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Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation CD
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The double album that brought Sonic Youth to the attention of a wider audience and prompted the eager interest of a handful of major labels. DAYDREAM NATION, with its sleepy single candle flickering silently on the gatefold cover, harnessed their reckless live favourite, "Teenage Riot," while they ran gloriously roughshod over "Rain King" and "Silver Rocket," and offered the overtly camp glee of "Trilogy," which came with parts a, b and c. Their assured ascension to festival billing and the giant Geffen label came as no surprise to anyone who had heard this album.
Recorded at Greene Street Recording, New York, New York in July and August 1988. Originally released as a 2-LP set on Enigma (5403). Includes liner notes by Jutta Koether.
Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore.
Sonic Youth: Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo (vocals, guitar); Kim Gordon (vocals, bass); Steve Shelley (drums).
Rolling Stone (p.74) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts tunings keep it honest and its anthems keep it thrilling."
Rolling Stone (10/89) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - Ranked #45 in Rolling Stone's '100 Greatest Albums Of The 80s' survey.
Spin (p.100) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "In terms of badass sonics and sentiments, perhaps the greatest art-punk statement ever."
Spin (1/89, p.67) - "...this music is hitting me right where I live..."
Q (7/96, p.144) - 3 Stars - Good - "...regarded by many as the Youth's greatest work....DAYDREAM NATION...contain[s] the glorious, Nirvana-predicting 'Teen Age Riot'..."
Uncut (p.94) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[An] avant-rock masterpiece....If it had been recorded yesterday, DAYDREAM NATION would still sound revolutionary."
Alternative Press (7/95, p.89) - Rated #51 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...Sonic Youth's most focused, fully-realized work. This [is] the document of a band at the height of their powers, distilling every lesson they [have] learned in guitar terrorism, songwriting, rock action, and shattering conventions into a sustained series of electrical shocks..."
CMJ (1/5/04, p.26) - Ranked #20 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989"
Down Beat (p.72) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Widely hailed as Sonic Youth's masterpiece....DAYDREAM NATION was a lean, graceful blast of subcultural New York writ large..."
Melody Maker (5/4/96, p.58) - "...The mid-period Sonic LPs, specifically SISTER and DAYDREAM NATION, are generally regarded as their most fully realised..."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "[The album] opened the floodgates for acolytes such as Nirvana....You can practically hear the '90s being invented..."
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Songs
| 1 | Teen Age Riot | 6:57 | $1.29 | |
| 2 | Silver Rocket | 3:47 | $0.99 | |
| 3 | Sprawl | 7:42 | $0.99 | |
| 4 | 'Cross the Breeze | 7:00 | $0.99 | |
| 5 | Eric's Trip | 3:48 | $0.99 | |
| 6 | Total Trash | 7:33 | $0.99 | |
| 7 | Hey Joni | 4:23 | $0.99 | |
| 8 | Providence | 2:41 | $0.99 | |
| 9 | Candle | 4:58 | $0.99 | |
| 10 | Rain King | 4:39 | $0.99 | |
| 11 | Kissability | 3:08 | $0.99 | |
| 12 | Trilogy: a) the Wonder | 4:15 | $0.99 | |
| 13 | Trilogy: B) Hyperstation | 7:12 | $0.99 | |
| 14 | Trilogy: Z) Eliminator Jr. | 2:37 | $0.99 | |
Daydream Nation Music Review
Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Perty darn good
I think it's pretty good, but there's no need to go wetting your pants. It's a sweet album if you're into punk/alt rock. That's all that needs to be said. Spare me the righteous indignation at the fact that not everyone in the world is in love with it. Awww, silver rocket. Burnin' a hole in your pocket!
Submitted by Nick (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 4 found this helpful. Sonic Youth: Louder Than Life
This album is the best disc Sonic Youth ever recorded, and easily a front-runner for best album of the eighties. This record, along with Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking", set the stage for Nirvana's violent coup of hair metal and Guns 'n' Roses style pop metal. While "Nothing's Shocking" combined metal riffs with an alt-rock edge, Sonic Youth had no intention of being so focussed or coherent on what would be the last great album of the 80's. Daydream Nation is a long, rambling, noisy, distorted, whispered, screamed exploration of all that is good and bad about contemporary music. The lyrics tell of complicated, multilayered issues that seem built for a concept album, but Daydream Nation was too big to be confined by any one concept. Everyone who listens to this record takes away something different. It's opening track, "Teenage Riot" is the anthem for anyone who hates anthems. It's the track that even SY's biggest detractors start to bob their heads to. Probably the best, least known summation of a generation with a running time a few seconds short of seven minutes. The edgy "Silver Rocket" is a noise explosion complemented by Steve Shelley's virtuosic, but never over the top drumming. Many tracks stretch over six minutes, with the vocals finishing a few minutes in, leaving the bewildered listener wandering in a sea of sublime guitar sound. On the subject of guitars... SY was influential to bands that sound nothing like them because of their insane guitar tunings. Some of these are so far removed from standard that some strings on the guitar must be changed to go to the tuning. Every single song on DN is in a tuning like this. All in all, this is easily my favorite album, and anyone who really listens to it, really gives it a chance, and then says they don't like it is lost. Pity them, and let them have their Sean Paul CDs. Sonic Youth didn't set out to win over the world, they set out to change music for anyone who will let them.
Submitted by a reviewer (Wallingford, CT, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No College Rock At It's Best!
I love this album, you truly can not say you're a fan of the harder alternative rock scene(Nirvana,Pearl jam, Alice In Chains)until you have listened to this album. Thurston Moore is an amazing musician with his lyrics, and guitar riffs and music all around. Teenage Riot and Silver Rocket are among some of my favorites on this album. Teenage Riot makes you feel as if you're in a moshpit that has put on Slow-Mo, it just gives you the sense of what it truly means to be a teenager, I am 15 and I am totally into the grune/alter-rock scene. I also reccomend if you really want to be a true fan getting the Dirty album of Sonic Youth's and maybe The Pixie's Surfer Rosa or Doolittle, trust me. Amazing music! You'll cherish it.
Submitted by Nick (Morrison,CO,USA)
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