Goo

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.

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. No 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

An opera gal’s listening journey through Goo: Dirty Boots: Good opening to the album. Feels like a bait and switch, though. Clearly, I’m in danger here. Tunic: Oh, come on… EdgyTM. Ugh. Guitars that sound like angry bees. Mary-Christ: :( for the instrumental breaks, but I don’t hate hate this. Kool Thing: Iconic feminist song, but…I don’t think so. Mote: Ugh – nails on a chalkboard. NOOOOO! I have never more viscerally wanted to throw my computer against a wall to make something stop. My Friend Goo: Eyeroll. Disappear: This one’s slightly more tonal, so it’s not totally hateful. Mildred Pierce: Neverending and it was only 2 minutes long. Cinderella’s Big Score: Why? Scooter and Jinx: WHY?!?!?! Make it stop! Titanium Expose: Okay, this can stay. Maybe. Except for the end bit. Like a cheese grater to the face, so are the 50 minutes of this album.

After the first few bars I thought "Hmm, that guitar sound is a bit Hawkwindy. This could be ok". How wrong can you be? From that point onwards it just went steadily downhill to become little more than a conglomeration of noise by the end of the album. 1 because there is no Zero.

I don't know if it's my problem, but I can't connect with Sonic Youth's albums. Seriously. I can't enjoy the content, even though I always try to give it a chance. With "Goo" I think it was even worse: I couldn't even finish the album. I don't think the albums are bad... maybe they're just not my style and I'm okay with that.

No!

p652. 1990. 1 star. Noisy generic Stateside proto grunge that goes on far too long. This would be a far better album if they lost the excessive guitar wankage at the end of most of the tracks.

Dog awful

I feel like the only reason Sonic Youth got popular was because smug Gen Xers who bitched about “the mainstream” and “selling out” could feel good about themselves by listening to this garbage. After getting two Sonic Youth albums within a week of each other, I feel confident in saying that they’re one of, if not the, most overrated bands in history.

This is not good. There’s no other way to put it. Terrible. I’m Gen X and we had much better music than this. 1

If you exchange the G for a P you would have a more accurate album title. 1 star or F-.

This started off okay, but then it devolved into a lot of harsh guitars, yelling, and noise, of which I'm not a big fan. The album cover is extremely cool though.

Struggled to get through this one, not enjoyable, high 1.

I don’t care for it. 1

One like the other…1/10

STANDOUTS: no, just lots of angry metal garage noises OVERALL: 1.5/5

This project is reinforcing what was previously a vague sense that I did not like punk music

No!

Bad punk. Very samey. Noisy.

Sooooooooo boring. Minutes of nothing happening. I had heard of Mildred pierce before this and was disappointed to see that the rest of the album was as terrible as it.

Too noisy

List needs more variety.

This one made me fastfoward listen. I guess that’s an automatic 1 star.

Meh

yikes bro

kolejne angole

Garbage

Never have so many songs sounded exactly alike

Nope, just no, absolutely not, never. After the first song, I thought this could get better and raise the rating I was going to give, but it didn't; it got worse.

The more this went on the more I hated it.

Goo - Nooooooo. Quit yelling at me!

2 Sonic Youth Albums in 29 days. Both Trash!

sounded shit so i didnt listen tbh

What total shit. Nobody in the group can sing. No talent on their instruments. Stupid “songs”. All distortion and sound effects. Why anybody thinks this is an album we’ve got to hear before we die is beyond me. Who the fuck picks this crap? And do they know anything about music? What a colossal waste of time.

Had to skip through most of the tracks. Can’t listen to that kind of harsh music.

First-time listener. Sounds good for days when you're feeling existential angst and non-specific disgust at the Establishment (whatever that is in your own mind). Are the lyrics really as deep and symbolic as all the reviews and comments (on a variety of music websites) suggest or are some folks attributing rich meaning to ambiguous lyrics when the meaning is much more simple? Either way, I'm all for it--the musical process is important and valuable to everyone in different ways. It's just not an album I'd listen to again.

