Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation is one of the most highly regarded albums by alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was voted the best album of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media, and has subsequently been regarded as a classic.

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Alternative rock - Sonic Youth - 1980s - Pitchfork Media

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Sales were poor, however, due in part to Blast First records going out of business not long after the record's release. After a period of being out of print, Daydream Nation was reissued by DGC. One single, "Teenage Riot", charted on the Billboard Music Charts in the US, and it peaked at #20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

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Blast First - Out of print - DGC - Billboard Music Charts

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Distancing itself from most of the album's rock sensibilities is the highly unusual "Providence", which displays some of the band's more experimental tendencies. The song consists of three sections: a piano solo by Thurston Moore recorded at his mother's house using a Walkman, the sound of an amp overheating and a pair of telephone messages left by Mike Watt, calling for Moore from Providence, Rhode Island.

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Piano - Thurston Moore - Walkman - Mike Watt - Providence, Rhode Island

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The cover art is taken from one of Gerhard Richter's candle paintings.

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