I love 'A Thousand Leaves'. This album served as my intro to Sonic Youth. Hearing 'Sunday' on BBC Radio 1 blew my mind. I bought the single and then rented the album on cassette from my local library and fell deep into the rabbit hole and never looked back.

Haha, Thurston would love the fact you rented it on cassette!! I didn't even know that was still possible in 1998!

Anyway, I gave this album a full run through for the first time in ages last night and was blown away by how great it really is! I remember when it came out I thought it was quite good but not great as I had it in my head that Washing Machine was basically unsurpassable. Now I'd rate them side by side. ATL seems to have been a really slow burner for a lot of people but is now starting to be viewed as somewhat of a 90s Daydream Nation... and deservedly so!

I've mentioned this a thousand leaves ER I MEAN times, but no matter - never ever forget that that killer riff comes from Helium's "Skeleton" and Mary Timony should have been credited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1OncuEaiCk

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/sy/song147.html

I loved loaning cassettes from the library, liked the romance of thinking who else had borrowed them before and where their musical tastes went.

Funny enough from there I got Dirty and Washing Machine on CD for my birthday and Washing Machine became my favourite album.

I know, that's what I said. Now DIE YOU SHITTY PARROT TROLL.

I appreciate the lullaby effect of some of the songs on this album. My daughter fell asleep to "Snare, Girl" a lot.

a very good collection of album it will send us to past

Contre Le Sexism is garbo

The rest rules. What a horrid way to start an amazing albim

Never heard it in full until tonight (thanks YouTube). A good album.

Hoarfrost is an elegiac masterpiece of loneliness my man.

excuse me but WAT! KK is a fuckin' masterpiece.

ATL is honestly one of my favorites. I feel like it has all the SY elements in it. The album has some great variety in it too. Yer Alt Rock licks to some real experimental out there shit. I'm in to it.

Spot on.

Each to their own...

With A Thousand Leaves, I thoroughly enjoy every song featuring Thurston on vocals, which usually isn't the case. Wildflower Soul's euphoric for me. I also agree with those calling Karen Koltrane a masterpiece. Lee's two are stunners. It's wild how you feel so differently, Diesel. But I respect it.