Love Indy, but this is really quite painful at times

this ain't it

Dog shit. Absolutely hated it. It sounded like they were trying to show off but kept messing up

I have nothing good to say about this album. Even the electric guitar ended up being too much.

not impressed. the music can be noisy at times but it isn't too terrible. i take that back. what happened in mote?! that was awful there were some not so bad sounding parts to this album but any reedemable qualities were quickly followed by parts that were obnoxiously horrid

Me pareció un álbum que no está hecho para mi en este caso no me gusta pero reste dos canciones que no me parecieron de todo mala pero la verdad la mayoría tiene un ritmo o una forma que no me gusta o la verdad no me gustaría para escuchar en mi tiempo libre así que le daría un 2/10 o exagerando mucho un 3 o 4 de 10 pero la verdad solo de las 11 canciones 2 me gustaron muy por encima así que la verdad este álbum talvez es buena para algunas personas viéndolo de la forma más conceptual política etc pero para mi no es mi estilo

I did not enjoy this and didn't even get all the way through. 1 star.

This is just noise with some smokers rasping over it.

Malo

I refuse to listen to them.

The “Goo” of the title must be a result of the masturbatory wankery that these “artists” perpetrate all over this album.

Een of 2 leuke nummers maar erg veel gejengel

Oh no this was bad… I just don’t get how random screams are necessary? Or influential? Like noises that break my ear are constant and not fun to listen to and this was like 50 straight minutes of that.

Rock alternativo sin pies ni cabeza. Algunas canciones sólo de ruido. Un 1, por hacerme sufrir sin necesidad...

just terrible. Primeiro álbum que eu realmente sofri pra terminar. Não foi só por não ser do meu estilo, como alguns outros também não foram - eu não achei nenhuma qualidade redeemable - não faço ideia de como esse álbum pôde ser tão influente, como é relatado na wiki e em outras reviews/rankings. Não escutarei de novo, não recomendo, não.

Trash album by a trash band. God they are the worst

What a way to start a day. At least it can only get better

No matter how much this list shoves Sonic Youth down my throat, I will never get it. The female vocals were NOT IT.

My god the last half of this album was just noise. I had to take my headphnoes off at one point

Ooooh not quite

not good

The only enjoyable part is the noisy guitar sections. Would be better if it was just a short album of free improvisations w/ feedback. I can’t really stand the songs or band at all. After listening to the Kate Bush album, this especially seems so half-assed and lazy.

Couldn't listen to all of it. Terrible

Too much like noise rock for my taste

I hated every ounce of this 1/5

Not for me

I got bored so checked the track list and I was barely halfway through the third song. This album has no redeeming qualities for me. Just barely music, mostly noise.

I can't say I enjoyed this. This genre has never really been my cup of tea though, it just feels noisy and edgy in a bad way.

Rock alternativo sin pies ni cabeza. Algunas canciones sólo de ruido. Un 1, por hacerme sufrir sin necesidad...

Laaaangweilig. Ein Plattenvertrag wie ein einziges Missverständnis.

i did not like this album at all

It sounds very bland and I'm not at all interested or invested to listen to what they have to say.

bah

This is bad. Maybe this would have been a fun late 80s/ early 90s concert to attend...?

Not my style

Tive que fechar a janela porque tava com vontade de pular

That’s a lotta noise boys...- Vinnie Ester

Not my style at all.

So bad! There is music, good and bad... this was noise, really bad noise. .2 stars

Very repetitive, but some of the songs have a decent melody. I don't mind the genre, but they have some terrible songs too, and I just got tired of listening halfway through, then after "Mildred Pierce" I had to shut it off. Highlights: -Mote

Not my thing

not a fan, experimental is fine but this has a lot of clashing noises that i don't enjoy.

sounds like more lax but still angsty early fob. mv for dirty boots is hype lol. 2nd song in - i don't not like it, but it's not the type of music i would listen to now just to get to know it.

Surprisingly good.