Best Ever Albums

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

rayword45 — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:49:30 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 04/16/2014 19:49

Sister > DDN > EVOL > Confusion Is Sex > Murray Street > Dirty > The Eternal > A Thousand Leaves > Bad Moon Rising > Washing Machine > Goo > NYC Ghosts & Flowers > EJST&NS

Haven't listened to Sonic Nurse or Murray Street

meccalecca wrote:

How are you gonna include Experimental Jet Set with "The Rest"? The rest deserves better

Fixed

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

rayword45 — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:48:58 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 04/16/2014 19:48

Sister > DDN > EVOL > Confusion Is Sex > Murray Street > Dirty > The Eternal > A Thousand Leaves > Bad Moon Rising > Washing Machine > Goo > EJST&NS

Haven't listened to Sonic Nurse or Murray Street

meccalecca wrote:

How are you gonna include Experimental Jet Set with "The Rest"? The rest deserves better

Fixed

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

meccalecca — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:04:10 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/16/2014 19:04

Antonio-Pedro wrote:

Is not good for me. I don't like it. .

That's hard to imagine since it's pretty consistent to the sound of the other early 90s SY albums Washing Machine, Dirty and Goo, and it contains one of their biggest singles (if not the biggest)

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Antonio-Pedro — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:56:09 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 04/16/2014 18:56

meccalecca wrote:

How are you gonna include Experimental Jet Set with "The Rest"? That album deserves better

Is not good for me. I don't like it. It is the rest for me (I really prefer A thousand leaves than it). It's better than NYC ghosts & Flowers though

And I wasn't with so much time to type all the albums.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

meccalecca — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:40:14 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/16/2014 18:40

Antonio-Pedro wrote:

Mine:

Goo > Daydream Nation > Rather Ripped > Confusion Is Sex > EVOL > The Eternal > Sister > Murray Street > Dirty > Sonic Youth > Bad Moon Rising > Washing Machine >>>> The Rest

How are you gonna include Experimental Jet Set with "The Rest"? That album deserves better

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Antonio-Pedro — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:18:37 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 04/16/2014 18:18

Mine:

Goo > Daydream Nation > Rather Ripped > Confusion Is Sex > EVOL > The Eternal > Sister > Murray Street > Dirty > Sonic Youth > Bad Moon Rising > Washing Machine >>>> The Rest

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

mickilennial — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:26:08 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 04/16/2014 12:26

Saoirse wrote:

I luv u

this is one of the greatest, atmosphere is... sublime, to put it mildly

EVOL>Daydream Nation>Washing Machine=Goo>Bad Moon Rising>Dirty>Murray Street>Sister>Rather Ripped>Jet Set, Star, No trash (whatever it's called)>A Thousand Leaves>The Eternal>Confusion is Sex

For Me:

Daydream Nation
EVOL
Sister
Goo
Dirty
Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Nurse
Washing Machine
Bad Moon Rising
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Murray Street
The Eternal
Rather Ripped
Sonic Youth
A Thousand Leaves
NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

meccalecca — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:07:23 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/16/2014 12:07

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Daydream Nation > Sister >> EVOL > Washing Machine > Murray Street > A Thousand Leaves >> Bad Moon Rising > Dirty > Goo > Sonic Nurse > Confusion is Sex >> Rather Ripped > The Eternal

Almost agree, but I'd put Dirty and Goo over Murray Street, and how did you just completely ignore Experimental Jet Set (which I'd place 3rd or 4th depending on the location of the moon on that particular day

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:15:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/16/2014 09:15

SY would never sound this intimate again. This is also the most conventional SY ever got. Most of the tracks are catchy & spooky lo-fi art pop songs with their famous dual guitar experiments serving as beautiful adornment or a jaw-dropping outro as opposed to comprising the song itself. This only brings the majesty of their guitar skronk into sharper relief. Still can't hold a candle to Daydream Nation though. 😄

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Torchlin — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:10:48 GMT

Author: Torchlin

Posted: 04/15/2014 19:10

I agree with the ones saying that this is the best SY album. Basically it's the only one I still listen to on a regular basis and I don't think it will ever leave my top 10.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:03:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 19:03

This is one of those albums where I obsess over one song but I kinda ignore the rest. Guess the song?

It's Shadow of a Doubt

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

WindowAbove — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:09:21 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 04/15/2014 17:09

Great album, although I prefer their next three. "Expressway To Yr. Skull" is in my top five Sonic Youth songs.

best 3 album run

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:51:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 15:51

drakonium wrote:
This, Sister and DN could be the best three album run of all time tbh.

Couldn't agree more. These r the only five star albums by Sonic Youth, and it was not coincidental that they occurred when they were still evolving as a band. Goo's a fun album, but EVOL, Sister, & Daydream Nation were simply mind altering. They were untouchable at this point in time, completely pushing the boundaries of guitar rock with each successive album. Nothing from their 90s catalog comes close to having the impact these three had.

Other 80s triumvirates to reckon with...

2. The Smiths, Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead
3. Meat Puppets II, Up on the sun, Huevos
4. Dinosaur Jr, Living All Over Me, Bug

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:18:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 14:18

It was a joke for me, as much as I love all three of those albums. Just remember how Genesis-obsessed I was in my early days! XD

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

drakonium — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:13:59 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 04/15/2014 14:13

^

I could have agreed, but even though Foxtrot and Selling England are pretty much on par with EVOL and Sister respectively, Lamb, as good (though not excellent) as it is, is nowhere near the level of Daydream. So not totally a joke for me, could have been true xD

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:50:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 13:50

drakonium wrote:

This, Sister and DN could be the best three album run of all time tbh.

No, this is

Foxtrot by Genesis

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Selling England By The Pound by Genesis

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
😜

All jokes aside, this, along with many other Sonic Youth albums, I really need to give more listens. Sonic Youth haven't quite clicked for me yet.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:13:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 12:13

For whatever reason, Sonic Youth have just never done anything for me. I guess I prefer this to Daydream Nation and Sister, but I never really feel like listening to any of them. I get why people like them, I just happen not to.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:22:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 07:22

I still jam out to Teenage riot every so often (not on this album btw), but most of Sonic Youth's other material have gotten boring over the period of time I liked them. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but I can say that Sonic Youth is certainly not as interesting or fun as I used to think.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:19:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/15/2014 07:19

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Shadow of a Doubt is my fav. Also this is the best Sonic Youth album for sure.

Re: User Pick of the Day (#29): EVOL [yepyepyep]

drakonium — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:04:05 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 04/15/2014 07:04

Antonio-Pedro wrote:

also this >>>>>>>>> Sister

I disagree, but this album is incredible. This, Sister and DN could be the best three album run of all time tbh.