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oliver____
great album. steve is great. the guitars here are very unique, this soft fuzzy-pop sound only appeared like this again on a thousand leaves. unfortunetly it doesn't seem to be any information about what pedal gear they were using at this time
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Electrobankkk
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/eq/gear.html you can find something here. I'm sure that Thurston didn't use anything, because at that time he wasn't really into effects and considered them as some kind of "deviation" and relied on amps
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oliver____
yeah this website is great. the info they have on the guitars is really good. but about the pedals most of the information is from 87 and forward. but i think that at 84~85 they werent really using much pedals, probably not using any stuff at all. on the gila monster jamboree video https://youtu.be/dQLl9URnfm0 you cant really see any pedals in sight, and in the 'i love her all the time' performance you can even see lee tweaking some knobs at the amp. its crazy how they were just relying on explosive volume for distortion
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Electrobankkk
Yeah! During that time they did not have much money, so they had shitty guitars, which couldn't handle standart tuning, so they started experimenting with tunings. And IMHO this is very important - their tunings!!! They are drony and abrasive
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oliver____
the tunings experiment also came from glenn branca influence; lee played in some of his most important albums and thurston played some performances with him. he also didnt used any pedals and relied on explosive volumes for droning sounds and used a lot of amp feedback, big influence for sonic youth sound
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SwingBreed
reminds of my best friend and platonic soulmate and musical partner. This was one of the first albums we ever connected over.
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c0nfusedTurtle
I even hated Daydream Nation at first, but after listening to this one, everything clicked
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MisterJunior
The beginning of Sonic Youth's more normal -- and most widely acclaimed -- period. I'll probably have some SY fans wanting to burn me at the stake for saying so, but I personally enjoy Bad Moon Rising, EVOL and Sister a lot more than Daydream Nation, and that's just from the 80s. But anyway, I don't want to make this about slagging Daydream Nation; EVOL is less noisy/experimental than what came before, but still pretty far from what was considered mainstream rock in those days. Or what's considered mainstream rock these days, I suppose. "Star Power" and "Expressway to Yr. Skull" are terrific, hypnotic pieces; "In the Kingdom #19" is a noisy, clattering track with weird spoken word lyrics and great bass courtesy of Mike Watt and "Green Light" is one of the better riff-rockers they'd done til this point or would ever do, IMO, and I also really dig the opening "Tom Violence." Lots of great stuff here, toeing the line between accessibility and experimentation nicely.
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