Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth > Reviews > A Teenage riot

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Advantages:	pure musical magic
Disadvantages:	a little more self editing is needed

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

With an opening track called Teenage riot how can one fault Sonic Youth. The albumn that inspired a thousand kids to form a band. Its easy to see why, 12 tracks of sprawling guitar wilderness. With vocal duties split between the three guitarists this albumn provides a brilliant mix of art noise, punk energy and sheer rock and roll passion. Is this the perfect rock and roll albumn? Well there are weak points primarily the fact that the songs could be much shorter and still convey the same message and power. Those who claim that you can't have too much of a good thing will not mind this minor fault. Despite the fact that this or any other sonic youth albumn has never made any impact on the mainstream charts, this is an albumn that everyone should have - it would make the world a better place.