Daydream Nation : the POLL

I remember the vinyl had goofy inscriptions on the out-grooves. One was "star-strangled Bangles."

(I donated my copy to the local library about 3 years ago, whereupon someone likely snapped it up during one of their record/book sales and made out like a bandit on Ebay)

Going with "Hey Joni." I figured out/assumed the years Lee recited were the birth years of each member of the band. "Wow, one of them is in their THIRTIES?!" I thought when I was 16.

ranaldo's tracks are the best.

reflexed "hey joni", but millimeters separate these tracks in my mind

This was the first SY record I ever heard and I still love love love it. The Neu!-ish last 90 seconds of ''Cross the Breeze' are so great - I could listen to them jam on that forever.

sorry - "Teenage Riot" is clearly the greatest song on here (but I love them all)

was there not already a thread with trilogy being mangled into three parts so as to COMPLETELY DE-LEGITIMIZE POLL RESULTS?

The Sprawl. Coolest Kim vocal

I skipped Teenage and went for Silver Rocket.

Eric's Trip, but only by the tiniest fraction ahead of the other Ranaldo songs.

almost all of these has been my favorite at some point. this holiday season, i'm going with hyperstation

Everything about 'Cross the Breeze is so perfect.

Hyperstation's been my favourite Sonic Youth song since first hearing Daydream Nation in high school art class.

"Candle"

Apart from the songs, my favourite parts of this album change - most recently its the more chaotic verses of Rain King. Other favourites include the build up coming back into Silver Rocket, the drumless 10 seconds in the middle of Kissability, and the first chords of Hyperstation.

I prefer EVOL but there's still not a whole lot I would change about it. Possibily the snare sound if I was to nitpick, and the only thing that kind of dates the album imo

It = Daydream

there's so much to choose from... i'm at eric's trip, 'cross the breeze, the sprawl at this moment in time.

is that simple enough?

fuck you

for me it's close between this, EVOL and sister, but this is the one i started with and it's just so EPIC.

CROSS THE BREEZE. #1 on my SY ballot poll

My great thought in the shower this morning was that Hyperstation is SY's version of the "Woke up, fell out of bed" section in A Day in the Life. Starts the same way ("Falling out of sleep I hit the floor"), occupies a similar middle placement in the longer epic, and it's about being half in a dream! QED

Haven't listened to this in far far to long. I will, then vote. Right now, I'm thinking Silver Rocket or Riot.

The bright, shiny obvious one: TAR. These polls are stupid yet fun, whatever.

phone call breakdown RAIN KING

fist

Shit this is so good.

Watt here

Thurston Watt

Thurston

You gotta watch your head man

hyperstation is probably my favorite singular sonic youth moment

reflexed "hey joni", but millimeters separate these tracks in my mind

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison)
ditto

Side B - 'Cross the Breeze/Eric's Trip/Total Trash - is my jam.

never mind it now

I can't believe we haven't polled this!

cross the breeze, easy

Gah, so many amazing songs, so hard to choose one.

Candle.

total trash or hyperstation. I love how tt crashes and burns towards the end and then revs up for one last refrain. It's a psychdelic album.

'did u find yr shit'

'your fuckin memory just goes out the winda'

Instead of paring the songs down as the group usually did, the months-long writing process for Daydream Nation resulted in long jams, some of a half hour. Several friends of the band, including Henry Rollins, had long praised the band's long live improvisations and told the group that its records never captured them.

wow a reason to praise rollins!

Voted "Cross The Breeze" which encapsulates the bands many dimensions in a single epic track.

i would like to have a comp/mix of 'influences' and contemporaries of this record so i could hear its originality better

i listened to the damned debut just before this today and it made the stretched-out-ness of the songs stand out more

voted for "Candle" because it lights the way, candle

contemporaries: galaxie 500, dinosaur jr, the dream syndicate, pixies, pavement, sebadoh
touch me, i'm sick came out around this time

Was CtB the highest DN placer in the ballot poll? I know it was top 10 but cant remember if TAR beat it...

