it would feel wrong to systematically rate each of their releases in one list. they're all unique, and i don't think ranking them actually says much about my reaction to any of them.

i will admit that daydream nation is my favorite. former favorites include a thousand leaves and sister. those two are still up around there somewhere, along with murray street, evol, and dirty.

01. Bad Moon Rising
02. Goo
03. NYC Ghosts & Flowers
04. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
05. A Thousand Leaves
06. Sonic Nurse
07. Daydream Nation
08. EVOL
09. Sonic Youth
10. Murray Street
11. Sister
12. Washing Machine
13. Rather Ripped
14. Confusion Is Next
15. Dirty

1. Bad Moon Rising
2. Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols
3. Daydream Nation
4. EVOL
5. Sonic Youth
6. NYC Ghosts and Flowers
7. A Thousand Leaves
8. Sonic Death
9. Sister
10. Washing Machine
11. Sonic Nurse
12. Murray Street
13. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
14. Goo
15. Rather Ripped
16. Dirty

This is hard but

1. Daydream Nation
2. Washing Machine
3. Sonic Nurse
4. EVOL
5. Sister
6. Dirty
7. A Thousand Leaves
8. Goo
9. Rather Ripped
10. Murray Street
11. Bad Moon Rising
12. Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
13. NYC Ghosts and Flowers
14. Confusion is Sex

Get a job love.

what do you consider a major release. major label or major sales?????
why cant we add in silver session or the syr series?????

ok, major label album which are syndicated for chart positionings.....
1. daydream nation (not on a major by the way)
2. bad moon rising ( also not on major)
3. washing machine (major)
4. evol (not a major again)
5. the rest of em






then experimental jet set

completely misinformed opinion again. why are you consistently berating people because of their view points, you dont have the authority or the right to do so, please stop because every fucking thread you start starts a slagging match between you and someone. now im not starting to slag you off or anything because i dont know you from adam but please, stop being so confrontational and folk may get to like you..... and im a hardcore sy fan and have been for nearly 18 years and i prefer the earlier stuff but rather ripped is a good album for sonic youth, and a great one for any other band.

1. Evol
2. Washing Machine
3. Daydream Nation
4. Murray Street
5. Sister
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Dirty
8. NYCGF
9. Confusion is Sex
10.A Thousand Leaves
11.Goo
12.Sonic Nurse
13.EJSTNS

Rather Ripped is not on the list yet, I bought it only like 45 minutes ago---aaaaah it's on my table beside me and I DON't HAVE A CD PLAYER AT WORK!!!!

What a torture!

an impossible task..
i still can't answer the question of my favorite SY album..
let alone compile a list of preference..

1. washing machine
2. goo
3. bmr/cis
4. dd
5.sister/evol
6.everything else
so 7 albums in top five, hehe...impossible do decide.

hahaha.
anyway I'm not sure
I don't think they can ever be capable of producing anything worse than EJSTNS

OK, I'll give it a shot:

1. DDN
2. Dirty
3. Sister
4. Nurse
5. 1000 Leaves
6. Murray St.
7. Evol
8. Rather Ripped (tho i've only listened to it once..will probably change w/time
9. Washing Machine
10. Goo
11. BMR
12. EJSTNS
13. CIS
14. NYCGF

That cracks me up. It's like when a racist says 'Now, I'm not a racist or anything..'

I don't think the opinion is misinformed.

And I don't think they're worried about getting folks to like them.

1. Sister
2. Daydream
3. Washing Machine
4. Bad Moon Rising
5. EVOL
6. Dirty
7. Murray St.
8. A Thousand Leaves
9. Confusion/Kill Your Idols
10. Nurse
11. EJSTNS
12. NYC G+F
13. Goo

Rather Ripped will get no higher than 9, no lower than 12. Haven't decided yet.

erm, kinda missing the point!

1 BMR
2 Murray St.
3 Nurse

4 DDN
5 Dirty
6 Evol
7 Washing Machine
8 CIS
9 Goo
10 EJSTNS
11 NYCGF
12 Sister (Its hard to rate this one. It always changes.)
13 1000 Leaves
14 Rather Ripped (not enough exposure to it yet)

just a point. surely sy major releases are from goo on, the rest were independent releases!!!

DGC releases in order of how I feel at the moment:

1. washing machine
2. a thousand leaves
3. sonic nurse
4. nyc ghosts & flowers
5. murray st.
6. goo
7. experimental jet-set trash and no star
8. rather ripped
9. dirty

Of what I reckon are 'official' albums

1 Daydream Nation
2 Evol
3 Sonic Nurse
4 Dirty
5 Confusion Is Sex
6 Goo
7 Washing Machine
8 Sister
9 Murray Street
10 A Thousand Leaves

11 Rather Ripped (close between it and ATL)
12 Experimental Jet Set
13 Sonic Youth
14 Bad Moon Rising
15 NYC Ghosts and Flowers