Sonic Youth

   
Artist: Sonic Youth

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Indie
   ROck: Alternative
   Experimental
   Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Rather Ripped

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Goo Deluxe Edition (Disc 2)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


   
 Goo Deluxe Edition (Disc 1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Sonic Nurse

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Dirty (Deluxe Edition)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 19


   
 Murray Street

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


   
 Live in Lille

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Kali Yug Express

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


   
 NYC Ghosts and Flowers

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 8


   
 Silver Session for Jason Knuth

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 A Thousand Leaves

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 SYR 2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroo

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 3


   
 SYR 1: Anagrama

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 4


   
 Listen!

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Washing Machine [VINYL]

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Screaming Fields Of Sonic Love

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 17


   
 Made In USA

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 23


   
 Live at the George (07.04.1995)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 Confusion Is Sex - Kill Yr. Idol

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 Bad Moon Rising

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14


   
 Be My Sisiter In Death

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 18


   
 Whore's Moaning Maxi-Single

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 5


   
 Live at Roskilde 07-01-93

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 7


   
 Be My Sister In Death

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 18


   
 Splitting The Atom

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 13


   
 Happiness Is A Warm Gun

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 18


   
 Dirty

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 15


   
 100% A Kool Thing

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


   
 Goo demos

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 Dirty Boots

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 6


   
 Goo

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peel Session

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 4


   
 Peel Sessions on October 19, 1988

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 4


   
 Daydream Nation

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12


   
 Bright (Live @ Metro Club Chicago 1988-05-11)

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 13


   
 Sister

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 11


   
 Who Ate The Cracklin Oat Bran

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 17


   
 EVOL

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


   
 Walls Have Ears (Bootleg)

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 17


   
 Flower (Censored) (Blast First)

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 2


   
 Flower (Blast First)

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 2


   
 Anarchy On St. Mary's Place

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 13


   
 Sonic Death: Early Sonic 1981-1983

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 1


   
 Confusion Is Sex-Kill Yr. Idols

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 13


   
 Sonic Youth EP

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 5


   
 The Diamond Sea EP

   Year:    
Tracks: 3


   
 Rarities, Vol II

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Rarities, Vol I

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 French (EP)

   Year:    
Tracks: 3

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Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of resistance American rock candy in the '80s. Where generation R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were clean conventional in terms of song construction and air, Sonic Youth began their vocation by abandoning whatsoever pretence of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavy from the free morpheme noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance prowess esthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what disturbance meant inside rock'n'roll & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were elysian directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave. Instead, their dissonance, feedback, and alternate tunings created a new transonic landscape, one that redefined what rock guitar could do. Their trio of independent late-'80s records -- EVOL, Babe, Daydream Nation -- became touchstones for a genesis of indie bikers world Health Organization either replicated the interference or reinterpreted it in a more than toothsome setting. As their vocation progressed, Sonic Youth grew more palatable as advantageously, as their more free form songs began to feel like compositions and their shorter works began to rock harder. During the '90s, about American indie bands, and many British underground bands, displayed a laboured debt to Sonic Youth, and the group itself had become a pop cultus band, with each of its albums charting in the Top century.


Such winner was unthinkable when guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo formed Sonic Youth with bassist Kim Gordon in 1981. Moore had exhausted his childhood in Bethel, CT; Ranaldo was from Long Island. Both guitarists arrived in Manhattan during the stature of the New York-based post-punk no wave move, and began playing with the van composer Glenn Branca, whose dissonant, guitar-based music provided the basis for a great deal of Sonic Youth's early music. Moore's girlfriend Gordon had been active in the avant and no wave scenes for some time, and the couple helped stage the "Racket Festival" in which the band made its bouncy debut during the summertime of 1981. At the time, Sonic Youth also featured keyboardist Anne DeMarinis and drummer Richard Edson. DeMarinis left wing the ring presently later on, and the quartette recorded its eponymic debut EP, which was released on Branca's Neutral Records the next year. During 1983, Edson left wing the ring to pursue an playing career and he was replaced by Bob Bert, wHO drummed on the group's debut album, Confusion Is Sex (1983). The band supported the album with its number 1 European circuit. Later that year, the mathematical group released the EP Kill Yr Idols on the German Zensor tag.


