it's so rare to see people making videos because they're passionate about something and not for the sake of profit. There's SY music all over this video, this guy cannot earn a single dime. you got my respect ;-)
there's countless creators doing their thing just for the passion. it's just that our chances of hearing of them are lower, because generally one who isn't playing ball isn't likely to hit a home run with the algorithm. but their are plenty of people here who are just doing what they love.
My favorite Noise Punk/Rock, Alternative, Post Punk and Avant-garde band along with the likes of Big Black, The Jesus Lizard, Dinosaur. Jr and Flipper.
im with you - sister is the best! i first saw them on the sister tour and was blown away!! i also “learned how” to play guitar from this album and evol
Omg to end it with I haven't listened to Rather Ripped. So I've been a Sonic Youth fan for 27 years. I have all of these albums and more and the demos and exclusive stuff from the fan club. The only albums I don't have is their last one and tv shit which was garbage. One of the greatest modern bands of all time. It's sad so few if people even know who they are. Great vinyl collection, jealous there. Mine is pretty small and lacking. I do have the dirty boots single with the live songs on record.
u t I guess after a while my attention went elsewhere and I got a bit bored. Still miss them and so sad they’ll never play again. Funny I was listening to that dirty boots ep the other day, it’s great. Thanks!
Very nice vid. Thanks for sharing. My faves: 1. Daydream Nation 2. (a very close 2nd) EVOL 3. Sister 4 - this fluctuates wildly and often. Lately it might be "Confusion is Sex" or "Bad Moon"
Awesome video. I like the details about the albums and your perspectives. Ive been collecting us and UK original copies on discogs and reverb. I'm so happy I finally dig into their discography. I found an original us copy of day dream nation and it set me off on an adventure.
Amazing collections of Sonic Youth albums. This truly speaks of your admiration to the band. Nice seeing all the different albums and labels. I missed a lot of these in the stores. A few that you showed were foreign to me. Thanks for taking the time to show them~ Rob/Boston
I wonder did WM have a small run - i suppose it was released at that time the Vinyl was in steep decline as we were all suckered into CD's. Thurston is supposed to be a mad wax head, he was in my town for a show a few months back and the owner of the local indie posted on facebook how Thurston had spent a considerable amount on Vinyl that day!
That is a killer collection. I have only been into SY for maybe 3 years, but I have grown to absolutely love the band. I don't have all their albums and haven't even heard everyone but love all that I do own. Most of them are reissues, but I do have a copy of Washing Machine which isn't very easy to get. I was told it was a leftover copy from Thurston's basement, as he lives in same town of the store I bought it from and is friends with the owner. Hard to say what album is my favorite.
Thanks Sir!!! NYC Flowers i'll pickup if i see in the wild someday but I wont be rushing into it, thanks for that tip. I might play the Goo CD and see if it sounds better than the vinyl.
Wow! Tremendous collection of SY's stuff! Gonna pull the trigger on the Daydream nation, Sister and Murray St releases soon. I showed my (limited) amount of SY releases on LP a few months back. Washing Machine remains my favourite. Absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. I met T Moore at his gig in Galway last year and told him so. He didn't commit to a favourite LP but did agree with me that "Diamond Sea" was their greatest track ever. He had to agree - I had a gun to his head at the time (joke, well kind of!) What a fantastic video by you - not just the collection...but MUCH more important was your lucid and passionate commentary. Top, top job. And an immediate sub. So looking forward to seeing all of your videos now.
Too kind Ben and I agree on Diamond Sea, the 17 min version would definitely be on my Desert Island Discs list! But if forced to pick a favourite song im a sucker for Schizophrenia. Thanks for watching!
Have you guys NOT heard (it's a rhetorical question, haha) "Expressway to Yr. Skull" ??? Or "Cross the Breeze"? Or Daydream's Trilogy??? I love Diamond Sea, but out of all SY tracks, I'm not sure it makes my Top 25. Maaaaaybe. But I guess that's more of a testament to SY's body of work and the high quality maintained over their early & middle years (and revisited from time to time later on).
