Daydream Nation

1.83 per track. Did not like at all but I can see how it influenced other music that I don't like too.

A tad much for me sometimes (the "noise") but fucking awesome. Love it.

Still astounding

Easily the best Sonic Youth album...really like this one as a full album listen. The title track is also a top 2 SY song. 4.5/5

This is proto indie alt. its a solid meh from me.

Despite this perhaps being the most well-rounded Sonic Youth album, it is not what I would consider the best entry point into the band and its catalog. As someone who did start with this album, the first go-around was something I knew I enjoyed, but was difficult to process due to its unconventional instrumentals, offbeat lyrics, and dry vocal deliveries. I had known of the band because of Kool Thing, but I didn't expect something so raw and drastic, yet collected and catchy, especially for 1988, and it made it hard to realize the album's overall quality at the time. Now, however, I see it as an album with an immense amount of power, not just within its own chords and melodies, but also as one with an iron grip on the shape of rock music to come. Sure, not everyone today knows Sonic Youth, but they know the sound they helped create, and the destructive yet intricate nature helped spawn dozens, perhaps hundreds of bands that would now be considered rock staples. Obviously, within pretty wide music circles the band is blatantly known, but it's that slight injustice of ignorance in the population that is more of a shame than anything. They're missing out on vicious yet catchy guitar riffs to get you jamming instantly. They're missing out on lackadaisical yet devastating vocal deliveries to be unlike anyone else in the industry. They're just, in general, missing out on the most wonderful kick to the head that a person can encounter. It's rebellious, being the exact opposite of pop's late 80s sheen and precision, yet still has better hooks than most songs from the time. It is the perfect balance of most things music, and while genres like noise rock and mainstream grunge were certainly not born from Sonic Youth, those genres would not be commonplace were it not for Sonic Youth's help, and I think that alone deserves this album recognition, if it wasn't for the amazing overall sound, pacing, playing, lyrics, etc., etc. already. For a cherry on top of it all, note that Kim Gordon is yet another S-tier female bass player, pretty much solidifying my opinion that women are just the best bassists. I'm glad I gave this album another go, or I may have too thought of this album as nothing more than good. I'd say go listen to one of the albums right before this and one of the ones from right after, then return and experience rock bliss.

My experience with Sonic Youth before listening to this was that I liked a bunch of their songs, but that the majority of their work was unrelenting shoegazey noise. I had some hopes after the first track 'Teen Age Riot' - It's got a real groove and energy to it. The rest of the album doesn't hold up to it though. There's a lot of general meandering and extended takes. I do like a bit of distorted guitar and shoegaze at times, but it gets more and more oppressive the longer it goes on, and this is a long album. I end up feeling completely drained by the end of it.

In recent years Iv really come to really appreciate and love Sonic Youth. This is their double album masterpiece. Takes a while to appreciate but once you do it will become an all time favourite.

Vähän tylsä levy, tosin en ehkä keskittynyt ihan 100%. 2/5.

Classic album that still sounds fresh today. You can hear their influence on so much of my favorite music.

Everytime I hear an album of Sonic Youth I absolutely adore it and wonder why I'm listening to it more often. Everytime I tell myself to dive deeper into the whole discography and listen to the rest over and over as well till all the creaks and squeeks of every album are ingrained in my head.
Until the next time I'm hearing a Sonic Youth album and I tell myself the same again.

It's noisy, driving rock, but I can listen to over and over again. This is just a great album and probably Sonic Youth's best.

Although everytime I listen to Sonic Youth I can hear Ellen Page telling Jason Bateman that "Sonic Youth is just noise!"

I liked the first track Teen Age Riot, but then a lot of the album sounded similar. I hate repetition. I also hate noise and feedback and there was way too much of that (like Silver Rocket, The Sprawl, Rain King, and Total Trash - an aptly named song). Oh, and this album is long with its repetition and noise. Giving this a 2 because at least there were moments I liked (Teen Age Riot, Candle), but by the last five songs I just wanted it to end.

Just the most lost-sounding album in the world; distant vocals amid swirling guitars. Occasionally a little too discordant, but impressive and influential overall.

Clear influence on lots of bands I love, but doesn't resonate the same way, probably because I didn't hear it when I was younger. Really enjoyed it, hope to hear more from them

To me this is where Sonic Youth really start to shine. Their songs got more expansive and yet feel more focused and infectious than before. Perhaps it was the pressure of the higher dollar studio time? I love them most when they give their songs room to breathe with extended instrumental passages. Kinda punk-prog. I'm also a fan of the jam to song method they developed these songs with. Perfect balance of capturing that wild vitality but refining it into something more structured.

El sonido estaba ahí antes de la explosión del grunge. Les faltaba tal vez una visión más comercial, canciones más cortas por ejemplo. Creo que como artistas les daba igual. Se deja escuchar pero no creo que sea algo para tener en bucle.