "Kool Thing" 2/5

There's definitely potential here. I quite like the guitar work and bass, but the female vocals are not for me. The male vocals are fine. There's too much distortion for my taste though, so unfortunately it drops to a 2.

Noise rock in its purest. To the untrained ears (mine's), the wacky guitar riffs are a tough selling point when all the songs sound samey and the lyrics banal. Favorite: mote Least: Mildred Pierce

I remember some of these songs, but vaguely

4/10

I like a lot of music that’s similar to Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth, however, just sounds generic and boring to me.

This is horrible. 1.72 per track.

I hate when people scream for no reason in songs.

pretty rough sounding. i liked the first few

Ну как-то не зашло. Были, в целом, прикольные моменты, но меньше грязи хотелось бы. Слишком панково, но недостаточно, чтобы кайфовать от звучания. Ну и голоса слабые.

Meh.

Too much noise for my taste.

Not a big Sonic Youth fan, there’s better bands who put out this kind of music.

"Dirty Boots" was a really good song with a catchy opening hook. I liked "Kool Thing" and "Titanium Expose" as well. All three were well-crafted songs that held my interest. The rest of the album I couldn't decide it they were trying a little too hard, or weren't trying hard enough. It was just a lot of noise. Two stars for three good songs.

I have been advised to listen to dirty instead. Didn’t really care for this.

Tunic (Song For Karen) //

Sounds like a garage band

Well, this album really got me stuck and stopped me from keep going on the 1001 albums generator. I am not gonna lie: it is a hell of a cd, literal. It is kinda disgusting hearing all those noises. It feels bad mixed. I will only give it 2 stars just for the always excellent “Kool Thing”. Hope to be wrong.

admininstraattorin jekku: annetaan hyvät alumit ekalla 400 kerralla (muutama huono välisä, niin illuusio) ja sitten vain huonoja jotta ei tule objektiivinen 3.00 keskiarvo vaan jokin alhaisempi luku kuten 2.96 tai 2.97 tai 2.98 tai 2.99, joka on merkittävä eroavaisuus... jekku ohi. annetaan kaksi tälle mote

One word: weird. Two words: really weird. Three words: Makes no sense. Four words: Explain this to me. It was just weird some were calm than some were loud and yelling

Originally I was gonna give this a 3 but I bumped it down to a 2 because the lyrics don't make much sense most of the time and half the songs are just fuzzy, scratchy, overdrive-filled guitar riffs. For Mote and Titanium Espose about half the songs were just overdrive guitar screeching. That takes no skill and just hurts your ears I don't understand what you think you're accomplishing by doing that. Also the song Mildred Pierce is absolute trash. Who in the world even is Mildred Pierce and why should I care that she's dead? We will never know because the whole song is just screaming Mildred Pierce or why. It's just not good songwriting or good songs.

Seems like a "cool" band, but the music isn't particularly exciting to me. Some interesting soundscapes, but just a generally forgettable album to me. Nothing stands out. Lyrics don't speak to me. Listened at the gym Listening env: 3/5

It was ok, couldn't get into it.

Third Sonic Youth album I've been given, some of this was, I dunno, Ok? But at this point I've steadily grown to dislike them more and more. See you on the next two!

Eh not for me but sounds good for what it is. Doesn't really do anything special not that it needs to but just sounds like every other album in the genre. Scott Pilgrim ass music. Non conformist quoth the raven ass music. Wallflower ass music. Mom found my weed pen ass music. Kool Thing is a fantastic song however, and sometimes bad vocals definitely can make a song sound more raw and or emotional but they mostly just sound bad bad in this album idk.

местами совсем скример, нет спасибо

Meh. It takes a few tracks before the album appears to rock, but I found it dull, repetitive and not really my cup of tea. Some punk really catches me. This did not. Low 2

I now its an oldie but feels like to refined grunge to me

Badly tuned strings and uninspired vocals. Got a headache halfway through.

Didn’t hear a single mention of Sonic’s origin or youth….this is a nah from me dawg.

Deprimerend.

