Should I get into sonic youth just for the purpose of being able to say "oh, they're super underground, you've probably never heard of them"?
Would it help if I bought hipster glasses?
>>127766171For the purpose of really enjoying Daydream Nation, but feeling lukewarm about the rest of rest of their discography. At least that's how it went down for me.
No. Sonic Youth isn't obscure. The real patrician take on Sonic Youth is to get into their 80s albums and say they peaked at Bad Moon Rising and made nothing of worth after Daydream Nation. This is my authentic take on them.
Sonic Youth was like created in a lab to be the most pretentious band of all time. They think what they are doing is the most serious high art of all time, their music is humorless, and they can't play their instruments so they try pawn off atonality and dissonance as having artistic legitimacy. Every single aspect of their music is a checklist of the exact opposite qualities that I look for in a musical artist.
>>127766323Their dummer's pretty good
If you want everyone to think you're gay and have terrible music taste then sure. Go for it, sport.
Washing Machine is a good album
>>127766171>"oh, they're super underground, you've probably never heard of them"If someone said this to me about Sonic Youth, who were literally signed to Geffen, I would bend them over and rape them in the ass.
>>127766171If you can build a time machine and go back to 1987 that might work
>>127766171I always found them boring.
>>127766171a) Sonic Youth aren't underground, they're probably one of the better known alt-rock bands.b) on the off chance this isn't bait, no, get into bands because you like their music. This isn't complicated.c) Hipsters as a subculture have been dead since ~2014 so it's no longer necessary to (pretend to) like obscure things to be cool.
>>127767477a few of their songs on The Year Punk Broke are serviceable. schizophrenia and express way to yr skull. def some boring shit here and there, but they looked like they were keeping up with the younger, more exciting bands.
>>127766323t. doesn't know what atonality is
>>127766323this. When your "obscure indie band" is hanging out with Francis Ford Coppola's daughter, you know this is just astroturfed "Of The Tribe" bullshit.
The band that convinced Nirvana to "sign the contract"?Caveat Emptor
>>127766171OP, listen to this guy>>127767511>c) Hipsters as a subculture have been dead since ~2014 so it's no longer necessary to (pretend to) like obscure things to be cool.if you havent been paying attention, the single "coolest" thing out there these days is to like what you like unapologetically. Its kinda always been this way, but was really only reserved for normies, so the aforementioned hipsterism basically became a form of gatekeeping for a certain subset (hipsters) to claim superiority over everyone else (especially over the normies). Now, no one really gives a fuck if you're an aspie or listen to weird shit.funnily enough I think poptimism is what helped kill the hipster subculture. they started liking pop to out-hipster the other hipsters, ironically, but then realized ultimately it wasn't so terrible and stopped using music as a means to establish hierarchy. and then social media (TikTok largely) provided a new avenue of exposure that wasn't the radio (or Spotify/pandora) so more weird/obscure music could reach audiences and here we are today. oddly enough, the difference today is that arbiters of "weird" music, instead of siloing themselves off, are moreso just people who are curious/passionate music and want to share what they've found with others, whoever just happens to be paying attention.TL;DR bee yourself
>>127766171Listen to dinosaur Jr instead
>>127766287daydream nation is brilliant
