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demonrail666 08.01.2009 05:37 PM

Daydream Nation

toxic johnny 08.01.2009 05:44 PM

DDN for me...

_slavo_ 08.01.2009 05:54 PM

Sister

Toxa 08.01.2009 06:19 PM

DDN.

barry swedgin 08.01.2009 06:58 PM

I've gotta say EVOL. Purely because the best songs on it don't match the best on the others. Great album though.

yr 08.01.2009 07:20 PM

I love Sister but it's my pick. It took me forever to get into Evol but now its my 3rd favorite(CIS and BMR are unbeatable)

andrei 08.01.2009 08:23 PM

DDN

Death & the Maiden 08.01.2009 08:33 PM

Daydream's my favourite out of the three. I'd always found the other two good, but not as amazing as people say they are. I recently relistened to them both, I like them more than I used to. I think I'll go with Sister, if only because I think EVOL works better as a whole.

pokkeherrie 08.01.2009 09:19 PM

No can do

dionysusundone 08.02.2009 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swa(y)
daydream nation. i like it....but i enjoy EVOL + sister much more. < if only because im less likely to skip through tracks when playing them. i do a lot of skipping around when listening to daydream nation.

still though...DDN IS a powerful album and i think it holds up better as far as being some sort of milestone in their sonic career than evol or sister. it really did mark a new beginning for the band.



I think my main problem with it is that it's so long...and the fact that it's obviously a lot more classic-rock indebted than the ones before it...not that that's a bad thing really, just I prefer the coldness of BMR or the mystery of EVOL. Sister's got it's own thing going that I've never been able to put my finger on.

dionysusundone 08.02.2009 03:06 AM

Yeah, there's definitely parts about it I DO love with all my heart. Just as an entire album, it's difficult to listen to all at once. It's better on vinyl, where it's more spread out. I've never liked the fact that it was issued on CD as one cd, and the same goes for Zen Arcade and ESPECIALLY Double Nickels on the Dime. They don't make sense in that format to me.

That intro to Teenage Riot...the guitar part's always reminded me of the vocal melody to the chorus of The Grassroots' "Live For Today" probably not intentional but I've always heard it.

SonicBebs 08.02.2009 03:56 AM

DDN
i've only recently got EVOL (i know, shoot me) and that album is fasinating for me. So spooky but also really beautiful and fresh

vulva 08.02.2009 04:15 AM

Dirty

[Sandbag] 08.02.2009 01:31 PM

i somehow managed to read 'lees favourite'

here i go
sister.

because its got AWESOME SONGS
but the order doesnt convince me, and evol and dn work as a whole 100000 times better

The Earl Of Slander 08.02.2009 04:14 PM

Yeah, it's definitely Sister. Don't get me wrong, it's still fantastic, but Daydream is pretty much my no questions favourite album of all time, and the only SY album that comes close to challenging it is EVOL. Both of those are as close to perfect as music gets, work better as whole albums, and simply have a tone that I prefer to Sister's. Sister meanwhile always struck me more as an amazing selection of songs that just doesn't hang together as well as a whole work.

Pax Americana 08.02.2009 08:50 PM

Even though I dig it, I went with EVOL on this one. Sister and Daydream are basically my favorite SY albums ever.

Jaack 08.06.2009 09:58 PM

Eh, its a hard one. But I always found Daydream Nation somewhat...lacking. EVOL has to be my fave for sure, closely followed by Sister.

acdc518 08.07.2009 12:41 AM

depends, if we are talking about EVOL as tom violence thru expressway, then sister is my least favorite. If evol= TV thru bubblegum then evol is the least favorite. why they would put a song after expressway on the cd is beyond me. evol is an amazing album, but expressway is the perfect closing to that album, and bubblegum completely takes you out of the album.


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