It was definitely one of the albums I ever heard it started off okay then went down from there

Though there are some interesting noisy droning guitar driven pieces that work for me, there is a bit too much boring unmelodic noise and weirdness to warrant repeat listens.

I knew the name Sonic Youth sounded familiar. Then I instantly recognized Kool Thing from Guitar Hero 3. Overall this album is kind of meh. Gives off very idgaf vibes and as a result I don't care much for it either. I'm not huge on the reverberated guitar aesthetic and the female vocals aren't great.

Started ok. Has some cringy parts. Atdi did it better. Last song was pretty cool.

Has its moments but in the end its a one and done.

More like poo.

good guitars once in a while. mote is the song where i realized this is a 2.

Gay noise

Ok

I'm all for grungy, nonconformity music, but this was not it. Some of the songs were not half bad but the spoken word songs were not it.

# 59 : Nothing special. No hype for Sonic Youth. It's pretty generic "Noise Rock" that's overrated. Disappearer

Abrasive, punchy, but mostly tuneless and entirely forgettable.

The only redeeming quality is the fact that it is in the rock/indie genre.

Not really for me, this one. Have heard of Sonic Youth but don't remember ever listening to them. It does sound quite modern (or more likely it's more that other more modern bands grew up listening to this), but it's really missing something for me. A lot of the songs are way too drawn out in a way that doesn't really work for me; when you're playing music this loud, it really needs something to sustain it if you're going beyond the 5 minute mark per track, and this just doesn't have enough. Also, the industrial noise bits really do my head in. 2/5.

Det är för skränigt för min smak.

Some of this album was good and some was screechy random sounds

Gave a it a few tries but couldn't quite get into it. They're like a worse version of Pixies. Not terrible though, I think my favourite is Titanium Expose.

2 of 5

My friend Goo goes, “Sonic Youth is poo.”

As far as I'm concerned, Sonic Youth has only one good song and it isn't on this album.

Felt very low effort and like the people playing the music didn’t even want to

I listened to this first thing in the morning and was singularly unimpressed. However, whilst I was waiting for the sun to come up and the only noise I could hear was the cat talking to the wind I thought I would give it another spin. The first four songs are definitely for late night sessions. They drip with smoke and insouciance. But then it just degenerated into discordant self-indulgent claptrap. I do love the cover though.

Sonic Youth just seemed like a band I should like. But in the 90s it was really hard to dabble into music you didn't know. I really liked Kim Gordon but I couldn't justify spending $12 on a Sonic Youth CD when I still had to complete my Joni & Dylan collection. In the late 90s they opened up for Wilco and Jen and I got there early to see them. I think a song and a half in we said let's go wait in the beer line. So much noise. I'll admit I enjoyed Goo more than the last Sonic Youth album we heard in this endeavor. I'll also admit I made a good decision not buying any of their CDs in the 90s. Not my jam.

Poo, more like lol

Very tiring.

This one took me a while to get around to. I'm talking almost 2 years here. I kept starting it, getting distracted, then forgetting about it and having to restart it. Therefore, I've heard Dirty Boots about 7 times now. Frankly, it still hasn't grown on me. I was hopeful that the tail end of the album would get better - it didn't. I can get behind the music, it's great alt rock music. But good lord, every time they open their mouths I want to scream. It's like someone put a soundtrack over a crappy liberal arts college spoken word poetry slam. I think this would be a 3 if there were no vocals at all, which is sad because the vocals make this teeter on a 1. I'm feeling generous today though.

D+ Dirty Boots - 2 Tunic (Song for Karen) - 2 Mary-Christ - 2 Kool Thing - 1 Mote - 1, would’ve been two if it was half the length My Friend Goo - 1 Disappearer - 2 Mildrid Pierce - 2 Cinderella’s Big Score - 1 Scooter and Jinx - 1 Titanium Expose - 2 I’m so tired of these sh** 2’s. I’ve had like eight 2’s in the last 24 hours. These albums are so uninspiring. At least this one has a great album cover. In the wise words of Anton Ego, “ you know what I'm craving? A little perspective. That's it. I'd like some fresh, clear, well seasoned perspective.” Since you’re all out, Generator, you provide the music and I’ll provide the perspective. As for Sonic Youth, they should stick to the vintage t-shirt business and quit music.

