Daydream Nation
Studio album by Sonic Youth
Released	October 1988 June 12, 2007 (Deluxe Edition)
Recorded	July 1988 – August 1988 at Greene Street Recording, New York City
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	70:47
Label	Enigma (U.S.) Blast First (U.K.)
Producer(s)	Nick Sansano Sonic Youth
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone 1/22/97
Sonic Youth chronology
Sister (1987)	Daydream Nation (1988)	Goo (1990)

Daydream Nation is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1988. It was a success, and a number of publications, including Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, and Pitchfork Media^[1] have hailed it as one of the best albums of the 1980s. As a result, it is regarded as a milestone of 1980s alternative music. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation album cover This is an album cover. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Enigma Records was a popular rock and alternative record label in the 1980s. ... Blast First is a noted sublabel of one time indie Mute Records. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Nick Sansano is an American record producer, engineer, and musician. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (2006) Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics[1] His first reviews were published by Esquire in 1967. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... Sister is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1987 on SST Records. ... Goo is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ...

The album marks Sonic Youth's first attempts at shifting from their unsettling noise-rock roots to a more subtle combination of guitar experimentation and traditional rock. The album cover itself invokes this transition, with the abstract 1983 Gerhard Richter painting Kerze ("Candle"). The back cover art is a similar Richter painting, painted in 1982. Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. ...

Nevertheless, initial sales were poor, partly because Enigma Records, Sonic Youth's American record label, went out of business not long after the record's release. After a period of being out of print, Daydream Nation was reissued by DGC in 1993, which had signed the band largely on the strength of the crossover critical acclaim reaped by the album. One single, "Teen Age Riot", subsequently charted on the Billboard Music Charts in the US, and it peaked at #20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMGs Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

In 2007, Sonic Youth will undertake a series of performances of the album in its entirety.

On June 12, 2007, a two-CD/four-LP deluxe edition of the album will be released. It will contain live versions of every track on the album, plus studio recordings of some cover songs.

Album style

On Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth perfected their style, becoming sculptors of interweaving guitar lines that could unfold with nearly symphonic grandeur. The album quickly became an indie rock standard, containing some of the band's best-known songs, such as "Teen Age Riot", "Hey Joni", and "Candle." Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...

"The Sprawl" was inspired by the works of science fiction writer William Gibson, who used the term to refer to a future mega-city stretching from Boston to Atlanta. The lyrics for the first verse were lifted from the novel The Stars at Noon, by Denis Johnson. "'Cross the Breeze" features some of Kim's most intense singing, with such lyrics as, "Let's go walking on the water/ Now you think I'm Satan's daughter/ I wanna know, should I stay or go?/ I took a look into your hate/ It made me feel very up to date." "Eric's Trip" has lyrics pertaining to Eric Emerson's LSD-fueled monologue in the Andy Warhol movie Chelsea Girls. In William Gibsons fiction, the Sprawl is a name for the BAMA, Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, and it is the urban environment taken to the extreme. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author resident in Canada since 1968. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called hobby horse, see Denis Johnson of London. ... Eric Emerson (died 1975) was an associate of American artist Andy Warhol and an actor in several of his films. ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ... Chelsea Girls is a 1966 film directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. ...

"Hey Joni" is titled as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" and to Joni Mitchell. It is sung by Lee Ranaldo, and has surrealist lyrics such as, "Shots ring out from the center of an empty field/ Joni's in the tall grass/ She's a beautiful mental jukebox, a sailboat explosion/ A snap of electric whipcrack." This article contains a trivia section. ... Hey Joe is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard, and as such has been performed in a multitude of musical styles. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a noted Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or...

The album's title comes from a lyric in "Hyperstation". Provocatively-sleazy closing track "Eliminator Jr." was titled thusly because the band felt it sounded like a cross between Dinosaur Jr and Eliminator-era ZZ Top. It was given part "z" in the "Trilogy" both as a reference to ZZ Top and to the fact that is was the closing piece on the disc. Dinosaur Jr are an American alternative rock band. ... ZZ Top is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. ...

