Sonic Youth Lyrics


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From the Album The Eternal (2009) (buy at amazon.com)

Sacred Trickster
Anti-Orgasm
Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)
Antenna
What We Know
Calming The Snake
Poison Arrow
Malibu Gas Station
Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn
No Way
Walkin Blue
Massage The History
Pay No Mind


From the Album The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities (2006) (buy at amazon.com)
The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities
Fire Engine Dream
Fauxhemians
Razor Blade
Blink
Campfire
Loop Cat
Kim's Chords
Beautiful Plateau
Three Part Sectional Love Seat
Queen Anne Chair
The Diamond Sea (Alt. Ending)


From the Album Rather Ripped (2006) (buy at amazon.com)
Rather Ripped
Reena
Incinerate
Do You Believe In Rapture?
Sleepin' Around
What A Waste
Jams Run Free
Rats
Turquoise Boy
Lights Out
The Neutral
Pink Steam
Or


From the Album Sonic Nurse (2004) (buy at amazon.com)
Sonic Nurse
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Dripping Dream
Mariah Carey And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Stones
Dude Ranch Nurse
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
I Love You Golden Blue
Peace Attack


From the Album Murray Street (2002) (buy at amazon.com)
Murray Street
The Empty Page
Disconnection Notice
Rain On Tin
Karen Revisited
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Plastic Sun
Sympathy For The Strawberry


From the Album NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) (buy at amazon.com)
NYC Ghosts & Flowers


From the Album SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (1999) (buy at amazon.com)
SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century
Edges
Six (3rd Take)
Six For New Time
+-
Voice Piece For Soprano
Pendulum Music
Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
Six (4th Take)
Burdocks
Four6
Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)
Piece Enfantine
Treatise (Page 183)


From the Album A Thousand Leaves (1998) (buy at amazon.com)
A Thousand Leaves


From the Album Washing Machine (1995) (buy at amazon.com)
Washing Machine
Becuz
Junkie's Promise
Saucer-Like
Washing Machine
Unwind
Little Trouble Girl
No Queen Blues
Panty Lies
[Untitled]
Skip Tracer
The Diamond Sea


From the Album Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star (1994) (buy at amazon.com)
Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star


From the Album Dirty (1992) (buy at amazon.com)
Dirty


From the Album Goo (1990) (buy at amazon.com)
Goo


From the Album The Whitey Album (1989) (buy at amazon.com)
The Whitey Album
Needle-Gun
[Silence]
G-Force
Platoon II
MacBeth
Me & Jill
Hendrix Cosby
Burnin' Up
Hi! Everybody
Children Of Satan
Third Fig
Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu
Addicted To Love
Moby-Dik
March Of The Ciccone Robots
Making The Nature Scene
Tuff Titty Rap
Into The Groovey
MacBeth II


From the Album Daydream Nation (1988) (buy at amazon.com)
Daydream Nation


From the Album Master=Dik (1987) (buy at amazon.com)
Master-Dik


From the Album Sister (1987) (buy at amazon.com)
Sister


From the Album Made In USA [Soundtrack] (1986) (buy at amazon.com)
Made In USA [Soundtrack]


From the Album EVOL (1986) (buy at amazon.com)
EVOL


From the Album Bad Moon Rising (1985) (buy at amazon.com)
Bad Moon Rising


From the Album Kill Yr. Idols (1983) (buy at amazon.com)
Kill Yr. Idols
Protect Me You
Shaking Hell
Kill Yr Idols
Brother James
Early American


From the Album Confusion Is Sex (1983) (buy at amazon.com)
Confusion Is Sex


From the Album Sonic Youth (1982) (buy at amazon.com)
Sonic Youth
The Burning Spear
I Dreamed I Dream
She Is Not Alone
I Don't Want To Push It
The Good And The Bad


Other Songs:
Bad Mood
Brave Men Run
Candel
Cotton Crown
Diamond Sea
Disconnection Notice
Dissapear
Hot Wire My Heart
I Dont Want To Push It
Kill Time
Rain On Tin
Shacking Hell
Shake
She Is Not Alone
Small Flowers Crack The Concrete
Superstar
Sympathy For The Strawberry
The Empty Page
Tom Violince
Tunic
Hallowed be thy name
Psycho Mafia
Electricity
My New House
Computer Age
Touch me I'm Sick
Magic Wand
That's all I know (right now)
Stalker
The Destroyed Room
Personality Crisis
The End of the End of the Ugly
Is it my Body?
Genetic
Hendrix Necro
Superstar
My Arena
Bee-bee's song
Sunday
Tabla in suburbia


Sonic Youth Info:

Sonic Youth are an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. Their most recent lineup consisted of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and Mark Ibold.

In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound.

In 2011, Ranaldo announced that the band was "ending for a while" following the separation of Moore and Gordon. -Wikipedia

From:
New York City, United States

Genres:
Alternative rock, post-punk, noise rock, experimental rock, lo-fi, indie rock, no wave

Years active:
1981-2011

Associated acts:
Ciccone Youth

Name Origin:
From combining the names of MC5 guitarist, Fred "Sonic" Smith with the word 'Youth' which was in ubiquitous use among reggae artists at the time.

Past members:
Kim Gordon -
vocals, bass guitar, guitar (1981-2011)

Thurston Moore -
vocals, guitar (1981-2011)

Lee Ranaldo -
guitar, vocals (1981-2011)

Steve Shelley -
drums (1985-2011)

Anne DeMarinis -
keyboards (1981-1982)

Richard Edson -
drums (1981-1982)

Bob Bert -
drums (1982, 1983-1985)

Jim Sclavunos -
drums (1982-1983)

Jim O'Rourke -
bass, guitars, synthesizer (1999-2005)

Mark Ibold -
bass guitar, guitar (2006-2011)


Sonic Youth Quotes:
A lot of people have pointed that out. To us, all of the albums have melody and they have pop songs in them, it’s just that sometimes, they’re done in a different way. People say, “Oh, you’re writing songs this time.” We consider the material the last couple records in the format of songs and pop music structure, but our definition of what a pop song could be is maybe wider than some people’s. Some people really compare it to DN, which is fine, but we don’t really think about that when we’re making the record. We’re just in the moment and doing what we’re doing.
Steve Shelley

I think Jim is probably too self-conscious to contribute a vocal. I think we tried to get him on a backing vocal and it was very difficult. He’s very careful not to overstep what he considers his boundaries in the group, so he’s very sensitive about that. I think it would be some time before he felt comfortable about contributing a vocal.
Steve Shelley

The deal with Enigma at that time was a one-off I think, so it wasn't like we left them; we just sort of didn't do another record with them. We started going around and meeting all the labels — it's what you do when you're going to sign — and they take you out to dinner, and we initially flew out to California because we had some pretty close ties with some people at A&M, and we really thought we were going to sign with A&M. But it while we were out there, this guy from Geffen really wants us to come by. And we really liked Geffen a lot, and at the time it was the last independent major label.
Steve Shelley

We've always been kind of involved enough in the business of making records and how it all operates; we've always been interested in it, so maybe we know more about that stuff as a group then your average musician does.
Ranaldo

I think we've always felt we could do more with the Internet. I mean we've got a pretty intense website, but there are certainly tons more things we could do with that. We have a lot of free mp3's on our site and videos and things like that, but there are definitely artists who've embraced it and are leading the way into that next chapter and what's going to happen to music and the Internet.
Steve Shelley




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