Fomeque. Históricamente importante, seguro, pero no es algo que me guste escuchar.

This wasn't the worst thing I'd heard this week.

Didn't exactly love this. Some songs are fine but alot of it is just boring or annoying screaming/nonsensical rambling. Really wanted to get into it but just not my thing. 4/10.

The beginning of this album was totally good it might have gotten a four. And then Mildred pierce came on and I don’t know what my ears did to you but that is legit assault and someone should be in jail for that song.

I wish I could say I liked Sonic Youth. I feel like I should, like I could get really into this band… but they just don’t do anything for me.

Meh

Not my thing

Not my cup of tea. Bit too noisy

Kinda punk, kinda grunge. Music is OK, don't like the vocals.

Some ok songs others just seemed pointless

Dankowa referencja do poprzedniego piku, bo bad moon rising to tytul ich drugiego albumika, ale co do goo to dobry tytul jesli motywem przewodnim ma byc kobieta, nie daje po twarzy mocarnym feminizmem jak u pani latifah, ale jakos ciezko sie zaczepic, wiec nadal daydream nation pozostaje moim topowym sonic youthowym krazkiem na liscie

achei um rock muito psicodélico pro meu gosto, principalmente em conjunto com os clipes de algumas músicas. no final do álbum não aguentava mais ouvir as músicas, pesadas. não consegui prestar atenção nas letras o suficiente para julgar as músicas com base nisso.

The music itself is fine, but very easily fades into the background. I didn't mind the songs with the predominantly male singer, but very much did not enjoy the songs with the female singer, as her voice just doesn't hit my ears right. Nothing intrigued me about this album

didn’t like. i don’t know what to say anymore.

The cool kids I went to school when listened to Sonic Youth. Now I just feel bad for them. Yuck.

A few good songs but most of the album is hardly listenable

OK, songs. Good melodies, but everything with heavy distorted guitars. Is there no other music under the 1000 best albums?

Alternativ rock, punket, indie, ikke rigtig mig

It's a facade of exciting hard rock but underneath it's a pretty dull album except a few songs like Kool Thing and Dirty Boots. There's too many songs I would consider "skips".

Favorites: Dirty boots Tunic (song for Karen)

I can hear their influence but not my kind of sound.

Fine - had this, or had Kool Thing, when it was released. It's sonic youth, it doesn't veer far from that course

A little too abstract for my liking.

I could have swore these blokes were British but I guess not. Kool Thing is from guitar hero so that was cool but nothing else stood out to me.

Not really.

Kim Gordon's singing drops this like one and a half stars. It is out of tune and not very musical and it makes it pretty hard to enjoy the songs that she sings in. The others are decent, when they're not making random noise.

- not for me

Expectation: "Daydream Nation" but more mainstream. Reality: Not even close to "Daydream Nation".

After listening to this, I can’t find a song I’d like to hear again. It wasn’t bad, just forgettable. Maybe I’ll try again

Didn't love it!

Artsy Noise Rock is not for me.

Some cool guitar noise and that’s about the only thing I enjoyed about this. The lack of syncopation (or any rhythm other than constant straight 8ths) was just killing me by the end of this record My friend goo is is so stupid lol 1.7

I don’t know why people think they can be singers. It was good when there was no singing

2.5

Standouts: Kool Thing, Disappear, Mildred Pierce [because I love the old 1940s movie!] I've heard this album quite a few times. It really does nothing for me. It isn't bad, it is completely forgettable. Every time I hear it, it is like it is for the first time. 2.5/5

I liked like two of the earlier tracks in the album. Most of the rest was pretty meh to me. Album really lost me by the end, really disliked one or two of the songs around the end.

I was ready to hate this because its Rock AGAIN and the start was already terrible with Dirty Boots, insanely boring to me and was not a fan. But then it kinda turned on me with "Tunic" even though its the classic Title of Song Title of Song Tiiiitle of SOoooooong SOOOOONG it was still somewhat enjoyable. "Mary-Christ" was just fun all around, probably my favourite of the album and then "Kool Thing" was just really good. At this point I was ready to rate this 4/5 and then it stunlocked me with "My Friend Goo", "Mildred Pierce", "Cinderella's Big Score" and "Scooter and Jinx" being the worst shit I've ever heard. After that "Titanium Expose" was too long and not possible to enjoy.