6. 'Cross the Breeze
5. Teen Age Riot

that's why i don't like those polls, too much great stuff gets disregarded.

voted eric's trip.

Not sure I can go along Trilogy being split like this..

i listened to the damned debut just before this today and it made the stretched-out-ness of the songs stand out more

That used to put me off too, which I is why I preferred Sister and Evol. They seemed more intense and alert, more anxious to get to the point, whereas Daydream Nation frequently has a stoned haziness about it. I'd usually skip Total Trash for that reason, going right to Hey Joni or Trilogy. But listening to the album as a whole the last few days, I'm liking this aspect of its character a lot more. I like the feeling of languor and unhurried ease, like we have all morning to hang out, no point in rushing it.

i think it's great that we have both types of SY!

it doesn't put me off, i actually wanted to hear that kind of thing a bit more. i'm familiar with their contemporaries, but the sound of what they're doing doesn't totally register with me—they get going and i just hear ~~~~sonic youth~~~~.

Contemporary not yet mentioned, and maybe the best one for anyone wanting more Kim-style Daydream Nation-style songs. I knew this band's earlier stuff, but never heard this particular album until recently when I learned it was on Spotify/Rdio. 1989 I think, and it's easily their best I think. Pretty sure the beginning minute or so could fool a lot of casual SY fans. Play loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zWrcrIPz0

i was thinking more of similar-sounding/thinking contempos that SY ~blew away~ w/ their crazy tunings drones and whatnot

so that you cld A/B them and go, ohhhh THAT'S what sonic youth sounded like before there was sonic youth

POLL YR. IDOLS: The official SONIC YOUTH RESULTS thread!

5. Teen Age Riot (519 points, 24 votes, 2 #1)
6. 'Cross the Breeze (463 points, 23 votes, 1 #1)
11. Candle (375 points, 18 votes, 2 #1)
16. Total Trash (297 points, 14 votes, 1 #1)
20. Eric's Trip (254 points, 13 votes)
21. The Sprawl (250 points, 14 votes)
22. Hey Joni (249 points, 14 votes)
23. Silver Rocket (249 points, 12 votes, 1 #1)
36. Hyperstation (191 points, 12 votes)
59. Eliminator Jr. (119 points, 9 votes)
65. Kissability (108 points, 7 votes)
78. Rain King (82 points, 6 votes)
79. Providence (82 points, 4 votes)
91. The Wonder (63 points, 3 votes)

― ArchCarrier, Friday, May 17, 2013 6:33 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sayin'

i was thinking more of similar-sounding/thinking contempos that SY ~blew away~ w/ their crazy tunings drones and whatnot

so that you cld A/B them and go, ohhhh THAT'S what sonic youth sounded like before there was sonic youth

― j., Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:49 PM (50 minutes ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47vqy5mIWIU

just copyin' and pastin', you mean
will be interesting to compare those results to when people are actually concentrating on the songs in hand

i see no one voted for trilogy in that ballot poll

I think it was just decided that you had to vote for 3 songs individually, not for the whole trilogy as one ballot entry

Hyperstation. Ranks near the top of my songs-about-new-york list.

it's 1963

SHOULD I STAY OR GOOOOWOWWWWWW

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted silver rocket because my high school band used to play it and it was totally fun.

i think this is gonna be tight

If teen age riot will win I'm gonna blow this place apart.

"Silver Rocket."

This along with Goo are my two favorite Sonic Youth albums by a wide margin. Which means that I imagien a world where Sonic Youth is a pop band.

I saw these guys last year, doing a mallet guitars/chatham-y thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCTXFz-KaNw

Oh wait, this one is more fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0RnG4qqitc

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow that was a complete spanking

http://images.moneysavingexpert.com/images/Timebomb.JPG

interesting that "Total Trash"'s standing going way down is the only really major difference between this and the results of the SY tracks poll i posted upthread

"(Trilogy A) The Wonder 1
(Trilogy Z) Eliminator Jr. 1"

"(Trilogy B) Hyperstation 5"

the opposite maybe