Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition Music Cd

Youth Sonic - Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition

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Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition)      Artist : Sonic Youth      List Price : $29.98 USD        Your Price : $19.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2007-06-12      Studio : Geffen Records      Label : Geffen Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (9 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition      A great album but ... the songs are better on the album      Rating:      This should be 3.5 stars, but that's not an option. Daydream Nation is a great album and the deluxe edition was an interesting concept: Package a live CD of SY playing each song on the album live with the original album. For SY fanatics I'm sure this is fascinating, but for the more casual listener, most of the Album tracks are preferable. (SY strikes me as the kind of band that was probably always better in the studio than live) I will grant that I like Kim Gordon's live vocals on "Cross the Breaze" better, though I prefer the album versions guitars. And "Kissability" and "Eric's Trip" sound a little bit more "rockin'" live ... at the expense of being performed as cleanly. The real treat on the bonus CD are the four covers: George Harrison's "Within you, without you" Mudhoney's "Touch me, I'm sick" Neil Young's "Computer Age" Captain Beefheart's "Electricity" (And what band BESIDES Sonic Youth and would cover Captain Beefheart?) If you're just getting into Sonic Youth, I'd just buy the (now quite in-expensive) non-deluxe version and the download the four covers. If you already own Daydream Nation and aren't an absolute Sonic Youth fanatic, I'd recommend just downloading the covers.     Customer Reviews for Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition Cd      The Borderland      Rating:      Lets swim deeper: What makes Sonic Youth so important in the history of "pop music" in the late 20th. century is that along with other NY artists such as Glenn Branca, they saw the transcendent potential of the electric guitar beyond the typical trappings of "rock and roll". The "No Wave" movement was on-board with notion as well. Is the electric guitar a classical instrument at this point in time- I think so. And the Youth's give you a first taste of this borderland on tracks like "The Trilogy". Hyperstation, is a brilliant roadmap of harmonic tightrope walking they did at this time...and with a few other tracks,they follow Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane/Starship into William Gibson CyberPunk references. Then very "now". I only wish the original recording was not so muddy- even with the digital tools of today, why is it still so "harsh"- when it could be more "lush". Everyone who is interested in post-modern sound should own this release. Editorial Reviews for Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition Audio Cd      Album Description      "100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s" (Rolling Stone, 1989) "100 Alternative Albums" (Spin, 1995) "Top 99 Albums of `85 to `95" (Alternative Press, 1995) "The Essential 200 Rock Records" (Rolling Stone, 1997) "Top 100 Albums of All Time" (New Musical Express, 2003)