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It’s hard to overstate Daydream Nation’s importance really. It’s a record that marked a new era for alternative rock, but, more than that, it helped shape the notion of what American indie rock meant. That’s because it took all the disparate strands—college rock, hardcore punk, avant-garde—and sewed them together into a double-album magnum opus.
The group’s three songwriters—Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo—were at their peak here, beginning with “Teen Age…
