Of all the Soul Food threads on the various music forums, this one is the best. Look how it's evolved into discussing mojo and Sonic Youth without turbonerd klon fanboys getting their panties in a bunch over some ugly pedal that's practically an insult to the legacy of a killer pedal manufacturer
chutneyfarmer wrote:
retinal orbita wrote:
D.o.S. wrote:
I also think Sister, Evol and Bad Moon Rising are unlistenable garbage, and Washing Machine and SYR4 are the best things they've ever done.....
Wow. That hurts man. I fucking love those albums
I nearly just split my lip from making a face like this (-_-)
I can understand people not bonding with the pre-Sister stuff...but Sister is accessible to the point where even non SY fans will cherry pick songs from it.
Schizophrenia drew me right in the first time I heard it, and still does to this day. Also the first half of Tuff Gnarl could have been a radio single. The second...not so much.
Evol never did it for me. But Brave Men Run (In my family) makes Bad Moon Rising crucial.
SYR9 is my favorite (not a coincidence that it's instrumental). It's super nice for driving and chillin'. Experimental enough to be cool but not intrusive at all, except the end of that one track where the only sound is some digital pedal in a feedback loop. THOSE HIGH FREQUENCIES HURT, YA JERKS. Daydream Nation is cool. Bad Mood Rising is great when I'm in a weird mood.
/contributingnothingtothisconversation
D.o.S. wrote:I'm fucking stupid and no one should operate under any other premise.
SYR9 was really good. So was 8 w/ Merzbow and Gustaffson. 1 and 4 are my favorites of the series still..... Washing Machine will always be my favorite "album" from them..... I wish they would give that a deluxe reissue with a bonus disc of Diamond Sea live jams....
I have... never seriously checked out the SYR series. My feeling is that there are other bands that do the handful of tracks I've heard off them better than the Youth, who were always at their best when they embraced their inherent tunesmithery.
