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Tracklist (Vinyl)
| A1 | | Teen Age Riot | | 6:56 | | A2 | | Silver Rocket | | 3:46 | | A3 | | The Sprawl | | 7:39 | | B1 | | 'Cross The Breeze | | 7:00 | | B2 | | Eric's Trip | | 3:46 | | B3 | | Total Trash | | 7:30 | | C1 | | Hey Joni | | 4:17 |
See more tracks| C2 | | Providence | | 2:39 | | C3 | | Candle | | 4:57 | | C4 | | Rain King | | 4:38 | | D1 | | Kissability | | 3:06 | | D2A | | Trilogy: a) The Wonder | | 4:27 | | D2B | | Trilogy: b) Hyperstation | | 7:04 | | D2Z | | Trilogy: z) Eliminator Jr. | | 2:37 |
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Review
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 guitar formality into a primal skronk soup from which new possibilities can emerge. "Daydream Nation" is rich with these possibilities, a four-sided feast of extremes capturing not only the band's boldness of guitar purpose but its continued fascination with complete melodic demolition. A good half of the time, the band sounds like a brilliant bastard… Read More fusions of white Velvets noise and clenched-fist Clash, harnessing and hammering its cat-scratch frenzy into ornery song forms like "Teen Age Riot," "Silver Rocket" and "Eliminator Jr.," charged by outlaw rage and snarling ennui ("It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed"). The other half of "Daydream" is, as the title goes, "The Sprawl," alien pools of lava fuzz and screaming- insect harmonics that defy recognized forms of tonal resolution yet have a savage a
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