I got four songs in and couldn't finish the album. A bit too dirgy punk for me. Nothing particularly stood out. Bonus points for the album cover though.

A punk alt rock album that isn’t my favorite kind of music. It has elements of late 80s alternative style with the weird or edgy lyrics and the guitars that are distorted. The uptempo matches the punk styles. Those two combined show that this album had influences over time but I found it not that enjoyable to listen to. 4.5/10

J'avais pas trop envie d'écouter ça

This one was kind of a slog.

I absolutely can’t stand this type of rock where they use droning voices that have no real tune to them. And the boys say hey goo what’s new, my friend goo just says P-U???? Are you kidding me? Garbage. Reminds me of the le tigre album. Some songs are not wretched so I won’t give it a 1.

Didn't like it

I’m not sure how they made it as a band. It’s as if they gathered up all the instruments that they could get, caused as much feedback as possible and inconsistently sang off beat then finished each song with a long masterbatory outro.

The first couple of songs were surprisingly good, the rest of the tracks are more ... noise-based and edgy for the sake of it. I just can't get into this band. 2/5

I have an extreme aversion to Sonic Youth for personal reasons. However, as much as I don't want to listen to it, having done so I'm surprised by how familiar this album still is and also I can't condemn it as one star music. None the less I hope this is the last time I ever hear it.

Meh

I half liked it. The talk singing is not my favorite

jesus christ this was terrible

Some good riffs. Sounds weren't always pleasent on the ears though. Recognized one song from GH3, but I never played that song too often lol.

It was fine.

I don't think it's bad, but I didn't really like it.

1.5 Becomes hard to listen to after the first couple of songs.

would not listen to again. my friend goo is an atrocious and chessingly bad track

When it's cool it's very, very cool, when it's an awful cacophony, it's like the dentist's drill

Kind of annoying lyrics, the music didn’t work for me.

Pretty compelling, I must admit it is not my jam but I see why folks dig it.

Creo que la portada es más icónica que el propio disco. Me gusta "Tunic" (que inspiración para Brigada de León Benavente) y no tanto la famosa "Kool thing" como otras de este disco.

Never got them and never will. Hugely overrated in my opinion.

Probably better than the previous Sonic Youth album we had but still didn't really grab me.

This has a few moments where it doesn't suck. "Kool Thing" was actually halfway cool, funnily enough. And overall I'll have to admit it's at least more accessible than other shit I've heard from this band. But it also is well and truly still 100% in that space where they try to pass themselves off as punk, when really it's just noisy Gen X loser rock. Jangly fuzz guitars, strange/pointless song structures, the guy sings like a wuss and the chick can't sing at all. Or maybe she's just really punk, ha ha. 2/5.

Not really my bag tbh

Not for me this one

Not for me, because of the genre. Too chaotic, too noisy.

Ce n’est pas tellement mon genre, mais j’entends l’authenticité. L’énergie est l’fun, c’est plutôt irrévérencieux. La fille chante tellement mal qu’on se dit qu’elle doit faire au moins un peu exprès et que ça fait partie du message.

riktigt kasst

Sounded like experimental noise to me

I've never been a big Sonic Youth fan and this album continues to prove that point. I like certain moments of this album, I just don't find it all that memorable. I'm sure Sonic Youth will click for me at some point, but right now it's not doing too much for me.

So this is OKish in a pre grunge kinda way, but not a favourite of mine I must admit, although I liked "Tunic |(A Song For Karen)" "Kool Thing" & "Scooter & Jinx" but I wouldn't put in my top 1000 before you die to be honest.

