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Sonic Youth?s Daydream Nation
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Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #313320 in Books
- Published on: 2007-03-20
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .36" h x 4.78" w x 6.58" l, .31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 172 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Matthew Stearns is a writer of considerable moxie, possessed if a thoroughly unhinged and seemingly endless thesaurus, and supremely convinced of this album's majesty....
After painting the scene for us wherein the band recorded the album (hot New York summer, cramped recording space, a legendarily experimental band at a crux in their career and looking to expand, explosively if necessary) Stearns methodically walks readers through the album itself. Song by song. Line by line. Moment by moment. It's a revelatory construct, particularly for a record as deeply layered in influences and abstractions as Daydream Nation is. Along the way, Stearns gives a helpful overview of the band members themselves (most of whom he appears to have interviewed), annotating how their omnivorous cultural feedings and art-school backgrounds created such an ambition and uncategorizeable piece of work.
...Stearns' words stick. Few writers could get away with lines like "We're all teenagers at the mercy of rock's beauty and elan." Amen, brother."- Chris Barsanti, popmatters.com
“Matthew Stearns is a writer of considerable moxie, possessed if a thoroughly unhinged and seemingly endless thesaurus, and supremely convinced of this album’s majesty….
After painting the scene for us wherein the band recorded the album (hot New York summer, cramped recording space, a legendarily experimental band at a crux in their career and looking to expand, explosively if necessary) Stearns methodically walks readers through the album itself. Song by song. Line by line. Moment by moment. It’s a revelatory construct, particularly for a record as deeply layered in influences and abstractions as Daydream Nation is. Along the way, Stearns gives a helpful overview of the band members themselves (most of whom he appears to have interviewed), annotating how their omnivorous cultural feedings and art-school backgrounds created such an ambition and uncategorizeable piece of work.
…Stearns’ words stick. Few writers could get away with lines like “We’re all teenagers at the mercy of rock’s beauty and elan.” Amen, brother.”- Chris Barsanti, popmatters.com
About the Author
Matthew Stearns is a regular contributor to Resonance magazine. A onetime graduate student in comparative literature, he has also held down jobs as a seasonal construction worker in Alaska, black-market babysitter in Paris, bookseller, editorial assistant, and record store clerk.
