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Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation

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    Daydream Nation

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    • Posted:Jan-05-2009
    • Gerhard would be proud
    • `Experimental rock' and `noise rock' are such loose, intangible terms that I become troubled by seeing them branded on an album. They're umbrella terms that swoop over any music that is vaguely...
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    • Posted:Feb-24-2007
    • dont believe the hype
    • Contrary to popular opinion, I find this album very difficult to get into; I struggled trying to digest it, but it never happened. The vocals, particularly the chick's, don't affect me at all...
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    • Posted:Jun-02-2006
    • A Very Tough Listen
    • In truth, I think Sonic Youth are massively overrated in indie circles, but this album does have some good stuff on it. The first four tracks are the highpoint of the album, "'Cross The Breeze" in...
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Washing Machine

Washing Machine

Release Date: 1995-09-26, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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    Washing Machine

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    • Posted:Dec-21-2007
    • And the best reason is...
    • There are about a million reasons to buy this record, and they're all good reasons. But the most important one is the final track. "The Diamond Sea" is their swan song...the complete fulfillment...
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    • Posted:Jul-25-2007
    • You've Been Brainwashed!
    • I can't help but wonder how many of you who have given five stars to this CD would do the same if they were handed this album to listen to without being told whom it was by. This tripe is being...
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    • Posted:Jun-10-2005
    • Hmmm...
    • I own this CD. And I enjoy aspects of it. Some of it, I may not like the SOUND, but I appreciate the band and what they have contributed to indie rock/experimental music/art rock.

      I only...
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EVOL

EVOL

Release Date: 1994-09-27, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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    EVOL

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    • Posted:Dec-05-2008
    • EVOL:evil?love?skuzz rawk?
    • While perhaps not a document with the epic scope of Daydream Nation, the grunge sheen of Dirty, or the simplicity and clarity of their self-titled debut album, EVOL for me is Sonic Youth at their...
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    • Posted:Sep-02-2007
    • A matter of taste
    • This has been my first experience of Sonic Youth -- obviously very much after the fact but so what? Well, this is quite harsh and unrelenting stuff. I'm sure it's first rate in its genre, but I...
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Dirty

Dirty

1998 Japanese reissue on Geffen of their 1992 album with 'Stalker' added as a hidden bonus track. 16 tracks total,... more

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    Dirty

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    • Posted:Apr-02-2008
    • Steve and Sonics... Studio Sublimation...
    • Never heard of Sonic Youth? Feel free to start here... Love SY? Feel free to start here... Open with a tune-up of an old blues standard, Thurston style, melting into your anti-corporate riot-grrrit...
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    • Posted:Apr-14-2006
    • I Don't Get It
    • Clearly I'm far too closed minded for this album. If I wanted to listen to people screaming and crashing and banging completely out of sync I'd open my window at 5am while the neighbors are...
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    • Posted:Jul-18-1998
    • Sonic Youth - a grunge rock band? Not really
    • 1990's "Goo" was Sonic Youth's major label debut; as expected, it almost lacked their trademark guitar noise, the songs were structured and there was a poster inside. Geffen tried to make them hit...
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Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising

Release Date: 1995-04-25, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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    Bad Moon Rising

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    • Posted:Mar-25-2006
    • A new kind of dark
    • Now when we as a collective society anaylize horrendus acts such as the Manson Family murders, or those stories every town has but no one speaks about one must wonder why? This album answers that...
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    • Posted:Nov-16-2005
    • Kinda OK at best
    • Sonic Youth had just finished Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols, the proverbial lo-fi no-wave dark gloomy strange noise album. They figured it was good so they kinda did more. For the first 4 songs,...
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    • Posted:Jul-21-2001
    • Why, why, why
    • I can't beleive people pay to listen to this [crud]. I thought it would be a collection of songs. I have yet to find one which might have a melody. Memo to sonic youth fans: Feedback is not an...
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Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

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    Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

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    • Posted:Dec-26-2007
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    • Posted:Nov-03-2007
    • So-So Overview of SY's pre-DGC years
    • This is, oddly enough, a Sonic Youth hits album. It works much better than one might expect, but there are some curious selections here that preclude a higher rating. The Daydream Nation era has...
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    • Posted:Oct-03-2001
    • No reason to buy
    • No, there's absolutely no reason to buy this CD, unless you want to have a CD with a random selection of excellent songs, have a lot of spare money and don't have a CD burner.