Early in 1984, Moore attempted to land the band a contract with the British indie label Doublevision, just the label spurned the demos. Paul Smith, one of the owners of Doublevision, decided to figure Blast First Records in purchase order to release Sonic Youth records. Soon, he received a statistical distribution handle from the hip U.K. indie label Rough Trade, and the band had its commencement mark with stiff distribution. During all these record mark negotiations in 1984, the cassette-only live record album Sonic Death: Sonic Youth Live was released on Ecstatic Peace. Bad Moon Rising, the group's first record album for Blast First, was released in 1985 to strong reviews end-to-end the metro music compact. The album was markedly different from their earlier releases -- it was the starting time criminal record they made that incorporated their dissonant, feedback-drenched experimentations inside comparatively straightforward pop song structures. Following the spill of the Last Valley '69 EP, Bert was replaced by Steve Shelley, wHO became the group's lasting drummer.


Bad Moon Rising had attracted substantial attention passim the American underground, including some offers from major labels. Instead, Sonic Youth decided to sign with SST, home base of Hüsker Dü and Black Flag, releasing EVOL in 1986. With EVOL, the grouping a became fixture on college wireless, and its position grew significantly with 1987's Sister, which was heavy praised by mainstream publications care Rolling Stone. The group's profile increased further with the 1988 Ciccone Youth position visualize The Whitey Album, which was a facetiously tribute to Madonna and other parts of mainstream bulge out culture. The band's true breakthrough was the double-album Daydream Nation. Released on Enigma Records, Moon Nation was a circuit de force that was hailed as a masterpiece upon its fall 1988 release, and it generated a college wireless reach with "Teen Riot." Though the album was widely praised, Enigma suffered from poor statistical distribution and finally failure, which meant the record album now and then wasn't in stores. These factors contributed heavily to the band's decision to move to the major tag DGC in 1990.


Signing a contract that gave them complete creative control, as well as letting them function as pseudo-A&R reps for the label, Sonic Youth accomplished a case in point for alternative bands moving to major league during the '90s, proving that it was possible to preserve indie credibility on a major label. Released in the fall of 1990, Sludge, the band's number 1 major-label album, boasted a more than focused well-grounded, even so it didn't forsake the group's noise esthetics. The result was a college radio set hit, and the group's starting time album to crack the Top one C. Neil Young invited Sonic Youth to opened for him on his sports stadium tour for Ragged Glory, and though they failed to make headway all over a lot of the rocker's audience, it represented their number one major incursion into the mainstream; it also helped make Young a cult figure inside the alternative circles during the '90s. For their second major-label record album, Dirty, Sonic Youth attempted to replicate the overemotional, square sound of grease bikers Mudhoney and Nirvana. The dance band had been supporting those iI Seattle-based groups for respective geezerhood (and had released a split single with Mudhoney and brought Nirvana to DGC Records), and patch the songs on Marked-up were just grease, it was more than pop-oriented and accessible than before Sonic Youth records. Produced by Butch Vig, wHO as well produced Nirvana's Nevermind, Pestiferous became an substitute hit upon its summer 1992 release, generating the new rock hits "100%," "Youth Against Fascism," and "Carbohydrate Kane." Sonic Youth promptly became hailed as one of the godfathers of the alternative rock that had become the most popular form of sway music in the U.S., and Pestiferous became a strike along with the exposure, eventually going gold.


Sonic Youth over again worked with Vig for 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, which entered the U.S. charts at 34 and the U.K. charts at figure decade, qualification it their highest-charting album of all time. The heights chart position was proof of their popularity during the late deuce days, as it received emphatically mixed reviews and quickly fell mastered the charts. Later in 1994, Moore and Gordon -- wHO had married several long time before -- had their number one tiddler, a daughter named Coco Haley. Sonic Youth in agreement to headline 1995's American Lollapalooza parcel circuit, victimisation the earnings to establish a young studio. Following the pass completion of the circuit, Sonic Youth released Wash Machine, which received their strongest reviews since Stargaze Nation. After a series of experimental EPs issued on their own SYR label, they resurfaced in 1998 with the full-length A Thousand Leaves. NYC Ghosts & Flowers, which featured Jim O'Rourke as a producer and player, followed in the spring of 2000. O'Rourke became a full member of the radical, touring with the isthmus and appearance on and producing 2002's Sir James Augustus Murray Street. The five-piece Sonic Youth returned in 2004 with Transonic Nurse. However, the undermentioned year O'Rourke gone the band to engage a career as a photographic film music director; late in 2005, Sonic Youth issued SYR 6, a transcription of a benefit concert for the Anthology Film Archives that the group played with percussionist Tim Barnes. 2006 saw the release of Rather Ripped, an record album that fused the high, sprawl feel of the band's late deuce albums with a more stripped sound.





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