Thanks so much for this really great video! I am new to Sonic Youth and after watching you show the albums and give your thoughts on each of them, I want to check them all out :-)
Oh am I happy that you said what seems to be a discussion point that nobody seems to talk about: Kim Gordon's voice! During the Washing Machine review segment when you brought up Shadow of a Doubt. I was going to mention, I Love You Golden Blue from Sonic Nurse and Reena from Rather Ripped as well. I know there's plenty of others that I'm not thinking of right now, but she actually has a BEAUTIFUL singing voice when she actually focuses more on that soft, whispery feminine voice. Then she sounds incredible. Sweet and angelic. Right up there with Belinda Butcher from MBV. The reason why I HATED Dirty, however, was because she went the opposite direction: doing that annoying, punkish grunting and yelling. God I can't stand it when she does that. Even parts of Daydream Nation I find myself cringing (like The Sprawl) and I feel like I'm forced to swallow a really nasty shot of whisky just to get through it. Even to this day, 18 years after first listening to that album, I still find Eliminator Jr. to be the most anticlimatic closer to any album they ever put out. Okay, so the fake orgasmic grunting and cussing she does is kinda hilarious. But GOD ALMIGHTY SOMEBODY GIVE THURSTON THE MIKE INSTEAD PLEASE!!! Her yelling is unbearable. Thankfully there's songs like Kissability though. Dirty was WAY worse though. Because every song she was on had that obnoxious punk grunting...almost to an extreme where it sounded like she was vomiting. Yuck! Worst SY album experience I ever had (actually 2nd worst experience...Confusion is Sex is their worst of the worst in my opinion). Now that I got that ranting out of the way though, let me finish this review positively by giving honorable mention to Turquoise Boy. Kim's voice on that song is like sweet velvet to my eardrums. LOVE that song! Also, I really REAAAAAALY hope that you listened to Murray Street more now than you did when you did this review 10 years ago. Twice??? Dude, you're really not giving that gem of an album a chance. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style is worth the price of giving that album more than 2 listens.
I would love to flip through his collection. I happened to be at the record store I mentioned in my other comment when Thurston stopped in one day to shoot the shit with the owner (Byron Coley)...it was pretty cool. Have you checked out Thurston's new project, Chelsea Light Moving? I finally got around to picking a copy up and I have to say it is pretty damn good. Actually spinning it as I type this. -Mike
i bought an 1920's villa some years ago, old and wooden with tongue n groove ceilings etc. first thing i did after moving my shit into one room was hook up the record player and wet the house with EVOL. the sound was washing everywhere in this empty reverberating house.
Nice collection! I got into Sonic Youth right around when the Goo album came out and also got deeply into underground rock. My first ever concert was Sonic Youth with Pavement and Mudhoney when they where touring for Dirty. So for those reasons , these two albums hold a very special part of my heart/soul and they are my favorites. I have been revisiting Evol and the Sister albums. Sister is definitely now high up there in my top 5 Sonic Youth albums. Great Video!
Man i just picked up dirty on vynl i like it a lot already have some weird bootleg of daydream nation with no dgc or record label info on it it must be a counterfeit version
Confusion is Sex is their best album for me. I don’t like any of their melodic pop hook-y stuff or really any accessibility from them AT ALL. My top five ranking: 1. Confusion is Sex 2. Sonic Youth EP 3. Bad Moon Rising 4. NYC Ghosts and Flowers 5. SYR 3
im writing an essay now cos im bored Goo is the best one because it has the most engaging and best written songs -songs like tunic, mary christ, kool thing, mote, cinderella's big score, disappearer -its the funniest, most human and most easy to connect with on a more intimate level -it has the best flow as an album, I love how it devolves into weirder stuff -it blends all of what makes sonic youth so good (noise, no wave, ambience) so effortlessly and in ways that serve the songs rather than many moments in other records (even daydream nation) which often seem pointless or done for their own sake as a whole it's a very mixed discog with some v good albums and some messy ones but goo is the only one i keep coming back to because it's just the best written and most constantly engaging (u rite tho the production is pretty weak)
So what happened to Sonic Youth after Washing Machine? I agree quality went way down on the rest of the albums, if I search the internet all critics do is praise the later albums but I cant get into them, they sound like "adult alternative" or something like that..great video, I'm buying all their eigthies albums on vinyl cause all I had was all the CD's..that's all your fault lol
Ha I thought it was just me, I guess after a dozen albums I kind of got used to their sound so the recent albums bored me a little. I put it down to my musical tastes changing a bit... You think the quality has dipped?
