Dirty versus Sister
 

I would start a poll, but there's no point. Dirty is a much more mature album, with better-crafted songs, and better production. Blows Sister out of the water.

BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Sister is better. Pipeline/Kill Time pwns!

i agree with hayden

the best sy is in the fishtank because the ex and i.c.p. are on it and not just shitty youth

ANARCHO PUNX FOR EVER!!! THE EX!!!

what? That's stupid, sister is way better. But to each his own i suppose.

Sister is my all time fave!!!

There are individual songs that I like better off of Dirty, but for the whole album feel, I would take Sister.

Dirty songs better than anything off of Sister: Sugar Kane, Chapel Hill, Creme Brulee, Purr

Although Sister has White Kross, Schizophrenia and Catholic Block...

Overall Sister gets 4 stars and Dirty gets 3 and 1/2.

That's final. NO MORE DISCUSSION.

one thing that connects those albums is shitty drum sound. well maybe not shitty, but not enjoyable (at least for me). as for songs.. they're both good.

I disagree. Much as I love Dirty, for me Sister has the definite edge. The guitars sound glorious, there's not a bad song on it. And Dirty doesn't have 'Schizophrenia'.

yea, you're likely to find that most people on this board prefer sister to almost any other sonic youth album. it was my favorite for a long time, but then daydream nation really hit me. no, it totally raped me, cut off my head, and shit down my neck . . . and i loved it.

cotton crown and schizophrenia are two of my favorite sonic youth songs, but the album as a whole just doesn't do it for me lately

man, bucklebone's avatar rocks... anyway, i like dirty a lot, but that doesn't neccessarily make it a better album... i think thematically Sister has more consistency and depth..., but as daycare said, i kinda really like Dirty's production values. But then again I liked Slayer's Undisputed Attitude, so...

startin a thread like this on this forum is useless.. oldschool sy lovers will always say that sister is a much better album than dirty altough i love em both.
but of course i think sister is better, it has that 80's dirtyness wich i miss from dirty. everyone here says that dirty is a sell out pop album - but i dont agree with that. and even if it was a pop album i wouldnt care. its great.
and i dont agree with crappydrummer. on sister the drums sound weird mixed, but sound great imo.

Dirty has Theresas Soundworld, case closed

i like dirty more. Its the only album i like from their post BMR years...

I don't know why, but for some reason I fucking hate dirty. I think it's because out of all the SY albums it contains the most kim songs, also for some reason i find it extremley boring, it's hard for me to sit through the whole album.

The Sister songs played live since the 90's sound amazing, which tells you how oddly and poorly produced that album was... but that sort of recording asthetic is what defines the band during that time and gives that album and songs alot of character, i must admit that this album took forever for me to grow on because of how weird the balance is, the drums sound very "midrange"-y, the guitars have little "beef" and are very trebley but thats what i've grown to love about this album, as probably my fav. of their albums that feat. more of a straight ahead rock riff action.

lyrically its very good, and is influenced by one of my favorite writers, Philip K. Dick.

Sister is way better

hey, has anyone noticed that the lyrics to kim gordons panties by Rapeman, contain the first few lines of schzophrenia?

Dirty just seems to have more depth and atmosphere than Sister, and more feeling. People just don't like it because they think it's cooler to like the pre-Geffen songs.

I like Sister more, but Dirty is a vastly underrated album. I dont understand why many SY fans don't like it. It has a great variety of sounds and noises while still being one of the most accessible SY albums, IMO. It was also the album that really got me into SY so it also has some sentimental album.

I bought Goo in 1990 and was really into it, then didn't listen to SY again until about four years later, when I heard Experimental Jet Set and thought it was great...Dirty was my third album, which I bought that year. I didn't start collecting the 80's stuff until the late 90's probably....I've always just bought a few SY releases here and there...but I have a lot that I've collected over the years.

Dirty reminds me of that year that I really got into SY and of that time in my life, and it's one of those albums that I can listen to again and again and the magic is still there...

Goodness these albums don't even compare!!! Damn right Sister is a better album by far. It supercedes alot of SY's work although, I don't find it better than Washing Mashine.

hahah dirty better?!? what a joke sister kicks it ass.

Sister doesn't do it for me anymore. A lot of it seems dispensible, whereas when I hear Dirty I think every track shines.

are you freakin' serious??!!! dirty better that sister!!???

I don't think it's cooler to like pre-Geffen songs since my fav SY record is Sonic Nurse.

BUT I prefer sister too because it's a real SY achievement, whereas Dirty is more a collection of songs that have nothing to do with each other and there's a huge load of crappy songs(by SY standards off course, the songs before Sugar Kane included are great but after...bleh). However I'd like SY to redo Sister (keep the tuning but clear out all the UNINTENDED noise ) : there's something 'dirty' in their sound that you don't hear that much in DDN or any of their subsequent record. The whole record is poorly produced IMO.

sister was recorded on vacuum tube equiptment, specifically FOR that "dirty" "grimy" sound you want them to be rid of

Rather Ripped is probably better than Dirty and Sister.

I don't think that's really true. I like plenty of the Geffen era SY stuff, including Dirty. I just happen to think Sister is a superior album.