1988: SONIC YOUTH
Daydream Nation
Equal parts gorgeous melody and blistering noise, the racket these NYC art-punkers kicked up on their fifth full-length has shown no signs of subsiding since then. Improbably enough, Daydream Nation actually took the Youth's singularly skewed sound mainstream; by the time their next album came out in 1990, they were signed to a major label and playing a crucial role in the nascent alt-rock movement by mentoring artists like Nirvana. (Arguably just as influential in those watershed years: the Pixies' debut LP, Surfer Rosa, also released in '88.)
ESSENTIAL TRACK ''Teen Age Riot''
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