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Dan Weiss

Dan Weiss is a freelance writer living in New Jersey.

2 thoughts on “Your Neck Is My Favorite: Sonic Youth’s A Thousand Leaves Turns 25

  • vjapple
    December 8, 2024 at 10:25 pm
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    Excellent case. A few months before this was published, I met Lee Ranaldo at a film he was presenting and I brought this album for him to sign. Lee said it was his “favorite” Sonic Youth album, and (no surprise) it’s mine too, which is why I brought it.

    For the record, I love and own nearly every studio album they released, so it’s not a mere preference for a particular stage of their career – it’s simply the one that came out on top.

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  • vjapple
    September 24, 2025 at 12:11 am
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    Nice appreciative analysis of Sonic Youth’s strongest and most artistic ’90s album. I dug a little deeper in my analysis (‘Beyond SubUrbia: A View Through the Trees’), but I think my Gen-x perspective demanded that.

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