Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off
i do kinda agree
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Album Rating: 4.0
March seems like a long time ago, think I’ll spin this again tomorrow.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Pacific Coast Highwayyy
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Album Rating: 4.5
my favourite SY i think
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CMON GETTIN THE CAR
Huge track
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I still prefer EVOL by a hair, but this probably the objective best pick for top SY. One of the best albums in general tbh
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Album Rating: 4.5
EVOL might be tied actually now that you mention it. i still love Daydream but it's kind of grown off me the past few years.
as far as later SY i always really liked Rather Ripped.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Still don't get why people love EVOL so much
Might be my 2nd least favorite of their 80s stuff
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, that is crazy.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Shadow of a Doubt is the best on EVOL yeah
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Evol has the most atmosphere of any of their albums (ig you could make a case for Bad Moon) and the way it drifts in and out of actual songwriting and amorphous noise jams is more engaging than on any other of theirs imo (this also does v well, but feels a little more stop-start / here's a verse, here's some noise etc)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Eh it lacks that grit I crave from them
Bas Moon is mad good, super underrated album
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Interesting considering that it's also one of their grittiest and darkest albums (not q on the level of Confusion and Bad Moon, but close enough)
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Yeah, Bad Moon is way underrated. On par with Goo, should be considered part of their golden run
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Album Rating: 4.5
I wouldn't call EVOL gritty at all. It's very mid-tempo, medium volume and more focused on being abstract/trippy
When I think gritty Sonic Youth I think like stuff like Pacific Coast Highway or like Death Valley '69
but I agree that it's darker
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"It's very mid-tempo, medium volume and more focused on being abstract/trippy"
none of these things are related to what i'd consider grit (except maybe abstraction (but its abstraction tends towards grittiness anyway (so that's moot))) lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
Whatever, I just don't like how midtempo it is
Gimme more Cross the Breezeses and more Kim shouting in general
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Album Rating: 4.0
I just listened to EVOL for the first time this morning and a) I agree with Ars (so far) and b) it amplified my appreciation for this. I prefer the more frequent bursts of energy provided here. Abstract ambience isn’t necessarily off-putting in itself, but in the context of this band and what they can provide, it doesn’t appeal. I will persevere regardless.
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Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off
I do also agree with Ars and Demon, I prefer when they let it loose and rock it out rather than when they go for abstract stuff. Still love EVOL tho, but I slightly prefer this one
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"prefer when they let it loose and rock it out rather than when they go for abstract stuff"
best SY blurs the lines between these, and that goes for everything from The Sprawl to Expressway to Yr. Skull to Mote to the Diamond Sea to Pacific Coast Highway to their hardest rocker (Rain King)
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