RSS feedOne of my favourite albums of all time, well probably at least in the top 5, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation has been added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress (scroll to the bottom). To quote the Sonic Youth site:
Sonic Youth’s 1988 album Daydream Nation has been added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Daydream Nation now joins Emile Berliner’s ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and ‘I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man’ by Muddy Waters (among other recordings) in the collection mandated by Congress ‘to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.’
While it was ground breaking at the time, and was a significant landmark in the journey to 1991, the year that punk broke, who would have thought it back in 1988? And there was much rejoicing.
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