A Thousand Leaves (studio album) by Sonic Youth

A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 3,473rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 165 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (64th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (600th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,473rd)
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Sonic Youth bestography

A Thousand Leaves is ranked 11th best out of 40 albums by Sonic Youth on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sonic Youth is Daydream Nation which is ranked number 69 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,658.

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74/100 (from 165 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.

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From 11/28/2020 17:55
I haven't listened to it in a while, but from memory I seem to remember female mechanic on duty being wild af. And that the whole album is really good if a tad long and overdone in parts
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From 07/29/2020 23:59
Hmm. This one's a bit weak, isn't it? A lot of contrived and formulaic moments on A Thousand Leaves. It does have amazing guitar interplay, like every Sonic Youth album does, but that's really it. The song Sunday is supposedly the best song on here, I found it to be a little generic. Still, it's not horrible, it's not doing anything that I would say is crossing the line into awful, it just feels a little under par.
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From 10/28/2017 03:40
Another Incredibly underrated album, Sonic Youth decided to relax, stretch their legs a bit and just quietly play some guitar. and on songs that don't do that, they'll have one of the following things that also goes extremely well for them: they'll have a kickass hard rock edge, a relaxed psychedelic melody, or a really cool jammy instrumental. In all aspects, this album rocks, but it is occasionally forgettable.

Favorite Tracks: Sunday, Wildflower Soul, Hoarfrost, Hits of Sunshine, The Ineffable Me
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From 10/22/2015 00:29
While a few of these tracks go for way too long, there is enough melodic and hypnotizing tracks to keep you enjoying it.

Favorite tracks: Contre le sexisme, Sunday, Female Mechanic Now on Duty, Hoarfrost, Hits of Sunshine, Karen Koltrane

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