Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
1988 Ratings: #14 / 143
User Score
1988 Ratings: #2
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rater_ratings
90

Had to bump this one from an 80 from to a 90, as I've been playing this non-stop for almost 3 weeks and I enjoy every song on here thoroughly. Not only that, but these songs have been getting better as I hear them more, which is uncommon for me, even within my favorite records.

I guess it is pretty hard to describe this album, but I would describe it as paradoxically unique. The band's No Wave roots subtly creep up here into some of the extremely noisy and dissonant guitar work, for this ... read more

Jwallace1997
85

I still haven’t gotten over how mean they were to Nardwaur

Doofy
96

I'm not a mega fan of the Youth, it's been slow progress over the years, but this one is special throughout.

It's got, uhh, kissability.

darielll
100

FUCK

Pavlic
70

Not noisy noise rock but cool guitars rock the sprawl is on the shortlist for greatest songs of all time the albummis not quite as good as bad moon rising

41

1 Teen Age Riot: 63
2 Silver Rocket: 44
3 The Sprawl: 47
4 'Cross the Breeze: 43
5 Eric's Trip: 39
6 Total Trash: 28
7 Hey Joni: 50
8 Providence: 15
9 Candle: 45
10 Rain King: 47
11 Kissability: 39
12 A) The Wonder: 40
13 B) Hyperstation: 55
14 Z) Eliminator, Jr.: 25
Final: 41

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Track List

1Teen Age Riot
6:58
95
2Silver Rocket
3:47
89
3The Sprawl
7:42
89
4'Cross the Breeze
7:00
93
5Eric's Trip
3:48
85
6Total Trash
7:33
90
7Hey Joni
4:23
88
8Providence
2:41
85
9Candle
4:59
91
10Rain King
4:39
86
11Kissability
3:07
89
12A) The Wonder
4:15
89
13B) Hyperstation
7:12
91
14Z) Eliminator, Jr.
2:37
83
Total Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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Added on: September 24, 2012