Best Sonic Youth Album

Tracks I'd skip on Daydream: none

Tracks I'd skip on Dirty: Shoot, Swimsuit Issue, Orange Rolls Angel Spit, Nic Fit, JC, Purr

Dirty is just Sonic Youth's sound watered down, less adventurous, and more boring and predictable. I don't listen to Sonic Youth for straightforward rock songs...and with the exception of Wish Fulfilment and the amazing Theresa's Sound World (which although it's fantastic is still not better than The Sprawl), it is in my opinion a pretty boring album.
 
Yeah, Evol was a really good album, as was Goo
So I'd get thoose ones next

Washing Machine, and Sonic Nurse, and 1000 Leaves were also pretty good too...
 
Some songs on Dirty (for example...Shoot) are amongst the worst songs I have ever heard. I can't listen to that album as a whole, even though there are some really good songs on it.
 
there's actually a hidden agenda for this poll

I've only recently (last 3 years or so) gotten into SY

I have Dirty and Day dream nation and just wanted to know what else to get and as they have such an extensive back catalogue not to mention moore and Kim Gordon's other projects I thought I'd enlist some help
 
:rolleyes:


I don't think Dirty is terrible, but it is definitely weak by Sonic standarRAB. About three or four songs save it from being totally odious imo. Though I feel most of their albums are great in their own little ways (thus making them hard to compare), I have to agree with the masses and say that Daydream Nation is their crowning achievement. Bad Moon Rising, Sister and EVOL would all be close contenders for second place with me.
 
I've always though 'Sonic Youth', and 'Confusuion Is Sex' were complelty awful albums.....

Evol, Sister, and Daydream Nation are my three top favorite...I'm unsure as to which one I like more though....
 
they have a certain charm to them.

"Sonic Youth" is the band finding their feet, and The Burning Spear is a classic track...sounRAB like SY are trying to imitate Public Image Ltd, until that drill on the guitar comes in a skewers the song into crazyness.

"Confusion Is Sex" is just noisy and anarchaic...the drums sound absolutely AWFUL, and the production is generally bad. But the song "Confusion is Next"...that song is the sound of anarchy. Generally, a lot of Sonic Youth dieharRAB regard Confusion as their best album...I wouldn't go that far, but it's a classic. Just complete, lo-fi, schizophrenic chaos.
 
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