that might be the case with A Thousand Leaves, cause Sunday is one of their best songs but the rest of the album is really average; Murray Street, some people say its one of their best but sounds like adult contemporary, there is no danger, no fire, that will be the case too for the marginally better Sonic Nurse, has good songs on it, Rather Ripped they tried to recreate Dirty but sounds kind of flat.. they lost something, maybe it was becase their special tuned guitars were stolen, they lost 16 guitars..that's just a theory lol.. but they were devastated when that happened
As a pretty major SY fan/connoisseur (first saw them before Goo came out - first CDs purchased were Daydream Nation, Goo, and Bad Moon Rising), I think the quality just became less consistent after, say, Dirty. IMHO, Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, and Rather Ripped are all very strong albums. As strong as Daydream, EVOL, Sister (or, brace yourself, Confusion is Sex, Bad Moon Rising)?? No, not generally. But evaluated on their own merits, they still have a lot to offer, and watching/hearing SY "hone their sound" is a lesson on the fine difference between destructive creation and creative destruction. They were carving ice sculptures using nail files and dull chainsaws in a truck that goes from smooth highways in warm tropical weather to bumpy roads scaling the frigid heights of Alpin peaks. It kept things interesting. Despite being such a self-proclaimed Big Fan, I've never listened to "NYC Ghosts and Flowers" all in one sitting. Someday. I did give "The Eternal" a listen a few months back and was surprised to find a couple of real gems that really seemed up to snuff. Might purchase soon. But I have 95% of their stuff otherwise and have listened to a lot of it 100+ or even hundreds of times. Their Live in Battery Park LP is great, as is the recent Live at Smart Bar, 1985 LP. Live at Continental Club is quite solid, as well. The "4 Tunna Brix" EP full of covers of Fall songs is great. If you like "Made In USA" (as do I), you really owe it to yourself to get the "Spinhead Sessions" LP (LP? whatever, the record - it seems longish for an EP, but it's GOOD) - it's even better maybe. Daydream Nation, EVOL - and most of what they did prior to them (Kill Yr. Idols is heady bliss to me, not a throwaway EP - nearly always reveal some new glimmer or glisten when I spin them.
Rather Ripped is my "SY does Adult Contemporary" album. I saw them in Austin for that tour, and the general conscious was "the new stuff sucks/play more old stuff"
Indeed i managed to grab a few hour the other day and just rolled the camera! I have so far managed to avoid duplicates, anything im missing on Bad Moon Rising pressings? I've been playing that record a lot lately, it has a certain something.
There was an orange edition that came out a few years back that I got. Sounds great. It's a headphone record, but also one that sounds amazing around Halloween (duh) on one of those days that's not quite warm, not quite cool and people are outside. Window open and play it just beyond polite volume levels. Humanity deserves that (do I mean something good or bad there? Not sure).
i agree Goo sounds lame, i guess they were trying to recreate White light/white heat's jagged sound but it ended up too polished. but i also think Sister sounds awful, significantly worse than either Daydream Nation or EVOL, drums sound like cardboard boxes, and guitars seem to be muffled, maybe on vinyl it sounds better, but i guess it's just the way it's been recorded. For me they began to sound right from Dirty onward.
