Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Reissue

Pitchfork gives the reissue a 10.0 and says:

I don't expect to hear too many complaints about the rating above. Daydream Nation is a great uniter: You'd be hard pressed to find many fans of indie rock who don't have some love for this record. That's partly because this record is great, sure-- that's one boring reason-- but it's also because this record is one of a handful that helped shape the notion of what American indie rock can potentially mean. It's almost a tautology: Indie fans love Daydream Nation because loving stuff like Daydream Nation is part of how we define what indie fans are.

There's something to that circular logic but not a lot. I sometimes liked this record, and I definitely liked the people who liked it, but I never loved it, nor do I think it defines everything that's come after it in the last 19 years. For some, indie rock is becoming defined by nostalgia for skate culture, slackerisms and Dinosaur Jr. And the ironies of Sonic Youth's lost youth were already being played out when Goo hit the shelves. To celebrate Daydream Nation is really to celebrate ourselves. For we too were once young, raw, unformed, energetic, ineloquent and direction-less. It is the sound of a million Converse high-tops with nothing to do and nowhere to go. There was never any danger of a teenage riot because in the world of Sonic Youth nothing is really at stake, and there's nothing to rebel against except our own sleepy complacency.