Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hnsker Dn 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 with...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Hailed by Rolling Stone as one of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time" and honored as one of the first 200 albums chosen by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Recording Registry for their historic, cultural or aesthetic importance, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation will be issued in a two-disc Deluxe Edition with bonus tracks, new liner notes, and unseen band photos on June 12, 2007. Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth's sixth albu [ read more ]
4xLP $36.99
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VINYL FORMAT. 2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinos [ read more ]
LP $14.99
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2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) recomm [ read more ]
CD $16.99
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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! After a solid twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since their own genre-breaking "Daydream Nation" in 1988. "Sonic Nurse" is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, together since 1981. Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death with wild and colorful cover art by renowned artist Richard Prince from his notorious Nurse Paintings series. Check out the first track, "Pattern Recognition," an [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Original recordings re-mastered for total high-energy Sonic Attack! This Deluxe Edition 4 LP box set in beautiful packaging adds numerous B-sides and 11 never-before-released rehearsal recordings to the original album. Not to mention, a booklet with essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley plus more. Now, more than ever, get Dirty. Its yer right!
4xLP $38.99
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A band-chosen collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems. The album brings together tracks from throughout the band's career - focusing on tracks previously available only on vinyl, limited-release compilations, or as b-sides to international singles. Remastered here for the first time, it's a chance for fans to complete their Sonic Youth collection with pristine versions of tracks they'd been going nuts trying to find on their own. They asked for it... and now they're getting it.
CD $13.99
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VINYL FORMAT. After a solid twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since their own genre-breaking "Daydream Nation" in 1988. "Sonic Nurse" is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, together since 1981. Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death with wild and colorful cover art by renowned artist Richard Prince from his notorious Nurse Paintings series. Check out the first track, "Pattern Recognition," and hear Kim Gordon ta [ read more ]
2xLP $18.99
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VINYL FORMAT. The Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo includes thirty one songs: the original album remastered; remixed and remastered versions of the band's 8-track demos; the album outtake "Lee #2" (previously unheard with vocals); rehearsal outtakes "Tuff Boyz" and "Isaac"; "Can Song" (a never-before-heard demo of "The Bedroom"); the Beach Boys cover "I Know There's an Answer"; "Dr. Benway's House," the band's contribution to William Burroughs' Dead City Radio; B-sides "The Bedroom" and [ read more ]
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LIMITED EDITION VINYL!Virtually every album Sonic Youth has released since the underrated "Goo" has been hailed as a return to form. However, "Murray Street," their second collaboration with Jim O'Rourke (and their first with him as a full member of the group), not only recalls their past glories but explores new territory. Freed from the trendy agendas that marred "A Thousand Leaves" and "NYC Ghosts & Flowers," the group revisits the complex, transcendent guitar epics that made them underground rock he [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. Double LP hyper-deluxe HQ 180 RTI vinyl analog in heavy duty Stoughton gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves, and MP3 coupon. Initial pressing in a four panel wallet with two printed inner sleeves; one containing disc, the other a sticker and card with credits. Produced by John Agnello and the band, The Eternal not only marks Sonic Youth's return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with Geffen, but more importantly [ read more ]
2xLP $30.99
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By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs of Sister and developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art rock with the double-album Daydream Nation. Though the self-conscious sprawl of the album might appear self-indulgent on the surface, Daydream Nation is powered by a sustained vision, one that encapsulates all of the group's quirks and strengths. Alternating between tense, hypnotic instrumental passages and furious noise [ read more ]
CD $9.45
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EVOL was a major leap forward for Sonic Youth, but Sister is a masterpiece, demonstrating the group's rapidly evolving musicality. More than ever before, Sonic Youth's songs sound like actual songs, and their collages of noise, distortion, and alternate tunings are now used to provide texture and depth to the music, which is original, complex, and rewarding. Not only is there the full-throttle roar of "Tuff Gnarl," but there are shimmering layers of ambient harmonics and dissonance that are a [ read more ]
CD $9.45