“Based on the players, the title, and the time of its release, one might expect Sonic Youth's *Goodbye 20th Century* to be the band's cataclysmic soundtrack to the Last Times. Failing this vast millenarianism, we might at least expect a new *Daydream Nation* to capture the *fin de siecle* as that earlier album had lent words and noise to the wane of the Reagan years. *Goodbye 20th Century*, the fou”