Hey Joni (track)
by Sonic Youth

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Hey Joni by Sonic Youth
Year: 1988
From the album Daydream Nation (track #7)

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86/100 (from 355 votes)

     

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Hey Joni appears on the following album(s) by Sonic Youth:

• Daydream Nation (track #7) (this album) (1988)
• Live At Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 (track #5) (2009)
• Live In Moscow (April, 1989) (track #10) (2019)
• Daydream Nation Live In Glasgow, Scotland 2007 (track #7) (2018)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
35/100	01/18/2026 11:43	wizardalien	9,122	64/100
70/100	01/14/2026 17:41	Exist-en-ciel	94,184	71/100
95/100	12/04/2025 15:18	sunnydhamm	18,449	57/100
95/100	10/17/2025 07:20	NJ	991	87/100
20/100	09/21/2025 13:49	gmessian	1,472	55/100

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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 86.2/100, a mean average of 85.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.0.

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90/100

From PaperVinnie 10/28/2017 15:44 | #200227

This song is amazing. Lee's vocals are powerful, again it has some of my favorite riffs in there, also it has a certain quality that makes it very accessible.

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75/100

From nitomano 09/01/2016 04:11 | #173936

Love the harmonics

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From DeusExMackia 09/21/2015 18:32 | #150228

This song is alive, I swear it

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95/100

From Jasonconfused 01/22/2013 05:17 | #62462

Cool song. There are some nice harmonics being played.

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From eclab 06/03/2012 22:15 | #43713

Really powerful.

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