A ver. Siendo sincero no le he prestado casi atención a este disco. Son 1001 discos por el amor de Dios. En el futuro igual lo escucho mejor. Estaba haciendo cosas y solo hubo dos o tres momentos en los que pensé oh que curiosa musica. Me da igual. Le voy a dar un 2 por respeto. Adiós.

seems ok

Beetje vage rock. Ik kan het aanhoren, maar wordt er niet echt warm van. Ik geloof dat er wel liefhebbers voor zijn. **

Eh

I did not enjoy the vocals at all. This could have been good, but its just not. I'm torn between one star or two for this album. I would say a very weak 2 probably.

Idk I dont know them that much but i found the album a bit chaotic, unstructured and noisy. Perhaps not my taste

Meh

Not a sound I really loved

I just don't get this band. It's not that great.

No. Not for me.

Meh :S No sé, no es mi estilo. Pero me hace sentir nostálgica porque me recuerda a una amiga del pasado que le gustaban mucho Sonic Youth y a veces cantaba canciones de este album

2,5 Leuk om is te luisteren. Al waren er stukken in nummers die me wel stoorde.

oke, maar niets speciaals

Meh, largely forgettable.

This is the second album that I've listened to from Sonic Youth, and both were suggested in this list. "Kool Thing" was the one track I was familiar with, and the track is okay. The track "Mildred Pierce" is a good metaphor for the album - there are elements, and sometimes long sections of the music that I like, but by the end I can definitely say "NOPE! not for me".

Beim Duschen angefangen, hat mich nicht gekriegt. Vielleicht unfair, hab dann aufgehört.

Durchwachsen. Eher nicht so meins.

I just don’t get it.

Not for me

I'm just not a big fan of the random-noise-to-be-different genre. I understand wanting to do something different and the value of thinking outside the box, but this just doesn't do it for me. I was on edge most of the time instead of enjoying the experience. That being said, it had a few moments that I appreciated, just not enough to make me want to revisit this album in the future.

Not a fan. 4

....meh?

Powerful and great sound, full of energy. Anyway, my heartbeats stay exactly the same while I’m listening to them.

Cet album est un exemple parfait d'un album que je n'adore pas, mais qui a clairement marqué l'histoire. J'ai fais une recherche et ce groupe est adulé par les fans de musique pour l'influence qu'il a eu sur ses contemporains. Je suis certain que c'est vrai, mais pour une personne l'écoutant en 2021, alors que plusieurs autres artistes ont utilisés, et surtout perfectionner, les avancées amené par cet album, c'est difficile de l'apprécier à sa juste valeur. Je réalise qu'une liste composée des 1001 album à écouté avant de mourir ''en raison de leur impact sur l'histoire de la musique'' serait très différente d'une liste basée simplement sur la qualité du produit final.

It was alright. Not really my thing but I could appreciate it all the same. The lyrics felt really apathetic which I think is part of that whole grunge thing, but eh just makes it feel boring imo.

Nope

Cómo que quiere cómo que si.. pero ps no

“Sonic youth, High School. Now I'm Old, damn noisy kids Goo did not age well.”

It's for sure "different." And had some songs I knew. But I don't love it.

I did not enjoy this. It was a barage of unending dreary angst. Sure maybe that's the point, but it's not for me.

A bit too grungy for my taste

Inició bien pero como que no me terminó de convencer. Como que si si... pero nooooo

Ok

Good album.

Noisy...some good guitar playing, but mostly just loud.

I never got it, still don't really. Musically fine, but neither singer appeals at all.

skivan har nånting men med risk för att låta som en trökig gubbe så är det för mycket oväsen för min smak.

Very early 90s

Paikoin toimivaa ja mielenkiintosta, mut välillä ylitti oman taiteellisuuden käsitysrajan.

Not for me

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

Take this review and rating as a compliment: - sounds like music my edgy artsy 7 year olds would make - hated every minute of listening to it

Not a sound for me at all. Grungy post-punk, couldn't even get to the second half of the album.

