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| 4.5 superb | JesusV4 | July 14th 10 |
This album gets a lot of flak for lacking direction, but I think people are just confused by Sonic Youth's usual willingnes to indulge in noise, which they do more on this release than others. From the Burroughs artwork, t the awesome music, this album IMO is one of their best.
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| 2.0 poor | MUNGOLOID | July 14th 10 |
wanna hear sonic youth at their laziest? here ya go!
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| 2.5 average | Grungil | February 4th 22 |
..or The proof on how Sonic Youth cannot play with normal instruments.
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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | October 2nd 20 |
After the theft of their instruments in 1999, the band relied on oldass gear and prepared guitar. That kind of was a blessing, creating a clear separation with their other 90s material. Indeed, Sonic Youth in 2000 sounds like early 80s Sonic Youth: noise and dissonance are at the service of cryptic lyrics and surreal suspense. It builds up again and again, never reaching its conclusion. There is inherently no problem with that: the day you die also is the day everything that you built reaches its non-conclusion. That last sentence was pompous innit? It's still way less pompous than that 0.0 Pitchfork review. Third best Sonic Youth.
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| 3.0 good | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | June 8th 17 |
This album's okay. There are some neat chords (Thurston Moore's on the strings, after all) but most of the songs don't really go anywhere. This album can be annoyingly pretentious, too, mainly with the spoken poetry. On that note, fuck Side2Side, get outta here with that crap. All that being said, there are some times where this kinda clicks. For example, Renegade Princess gets pretty energetic, and Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) hits the kind of slightly atmospheric and lowkey yet memorable vibe I think they were going for. Other times are kind of charmingly eccentric, and the blasts of noises can be kind of interesting. A lot of this album is rather boring and unmemorable, enough for me to say this is probably the worst full Sonic Youth album, but it's not terrible.
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| 3.0 good | TheManMachine | March 22nd 15 |
Its passivity is reminiscent of 'Experimental, Jet Set..', but there is a unique lure in the utter uncertainty of this one. With all those specialty made-to-order guitars/pedals/whatnot stolen, here they are left to their own deviant devices: including but not limited to Beat poetry, warped keyboards, and more-often-than-usual noise codas; but mostly just different guitars. Classic Thurston pretty-turned-crashing catharsis reels you in, then later on we hear him mutter-rap over weirdo electronics and grab-bag percussion. I'd gladly listen to 3-4 word-randomizer Kim voices any day, as opposed to Lee's remarkably awkward readings (unfathomably stiff the first time around, improved on the title track).
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| 2.5 average | Hovse | September 21st 24 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Henry | June 27th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | perival | June 24th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Timmy | January 12th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Roidv | November 8th 21 |
| 3.0 good | heck | September 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yep321 | June 16th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | xgausez | October 23rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Lassie | September 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | YMII | January 7th 19 |
| 1.0 awful | Kaijala | November 23rd 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Juca89 | November 11th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Wolfe | November 6th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | aew100 | April 19th 18 |
| 3.5 great | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 3.0 good | CC | February 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | bobby72 | November 24th 17 |
| 2.5 average | wg98 | October 2nd 17 |
| 2.0 poor | YayoG1 | September 3rd 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | Juanpa | August 10th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | Alexxx | June 21st 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | KevinMM | March 3rd 17 |
| 2.0 poor | bungy | February 6th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Jekub | February 2nd 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Gueero | August 13th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | PaabL | August 3rd 16 |
| 2.0 poor | Lord3 | August 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | xxm | July 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | marggy | April 22nd 16 |
| 2.5 average | dtcgb | April 20th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | loulou | March 11th 16 |
| 2.5 average | CARLAS | November 15th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | yep123 | March 13th 15 |
| 2.5 average | tef | September 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | quelus | March 18th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | fg89 | March 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | armykat | January 8th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | LC437 | December 18th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Doxxman | November 26th 12 |
| 2.5 average | gnombyX | October 19th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Eons | March 21st 12 |
| 3.5 great | FLRTE | March 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Foaming | February 25th 12 |
| 2.5 average | 4Train | November 28th 11 |
| 3.5 great | cuki92 | October 20th 11 |
| 3.5 great | stfrnz | August 17th 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | noisy | August 22nd 10 |
| 1.0 awful | ShyGuy | August 17th 10 |
| 1.0 awful | IAJP | August 14th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Matski | June 29th 10 |
| 2.5 average | quaoar | May 25th 10 |
| 1.5 very poor | blurkom | March 2nd 10 |
| 1.5 very poor | CarterF | November 29th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Tjeerd | June 1st 09 |
| 2.0 poor | tuff | October 30th 07 |
| 3.0 good | Berry | August 9th 07 |
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