It's easily one of my favorites.

still, you have to get up and make it stop

Star Power, Green Light, Shadow of a Doubt and Death to our Friends are probably my favorite EVOL songs at the moment.

Can we talk about the title? It is very literary. Everyone knows the backward/forward relationship = EVOL/LOVE. It is obviously a little subversive to spell a word backwards. But the fact is they did and the title we are given is not even a word. I unconsciously get screwed up by this fact. EVOL, EVOL, EVOL. Say it all you want it is still not a word. Maybe I am betraying my ignorance.

A certain high-school student was inspired unconsciously by this word to think of evolution.

P.S. Tony Oursler apparently made up the name for a film he had made. That's where Sonic Youth got it.

EVOL is LOVE backwards, but it could also mean evolution...this was, after all, SY's first album with Steve behind the kit, and I think he's a better drummer for them than Bob Bert or Jim Sclavunos. EVOLving towards a more cohesive sound, you know?

I give it 2 thumbs up.

amazing
mindblowing

amazing
mindblowing

Tom Violence - 8
Shadow of a Doubt - 10
Star Power - 9
In The Kindom #19 - 10
Green Light - 9
Death To Our Friends - 8
Secret Girl - 8
Marilyn Moore - 10
Expressway To Yr Skull - 9
Bubblegum - 9 -> i actually like bubblegum haha

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tom violence - 10
shadow of a doubt - 10
star power - 8
in the kingdom - 10
green light - 9
death to our friends - 8
secret girl - 8
marilyn moore -10
expressway to yr skull - 10
bubblegum -3

it's my favorite sonic LP
every song makes me feel something different; happiness, sadness, anxiety, self-destruction...
I don't think it's an album you can listen with friends at a party, but I like walking or cycling to it.

I burned myself a cd version without bubblegum for this exact reason.
too much near-heartattacks while falling asleep

Though Daydream Nation was the first album I enjoyed by the Youth, I wasn't very receptive to the rest of the discography until I got Evol which lead the way to everything else. Because of that, I feel like I have a closer connection to Evol (as I'm sure many feel) to that of Daydream though I wouldn't suggest that the songs are quantitatively better.

"Shadow of a Doubt" is still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

since i find all of the songs above eight points in a 1-10 scale.. it'd be quite ridiculous to rate them in a 1-10 scale ;p

so i will just put them in order..

#1 Death To Our Friends
#2 Marilyn Moore
#3 Secret Girl
#4 Expressway To Yr Skull
#5 Star Power
#6 In The Kingdom #19
#7 Green Light
#8 Tom Violence
#9 Shadow Of A Doubt
#10 Bubblegum

er... when i listen to this album i always think of the same things... killing your parents. nightmares. smoking pot. satan. serial killers. domestic violence. woods. cementery. the movie 'flatliners'. halloween. powercuts. being a teenager. headaches. and 'the gloaming' or twilight.. the time when trees and things in general start turning into shadows.

hm
good stuff..

Evol is a teeny bopper album. I loved it when I was in my late teens. Not so much the last time I listened to it. But it's a great record nonetheless.

"marilyn moore" makes me happy.

Why so low? I love this song!

yeh i love it too, but i like all of the above better... ;P

Oh hhahahaa.

Re-listened, let me redo this...

Tom Violence - 9
Shadow of a Doubt - 10
Star Power - 8
In The Kindom #19 - 10
Green Light - 10
Death To Our Friends - 8
Secret Girl - 9
Marilyn Moore - 10
Expressway To Yr Skull - 10
Bubblegum - 4

10 in all fields.

I can do that.

Maybe my fourth or fifth favourite of theirs.

The best thing ever recorded.

Every time I listen to EVOL is seems to get better.

my all time favorite album ever. Ever.

EVOL was the first Sonic Youth album that I felt I truly connected to. Before I learned to love Sister and Daydream Nation as my two favorites, EVOL just made sense. In a way it really is their best album.

Tom Violence- 10
Shadow of a Doubt- 9.8
Star Power- 9.7
In the Kingdom No. 19- 9
Green Light- 9.9
Death to Our Friends- 8
Secret Girls- 9.6
Marilyn Moore- 8.5
Expressway to Yr. Skull- 10.1 repeating

Tom Violence- 10
Shadow of a Doubt- 10
Star Power- 10
In the Kingdom No. 19- 9
Green Light- 9
Death to Our Friends- 10
Secret Girls- 9
Marilyn Moore- 9
Expressway to Yr. Skull- 10
bonus track - does not exist

i think this was the album where they wanted to stray farther from just noise and add in more song structure. and it's the perfect blend of both

Tom Violence- 9
Shadow of a Doubt- 10
Star Power- 10
In the Kingdom No. 19- 11
Green Light- 11
Death to Our Friends- 10
Secret Girls- 9
Marilyn Moore- 9
Expressway to Yr. Skull- 12

This album punched me in the face the first time I heard it.