POLL YR. IDOLS: The official SONIC YOUTH RESULTS thread!

yeah, for the first four songs or so, I was like, "okay, yeah, shoegaze" and then it turned into something quite a bit more fierce...!

haha this is great. "this song is called 'Sister'...::plays unaccompanied guitar for a few seconds, stops:: oh, Steve, you wanna start it?"

dangit, i wanna watch these, but am beat. maybe i will watch them psychically while i sleep.

that sounds like a good premise for a pk dick book to be adapted into an sy song

do contendroids dream of electric guitars?

^underrated display names ship won't use

Everybody ready?
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100. Secret Girl
Evol, 1986
(50 points, 4 votes)

woah, top 100!

question: are you gonna do a Spotify playlist of the songs in the countdown as we go, or will you leave that for someone else to do? (i'd volunteer myself, but i'm gonna be working a lot this week and probably wouldn't update it very promptly)

I don't use Spotify, but I'm sure someone else will volunteer.

Also, I'm not going to post YouTube videos with the entries, but I highly encourage everyone to post relevant clips!

Secret Girl had such a huge impact on me.

Ha, I wonder if I gave "Secret Girl" half its points. I've always loved it. All the percussive sounds in the first half are them whacking muted guitar strings with a lot of reverb, right?

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OK, watching a couple of live clips, I think they were playing with a tape. Does anyone know the source? A horror film soundtrack? Actual sound collage?

Yes! Secret Girl made it! Voted for it.

IMO Secret Girl >>> Providence

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99. Saucer-Like
Washing Machine, 1995
(52 points, 3 votes)

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98. Paper Cup Exit
Sonic Nurse, 2004
(55 points, 4 votes)

ATL was the first SY album I disliked. I even gave the CD away. I like "hoarfrost", "sunday" and "hits of sunshine" but the album was a bit of a chore for me to listen to. I guess I should listen to it again, its been a long while. Whats is it that everyone loves about it?

"Saucer-Like" is a good song that always kinda gets lost in the shuffle for me, nice to see it get a little shine

If PCE made it, Lee is going to rampage the poll.

Sweet that "Saucer Like" made it - that was one of my votes.

It took me to cotton to ATL and I never really LOVED it - there were a few songs I liked way more than others, and I remember transporting for and catching overlap with SYR songs. It never became a real favorite overall, but it's special in the sense that a) it dropped during the summer I stayed I'm my college town, between junior and senior years, b) I saw SY touring it and they were great, and c) the killer moments on it, like some of the gently psychedelic tilts on "Sunshine," are absolutely sublime even now.

NYCG&F is the first/only SY I sold almost back almost right away.

I thought ATL was amazing the first time I heard it (I can remember I'd just got a new stereo at the time and it was one of the first things I played) but after a few listens the handful of annoying filler tracks started to grate. I still think it's a pretty good album because the highs are really good but it's not first-tier SY by any means. I'd probably put it on a par with Washing Machine.

Really surprised Goo didn't make the top ten albums.

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97. Computer Age
The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, 1989
(57 points, 4 votes)

(whisper it) Washing Machine is actually maybe my favourite SY of the albums I've heard (Evol / Daydream Nation / Dirty / WM / A Thousand Leaves / Murray Street / Sonic Nurse).

Washing Machine contains both my favourite and least-favourite SY songs.

WM is like 80% great, which is a winner in my book - it made my top 5 albums ballot

I think I like how bass-driven it feels. Someone said upthread that it carried over some of the "bluesy" quality of EJST&NS - is that an accurate description? Maybe i should check that album out.

Love that cover of "Computer Age"; v.appropriate for SY's uh curation instincts or w/e that they'd cover off Trans before the 80s had ended.

I'm a pretty sporadic fan of SY but I voted "Computer Age" super high (#3?). Waaaaay better than the original, it seems built for SY: Moore's voice on the sing-songy "weeks and months & years" parts is my favorite vocal of his, against the squall.

Yeah, without your vote it would have been #130 or so.

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96. The Neutral
Rather Ripped, 2006
(58 points, 4 votes)

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95. Pattern Recognition
Sonic Nurse, 2004
(60 points, 5 votes)

i'm loving the photos!!!

"Pattern Rec" was one of my votes, one of the few tracks from that album that i actually love

did we ever do a pavement poll like this one?

it was one of the first, actually: PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL rEsULtS!!!

"Pattern Recognition" smokes

I hope I Love You Golden Blue gets in.

"The Neutral" one of mine. So is "Paper Cup Exit."

i am kicking myself for missing that pavement poll

praying "Becuz" places somewhere in the top 100

i'm loving the photos!!!

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, May 13, 2013 5:41 AM (12 minutes ago)

yeah, me too. nice work, ac.

Pattern Recognition is the first one of mine to place. One of the songs I rediscovered while listening to the albums the last couple of weeks. I think at the time Sonic Nurse was released I kept going straight to "Unmade Bed" and thus never gave this one a fair chance.

cannot forgive the word "coolhunter". will fight to the death. i cringe at it like the "what becomes a mirrorshade most?" line in g-force. cyberpunk not kind to SY.

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94. Little Trouble Girl
Washing Machine, 1995
(60 points, 6 votes)

i didn't vote for this, but nice to see it's getting respect. dug it heavily at the time of WM's release but ultimately there's something "gimmicky" about it, which is (maybe) why it didn't rate my ballot in comparison with the rest of the discography.

"Little Trouble Girl" is a song i always kind of overlook as not a particular favorite but when i actually listen to it and think about it i'm like damn, that is a unique song. so many Kim Gordon songs nobody else in the world could have written.

i think kim will win this tracks poll, and handily.

didn't vote for "little trouble girl" but i do love it. almost a lullaby, if a creepy one.

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93. Anagrama
SYR 1, 1997
(60 points, 8 votes)

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