This is justifiably Sonic Youth's clarion call (if not most well known song). The melody is extremely familiar and, thus, popular. Kim's little intro seems a lackadaisical and ironic refence to The Stooges song We Will Fall, as well as her personal little drawling rant. It's a very appropriate start to a song that kicks into hyper-gear once the first chord is struck. The song IS the world finding revelatory salvation through Dinosaur's J. Mascis, and the resultant anarchy that would entail. They were the harbingers of a sound that would be popularised by the album Nevermind from Nirvana a few years hence, but the Youth had their fingers on the pulse and their hands around its throat some time before the mainstream caught up. The youth of the world are continually trying to find a place for themselves in the world that will be something their active minds can adjust to and accept. That's the nub of a teenage riot: the need to mold the world to fit their dreams. Daydream Nation is the album this song starts off, an album that was ambitiously brilliant and still never fails to deliver its insights and sounds to a world in constant evolution.
This is justifiably Sonic Youth's clarion call (if not most well known song). The melody is extremely familiar and, thus, popular. Kim's little intro seems a lackadaisical and ironic refence to The Stooges song We Will Fall, as well as her personal little drawling rant. It's a very appropriate start to a song that kicks into hyper-gear once the first chord is struck. The song IS the world finding revelatory salvation through Dinosaur's J. Mascis, and the resultant anarchy that would entail. They were the harbingers of a sound that would be popularised by the album Nevermind from Nirvana a few years hence, but the Youth had their fingers on the pulse and their hands around its throat some time before the mainstream caught up. The youth of the world are continually trying to find a place for themselves in the world that will be something their active minds can adjust to and accept. That's the nub of a teenage riot: the need to mold the world to fit their dreams. Daydream Nation is the album this song starts off, an album that was ambitiously brilliant and still never fails to deliver its insights and sounds to a world in constant evolution.