The album was nearly titled Tonight's the Day, from a lyric in "Candle." This was also meant as a reference to Neil Young's LP Tonight's the Night. This article is about the 1975 Neil Young album. ...

Distancing itself from most of the album's rock sensibilities is the musique concrete piece "Providence", which displays some of the band's more experimental tendencies. The song consists of a piano solo by Thurston Moore recorded at his mother's house using a Walkman, the sound of an amp overheating and a pair of telephone messages left by Mike Watt, calling for Moore from a Providence, Rhode Island payphone, dubbed over one another. Oddly, it was released as a single, and a single-shot music video was even filmed for it. Musique concrète is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ... Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ... Sony Walkman Official Logo (2000 — current) Various products of the Walkman line Walkman is a popular Sony brand used to market its portable audio players, and is synonymously used to refer to the original Walkman portable personal stereo player and as a generic term for similar devices from other manufacturers. ... Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is a bass guitarist, singer and songwriter, best-known for co-founding the punk rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited Iggy Pop & The Stooges. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City, The Divine City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence Government  - Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area  - City  20. ...

Videos were also shot for "Teen Age Riot", "Silver Rocket" and "Candle".

Acclaim

Daydream Nation was ranked 14 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". In 1989, it was ranked #45 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 329 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2006, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2006, the album ranked as the highest rated alternative album of 1988 on Sputnikmusic.^[2] It is also listed as Pitchfork's top album of the 1980's ^[3] Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... This article is about the magazine. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Promotional Book Cover The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ... The Great Hall interior. ... The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings which are culturally, historically or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States. ... Sputnikmusic is an website and online community archiving user-submitted compact disc reviews and music-related aids articles. ...

Track listing

Original release

All songs written by Sonic Youth.

1. "Teen Age Riot" (lyrics/vocals Thurston, Kim intro vocals) – 6:57
2. "Silver Rocket" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:47
3. "The Sprawl" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 7:42
4. "'Cross the Breeze" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 7:00
5. "Eric's Trip" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 3:48
6. "Total Trash" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 7:33
7. "Hey Joni" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 4:23
8. "Providence" (vocals Mike Watt) – 2:41
9. "Candle" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:58
10. "Rain King" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 4:39
11. "Kissability" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:08
12. "Trilogy:" – 14:02
    • a) "The Wonder" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:15
    • b) "Hyperstation" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 7:13
    • z) "Eliminator Jr." (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:37

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Vinyl etchings (Enigma release)

• Side 1: "Rock and Roll for president"
• Side 2: "Star strangled Bangles"
• Side 3: "Destroy all record labels, part 2 - high, end"
• Side 4: "No sleep till Rhino"

Liner notes in the 1993 reissue were penned by Jutta Koether.

Deluxe edition

Disc one

The original album

See above for track listing

Bonus demo track

15. Eric's Trip (home demo)

Disc two

Live Daydream

1. "The Sprawl"
2. "'Cross the Breeze"
3. "Hey Joni"
4. "Silver Rocket"
5. "Kissability"
6. "Eric's Trip"
7. "Candle"
8. "The Wonder"
9. "Hyperstation"
10. "Eliminator Jr."
11. "Providence"
12. "Teen Age Riot"
13. "Rain King"
14. "Totally Trashed"
15. "Total Trash"

Cover songs

16. "Within You Without You" (Harrison)
17. "Touch Me I'm Sick" (Mudhoney)
18. "Computer Age" (Young)
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Clips

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Personnel

• Lee Ranaldo – guitar, vocals
• Kim Gordon – bass guitar, vocals
• Thurston Moore – guitar, vocals, piano
• Steve Shelley – drums
• Sonic Youth – producer
• Nick Sansano – producer, engineer
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• Dave Swanson – assistant engineer
• Michael Lavine – photography
• Matt Tritto – assistant engineer

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Album charts

Charting singles

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References

1. ^ Pitchfork review [1]
2. ^ Highest Rated Albums: 1988 (HTML). Sputnikmusic. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.
3. ^ Top 100 Albums of the 1980s (HTML). Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.

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External links

• Daydream Nation at SonicYouth.com Discography
• Daydream Nation, Noise and J-Pop at CultOfPop.com