Shame you dont like the sister production, for me I have the same vinyl copy ive had since i was 17 and played it on those cheap plastic needles. So the sound of the record is ingrained in my ears no matter what. The drums are soft and echo'y - always loved the opening toms on Schizophrenia. I'm streaming it on my phone now and its a delight as always. I just picked up the spinhead sessions and im loving it, this is my favorite period. Thanks for watching!
Well, i can understand you love Sister unconditionally since you've been listening to her for your whole life :) the songwriting is terrific and their musicianship is magnificent, if only it sounded like Washing Machine, sharp and clear, it would be my fave too. but, you know.. :)
+miedqy0 I suppose it's like any band, sometimes the first few records you hear become your favourite no matter what. I am old enough to have grown up with nirvana and pavement so those bands discography I kinda treat as equal, but other bands I came to late, like modest mouse / the national for example and it's the first record I heard by them I love.
it's so rare to see people making videos because they're passionate about something and not for the sake of profit. There's SY music all over this video, this guy cannot earn a single dime. you got my respect ;-)
happyjessus thanks buddy, only wish I had time to make more.
there's countless creators doing their thing just for the passion. it's just that our chances of hearing of them are lower, because generally one who isn't playing ball isn't likely to hit a home run with the algorithm. but their are plenty of people here who are just doing what they love.
My favorite Noise Punk/Rock, Alternative, Post Punk and Avant-garde band along with the likes of Big Black, The Jesus Lizard, Dinosaur. Jr and Flipper.
loving this 8 years later! thanks for uploading
im with you - sister is the best! i first saw them on the sister tour and was blown away!! i also “learned how” to play guitar from this album and evol
Omg to end it with I haven't listened to Rather Ripped. So I've been a Sonic Youth fan for 27 years. I have all of these albums and more and the demos and exclusive stuff from the fan club. The only albums I don't have is their last one and tv shit which was garbage. One of the greatest modern bands of all time. It's sad so few if people even know who they are. Great vinyl collection, jealous there. Mine is pretty small and lacking. I do have the dirty boots single with the live songs on record.
u t I guess after a while my attention went elsewhere and I got a bit bored. Still miss them and so sad they’ll never play again. Funny I was listening to that dirty boots ep the other day, it’s great. Thanks!
Very nice vid. Thanks for sharing.
My faves:
1. Daydream Nation
2. (a very close 2nd) EVOL
3. Sister
4 - this fluctuates wildly and often. Lately it might be "Confusion is Sex" or "Bad Moon"
Awesome video. I like the details about the albums and your perspectives. Ive been collecting us and UK original copies on discogs and reverb.
I'm so happy I finally dig into their discography. I found an original us copy of day dream nation and it set me off on an adventure.
Amazing collections of Sonic Youth albums. This truly speaks of your admiration to the band.
Nice seeing all the different albums and labels. I missed a lot of these in the stores. A few that you showed were foreign to me. Thanks for taking the time to show them~
Rob/Boston
Hi Rob, most of my releases are UK so on Blast First, probably only minor differences in labels etc. Thanks for taking the time to watch it!
I wonder did WM have a small run - i suppose it was released at that time the Vinyl was in steep decline as we were all suckered into CD's. Thurston is supposed to be a mad wax head, he was in my town for a show a few months back and the owner of the local indie posted on facebook how Thurston had spent a considerable amount on Vinyl that day!
Wow that's awesome. I wonder what he picked up. What city was it ?
Dirty will always be my fav... So underapprecated.
first record is highly recommended !
Still havent tracked it down but i hear there is a wave of re-issues coming so hopefully get it picked up soon!
That is a killer collection. I have only been into SY for maybe 3 years, but I have grown to absolutely love the band. I don't have all their albums and haven't even heard everyone but love all that I do own. Most of them are reissues, but I do have a copy of Washing Machine which isn't very easy to get. I was told it was a leftover copy from Thurston's basement, as he lives in same town of the store I bought it from and is friends with the owner. Hard to say what album is my favorite.
