Sonic Youth
Biography
Sonic Youth were 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. Sonic Youth rarely rocked,...Read more
Discography
- The Eternal (2009)
- Rather Ripped (2006)
- Sonic Nurse (2004)
- Murray Street (2002)
- Nyc Ghosts And Flowers (2000)
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Pictures
Lyrics
- Contre Le Sexisme
- Female Mechanic Now On Duty
- French Tickler
- Heather Angel
- Hits Of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)
- Hoarfrost
- Karen Koltrane
- Snare, Girl
- Sunday
- The Ineffable Me
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