Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth — album cover
№ 81 of 100

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth · 1988 · Punk / Indie

Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth (1988), № 81 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo retune every guitar in their van and play a double album about being thirty in New York. Indie rock at full mast.

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