[Death & the Maiden]

I listened to EJS... for the first time recently. I didn't like it much... Probably my least favourite out of all the albums I've listened to. It's an alright album, but when it's compared to other SY albums, it's nowhere near as good.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

BORING

dull songs

dull dull toss off musical "ideas"

sonic youth's nadir IS RATHER RIPPED

Rob's above post amended for the masses.

[Rob Instigator]

sarramkroppppeepeee

how can you say that the rockin tunes on rather ripped are worse than the dull, lifelesss, un-inspired tepid bathwater that is EJST&NS? shiiiit

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

sarramkroppppeepeee

how can you say that the rockin tunes on rather ripped are worse than the dull, lifelesss, un-inspired tepid bathwater that is EJST&NS? shiiiit

I'd have to ask you, young man!

[atsonicpark]

It needs to be said again.

Bull in the Heather is such a fucking masterpiece. Listen to any one part of that song by itself and it doesn't sound right, but listen to the whole thing together and it's unbelievable.

[Rob Instigator]

I can't listen to bull in the heather without picturing my "bull" in kim deal's or kim gordon's "heather"

[uhler]

i think it's their best 90's record. even better than a thousand leaves.

[Rob Instigator]

between EJST&NS, Goo, Dirty, A Thousand Leaves, washing machine, goodbye 20th century, made in the USA, I would definitely put EJST&NS as dead fucking last in their 90's output.

[batreleaser]

this has always been one of the few youth ablums i dont like and never listen too, along with goo, dirty, and rather ripped.

[fugazifan]

ןout of their 90's output id either put goo or dirty as #1 then either washing machine or ATL, then this (not including SYR, and i dont know NYCGAF that well

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

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and i dont understand the dirty hatin'. it is one of my favorites. almost every song completely rocks on it. it was the first SY album that i got, and it took me ages to get them but it completely opened up my mind to a new degree of sounds and rythm and experimentation-theresas sound world, 100% wish fulfillment, shoot.
and the instrumental part where theu play really fast on chapel hill was so mindblowing to me.

get out of my head and stop stealing my thoughts and experience!

[charles eugene]

Experimental jet set is my least favorite album by SY along with Dirty which has good parts here and there (I totally agree^, that part on Chapel Hill is practically the only reason i listen to Dirty) but the album altogether still kinda blows.

They are good but im just not feeling them at all most of the time.

[✌➬]

I prefer this album. It has Androgynous Mind. One of my favorite songs ever.

[uhler]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

between EJST&NS, Goo, Dirty, A Thousand Leaves, washing machine, goodbye 20th century, made in the USA, I would definitely put EJST&NS as dead fucking last in their 90's output.

i thought made in the usa came out in 88 or 89. i don't know if i count goodbye 20th century as an official release. if so then i think that would be their best of the 90's. i think i may like ejst&ns the best because the first sonic youth song i heard came off the album and it was one of the first i bought. i would listen to it over and over again in middle and high school. just like black flag, it got me through some tough times when i was an awkward skater teenager with no friends.

i still think dirty is the worst album, but that's not saying it's a bad album. it's actually quite good, but it's a bad sonic youth album. same with goo and rather ripped. not bad albums, just bad sonic youth albums.

[Death & the Maiden]

Originally Posted by uhler

i thought made in the usa came out in 88 or 89.

I think it might have been recorded in 86, or around then. The CD was released in the 90's.

[uhler]

Originally Posted by Death & the Maiden

I think it might have been recorded in 86, or around then. The CD was released in the 90's.

oh ok. i knew the cd was released in 93 or 94, but i wasn't sure about the record.

[joe11121]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

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I also listened to Psychic Hearts again recently and that album sucks.

Psychic Hearts does blow. I like Trees Outside the Academy though

[hevusa]

Ahhhh the album that got me into Sonic Youth.

Not even joking... BMG music club baby! doesn't get any more punk.

[acousticrock87]

EJTNS has always been one of my favorites. Sometimes NYC or DDN pass it up, but I still love it.

However, it must be said that my reasons are as much nostalgia as they are actual reasons. I have far more memories connected to this album than almost any other album period, SY or not.

[joe11121]

I like the album, some trash on it, but all in all it's pretty good.