Sonic Youth -- "100%"
The purists out there might look down on me for this, but this is the Sonic Youth song that transformed me from someone who had kept hearing about Sonic Youth but never listened to them to someone who went out and bought their albums. And there's no denying it, this song is a masterpiece of noise and melody. It happened to coincide with the grunge revolution (meet the new boss, same as the old boss but with dirtier hair and flannel instead of spandex), but don't hold that against this song. The finely orchestrated wash of noise at the beginning of the song is spot-on, inimitable. The brief coda at the end is simulateneously something to look forward and something to dread beause it signals the end of a short but nearly perfect track. Play on repeat.
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