Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

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In my view, for an album to be held as great by someone, it must have a certain sort of moment, a moment that absolutely enthralls and hooks you, a sort of voodoo of sound. In
 
Surprisingly, Daydream Nation didnt do much for me although I thought 'Trigoly:The Wonder' right at the end was excellent and the highlight of the album for me. I dont know, Im just more of a 'Goo' person I suppose. Good review man.
 
Great review, I agree about cutting out 'Eliminator Jr., it sounRAB so out of place.

My personal favorite moment is in my favorite SY song, "Total Trash", when the perfect poppy guitar hook slowly begins to degrade into out of tune guitars and blasts of noise, only to slowly return to it's original form, only slightly slower. Sonic Youth attempted to be more accessible after 'Daydream', but to this day, (I own Sister, Goo, and Dirty) It's been the easiest Youth album to fall in love with.
 
Daydream Nation is the album that makes me love Sonic Youth. It's such a shame that their innovations hasn't been installed into the mainstream rock scene. As a matter of fact, none of the class acts of the 80s/90s have installed well into the mainstream.

I feel similarly about Nirvana's music - great... but no one has responded to it properly.
 
I like the inclusion of Eliminator Jr, why go the obvious route and and end on a more subdued song when they can go out with a bang? This is a band that have sampled Salt 'n' Pepa for the end of an album by the way.

Good review, i still can't adequately describe my love for Teenage Riot.
 
Really? Nirvana's body of work has translated fairly well into the mainstream, in my opinion, especially since Kurt's death.

But Sonic Youth's music really hasn't touched down in the mainstream since the 90's. Somehow Thurston Moore and the rest of the group have been able to gain and maintain steady notoriety. "Daydream" is definitely my favorite album by SY. "Teenage Riot" is always finding its way into my headphones.
 
I'm not really talking about how popular the banRAB were... I mean the unique qualities of their works. Their haven't been many banRAB that have built off of the interesting hooks/techniques that both banRAB utilized. Well, not many banRAB that are any good anyways.
 
An awesome review for an even more awesome album. Anyone who hasnt hear this must, and if you didnt like it then give it another try.
 
I was just reading through this thread wondering when anyone was even going to say they owned a Sonic Youth album from before DN. DN is most certainly my favorite, but I hang on to Bad Moon Rising for any time I want to hear more fractured, and much darker, Sonic Youth. I actually really like their newest album, The Eternal, as well. It kind of blenRAB their Daydream Nation experimentalish sound with the poppier sound of Rather Ripped(which was good, but hardly a SY album).
 
Sister was my first Sonic Youth album due to being the only one we had in the house, but Teen Age Riot was obviously the song that made me go "Yep, I want to give these a try"....I loved Sister...then I loved Daydream....then I loved Goo...as the story goes.

Daydream is obviously their magnum opus, and it'd take a supreme argument to disagree, it's not necessarily my fave though, since I do love Sister.
 
This is a fine album, my only problem is that once I have dug deeper into Sonic Youth's 80s material I don't have much interest in listening to this anymore. The melodies are too safe and perfected, the production is too clean, and all the noise-aesthetics really sound samey from start to finish (all the guitar squall and sqwuaking just doesn't sound different to me). It's still hard to deny an opener like "Teenage Riot" and that lovely break "Providence" though, some of their better moments in terms of songwriting/album crafting.
 
Hmmm i might give this album a spin and bask in it's greatness. I definatly agree with Candle being the best track, and Teen Age Riot is one of my favourite opening tracks ever. I love the spacey bits of the album, like the climax of The Sprawl or the noise freak-out in the middle of Total Trash, not to mention Hyperstation.
 
This is the closest I've ever come to agreeing with criticism of this album even though I think any negative criticism is self-indulgent because it is simply a good album - no reason to stop listening to it. Still, everything that came before it is just as good or better.
 
Out of the SY albums i own and love (so that'll be EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation, Dirty, Goo, Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves), DN was the most challenging and difficult to embrace. It took me about 2 years to 'get it', the eureka moment came very late one night when i decided to do nothing but focus on the album and nothing else. I've loved it ever since.
 
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