Wow sweet. I bought a 95 copy of washing machine on discogs. I recently bought the cd too.
Nice job, I think you do a great job of the descriptions of each LP. And I agree with you on Sonic Youth being the No. 1. Really enjoying this video.
Great video! Thanks for sharing the album covers... appreciate your candor, insight, and enthusiasm! Long live SY! ✌️
What a great collection. I'm droolin'. And this is just part 1 you say?
You been digging through my archives Mr Dill!
WeeklyRations Well, yeah, but only because Dan Gordon posted it.
Thanks Sir!!! NYC Flowers i'll pickup if i see in the wild someday but I wont be rushing into it, thanks for that tip. I might play the Goo CD and see if it sounds better than the vinyl.
Wow! Tremendous collection of SY's stuff! Gonna pull the trigger on the Daydream nation, Sister and Murray St releases soon. I showed my (limited) amount of SY releases on LP a few months back. Washing Machine remains my favourite. Absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. I met T Moore at his gig in Galway last year and told him so. He didn't commit to a favourite LP but did agree with me that "Diamond Sea" was their greatest track ever. He had to agree - I had a gun to his head at the time (joke, well kind of!) What a fantastic video by you - not just the collection...but MUCH more important was your lucid and passionate commentary. Top, top job. And an immediate sub. So looking forward to seeing all of your videos now.
Too kind Ben and I agree on Diamond Sea, the 17 min version would definitely be on my Desert Island Discs list! But if forced to pick a favourite song im a sucker for Schizophrenia. Thanks for watching!
Have you guys NOT heard (it's a rhetorical question, haha) "Expressway to Yr. Skull" ???
Or "Cross the Breeze"?
Or Daydream's Trilogy???
I love Diamond Sea, but out of all SY tracks, I'm not sure it makes my Top 25. Maaaaaybe.
But I guess that's more of a testament to SY's body of work and the high quality maintained over their early & middle years (and revisited from time to time later on).
Thanks so much for this really great video! I am new to Sonic Youth and after watching you show the albums and give your thoughts on each of them, I want to check them all out :-)
Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves are like meant to be together, two great albums!
Yeah they're incredible I bought two original us copies from a discogs seller.
Oh am I happy that you said what seems to be a discussion point that nobody seems to talk about: Kim Gordon's voice! During the Washing Machine review segment when you brought up Shadow of a Doubt. I was going to mention, I Love You Golden Blue from Sonic Nurse and Reena from Rather Ripped as well. I know there's plenty of others that I'm not thinking of right now, but she actually has a BEAUTIFUL singing voice when she actually focuses more on that soft, whispery feminine voice. Then she sounds incredible. Sweet and angelic. Right up there with Belinda Butcher from MBV.
The reason why I HATED Dirty, however, was because she went the opposite direction: doing that annoying, punkish grunting and yelling. God I can't stand it when she does that. Even parts of Daydream Nation I find myself cringing (like The Sprawl) and I feel like I'm forced to swallow a really nasty shot of whisky just to get through it. Even to this day, 18 years after first listening to that album, I still find Eliminator Jr. to be the most anticlimatic closer to any album they ever put out. Okay, so the fake orgasmic grunting and cussing she does is kinda hilarious. But GOD ALMIGHTY SOMEBODY GIVE THURSTON THE MIKE INSTEAD PLEASE!!! Her yelling is unbearable. Thankfully there's songs like Kissability though.
Dirty was WAY worse though. Because every song she was on had that obnoxious punk grunting...almost to an extreme where it sounded like she was vomiting. Yuck! Worst SY album experience I ever had (actually 2nd worst experience...Confusion is Sex is their worst of the worst in my opinion).
