Music Banter - View Single Post - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die- Music Banter Edition

Neapolitan · 09-04-2014, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylstew

I absolutely love Entertainment by Gang Of Four, and I'm not even that much of a fan of post-punk at all.

Me too and I can't wait to see what bob. has to say about it.

99. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)

Teen Age Riot 6:56
Silver Rocket 3:46
The Sprawl 7:39
'Cross The Breeze 7:00
Eric's Trip 3:46
Total Trash 7:30
Hey Joni 4:17
Providence 2:39
Candle 4:57
Rain King 4:38
Kissability 3:06
Trilogy: A) The Wonder 4:27
Trilogy: B) Hyperstation 7:04
Trilogy: C) Eliminator Jr. 2:37

I read a lot about Sonic Youth and about Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore in guitar magazines way before I finally bought this album. It was always on my "albums I want to buy list" but for some reason I didn't get it. I finally did and it surpassed my expectations, then I wish I bought it a lot sooner. Equipped with a bag full of tricks taken from experimental, underground music, Punk and New Wave with a Prog mindset to explore full tilt the potential of their musical ideas within a song - Sonic Youth pulled a rabbit out a hat and created one the best albums of the 80s. It's an exploration in consonance and dissonance, melody, harmony and noise. High Ideas... Time to get it... it will take you to the moon.

I felt compelled to nominate this album even though it's another one of my ATF albums that made Robert Dimery's 1001 list. Even stuffy politician in starchy white shirts in Washington liked it cause in 2005 it was picked by the Library of Congress to be saved in the National Recording Registry.