Sonic Youth seem to be another of those bands whose discography is very heavily represented in this list, and I'm not entirely sure it's warranted. That's not to say that any of their albums are bad, far from it. There's just not enough variety between the albums to really set them above artists with more diverse catalogues who are less represented here.
The band chose Butch Vig to produce the album. Vig was riding high on having produced Nirvana's punky-yet-polished "Nevermind", but this was apparently not why Sonic Youth chose him. Certainly, while Vig sought to tighten the band's arrangements, their music was no more "consumer-friendly" as a result of the collaboration.
There are some great things done with hard-panning the guitars to either side to really make use of the stereophonic field, and with bassist Kim Gordon experimenting with a variety of vocal sounds. Essentially this album sits in the same ranking as their others for me: good album, but kind of similar to its fellows (to my ears).
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