their best
I kissed my best friend today and now he's ghosting me :(
>>129256710I loove Kim Gordon.
For me, it's Evol.
>>129258404Their weakest 80s album without counting the debut.
>>129256710For me it's The Whitey Albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjhdeZAwEec
>>129259325their weakest 80s album (even counting the debut) is daydream nation#facts
>>129259389Wrong, Daydream Nation is easily their best record along with Sister. EVOL has great highlights but also a couple of duds, it's a great album but I still prefer Confusion Is Sex and Bad Moon Rising.
>>129259462cringe hivemind opinion.
>>129259491>hivemind opinion>prefering bmr over evol
>>129256710You are not wrong anon. The only reason I want to play guitar is to recreate the break in Pacific Coast Highway.
HIS SISTER CAME OVERSHE WAS OUT OF HER MIND
>>129259543That part soars and is one of their greatest moments ever
>>129259581I went up to Milwaukee to see an old friend of mineAnd Thurston came over, he was out of his mind
>>129258404cool cover but mediocre album
>>129258404Lung Leg here pictured on the cover.
>>129256710Gather round and I will now post the actual cover for you my child.
For me, it's Tuff Titty Raphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxdlgZRl0s
It's Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Youth's true and only masterpiece.
>>129259491>hivemindHaving Daydream Nation and Sister one and two is hivemind but EVOL is the consensus third best 80s Sonic Youth album.
>>129260647>RYM has Goo, Dirty, and Sonic Nurse bolded but not BMRA travesty of the highest order
>>129260047don't understand how anyone who is into this kind of music could come to this conclusion
the quality of a sonic youth song is inversely proprtional to the amount of singing in it.
>>129260659Sister > Daydream Nation > Bad Moon Rising > Confusion Is Sex > EVOLTheir other stuff can be quite good (Washing Machine and Sonic Nurse) but mostly mid.
>>129260855it sounds nothing like like cover, bad moon rising is more raw and gothic
>>129259543Pacific Highway is such a fuck you song. >hey guys what if we buried the most beautiful 90 seconds of instrumental alt rock in the middle of an especially ugly noise rock song
The problem isn't quite that SY weren't self-destructive fuck-ups as that they seem to be so pathologically well-adjusted that the music doesn't appear to be performing any kind of sublimatory function for them. It isn't that they "don't mean it" so much as they only mean it, that, like the worst, most self-conscious meta-art, the work is reducible to a set of easily verbally explicable intentions. There is no sense, even in the early work as far as this listener is concerned, that the music is drawing on any unconscious material.
>>129262319I think its cool and I like when they do the quasi horror music thing. The way Kim sings it makes it sound like the guy is a serial killer
The Sprawl is the continuation of the Sister sound. My favorite song
You're right anon
>>129262319Same with Tuff Gnarl. The first minute or so is probably the prettiest melody they ever did, then is just two minutes of noise and cacophonies.
why does the cover say the sonic youthand not just sonic youth
>>129256710Shit band, their Nardwar bullying interview is the best thing they ever did.
Sister is their best album cover
>>129256710>>129258404These are good but compared to Confusion is Sex and Daydream Nation I feel they're a bit on the transitional side. CiS is more raw and primordial, BMS continues in that trend, and then they slowly drag themselves out of that murk until you get to DDN's pitch perfect indie rock. Songs like Star Power and Schizophrenia feel like the band were actively trying to find that sound.
daydream nation is so ass, idk how it ended up the consensus pick. the sprawl is like the only good song on it.
Have bias for Evol, for being the first from them I listened to all the way through. Really like their early sound, even on the more straightforward s/t like I Dreamed A Dream which is one of their best songs. Also Mike Watt was on some tracks
>>129268558It's their "mature" album. As the anon above you said it's clearly the final form of a sound they were working towards for the previous two albums. Critics love shit like that when a band has a clear evolution. I disagree that it's ass but it's not in my top 5.
>>129271509I Dreamed I Dream is so good and so unique. I can't think of anything else quite like it. Maybe it's a bit like some of what This Heat did. Has almost a goth thing going on.