Rubbish

I appreciate the themes explored overall but the sound just isn't for me. Most of it feels like it's not meant to be listened, but also I'm no musician so maybe I'm just dumb, I don't know, what I do know is that I don't want to hear it again (Maybe mote, I didn't mind the moth) Dirty Boots ★★✩✩✩ Tunic (Song for Karen) ★★✩✩✩ Mary-Christ ★✩✩✩✩ Kool Thing ★★✩✩✩ Mote ★★★✩✩ My Friend Goo ★★⯪✩✩ Disappearer ★★⯪✩✩ Mildred Pierce ★⯪✩✩✩ Cinderella's Big Score ★✩✩✩✩ Scooter + Jinx ⯪✩✩✩✩ Titanium Exposé ★★✩✩✩

I can barely call this music. Most of it just becomes annoying noise after listening to it for a while. A bad album overall.

I'm an aesthete and I hate ugliness. As far as music is concerned, I detest noise. Which makes SY intolarable for me.

FFS. I do wonder if 1001 just tries to be too alternative sometimes. Broadly unlistenable.

1 hour of please let this be over. This is just not my style and way too much noise

Static, yelling and an electric guitar do not automatically make a good album

*sigh* another alternative rock album from the 90s. Hey guys, it's not alternative if every single artist is doing the exact same thing as you! How abouts we play an instrument other than an electric guitar? Maybe? I'm finding the ending of Mote particularly egregious, and the Mildred Pierce song was a crushing disappointment. Sonic Youth gate gay people, why would you bait us with Karen Carpenter and Joan Crawford and then just do this shite?

Not good

Nope. Not for me.

i own this album on vinyl, but for some reason i never listened to it after i listened to the album i can say that im not a fan of it lol i dislike staticky sounds in the songs which was part of the reason

No don’t like it

Too much noise for me ;)

Not my thing.

Not feeling it - seems like the identity of this music is undetermined. Am I punk? Am I pop? Am I rock? Do I have a soul?

This is noise. 1 star.

I didn’t like this at all. Not one song did I stop and be like “oh maybe this is alright”. Easy pass for me.

je l'ai pas fini mais j'aime pas quand ils parlent dans les chansons (dsl louis)

First album I've intentionally not finished. I swear the guitarist only learned opening riffs to songs, not the whole song.

ya dije que no me gusta cuando me gritan en silencio a los oidos.

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be. But still bad.

Sounded like I was back in latest music bar listening to an unsigned band trying to prove they can make it, only those bands sounded better.

I'm disappointed in myself for not liking this more. This type of punk clearly influenced my favorite type of music but for some reason it doesn't click. This is probably a great live concert. It just feels like coffee on an empty stomach, or that movie Wristcutters: A Love Story.

This album gives the vibe that Sonic Youth think they're in some way "above" making music. I'm not saying that's true necessarily, but it does feel true. It's like I can't quite tell if this is stuck super far up its own ass, or doing satire of artists that are so far up their own ass, and it really doesn't make a difference which. All regard for what makes music enjoyable has been thrown out the window in favour of either being avant garde or trolling (or both) and instead we're left with something that has the shape of interesting music but none of the substance. Edit: goes to show how little impact listening to Sonic Youth has had on me... I didn't even clock that this was the second album of theirs I've listened to.

I like a single song in this album until randomly he started screaming bloody murder and the music turned to literal metal against metal screeches. Awful. Just awful…

While not nearly as bad as my previous sonic youth album(EVOL), it's still just awful. The instrumentals were okay for half the album, but the vocals were consistently terrible. It also started getting even worse half way through, with some truly terrible songs like my friend goo or Mildred pierce. Honestly I just find Sonic Youth to be terrible and the more of their work I hear the more my beliefs are reinforced.

1. dirty - 1 2. tunic - 1.5 3. mary - 0 4. kool -0 5. mote - 1 6. friend - 0 7. dizappear - 1 8. mildred - 1 9. zcore - 1 10. jinz - 0 11. titanium - 1

If “I majored in art” was an album

The longer this went on the more I disliked it. I guess they’ve got a lot of energy, but this feels real low effort. Kind of a you had to be there, music for a certain time and place, energy to it. I’m sure someone could give me a list of 10 albums, five that this was influenced by and five that this was reacting against, that would put this in perspective. I still wouldn’t like it though.

Not my favorite.

To quote my review of Sonic Youth's last album: "There are some good ideas here, but they're corrupted by and ultimately lost to all the unnecessary dissonance." And frankly, given the abundance of better music in this world, I'm unmotivated to dumpster dive for a few salvageable scraps.

