Talk:Daydream Nation/Archive 1

Pitchfork
Didn't Pitchfork make this their album of the '80s? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.19.253 (talk • contribs)
 * Yep. - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Weebot (talk • contribs)
 * Rightfully so —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.168.13.114 (talk) 09:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

This album is connected!!
All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 20:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

POV quote
The following makes me cringe: "Their message of disaffected and jaded youth raised by a sole materialistic parent was welcomed by a large subculture of people who felt they had suffered during the Reagan years and had never accepted the programmed Top 40 format of FM radio of the time." --202.168.13.114 02:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't cringe, edit! Nareek 04:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

This is absolutely ridiculous for an encyclopedia entry:

"On Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth perfected their style, becoming sculptors of interweaving guitar lines that could unfold with nearly symphonic grandeur."

Almost the entire article could use a serious re-write. Cthomer5000 (talk) 07:29, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

"Album Style" silliness
The entire Album Style section reeks of individual opinion and generalizations. Someone should fix it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.145.193.225 (talk) 03:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Yeah, it's really bad. Whoever wrote it needs to be eaten. 76.180.120.161 10:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Lyrics?
In "The Sprawl", Kim sings the line "I wanted to know the exact dimensions of Hell". The entire first verse of that song comes from the novel "The Stars at Noon" by Denis Johnson. Does the second verse also come from a novel?Pooneil 21:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Providence single
Does anyone have a non-promotional copy of this single? I've never seen one and I don't think it was given a proper commercial release. The article implies that it was, however and, if no-one raises an objection, I'm going to change it. Ac@osr 16:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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FairuseBot thinks it's an image? 72.218.137.22 (talk) 03:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Genre?
While I'm not a huge fan of the labeling craze so prominent amongst music appreciators, I think it's fair to give this album one or two more appropriate genre-labels than "Noise Rock". I like noise rock myself, but isn't there something else that describes this album better? I'm simply saying this for the sake of specificity, so that one might know what to expect when they listen to this album. Nutterbutterz95 (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In the past, it has been labeled as "alternative rock," which is so overused it is useless as a genre. Noise rock still, in my opinion, gives the best sense of what to expect when listening to SY. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  14:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Article title doesn't obey convention
This page doesn't follow the convention of having a category tag in the title, ie should be "Daydream Nation (album)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gytterberg (talk • contribs) 18:30, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The (album) has nothing to do with categorization, it is only necessary for purposes of disambiguation if there is another article with the same title, i.e., a song, a book, a movie, etc. As this is not the case, there is no need for the (album) to be used.  In any case, if there were another article, a good claim could be made that the album is the primary topic, and the disambiguation still would not be necessary. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  19:07, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 14:38, 1 May 2016 (UTC)