      Each track earns...

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Sister

Sister

Release Date: 1994-10-11, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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    Sister

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    • Posted:Nov-10-2008
    • A noise rock classic
    • Pinning Sister as a second best record really undermines the fact that it is a great record and not just the alternative to the obvious. While this is not an obvious record, like most albums by...
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    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Nov-10-2008
    • Sonics still youthful
    • 3 1/2

      Although I certainly prefer my Sonic Youth a little further down the line, this could be considered good quality early work, when the band had begun to master sculpting their...
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    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Nov-30-2007
    • I wish I could appreciate this more...
    • Although I have had a stereotyped view of "alternative" music for many years, Sonic Youth have undoubtedly been (close to) the most acclaimed band of the past 25 years, with David Keenan viewing...
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Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star

Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star

Release Date: 1994-05-10, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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    • Posted:Dec-19-2007
    • Unique, even for sonic youth
    • I have every major sonic youth release, and I gotta disagree with the few negative reviews on this cd. Every SY album is different then the next really, but this one shines brighter with...
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    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-28-2004
    • Awful
    • I really liked SY up through "Dirty", the great record that preceeded this one. "Experimental" is almost unlistenable, with no tunes, cold playing, and grating production. It seems like a...
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    • Posted:Jan-20-2004
    • Not their best album by a long shot
    • Sonic Youth had at least 4 incredible albums in a row, starting with 1987's Sister to 1992's Dirty. For those 5 years, Sonic Youth were at the top of their musical game. With their 1994 release,...
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Goo

Goo

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    Goo

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    • Posted:Mar-26-2008
    • Goo: 'It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash.'
    • "My friend Goo has a real tattoo
      She always knows just what to do
      She looks through her hair like she doesn't care
      What she does best is stand and stare."

      Sonic Youth...
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    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jan-10-2006
    • Good.
    • This album is not excellent nor is it bad, just good. It's the bands first major label album and it holds it's own. Worth looking into, but overhyped.

      For truly amazing Sonic Youth...
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    • Posted:Jun-02-2004
    • harsh and unpleasant
    • Whereas "Sister" and "Daydream Nation" have a lot of creativity, I just don't like this one. The only songs that I like is "Mote" and the "Scooter-Jinx" effects. for its long five minute jam at the...
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Sonic Nurse

Sonic Nurse

If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more... more

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    Sonic Nurse

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    • Posted:Oct-02-2007
    • Worthy, if predictable summation of largely influential noise-rock band
    • 3 1/2

      As proven with one of their most solid singles to date (Unmade Bed), Sonic Youth continued their late career refinement with this virtual compilation and culmination of the many...
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    • Posted:May-26-2006
    • Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!
    • I wasn't a huge fan of Murray Street, but this album blows me away. After Murray Street, I thought maybe they had lost their touch and weren't going to retire with a kick. Well I was proven wrong....
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    • Posted:Jul-11-2005
    • sorry--tarnishing the legacy
    • everyone, it seems, agrees that Daydream Nation is the pinnacle of what Sonic Youth can do--that was more than 15 years ago. Murray Street, NYC Ghosts and Flowers, Experimental Jet Set--these are...
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Rather Ripped

Rather Ripped

It's been almost a quarter century since a youthful, avant-garde band with cut-rate guitars and an impetus for... more

