I bought the reissue of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation yesterday and was surprised to find that when I got home and listened to it that the remastering job was, in my personal opinion, fucked. I'm glad I didn't get rid of my DGC version, which sounds great in comparison to this one. Unlike the reissues of Dirty and Goo, which seemed to be only minorly tweaked for the reissues, Daydream Nation suffers greatly from the new mix. All of the treble has been cut from the guitars, the drums have been given a flat sound, and the overall sound is for lack of a better term, "muffled." Anyone else here bought it yet that would like to share their opinions? The album itself is not in question here, I'm a huge SY fan and I rank Daydream Nation among my favorite albums.

I'm sorry to hear about the mixing jb, I know that is something that I would pick up on instantly. I'm curious as to the bonus material...is any of it worth the purchase?

It has a second disc with four cover songs and the entire album being played live at different shows throughout '88. That could be worth the price of admission. I guess it depends on how much you love SY. I'm gonna keep both my copies, the old DGC version and the new one.

p4ked

10.0 sucka

Yeah I saw that. I'm obviously not saying Daydream Nation is a bad album. In fact I was saying that it is one of my favorite albums, and it definitely deserves a 10.0. However, in his review on Pitchforkmedia, Nitsuh Abebe plainly makes the following statement which also supports my complaints: "but this kind of re-master doesn't fit the open-room feel of the original: I'd be lying if I said the crystalline brambles of guitar in these songs didn't suffer a little from being flattened out like this. (Steve Shelley's busy, subtle drumming gets a particularly raw deal.) Mild audiophiles -- or anyone attached to the feel of the original CD and LP issues -- might want to spring for the vinyl re-release."

When I found out about this (via P4k review ) I read "is louder" (paraphrased) and decided I wanted it for the vary reason the guy mentions, to make older releases sound as loud as recent ones. Then I read further into the crappy new mix Brent gave the Imagine re-release a 9.9 because he said they mixed it all wrong, I'm surprised they didn't do kinda the same. The music def. warrants the 10.0 though.

Oh, for the record the first time I got drunk was at a Sonic Youth show almost a year ago (as far as live renditions go.) They didn't cater to my drunken calls of "TEEN AGE RIOT!" but they still rather ripped it up (POSTHUMOUS LAME JOKE ALERT.)