Now that I got that ranting out of the way though, let me finish this review positively by giving honorable mention to Turquoise Boy. Kim's voice on that song is like sweet velvet to my eardrums. LOVE that song!
Also, I really REAAAAAALY hope that you listened to Murray Street more now than you did when you did this review 10 years ago. Twice??? Dude, you're really not giving that gem of an album a chance. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style is worth the price of giving that album more than 2 listens.
Agree, sister is my all time favourite.
I would love to flip through his collection. I happened to be at the record store I mentioned in my other comment when Thurston stopped in one day to shoot the shit with the owner (Byron Coley)...it was pretty cool. Have you checked out Thurston's new project, Chelsea Light Moving? I finally got around to picking a copy up and I have to say it is pretty damn good. Actually spinning it as I type this. -Mike
i bought an 1920's villa some years ago, old and wooden with tongue n groove ceilings etc. first thing i did after moving my shit into one room was hook up the record player and wet the house with EVOL. the sound was washing everywhere in this empty reverberating house.
Nice collection! I got into Sonic Youth right around when the Goo album came out and also got deeply into underground rock. My first ever concert was Sonic Youth with Pavement and Mudhoney when they where touring for Dirty. So for those reasons , these two albums hold a very special part of my heart/soul and they are my favorites. I have been revisiting Evol and the Sister albums. Sister is definitely now high up there in my top 5 Sonic Youth albums. Great Video!
Man i just picked up dirty on vynl i like it a lot already have some weird bootleg of daydream nation with no dgc or record label info on it it must be a counterfeit version
You've got to give Murray St a go. It's probably my third or fourth favourite after Sister, Evol, Daydream Nation.
Its in the Q for today as im back working in my attic after a few days off sick. Need some ambient music to start the day first. Something quiet!
Confusion is Sex is their best album for me. I don’t like any of their melodic pop hook-y stuff or really any accessibility from them AT ALL.
My top five ranking:
1. Confusion is Sex
2. Sonic Youth EP
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. NYC Ghosts and Flowers
5. SYR 3
im writing an essay now cos im bored
Goo is the best one because it has the most engaging and best written songs
-songs like tunic, mary christ, kool thing, mote, cinderella's big score, disappearer
-its the funniest, most human and most easy to connect with on a more intimate level
-it has the best flow as an album, I love how it devolves into weirder stuff
-it blends all of what makes sonic youth so good (noise, no wave, ambience) so effortlessly and in ways that serve the songs rather than many moments in other records (even daydream nation) which often seem pointless or done for their own sake
as a whole it's a very mixed discog with some v good albums and some messy ones but goo is the only one i keep coming back to because it's just the best written and most constantly engaging (u rite tho the production is pretty weak)
So what happened to Sonic Youth after Washing Machine? I agree quality went way down on the rest of the albums, if I search the internet all critics do is praise the later albums but I cant get into them, they sound like "adult alternative" or something like that..great video, I'm buying all their eigthies albums on vinyl cause all I had was all the CD's..that's all your fault lol
Ha I thought it was just me, I guess after a dozen albums I kind of got used to their sound so the recent albums bored me a little. I put it down to my musical tastes changing a bit... You think the quality has dipped?
that might be the case with A Thousand Leaves, cause Sunday is one of their best songs but the rest of the album is really average; Murray Street, some people say its one of their best but sounds like adult contemporary, there is no danger, no fire, that will be the case too for the marginally better Sonic Nurse, has good songs on it, Rather Ripped they tried to recreate Dirty but sounds kind of flat.. they lost something, maybe it was becase their special tuned guitars were stolen, they lost 16 guitars..that's just a theory lol.. but they were devastated when that happened
As a pretty major SY fan/connoisseur (first saw them before Goo came out - first CDs purchased were Daydream Nation, Goo, and Bad Moon Rising), I think the quality just became less consistent after, say, Dirty.
