Sonic Youth Every Album Review!!!

[@yobkiss]

You nailed it! Great work! Without Sonic Youth Nirvana wouldn't sound like it did.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Thanks, brother! Cheers.🍻

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Same with Pixies. Sonic Youth + Pixies = Nirvana

[@votkiskoc]

Endless, Nameless :D

[@MathTravels]

I love this! I love the observation that if you like heavy metal, you'd like Sister. This is confirmed by the fact that Napalm Death covered White Kross a couple of years ago.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Yeah. Sister is definitely the most metal -ish SY album. Thanks for watching, NR!

[@adamlawson5021]

Dirty has one of my favorite Sonic Youth songs: Theresa's Sound World.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

I love that song too. Easily my favorite track from Dirty.

[@freeformrockpodcast9076]

Love this band .. been bugging lee to review some of their albums

[@smoketreez666]

Just starting this video but i gotta give you props already for opening with "schizophrenia"!! I've been in to SY for 21 years, but schizophrenia has been my favorite song since i first heard it on 'sister' (my favorite SY album) Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on their discography.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@smoketreez666 Thanks for watching and for commenting. It probably won’t come as a surprise to you since I opened with “Schizophrenia”, but Sister is likewise my favorite SY album. 👍🏼

[@poetrychurch]

I agree with much of what you have to say here, EXCEPT: It took me years to realize that NYC Ghost + Flowers is a masterpiece. It bored me at first, but after a decade or so it finally dawned on me that it's among the strongest of all their stuff.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

NYC Ghost + Flowers has definitely grown on me over the years, so it's possible I might come around to loving it as much as you do. I love the album's atmosphere...!!

[@votkiskoc]

i dont know yet, but side2side is one of the coolest song of theirs

[@woden22]

I'm with you on NYC Ghosts + Flowers. It feels like their most self-consciously poetic record. Of course they're a very literate band but Thurston is pretty deep into the world where avant garde poetry and avant noise intersect, given his books of poetry like Alabama Wildman or the collab with John Kinsella, The Weave, and his poetry publishing imprint, Flowers and Cream, and NYC Ghosts and Flowers comes, I feel like, from that realm. As a poet myself it's a realm I dig,

[@CalicoSilver]

Thanks for this very educational review of Sonic Youth's discography. I remember them being around back in the day, but it was not until this past year that I started listening to them. Sister was my first album and I really loved it. Then I heard Daydream Nation and loved it as well, but Sister was my favorite of the two. Now, using your video as a guide, I am looking forward to checking out their other albums. Thanks again, Eddy. Jeff

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Glad you found this video educational and if you dig Sister and Daydream Nation, you're bound to like many of their other albums I talked up. Going to watch your latest Bob Dylan video when I get a chance this week...!!

[@JSanders]

In the late 80’s I discovered Thrasher and Spin magazine. I begged my mom for a subscription for both(I lived in a small town where these magazines didn’t exist). I think it was a review of Goo, but I was visiting my aunt in Dallas and was able to go to a record store. I found ‘Bad Moon Rising’ on tape. The music made no sense to me but I kept listening over and over. Eventually I ordered Sister and EVOl from STS. Sonic Youth defined my youth in a way. Then Pump Up The Volume came out.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@JSanders That’s awesome and wow: starting with Bad Moon Rising! Talk about jumping in at the deep end! Thanks for sharing.

[@MsFreshadenu]

Dirty is pretty much a perfect album for me. im glad i got it first, but it set a high standard for every other sy album i picked up. I heard Sister was the best one and i snagged it but it was before i started smoking pot and i didnt quite love it as much....i should probably revisit it.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Thanks for watching and for commenting. I like Dirty more than it sounded in the video (I was just listening to it the other day in fact). Definitely revisit Sister...!!!

[@badmofaux]

I’ve always dug it, thought it was more or less the same kind of thing as the SST albums except bigger and badder. Same goes for Goo, for that matter, except that one is a bit more restrained and “professional”. I thought Dirty nailed their new, more commercial approach whereas that one smoothed things over just a tad much. FWIW I always thought Youth Against Fascism was dumb on purpose, or maybe smart dumb is the better way of saying it. I love a political song that just comes right out and says “yeah the president sucks.” Which one? I dunno, you pick. I took it as a bit of non-non-parody that also just rocked.

[@tomawsomeSaUCE]

Goo and Dirty are some of their best, most accesible albums and Daydream Nation is arguably is them at their best... but there's something about Sister that is really special to me. The constant shifts in tempo, the almost progressive feel to the songs, and how well they balance the riffs with the noise. It's the album I return to the most and it's the one I have the most fun listening to!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

I love how you described Sister! It's always been the SY album I return to the most and it always will be.

