As part of my continuing down the Rolling Stone top 500 albums of all time I just finished listening to Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth #329 on their list.
What can I say other than it is a Sonic Youth album. I have never really listened to them much. I owned one of their albums, Sister, which I liked better than this one, but it was never an album I was crazy about either. This one currently falls into the 40's for me with albums like Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins and Between the Buttons by the Rolling Stones.
If you've never listened to Sonic Youth this is very reprsentational of what I know of their stuff and allmusic.com picks it as their best album, but personally besides the song Kool Thing there is nothing in their stuff that really jumps out to me.