Why do I feel like I already am album by Sonic Youth? If I did it wasn’t very memorable, or it was bad enough ai tried to erase it from my mind. Either way that tracks with this album.

redelijke zooi

294/1089 - Not looking forward to this one for sure: Kool Thing and Disappear are almost songs. Mote reminded me of Hey Jude by the Beatles because they both have shitty outros that go on for too long. Overall, it's just incredibly boring and shitty music. Both singers are out of tune, the band isn't in time with each other, and the material is very repetitive and not particularly creative. "What if instead of playing a pentatonic riff I play half-steps with distortion!" and somehow everyone thinks this is edgy and groundbreaking? I hope I get the remaining Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Pavement, and Joy Division albums out of the way so I don't have to listen to them again.

This is what I think of pretentious. Not my thing right now.

Not my bag

Bit bland

Really poor.

Gave me straight up anxiety

It low-key makes me want to turn my body inside out. It feels like they're trying to be edgy but they suck bc the vocals aren't that great and the guitars are (I assuming) purposefully out of tune. It just feels like it's too on the nose.

Every year I revisit this album to give it another try and it’s still mid

Hollow, bloodless noodling. -1 star for using child serial killer imagery to be "cool" Apologise to Nardwuar you monsters. Not even Chuck D could save this poo

Jag gillar inte USA och då pratar jag inte generellt eller ens om den orangea freakshowen i första hand utan om musik, i synnerhet gitarrmusik Jag är anglofil, punkt. Utan att fastna i något alltför långt resonemang handlar det om att amerikansk musik vill verka vara tuff, ha attityd, vara ROCK. Brittisk musik har ett annat utgångsläge som utgår från POP, den har en bokhylla och en garderob, ett visst mått av förfining om man så vill. Någonting bortanför hur tufft en gitarr kan låta. Jag målar med den stora penseln här förstås, det finns massvis med motsägelser här och en mycket mer nyanserad bild. Jag säger heller inte att SY är ett obeläst band, snarare är dom motsatsen men dom präglas liksom många andra amerikanska band av attityd, av att vara tuffa och i förlängningen av rock. Den här skivan är en uppvisning i det, den är jättetuff, har jättecoola gitarrer men är helt menlös. Det finns nåt oklädsamt och ibland lite löjeväckande med det. "Disapperaer" är den enda låt jag tycker är bra den har ett lite annat tilltal.Däremot är alla låtar med Kim Gordon på sång jättedåliga, de är bara tomma skal av attityd. SY hör till dom sämsta i klassen, men eet finns ännu värre exempel.Jag kräver lite mer än en tuff gitarr av min musik. De må vara historiens kanske coolaste band men ledsen jag kan inte ge det här godkänt ens. Lyssna hellre på My Boody Valentine - Isn't anything, The Bear Quartet - Penny century

Not sure what happened on this one. The drum and guitar work is actually pretty damn good at times from a distance. Unfortunately there is something about the overarching style of the album that didn't work for me. Every time I started to dig one of the tracks I was immediately met by a section of obnoxious noise jams or overly reverberated scratchy backgrounds. Something about the female vocals came off really lazy and blase which also bugged me. It seems like there is a good album buried somewhere in here but it's covered in too much goo for me to enjoy it. I'll admit there are segments of this album that I was into. However, there are also sections of this album that I really disliked. In the end it was enough of a turn off for me to want to shelve this album. Not sure if Sonic Youth has something else that would interest me but if this is their best album I would like skip the rest of their collection. 1.42 stars

Sonic headache

bolom uszy

Absolute crap.

Meh

My first 1!

Look at me I can’t sing or play guitar I’m so edgy oooooo

I hate Sonic Youth.

Really not for me, took me a few days to get through. 2.1/10

Screaming guitar music.

It is kinda uninteresting

Turns out the kids had bad music before too

I’m disappointed. My first dip in to sonic youth and I kinda hated it. Noisy screeches with occasional reminders that it’s a song. I thought sonic youth was gonna be up my ally but this was too hard for my taste. Maybe I’m just hungry