[@billriddle9215]

I got most of these albums...never seen live though.

[@ChrisPropfeMusicallyObsessed]

I love your honest take on the Sonic Youth discography. I just bought a reissue of Bad Moon Rising yesterday and started searching KZbin for related videos. Any band associated with SST is a-ok in my book.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Thanks so much and how great of an album is Bad Moon Rising...!!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

I just skimmed your channel and love your music taste. Instant subscribe! 😉👍🏼

[@ChrisPropfeMusicallyObsessed]

@@EdwinCannistraci Thank you!!!!

[@MrDecksels]

I got into Sonic Youth quite late. I was allready in my early twenties when Murray Street came out. It wasn't because a lack of trying though. Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves aren't exactly ideal gateway albums. I allso read Kim Gordon's book Girl In A Band. It made it quite clear that it's no use to ever hope for a reunion. Imagine not just finding out your husband is cheating on you, but that everyone in the band allready knows about it.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Yeah. Before editing the video, I talked more about Kim and Thurston's split and threw some shade towards Thurston, but then decided it was a personal affair and not appropriate to comment on it. But I'm very sympathetic towards Kim and I guess people reading between the lines of my video -- with all my Team Kim talk -- probably will pick up on that.

[@kevinmyles6369]

I'd say 85-95 my fave SY era. Sucha great band, so many cool textures! They've managed to expand so many people's minds

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Agree totally.

[@votkiskoc]

mine too. Easly. Sonic death and ciccone youth counts too. BMR is their best for me.

[@woden22]

"The music looks the way the album cover sounds", regarding Bad Moon Rising, is pretty awesomely applicable whether intentional or not.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Indeed. One of the best album cover + music combos ever.

[@Andy-m6j]

I’ve only heard I think 1 album in full. Thought it was cool, the one with Swimsuit Issue on it. I’ll check some of the others out and maybe you’ll get me into them like you did Motörhead. Btw Eddy, did you ever get into Joy Division. Short lived band but very important historically. I just wondered if you were a fan?

[@EdwinCannistraci]

That'd be awesome, Andy, and yeah: I dig Joy Division and have their two albums and that singles compilation of theirs. I also like early New Order.

[@Andy-m6j]

@@EdwinCannistraci I thought a man of your musical calibre would like Joy Division and New Order. I quite like Dream Machine btw, I’ve only digested the latest album at the moment but it’s good enough to move onto the older ones. Great videos 👍🏻

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@Andy-m6j Appreciate it. So happy to turn people onto good music.

[@tonybones2822]

Great video and I agree with much of you say. "I dreamed I dream" is a hidden gem. You've inspired me to check out their stuff released after Washing Machine. The only one I heard was Sonic Nurse. I might even revisit Experimental Jet Set, which (apart from Bull in the Heather) I thought was a pretentious pile of poop at the time. Out of the albums I know, I'd go 1. Daydream Nation, 2. Sister, 3. Confusion Is Sex, 4. Evol, 5. Goo, 6. Bad Moon Rising, 7. Washing Machine, 8. Sonic Nurse 9. Dirty, 10. Experimental Jetset etc.etc. Top 20 songs off the the top of my head, 1. The Sprawl, 2. Silver Rocket, 3 Catholic Block, 4. Schizophrenia, 5. Hyperstation 6. Teenage Riot, 7. White Kross, 8. I Dreamed I Dream, 9. Shaking Hell, 10. Dirty Boots, 11 Death Valley 69, 12 The Good and the Bad, 13. Cross the Breeze, 14. Starpower, 15 Kotton Krown, 16 Tunic, 17. Pipeline/Kill Time, 18. Candle, 19. Protect Me You, 20. Pacific Coast Highway.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Thanks for watching and for commenting. Great rankings and definitely give Murray Street and Rather Ripped a listen...!!!

[@chesnut72]

Thank you for this excellent video!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Thank you for watching and for commenting! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@colinwilliams553]

I just happened to purchase SONIC NURSE on vinyl the other day great album its worth it.❤

[@EdwinCannistraci]

That’s awesome. I have it on vinyl as well. Such a great album…!! ❤️🖤

[@KirstenReed]

"...their songiest album yet." 🤣...I agree: epic band, a band's band. I need to listen to some of their later stuff (and revisit some old stuff)!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Glad you enjoyed the video, Kristen. If you never listened to Murray St or Sonic Nurse, they should be top priorities...!!

