Randomly Crap Out Your Opinions Thread

[clashcityrocker10]

yeah well we don't know if it is or not, she doesn't have medical insurance all we know is that I had to pick her up at 4AM cause she got stabbed with a syringe and couldn't stop puking

the AIDS is just a guess

Don't worry, my statement was kinda meant to be taken jokingly (in the same way yours was). I mean, what I said was meant to be true, but yeah, you get the point.

That's absolutely awful, though.

[Lameboy19]

Don't worry, my statement was kinda meant to be taken jokingly (in the same way yours was). I mean, what I said was meant to be true, but yeah, you get the point.

That's absolutely awful, though.

yeah it sucked, she's still puking (happened about a week ago) oh well

RF: I have a **** load of albums I want to write about... **** my sporadic shut in nature

[TheRollingBones]

It's about as perfect as Alternative gets outside of Doolittle.

I'd take The Queen Is Dead, Siamese Dream, or Tim over DDN any day.

On Daydream Nation: Well, it's hard to tell you "this is exactly why you're not liking the album". If it doesn't click even after awhile, it doesn't click. Sonic Youth isn't exactly music I can get emotionally invested into, like I can with some other alternative acts (The Replacements, The Smiths, etc.), but they were damn good at what they did.

Daydream Nation is almost the Velvet Underground & Nico of the 80's. Not for everybody, but pretty much at the peak of its genre. The best advice I can give is to ignore the hype... and that goes for pretty much everything.

I can't figure it out, really. Maybe it's just noise rock all together. Granted, I haven't heard much else, but like I said, it doesn't strike me as something I would really love. I guess on this last listen I got more out of it, but some of the songs seem to drag on with the long noisy breakdowns at the end a lot. And the vocals on some of the songs are a bit grating. I think I would like it more if most of the songs were closer to "Teen Age Riot". Admitidly, I like more of the songs by themselves, but the continuous SKREEEEAWRK hits me. And like you said, I don't really feel too much of an emotional connection with it. It seems like it's something that I'll like in time, but it will take another listen or two to be sure.

[Bouffant_Betty]

DDN doesn't do it for everyone, I went out and bought a copy after hearing Teen Age Riot...boy was I dissappointed.

[TheRollingBones]

It's always disappointing for me when I hear craploads of praise for an album, then finally get around to getting it, and I end up with a lunchbag letdown.

But then again, it's also one of my greatest joys to hear praise for an album and find that it's all true. (Here's looking at you, The Stone Roses )

[Cubecubed]

I'd take The Queen Is Dead, Siamese Dream, or Tim over DDN any day.

I think I would like it more if most of the songs were closer to "Teen Age Riot".

Holy crap i think you and i are the same person.

[Ultimatum]

I'd take The Queen Is Dead, Siamese Dream, or Tim over DDN any day.

Well, the first two aren't really all that fantastic, but it does show your taste. It's definitely the noisy aspects of Daydream Nation that keep you from enjoying it, which is a shame, because it's as good as Noise-driven Alternative Rock gets, and Sonic Youth are so damn creative and imaginative in ways that you don't even have to be a musician to appreciate.

[Lameboy19]

DDN is one of the greatest recordings from that decade

period.

you don't have to like it, but dammit you better respect it

[Dante1847]

a little late to the party, but just noticed HMX categorizing the RBN announcements. I like it

[afterstasis]

If Daydream Nation is too abstract or noisy for your ears then give Goo a shot.