Whats your favourite era of Sonic Youth?
 

Poll to come.
so whats your favourite era??? It's a shame you can't yote for more than one but...try to pick between these.

1. Sonic Youth/ Confusion is sex
2. Bad Moon Rising/ Evol/ Made In USA
3. Sister
4. Daydream Nation
5. Goo/ Dirty
6. Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star
7. Washing Machine
8. A Thousand Leaves/NYC Ghosts & Flowers
9. Murray Street/ Sonic Nurse
10. Rather Ripped

early sonic is my favourite. the ep and confusion gets my vote

Statrted off with Dirty, over the years I've gotten more into their more recent stuff. Think its because I've lost that young adult angst.

early and mid 80s stuff.
dark vibes get my blood going!

Ugh that's a really hard choice.
I went with Goo/Dirty.

I once heard Evol, Sister and Daydream Nation described as "The Holy Trinity," and it's hard to disagree. I would keep those three consecutive albums before anything else they've done.

agreed.

While CIS is my favorite record I voted for BMR and EVOL. Two great fucking records.

bad moon, confusion and sister all strike notes with me but i love a thousand leaves/nyc ghosts and flowers era especially.

kinda tough....era's as in string of consecutive albums....for me....

Goo-A Thousand Leaves....so I guess that'd be the 90s. But that's not to discount there earlier or later material....I spose I'm considered a commercial sellout admirer, huh ?

basically BMR through DDN.

Daydream Nation.

This album started it all for me and it was the soundtrack for one of the best and most fun times in my life. Times that I will never forget.

Daydream nation

Evol, Bad Moon Rising, Sister.
I don't know why, I got trouble to really get into Daydream Nation, always have. It's like too tidy for me.

i think you're on crack to put thousand leaves and nyc ghosts and flowers together!! they are SO different. i looove thousand leaves and really dislike nyc ghosts (except for lee's song). thousand leaves and murray st i will pop in as regularly as any sy record, but nyc ghosts and sonic nurse, almost never. probably never.

ps. i voted for daydream, but it's hard to think of a flaw between evol and thousand leaves!

Evol/Sister/Daydream
But I voted for Sister.

good way of looking at it - the last few years have been better for me than my twenties, I guess they're noughty albums are the soundtrack to my best times. Basically WM onwards is what I listen to most.

What a great word.

1. Sonic Youth/ Confusion is sex
2. Bad Moon Rising/ Evol/ Made In USA
3. Sister
4. Daydream Nation
5. Goo/ Dirty

I voted for sister but generally would go for the BMR thru to DN era. There are later and earlier albums that I might prefer (CIS for example) but as a period the Blast First era is what I instinctively think of when I think of the band.

The earlier Geffen era (Goo, Dirty, EJSTNS) is probably my least favourite. It seems to me that during that period they weren't sure where to go and as a result were too keen to respond to developments taking place in the Grunge and Riot Grrl scenes. In a sense, this was a period where they became followers rather than leaders. They wanted to hang with 'the kids' a little too much and at times it got a little embarrasing.