[@KirstenReed]

Noted @@EdwinCannistraci. I don't think I have listened to either! Thanks :)

[@sonicpharmacist]

#TeamKim

[@politicaltroll8920]

Definitely Team Kim.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

She's a horrible person though

[@derfgerps4016]

Best band thank you for this

[@EdwinCannistraci]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching and for commenting.

[@patcogni7892]

Disconnection Notice won me right back over

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@patcogni7892 Yep. I still recall hearing it for the first time live and it likewise won me back over.

[@booitsjohnny]

Ha I loved this until you got to Dirty, which is my favorite album. Your least favorite, damn! It's not easy to pick a favorite, sure, all the previous albums are awesome too, but Dirty is definitely my personal favorite. Kim G is def the the member with the most interesting, dynamic songs like you said - agreed.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Ha! Sorry about that. I actually like Dirty more than I made it sound, I don't think SY made any bad albums, but one had to be my least favorite, y'know. I think Dirty won that honor mainly because there are so many songs: I'm always exhausted with it by the time it ends. And like I mentioned, I don't care for "Youth Against Facism". However, I love "Theresa's Sound-World", "Sugar Kane" and all of the Kim songs. Thanks for watching and for commenting.

[@booitsjohnny]

@@EdwinCannistraci The criticism is fair! I actually haven't listened to some of their later albums (after washing machine) in a very long time or at all, so I'm gonna get to that! Great video!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@booitsjohnny Thanks and definitely give Murray St and Sonic Nurse a revisit: both amazing albums.

[@adamlawson5021]

I got to see SY three times. My all-time favorite band, honestly.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Yeah. They were one of the greatest bands ever: in the studio and live.

[@shane214]

Everything up to and including Day Dream Nation.👌

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@shane214 Yeah, amazing stuff.

[@christianalander9487]

Just one quibble that bothered me for the entire video: Lee's last name is RanaLdo, not RanarDo.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

My brain knows that. My Philly way of speaking is another matter. 😜

[@Xcalator35]

With all due respect, I think you overestimate Kim Gordon's 'songwriter' role. First, SY worked, for the most part, as a whole, where everybody contributed with different parts to one song (and that even includes Steve). There were rarly one single writer. The singing role in a song usually indicates the lyric writer (here yes, there were individual contributers). But yes, the idea Kim 'wrote the songs' she sings in SY is simply wrong. Nevertheless, great work! You're a true 'sonic enthusiast' and a smart guy with the right ideas in your mind. Kudos!

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Fair point and I probably should've specified I was talking about the lyrics and vocals when saying a song was a "Kim song", a "Thurston song", or a "Lee song". Obviously the music was a total collaborative effort, but at the same time, whoever was writing the lyrics and singing helped give each song an individualistic character. For example, "Kool Thing" would simply not be "Kool Thing" if Thurston or Lee had wrote the lyrics and sung the song. They'd have a totally different approach. Anyway, thanks for watching and for commenting. Always nice when someone thinks I have "the right ideas." 😉👍🏼

[@MathTravels]

Sorry for the comment overload (but I am commenting as I watch): I strongly disagree about the Youth Against Fascism. It is a protest song but also features Ian Mackaye on guitar and I think it is also the tribute to Fugazi and the political side of punk.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

No need to apologize, my friend. I guess knowing that makes "Youth Against Fascism" a little less try-hard sounding now, although it's still one of my least fave SY songs. Makes sense because I'm not a big Fugazi guy overall (although I do like the album Repeater).

[@TiaRoxx]

agreed. most people overlook/don't understand the purpose and intention of the song

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Ian Mackaye is the most a-political you can get

[@votkiskoc]

they lost me after Goo. They (d)evolved into a much lighter, lack of impact and energy, weak love song, as time went forward. But they got some good tracka here and there on those albums, but overall they lost their peak and their essense got swallowed by pop and expectations Old Youth. Their peak to me was the texas chainsaw massacre era of the EP, Ciccone, Evol, BMR, Spinhead Session, Sonic Death

[@EdwinCannistraci]

Wow. Sister doesn't even make your peak era: tough customer! 😅Seriously though, I love hearing all these opinions and I love when people are true to what they love, which clearly you are. Cheers.

[@votkiskoc]

@@EdwinCannistraci Sister did not get me that much, but I agree some of the songs rocks, white cross, etc, but not my cup of tea

[@d_walsh]

They lost me after washing machine.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

I felt the same way. Until I didn't. 😉

[@d_walsh]

@@EdwinCannistraci I'm now revisiting that era of sonic youth again lol.

[@EdwinCannistraci]

@@d_walsh Awesome. It's definitely worthy of reappraisal IMO.