Is Teen Age Riot the greatest pop rock song of all time?
Is Teen Age Riot the greatest pop rock song of all time?
Landon Roberts
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Daniel Hall
Kool Thing ;)
Jayden Baker
yes.
Jackson Russell
Chase Robinson
that isnt rumours
Adrian Rodriguez
How come that's the only good song Sonic youth have?
Ayden Bailey
uuuuuummm that's actually Books about UFOs sweetie
Nathaniel Johnson
That honor belongs to Cortez the killer
Cooper Barnes
It's not even Sonic Youths best pop song
Gavin Smith
Never understood the hype for that song. Like 80% of the album is better, I'd even go so far as to say every track between it and Providence is better.
Joshua Cruz
Nearly every song on Rather Ripped makes for better pop IMO.
Brody Ramirez
I love a lot of noise rock and post punk and so much shit Sonic Youth has released but I could never get the hype for Daydream Nation. It sounds so fucking flat and spineless. The Sprawl is a great track though.
Austin Long
It's probably the worst song on the album honestly. Still a good song obviously but compared to Rain King or Hey, Joni it's not that great. I see the same thing with Swans Filth, Stay Here is by far the worst song on the record but it gets memed for some reason
Luke Garcia
The guitar interplay on Daydream Nation is crazy good even if the production isn't the best. It's just an incredibly well performed set of songs.
William Walker
Wow! This guys have such unpopular opinions, I think they must be very smart and sophisticated!
Julian Martin
yeah for me its the guitars. The interplay between guitars on the first four tracks alone is enough to send me to fucking space
Jaxon Ortiz
I'm all ears as to why that song is better than Hey Joni, Silver Rocket, Candle, 'Cross The Breeze, The Sprawl, etc.
Anthony Morris
the production is a bit cramped when it comes to the guitars, but i'd argue the mix on the album is pretty spectacular.
the guitars are recorded permanently "in the red," (they're slightly blown out) so you're getting anywhere from slight to a significant amount of microphone distortion on them. this was lee ranaldo's idea, and i'm pretty sure he was borrowing the idea from Dinosaur Jr, whose album "You're Living All Over Me" has every instrument being distorted in the same way.
it gives the album a lot of edge. on the trilogy that closes the album this type of microphone distortion is genius, it really brings out the textures the two guitarists create around the bass melody (and i do think sonic youth's big angle was guitar textures), however on chiller cuts (like teen age riot) it makes the mix sound a bit cramped.
Liam Morris
Austin Diaz
Huh, the more you know.
Mason Ortiz
When Mascis sent a copy of the album to SST they told him it was so loud that he had distorted the tape, which he of course said it was intended to sound that way.
I know next to nothing about production, was Mascis the first person to do this?
Joshua Cox
I absolutely love this song and how it sounds optimistic and upbeat compared to the rest of the album especially Trilogy or Candle/Rain King, it almost feels like it doesn't belong on the album so I can kind of understand This is the song along with Total Trash that made me want to learn guitar and I don't know how many strings I have broken trying to tune my guitar in GABDEG or GGDDGG or whatever tuning in my early attempts to play this song
Nathan Bell
Ummmm you meant to say Sonic Nurse sweetie