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

In a nut shell all their shit rocks.

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

all sonic youth albums suck!!!

:)
fuckin right!

werd. they are inferior to da husker du.

this changes depending on my mood/the day, but here we go:

1. daydream nation.
2. sister.
3. bad moon rising
4. confusion is sex/washing machine
5. evol
6. murray street
7. dirty
8. a thousand leaves
9. ep
10. goo
11. nycg+f
12. experimental..
13. nurse
14. rather ripped

Subject to change at any moment:

1. Washing Machine
2. Sister
3. Murray Street
4. Daydream Nation
5. Rather Ripped
6. Sonic Nurse
7. Goo
8. Dirty
9. Evol
10. A Thousand Leaves
11. EJSTNS
12. Bad Moon Rising
13. Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols
14. NYC Ghosts and Flowers

my ranking:

1) nevermind (best record EVA!!!)
2) mtv unplugged
3) in utero (because it has rape me and it sounds like teen spirit, thurston writes amazing songs!!)
4) bleach
5) incesticide
6) from the muddy banks
7) the box set

SONIC LYFE!!!

Billy Corgan wrote most of the lyrics for Rather Ripped.

yes, those lyrics are genius.

joe satriani, yngwie malmsteen and steve vai contributed solos to pink steam. at the same time.

1. bad moon rising
2. evol
3. goo
4. sonic youth ep
5. confusion is sex
6. daydream nation
7. rather ripped
8. a thousand leaves
9. sister
10. sonic nurse
11. murray st
12. washing machine
13. nycg&f
14. dirty
15. experimental jet set

I think it's really funny that it is sooo obvious that Assblaster is the confrontational one, and everyone is singling me out because I responded to his insults.

LOL! You are totally right, once again. I wish I could give you more rep points.

Yeah, they can be. They elected George Bush.

He probably would have won by an even narrower margin, had it not been for all the Republican clones rigging the voting machines...

Since almost everyone in here is a clone, too, it's kind of the same situation. Not a fair representation of the public opinion.

Would you two PLEASE shut the fuck up? You're comparing RR with presidential elections?? AB, you don't like RR...that's cool. DCN, you do like RR...that's cool too. So now....be like two little Fonzies. And what's Fonzie like? That's right...cool.

I didn't say I dislike everyone. I said most of the people here share similar opinions about the SY catalogue.

All of your posts are filled with obvious contempt. I am merely stating the fact that a small group of people posting in one thread on a forum, who all just happen to share similar opinions about the new album, is not a true and thorough poll of the public opinion of said album.

How does that work? Did each state elect a representative to vote in this thread?

You're putting words in my mouth and you know it. I never said I dislike the people here. I merely defended myself when you attacked me.

To say that the opinions of a handful of people on this forum is somehow an indication of what all sonic youth fans think of the new album is just plain ridiculous.

Stop trying to chase me away from the forum because you hate me so much---moron!

Yes, that was my response to you after you relentlessly threw in my face all of your nonsense about how the new album can't be good because very few people here like it.

I asked you to stop writing about that, and you disregarded my request, and continued writing about it. So what is your point?

If I disagree with the taste of someone, does that mean that I think they are a bad person? I think not. But you are a bad person.

My current order of preference:

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