IMHO, Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, and Rather Ripped are all very strong albums. As strong as Daydream, EVOL, Sister (or, brace yourself, Confusion is Sex, Bad Moon Rising)?? No, not generally. But evaluated on their own merits, they still have a lot to offer, and watching/hearing SY "hone their sound" is a lesson on the fine difference between destructive creation and creative destruction. They were carving ice sculptures using nail files and dull chainsaws in a truck that goes from smooth highways in warm tropical weather to bumpy roads scaling the frigid heights of Alpin peaks. It kept things interesting.
Despite being such a self-proclaimed Big Fan, I've never listened to "NYC Ghosts and Flowers" all in one sitting. Someday. I did give "The Eternal" a listen a few months back and was surprised to find a couple of real gems that really seemed up to snuff. Might purchase soon. But I have 95% of their stuff otherwise and have listened to a lot of it 100+ or even hundreds of times. Their Live in Battery Park LP is great, as is the recent Live at Smart Bar, 1985 LP. Live at Continental Club is quite solid, as well. The "4 Tunna Brix" EP full of covers of Fall songs is great. If you like "Made In USA" (as do I), you really owe it to yourself to get the "Spinhead Sessions" LP (LP? whatever, the record - it seems longish for an EP, but it's GOOD) - it's even better maybe. Daydream Nation, EVOL - and most of what they did prior to them (Kill Yr. Idols is heady bliss to me, not a throwaway EP - nearly always reveal some new glimmer or glisten when I spin them.
Rather Ripped is my "SY does Adult Contemporary" album. I saw them in Austin for that tour, and the general conscious was "the new stuff sucks/play more old stuff"
Alejandro Rivera average no. a thousand leaves is a very poor album.
Indeed i managed to grab a few hour the other day and just rolled the camera! I have so far managed to avoid duplicates, anything im missing on Bad Moon Rising pressings? I've been playing that record a lot lately, it has a certain something.
There was an orange edition that came out a few years back that I got. Sounds great. It's a headphone record, but also one that sounds amazing around Halloween (duh) on one of those days that's not quite warm, not quite cool and people are outside. Window open and play it just beyond polite volume levels. Humanity deserves that (do I mean something good or bad there? Not sure).
My top 5:
1) Daydream Nation
2) Sister
3) Washing Machine
4) Sonic Nurse
5) EVOL
Now Shawn It was a tough call splitting it but i didnt fancy having an hour long VC video, assumed no one would watch it!
I love EVOL & Sister!
Sonic Nurse?
It's on my want list!
Sonic Nurse and Washing Machine are my favorites.
i agree Goo sounds lame, i guess they were trying to recreate White light/white heat's jagged sound but it ended up too polished. but i also think Sister sounds awful, significantly worse than either Daydream Nation or EVOL, drums sound like cardboard boxes, and guitars seem to be muffled, maybe on vinyl it sounds better, but i guess it's just the way it's been recorded. For me they began to sound right from Dirty onward.
Shame you dont like the sister production, for me I have the same vinyl copy ive had since i was 17 and played it on those cheap plastic needles. So the sound of the record is ingrained in my ears no matter what. The drums are soft and echo'y - always loved the opening toms on Schizophrenia. I'm streaming it on my phone now and its a delight as always. I just picked up the spinhead sessions and im loving it, this is my favorite period. Thanks for watching!
Well, i can understand you love Sister unconditionally since you've been listening to her for your whole life :) the songwriting is terrific and their musicianship is magnificent, if only it sounded like Washing Machine, sharp and clear, it would be my fave too. but, you know.. :)
+miedqy0 I suppose it's like any band, sometimes the first few records you hear become your favourite no matter what. I am old enough to have grown up with nirvana and pavement so those bands discography I kinda treat as equal, but other bands I came to late, like modest mouse / the national for example and it's the first record I heard by them I love.
I got all the albums
MERCI DE FRANCE ..... S.F
A thousand leaves es por lejos el peor disco de SY.
Para nada, mucho peores son bad Moon Rising, Murray street y Sonic nurse