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    Rather Ripped

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    • Posted:Sep-09-2008
    • Come on hang it up guys
    • I'll have to say I was a pretty big Sonic Youth fan at first but after I heard stuff after Goo they just can't create that interesting of music anymore. Sonic Youth in my opinion had 4 classic...
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    • Posted:Apr-07-2008
    • Sonic youth junkie --alittle disappointed
    • Very clean, but still unique. I would have to say this is an interesting album. I am still glad I bought it--maybe it will grow on me too.
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    • Posted:Aug-03-2007
    • gaRBAGE
    • FIRST TWO SONGS ARE OK BUT AFTER THAT SOUNDS DELIBERATELY OUT OF TUNE. WAS THAT ON PURPOSE? DOESN'T MATTER EITHER WAY - ITS STILL ART-HOUSE CRAP - LIKE VELVET UNDERGROUND IT'S GARBAGE -...
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Rather Ripped

Rather Ripped

International version features one bonus track, 'Helen Lundeberg'. 2005 had SY revisiting awesome Japan, touring the... more

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Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols

Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols

No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: SONIC YOUTHTitle: CONFUSION IS SEXStreet... more

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    Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols

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    • Posted:May-10-2007
    • Beautiful Mess
    • I don't like to give albums 5 stars unless they truly are a fave of mine. CiS comes close, but not quite. I wouldv'e given 4 1/2 if it was an option.

      So this album is a mess. A brilliant...
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    • Posted:Jul-31-2005
    • Average Album
    • Sonic Youth is a very noisy band that's why they are noise rock. Few people could make this sound and make it work. I do like it a little. But the songs don't have structure. And the layout of the...
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    • Posted:Mar-09-2004
    • My God Is This Bad
    • I pretty much think my heading sums up my feelings about this record. I bought after hearing how everyone proclaimed it be brilliant. Well, its not.
      Some people have remarked how scary, or...
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Dirty

Dirty

Japanese Reissue Including a Bonus Track: Stalker.1998 Japanese reissue on Geffen of their 1992 album with 'Stalker'... more

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    Dirty

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    • Posted:Apr-02-2008
    • Steve and Sonics... Studio Sublimation...
    • Never heard of Sonic Youth? Feel free to start here... Love SY? Feel free to start here... Open with a tune-up of an old blues standard, Thurston style, melting into your anti-corporate riot-grrrit...
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    • Posted:Apr-14-2006
    • I Don't Get It
    • Clearly I'm far too closed minded for this album. If I wanted to listen to people screaming and crashing and banging completely out of sync I'd open my window at 5am while the neighbors are...
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    • Posted:Jul-18-1998
    • Sonic Youth - a grunge rock band? Not really
    • 1990's "Goo" was Sonic Youth's major label debut; as expected, it almost lacked their trademark guitar noise, the songs were structured and there was a poster inside. Geffen tried to make them hit...
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Rather Ripped

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    Rather Ripped

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    • Posted:Apr-07-2008
    • Sonic youth junkie --alittle disappointed
    • Very clean, but still unique. I would have to say this is an interesting album. I am still glad I bought it--maybe it will grow on me too.
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    • Posted:Aug-04-2007
    • gaRBAGE
    • FIRST TWO SONGS ARE OK BUT AFTER THAT SOUNDS DELIBERATELY OUT OF TUNE. WAS THAT ON PURPOSE? DOESN'T MATTER EITHER WAY - ITS STILL ART-HOUSE CRAP - LIKE VELVET UNDERGROUND IT'S GARBAGE -...
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    • Posted:Aug-29-2006
    • Pleastly Ripped...
    • Others have said everything about it, so I'll rate the songs individually.

      1. Reena(4/5)- Typical SY song, I like the lyrics.
      2. Incinerate(3/5)- Catchy guitar, but it's just okay...
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Rather Ripped

Rather Ripped

UK pressing features two bonus tracks, 'Helen Lundeberg' and 'Eyeliner'. 20th album from the legendary Art Rockers... more

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Sonic Nurse

Sonic Nurse

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    • Posted:May-26-2006
    • Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!
    • I wasn't a huge fan of Murray Street, but this album blows me away. After Murray Street, I thought maybe they had lost their touch and weren't going to retire with a kick. Well I was proven wrong....
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