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Sonic Youth
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.5820
Sonic Youth Album Rankings
1
Even at their most chaotic and atonal, the downtown-New York guitar spoilers Sonic Youth are never about the destruction of rock but about its deconstruction - the breakdown of tiresome punk-metal gui
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2
EVOLwas a major leap forward for Sonic Youth, butSisteris a masterpiece, demonstrating the group's rapidly evolving musicality.
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3
Released within a year of Nevermind (and likewise produced by Butch Vig), Dirty made Sonic Youth accessible to a new generation of unsuspecting Nirvana brats, thus becoming their most successful album
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4
For a lot of people, Sonic YouthareNew York City in the same way that, once upon a scene, The Velvet UndergroundwereNew York City. And like the VU, the Youth are consummate, inveterate bullshitters.
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5
Sonic Youth has been a relatively new discovery for me.
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6
Keeping track of Sonic Youthâs endeavors has become something of a fulltime occupation nowadays.
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7
Sonic Nurse could be the best guitar rock album since, well, Murray St.
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8
Sonic Youth made their first moves toward rock withEVOL, a stunningly fluent mixture of avant-garde instrumentation and subversions of rock & roll.
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9
Sick of faceless corporate alternative rock yet? So are Sonic Youth.
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10
Truth be told, the grunge era never quite fit Sonic Youth. They may have been at the peak of their popularity, but they had traded their experimentalism for sheer, bracing noise.
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11
Track listing: 1) (She's In A) Bad Mood; 2) Protect Me You; 3) Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your Dog; 4) Shaking Hell; 5) Inhuman; 6) The World Looks Red; 7) Confusion Is Next; 8) Making The Nature Scene;
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12
Its avant parts are more listenable--nay, beautiful--than anything on Washing Machine if not A Thousand Leaves.
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13
An album quite unlike any other in the colorful Sonic Youth canon,Bad Moon Risingcaptures the New York band in 1985 during its most morose phase, one that is quite forbidding yet fascinating all the s
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14
Freedom Rock In the public imagination, rock ‘n’ roll is tied to freedom.
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31
While there is little denying the title track's status as one of Sonic Youth's strongest songs from their early-'90s period, the bonus live recordings are the real reason to own the Dirty Boots CD si
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