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THE REVIEW
Here, on this work, I no longer feel the delirium, something that until Sister lingered. Bad Moon Rising was just delirium.
Basically, a nice pop album, catchy choruses, lovely melodies. Just right, a bourgeois noise-bore fabricated in an office for a debut in society through a nod to a major, disguising the pseudo underground deception with a double album, chic-shock the trick to trigger an invitation to the bourgeois salon.
The step back for official proselytism is done. From "man does not live by bread alone" to "panem et circenses". What can we do, the flesh is weak. The interdiction they have violently imposed on themselves has disconcerted me. But it is more the reckless race to label it a masterpiece that is the misunderstanding of this album, which remains a good work misunderstood by the thick glitter with which it is adorned.
Don't get me wrong, it barely scrapes a passing grade, 7+, no more. More than burned, youth ended... We want to live more than thirty years the "boys" seem to say: bring on the slippers.
A substitute, a palliative, a compromise transform the impersonal vanity of the initial ardor into an egoic vanity of surrender to the boredom of eternity that exhausts everyone in the temptation to gather some fruits. But they are slightly unripe apples compared to the never exploited previous maturity of a transcendent psychic redundancy that balanced on the razor's edge of madness and that sabotaged the deception of marking time.
There is no longer the persistence in childhood like Oskar Matzerath, they want to play drums of gold and no longer of tin. There is the leap in quality, in style in this work, the decision to "grow up," which, however, in a certain sense tricks them as the tension of the battle against the trip-up of participation that in previous works literally mesmerized you fades away, touching the visible and the invisible, while here there is a relaxation due to the wear of the primordial aura that shielded considerations.
In short, here everyone sees the comet, compared to the previous trails and tails born eclipsed. They are no longer "impunished obscure." They begin to reflect in the pond and from unaware occult toads that they were, they kiss themselves for a return of mirror-beauty that allows a "tamed" audience to see them, a tactile materialization of part of their obscene brilliance.
With the normalization of their monstrous logically comes the success of globalized extravagance. Without blame or judgment, we acknowledge this homologated "masterpiece."
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The review perceives Daydream Nation as a sophisticated pop-oriented album marking Sonic Youth's transition from underground delirium to a more polished, bourgeois sound. It acknowledges the band's musical growth but criticizes the album's loss of primal intensity and edge. Despite some compromises for mainstream acceptance, the album is still considered a good work, though not the masterpiece many claim it to be. The author reflects on the band's evolved identity and broader appeal with some ambivalence.
Sonic Youth
American experimental rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Core members across their most influential period included Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley; Jim O'Rourke later collaborated and is mentioned as an official member in reviews.66 Reviews
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