The Eternal Streaming Review
 

so for those lucky enough to get the code...
can we have a brief idea of what you think track by track and overall?

I am enjoying the resurgence of skronk.
Kim sounds better than she has since the early 90s.

Final thoughts:
I proclaim this to be the best album since NYC Ghosts barring Murray Street, it's better than A Thousand Leaves too. It really has moments that encompass SY's entire history and remind me why I listen to them in the first place. This album is really something new without being a total shift in style.

I'm only done with the first 2.5 tracks or so, but it is so good! Anti-Orgasm? Shit!

Kim sings along with the guitar in "Malibu Gas Station" which means only
one thing: Thurston wrote the lyrics. Bwah.

"Anti-Orgasm" and "What We Know" are so fucking Flying Ace. The latter
is Lee's best track on an SY album since NYCG&F.

Uh you're all sort of disappointing me since I hate NYCG&F, but eh I'm sure it's still good.

This album craps on NYCG&F, actually. After one listen I shall proclaim that.

Never would I have thought I'd enjoy No Way more than Calming the Snake. Jeez... Calming the Snake sounded so ferocious live. Here, I just don't know. I prefer Sacred Trickster live as well.

I'm at Walkin Blue... and so far my favorite track is What We Know. Overall, it's a pretty kick ass album.

I'm streaming it in here at work and it rules. I'm only on track 5, What We Know.

Steve is tight as usual.


Fuck yes!!

I'm only on track 5 right now, but this kind of feels like Sonic Nurse 2.0 in many ways so far.

Upon first listen,

Great songs: Anti-Orgasm, Antenna, What We Know, Walkin Blue, Massage the History

Good songs: Sacred Trickster, Leaky Lifeboat, Calming the Snake, Poison Arrow, Malibu Gas Station, Thunderclap, No Way

Oh man, I love the Youf.

God damn, thank God the rockin' "sonic breakdowns" are back.

you can feel departure from Geffen alright! pretty much straight forward songs. not such a long experimental noisy freakouts like when they did on 1000 leaves or NYC Ghost + Flowers. (don't expect from SY to be what they used to be in '80, '90, '00 and you're grand). still definitely noisier then Nurse and RR. production is much better then on RR. so many passages which brings you far away and back. love it! and Massage The History kills all. my favourite of all at the moment. it has everything SY ever was...killer.

I've recorded da stream into my portable player. I'll be listening to it for a few days now every where I go, haha.

Listened to it once through while working on a design project. I think the record helped me make version 10 of this project the best one so far. Killer record from start to finish. Particularly enjoyed the first several chords, really set the mood for the rest of the album. Killer. Killer, killer killer. Ending with 9:43 seconds of beauty.

Expectations are high.

anti orgasm.....wooooow!

new album = more noise. more uncontrolled energy.


anti-orgasm - is awesome, mind blowing. I like the guitar parts. they are all singing here, surprising good effect. experimental - freaky song in the name of holy Dirty!

leaky lifeboat - starts like kim g and a doyle handcream, and then duo of kim and tm. nice wah-wah there for sometime.

antenna - nice noise in left speaker, guitar in right kinda reminds me of atl, thurston sings that. catchy chorus.

what we know - sounds like something from confusion is sex but with more energy, lee sings. thurston gives nice guitar riff. very noisy break.

calming the snake - bass intro is awesome, then noise. we know that from the gigs. kim is yawling here with some echos.. don't know what to think about that, then the oooh, oooh. at the end she is singing like on mirror/dash gigs.

poison arrow - nice thurston based riff, with lee making some noise. other way of singing by t, then comes kim with nice vocals too in chorus.

malibu gas station - begining reminds the nyc g+f's climate, two guitar combo. kim singing. then it reminds a little bit kim singing on rather ripped, but it's more distinct here. with wall of sound like on washing machine some songs at the end.

thunderclap for bobby pyn - weird song, very weird. many breakes. changing rythms all the time, and with appeasements. thurstons vocals, with yeah and woo done by all of them. surprising and adorable. speed and power.

no way - is known from gigs, first song written on the album. but not the best. lyrics were changed for the album. more poppy and punky then the rest.

walkin blue - lee song. more watered-down, and emphatic then the first one. something is hiding behind those guitars.

massage the history - acoustic guitar? I haven't excpected that on the sonic album. but it found place here with lee's electric guitar. longest track on the album. kim voice brakes in after almost two minutes. she is singing and whispering. then comes more noise and wall of sound like on nyc gf song. lovely ending of the album.


thanks to the gold-heart man! really enjoyed that!

Why are they making the stream so difficult? I don't understand the whole getting the code and shit, this is to listen to an album its not like we're trying to get concert tickets. I'm confused.

Half way through and it feels better than anything since Washing Machine to me.

When Kim and Thurston sung some harmonies I nearly lost it in my pants. The Lee song is great!

see code topic :)

Massage the History is I Love You Golden Blue on crack. It features a Marilyn Moore style slide guitar (Lee?), an acoustic guitar and some whispery Kim lyrics.

Anti-Orgasm is better than all of Rather Ripped combined. fuck.

Calming the Snake sounds better live, on first listen.

Yeah. Holy shit it's a good song.

anti orgasm. wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Leaky Lifeboat is also awesome. I'm on to Antenna now.

feel only with this song it could possibly be my fav sy record :d

I'm kind of thinking that too from what I've heard so far. It just rocks so fucking hard.

Though it's sort of different from my favorites. Personally I like Evol and Sister a lot for the haunting quality of the music, Murray Street for the jamminess, and Daydream Nation for the poppiness. The Eternal I like for the straight up rocking, combined with the other SY trademarks. The beginning of Antenna is very much like the Cross the Breeze ending, and the jam in it is very much like something out of Murray Street.

Some of the textures and moods given by the songs are totally unique to the album.

Massage the History... i am just so blown away, I had a feeling some elements Trees at the Academy would turn up, just a sheering emotional stream


Anti-Orgasm is just just rawk, i love the thumping underbelly driving like a diesel engine,

Woah. Better than A Thousand Leaves? That's my fav SY album. If you like it as much as I do then this record will be awesome.

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ANTI ORGASM

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I'm on Calming the Snake. I think the album version's better than the live version. I can hear the layers much clearer, and they make the song better.

anti-orgasm is actually an orgasm.

Has Sonic Youth ever rocked this hard before?

nope


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just to mention that streaming is shitty as expected
cant wait cd/lp

Kim's Vocals on Poison Arrow :D

i'm on calming the snake too.
weakest song so far

I'm on Antenna now, I can agree w/ the notion that this could be better than ATL. Anti-Orgasm is just the perfect title for that part of the album. Not even 2 songs through, & it just could the most critical part of the record.

This promises not to disappoint any SY fan.

I have my computer hooked up to a really nice stereo, so it sounds glorious to me.

Gotta love the aggressive riffs.