Sonic Youth Top 10

1. "Death Valley `69"
2. "Teenage Riot"
3. "Expressway to Yr. Skull"
4. "Titanium Expose"
5. "Into the Groovey" (as Ciccone Youth)
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10.

Heh. I can't do ten. Fuck Sonic Youth.

Kool Thing and The Sprawl get points for funny Kim spoken-word bits, but the songs are meh.

1. confusion is sex
2. evol
3. washing machine
4. bad moon rising
5. daydrean nation
6. 1000 leaves
7. sister
8. murray street
9. SYR 1
10. experimental jet set

Sonic Youth OP10

but I'm bored so I'll take a stab at albums

Daydream Nation
Confusion in Sex
Bad Moon Rising
Washing Machine
Sister
Evol
Murray Street
Walls Have Ears
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Goo

I don't care so much for Dirty, EJST&NS, & A Thousand Leaves. I'll head "JesusMaryChain" off and note that, yes, my love of Confusion Is Sex is genuine and everlasting. I can't believe it but, big a fan as I am, I still have never gotten around to that Ciccone Youth album.

dammit i know there's gotta be some good stuff out there, i've only heard like twenty sonic youth songs at most. i can't stand it when they act annoying. "death valley 69" is GODAWFUL in its annoyingness!!

x+1: something off sister

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), February 13th, 2004.

Oh c'mon Alex, Sonic Youth sound just like tons of bands you like and love.

I give up I didnt even like washing machine and hated NY City Ghosts.

Loved Sonic Youth in the 80's and early 90's though.

Thought Kim Gordon was a goddess. I am such a dork

Alex probably thinks Sonic Youth is too "Arty" although Killing Joke are a bunch of arty fucks too.

Ummm...a bit of an overstatement, that. But, I'll add a sixth to my list, that being "Silver Rocket". I just lost interest with each progressive album after Goo (in fact, Good was the last one of theirs I bothered getting). I don't actively loathe Sonic Youth, I just think they completely lost their muse after a while. I liked Sonic Youth when they seemed more dangerous and weird and unduly fascinated with Punk Rock and the Manson Family murders and all Richard Kern-ish sorta stuff. Once they became poster children for the "wooly hat all year round" crowd, I just couldn't be bothered. Moreover, their music to an incalculable nosedive into cripplingly ennui-inducing territory. I blame Kim Gordon.

Some of the extended songs the later records, which seemed to be an attempt at doing something like some of those long jammed out krautrock things like Ash Ra Tempel are kind of boring without the bong. I just don't have the patience, I suppose. In a live setting those things carry over a bit better.

To me, I think the thing I miss most about the later music is it just isn't nearly as intense. Steve Shelley taps into the ghost of Keith Moon at times in the early records with all of the rolling rhythms. Later period Sonic Youth is just more laid back, spacey and kind of stoned sounding, which isn't a bad thing, but I don't think it is their strength.

There are also a handful of songs on the later albums where I think Kim's vocals are very annoying and Lee doesn't sing much. So put those as two notches against quality control.

Sonic Youth were an older band than their peers even in the 80s, not that it really matters much.

"Hold that Tiger" is a good live cd worth checking out, if the Sonic records you like are Evol through Daydream Nation.

and, after 'i wanna be your dog' (and several ac / dc songs), 'kill yr idols' has possibly thee greatest riff in the history of white boy guitar music.

A great love song, I guess.

can't think of another 5.

I agree..."Cotton Crown" is great. D'ya think the band would have turned a corner had Kim's crush on LL Cool J been fulfilled? Wasn't that right around the time she and Moore were married/became an official couple? "Kool Thing" my ass...she just wanted one of those diamond solitaire engagement rings from ole' Thurston Howl the Turd.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

4. Dirty

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

5. Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star

1.washing machine
2.daydream nation
3.murray street
4.evol
5.confusion is sex
6. sister
7. nurse
8. thousand leaves
9. goo
10. experimental jet set

1. Experimental Jet Set Trash And No Star
2. Daydream Nation
3. Dirty
4. Goo
5. Murray Street
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Washing Machine
8. The Whitey Album
9. Confusion Is Sex
10. Sonic Nurse

1. Bad Moon Rising 4-fuckin-evah
2. Sister
3. Evol
4. Daydream Nation
5. Washing Machine
6. Dirty
7. SYR 2
8. Kill Yr Idols EP
9. 1000 Leaves
10. Murray Street

People who like Goo more than Dirty are just inexplicable to me.

I haven't heard Nurse enough to decide if it should be on this list, I think not.

1. Sister
2. Daydream Nation
3. Sonic Nurse
4. A Thousand Leaves
5. Goo
6. Dirty
7. Washing Machine
8. Evol
9. Bad Moon Rising
10. Murray Street

Stopped paying attention after dirty, don't know why.

the whole album thing is boring...

1) Disappearer
2) Cross the Breeze
3) JC
4) Karen Koltrane
5) Sweet Shine
6) Schizophrenia
7) Mote
8) Female Mechanic Now on Duty
9) Green Light
10) Shoot

1. Cross The Breeze
2. Rain On Tin
3. Kissability
4. Star Power
5. Skip Tracer
6. Washing Machine
7. Plastic Sun
8. Total Trash
9. The Neutral
10. Catholic Block

1. Bad Moon Rising
2. Theresa's Sound World
3. Thurston rapping in 1991: The Year Punk Broke (oh for those fucky-wucky times)
4. Thurston interviewing Beck on 120 Minutes
5. The rest of Dirty - people say it sucks, but I like it.
6. My sister said she saw Thurston and Kim shopping at the mall in Northampton.
7. Starting Jason Lee down the long road to My Name Is Earl
8. Goo
9. Venom - Live at City Gardens 7"
10. Daydream Nation

I guess I need to hear more Sonic Youth.

1) tremens
2) can't remember

eugh

1. Murray Street
2. Washing Machine
3. Rather Ripped
4. A Thousand Leaves
5. Goo

6. everything else