Biography

Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• 100%

• Anagrama

• Antenna

• Anti-orgasm

• Au Café

• Blink

• Brave Men Run (in My Family)

• Brother James

• Bull In The Heather

• Candle

• Confusion Is Next

• Dans Les Bois/m. Rabier

• Death Valley '69

• Dirty Boots

• Do You Believe In Rapture?

• Dripping Dream

• Eric's Trip

• Expressway To Yr. Skull

• Fire Engine Dream

• Flower

• Free City Rhymes

• Green Light

• Hey Joni

• Hits Of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)

• I Don't Want To Push It

• I Love You Golden Blue

• Ii

• Improvisation Ajoutée

• In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader

• Incinerate

• Into The Groove(y)

• Ix

• Jams Run Free

• Jc

• Jean-baptiste Et Laetitia

• Kill Yr Idols

• Kim's Chords

• Kool Thing

• Kotton Krown

• Les Les Anges Au Piano

• Lights Out

• Little Trouble Girl

• Massage The History

• Master-dik

• Nyc Ghosts & Flowers

• Paper Cup Exit

• Pattern Recognition

• Protect Me You

• Rain On Tin

• Renegade Princess

• Schizophrenia

• Self-obsessed And Sexxee

• Shadow Of A Doubt

• Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

• Sonic Death

• Sugar Kane

• Sunday

• Sweet Shine

• Sympathy For The Strawberry

• Teen Age Riot

• Teenage Riot

• The Burning Spear

• The Diamond Sea

• The Empty Page

• Tom Violence

• Total Trash

• Tuff Gnarl

• Tunic (song For Karen)

• V

• Washing Machine

• What We Know

• Wild Flower Soul

• Wish Fulfillment

Discography

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• Simon Werner a Disparu

  247 Films / Sonic Youth Records / Syr

  2011

• The Eternal

  Matador

  2009

• Rather Ripped

  Geffen

  2006

• Hidros 3 (To Patti Smith)

  Smalltown Supersound

  2004

• Sonic Nurse

  Geffen

  2004

• In the Fishtank

  In The Fishtank / Fishtankrecords

  2002

• Murray Street

  Interscope

  2002

• NYC Ghosts & Flowers

  Geffen

  2000

• SYR 5

  Syr

  2000

• SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century

  Sonic Youth Records / Syr / Syr

  1999

• A Thousand Leaves

  DGC

  1998

• Washing Machine

  Geffen / DGC

  1995

• Live in Holland 12/27/83

  1995

• Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star

  Geffen / DGC

  1994

• Goo

  Geffen / DGC

  1990

• Sister

  DGC

  1987

• EVOL

  DGC

  1986

• Made in USA

  Rhino

  1986

• Confusion Is Sex

  ORG / Original Records Production

  1983