Daydream Nation

You can be using other things to help you make those different sounds.

It's not necessarily always a melody that's coming out.

But it's just this kind of this wall of sound that is coming at you.

And there's just different things are happening.

And that was happening.

But I have, I think, originals now of all the early Sonic Youth albums from the 80s.

And you could hear them progress as they start looking for melody, especially Daydream Nation.

There's some of them that have actual melody i mean you could actually almost sing to him jim almost

I give up.

What's it called? It's called Daydream Nation, and it's rated 4.03 on Rate Your Music.

Interesting.

Number two is a similar genre.

People really dug it and things kind of grew, you know, like Sonic Youth's whole career was like a ladder, right? I mean, they didn't even get to that level of fame until like six or seven years after I left.

Well, I know that there was nothing acrimonious about your split with them or anything, but when you started seeing them gain more national attention with records like Sister and Daydream Nation and Goo, was there ever any sort of professional jealousy that crept in, or was it just kind of like, cool, great for my

friends? A little bit, because when I was in Pussy Galore, At that point, we were right off the bat almost at the same level as Sonic

Youth.

You get these huge discordant squeals.

Brings memories of things like the sprawl and cross the breeze on Daydream Nation.

And then eventually, eventually, out it goes on the final two.

Happen to me's.

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Goo, Sonic Youth's major label debut from 1990, took the expansive art rock, the noise and feedback sonic architecture and propulsive punk metal fusion of 1988's masterpiece Daydream Nation and gave it a cleaner, crisper, major label studio makeover and thereby rendering another masterpiece in their formidable catalog.

In a rock landscape suddenly altered by Nirvana and Seattle's grunge sound, Sonic Youth found themselves in a position where their abrasive and self-consciously artsy style of music had a potential audience that was larger than just a small cult.

Their gambit to grow their audience and align themselves with the growing number of now mainstream alternative rock bands was best represented in Dirty, an album produced by Butch Vig , and a record that featured some of their most gnarled, spikiest, angriest songs, yet also some of their most melodic, hookiest, and most accessible songs.

Anyway, yeah, I think this is Sonic Youth's second best record.

I think it's incredible.

I would put it next to Daydream Nation.

Like you said, Butch Vig produced the record, but also Andy Wallace mixed it.

It had She Sells Sanctuary, great song, Rain, and Revolution.

In 1988, Sonic Youth released Daydream Nation.

This is considered to be the band's masterpiece album.

This was a double album that combined noise pop and alternative rock, and it hit 99 on the UK albums chart.