100%
(DGC) Used 10-inch $25.00
Album versions of two tracks from Dirty, plus the unreleased “Genetic” and “Hendrix Necro.” #00010
4 Tunna Brix
(Goofin’) Used LP $30.00
Three Fall covers — “My New House,” “Rowche Rumble,” “Psycho Mafia,” plus the Kinks’ “Victoria.”
Anagrama
(SYR) Used LP $20.00
Four tracks that are melodious, if not always harmonious, celebrations, and instead of a reign of disorder, Sonic Youth creates beautiful, often exquisite order out of what seems like thin-air. Sealed
A Thousand Leaves
(My So-Called Records) Used 2xLP $30.00
“The album’s centerpiece, ‘Hits Of Sunshine,’ jams languidly for over eleven minutes, its pulse slower than a heartbeat, its tendrils of psychedelic guitar purposefully evading focus; the song feels like a gesture of purpose, redrawing Sonic Youth’s context, transposing them from the Lollapalooza world of alternateens and skateboard-themed MTV promos to a boho beatnik milieu that’s doubtless more where they belong. The flipside to A Thousand Leaves’ flower-hippy jamming: Kim Gordon’s contributions that push her blunt, unschooled growl to the forefront, and line some of the most combustible noise-bombs here with uncompromising, darkly witty politics. This complex, corrosive album is a transitional set without which Sonic Youth couldn’t have escaped to creative freedoms that followed.” 1998 pressing
Bull in the Heather
(DGC) Used 10-inch $40.00
The Experimental Jet Set track plus the previously unreleased “Razor Blade” and a T-vox version of “Doctor’s Orders.” Unnumbered. Silver vinyl.
Candle
(Enigma) Used 12-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Promotional EP from 1989 with a radio edit of a Daydream Nation track, plus Neil Young’s “Hey Hey My My” and “Hey Joni” recorded live in 1988, “Flower” and “Ghost Bitch” recorded live in 1985, and a conversation between Lee Ranaldo and Wharton Tiers about recording “Confusion Is Sex.”
Confusion Is Sex T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $200.00
Black with white ink. Previously washed and worn many times (super soft, label is gone, cracks in ink). From 1980s
Daydream Nation
(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00
“The interplay between Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo is stronger and more intuitive than before,” marvels All Music Guide. “Bassist Kim Gordon and drummer Steve Shelley are a powerful rhythm section that cut an impressive groove, giving the band a greater freedom to explore the space around them without getting lost. Sonic Youth make better and more satisfying use of their arsenal of alternate tunings and bent but elemental song structures, and the final product fuses their love of creatively applied noise and the sound of the electric guitar with song structures that merge elements of punk, prog, boogie, and psychedelia. A bracing, glorious experience, confirming their status as one of America’s best and most original alternative rock bands.” The complete original album is here, along with Ranaldo’s previously unreleased June 1988 demo of “Eric’s Trip”; a fluid live show constructed from various gigs from June ’88 thru March ’89; and comp tracks — the Beatles’ “Within You Without You,” Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I'm Sick,” Neil Young’s “Computer Age,” and Captain Beefheart’s “Electricity.” With liner notes by Byron Coley and Ray Farrell, lots of band photographs. Sealed
Daydream Nation
(Goofin’) Cassette $10.00
The band’s sixth full-length, widely considered to be their watershed moment, which catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wider commercial success without compromising their artistic vision.
Dirty
(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00
All 15 tracks from the original album, plus B-Sides, demos, edits, covers of Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Liner notes by Byron Coley.
Dirty
(DGC) Used 2xLP $125.00
“Merging the propulsive structures of rock (both punk and otherwise) with the gorgeous chaos of their approach to the electric guitar,” opines All Music Guide, which compares the essence of Dirty to the earlier Sister album, “Dirty is also Sonic Youth’s most overtly political album, railing against the abuses of the Reagan / Bush era, a surprising move from a band so often in love with cryptic irony. It’s a damn good rock album that ranks with Sonic Youth’s best work.” Gold promo stamp over the barcode
Disappearer
(DGC) Used 12-inch $25.00
The single edit of the Goo song, an eight-track demo version, a Neon Boys cover, and the eight-track demo / long version of “Dirty Boots.” Small promo hole in upper right corner. Sealed
Evol
(Goofin’) Cassette $10.00
“EVOL … mark[s] the true departure point of Sonic Youth’s musical evolution,” notes Pitchfork. “In measured increments, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo … bring form to the formless, tune to the tuneless, and, with the help of Steve Shelley’s drums…, [impose] melody and composition on their trademark dissonance.”
Goo
(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00
The original 11-track album remastered, plus 19 more, including: B-Sides and original eight-track demos (remixed and remastered); 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’ “I Know There's an Answer”; “Dr. Benway’s House” (the band’s contribution to William Burroughs’s Dead City Radio); and the promotion-only “Goo Interview.” Plus texts by Byron Coley and Mark Kates, and never-before-seen photos. Sealed
Goodbye 20th Century
(SYR) Used 2xLP $40.00
Works by some of the twentieth-century’s greatest composers — John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Maciunas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolf — with an all-star cast of players —William Winant, Jim O’Rourke, Kosugi, Wolff, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, Christian Marclay, and Wharton Tiers. Black vinyl
Halloween II
(Blast First) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $110.00
The first studio mix backed with a Savage Pencil engraving. From 1986.
Invito Al Ĉielo
(SYR) Used LP $15.00
Jim O’Rourke brings a touch of calm to Sonic Youth’s rock El Niño, for three tracks of blackened experimental sound. Kim Gordon kinda gurgles a bit during some of it. Clear vinyl
J’accuse Ted Hughes / Agnès B Musique
(SYR) Used LP $30.00
A previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April 2001, backed with an 18-minute soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band’s Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with the titular French clothing designer. Sealed
Made In USA
(Rhino) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Film soundtrack recorded in the late ’80s between Evol and Sister, unreleased until 1995. As highly textural incidental film music, it is, of course, more atmospheric and drier than usual. Clear vinyl. Sealed
Silver Session
(SKR) Used CD $10.00
Guitars and basses plugged in and left to roar and howl like airplanes burning over the Pacific; a sick, outmoded beatbox run through the P.A. blowing out horrendous distorted pulsations; mixed, edited, processed during the sessions for A Thousand Leaves.
Simon Werner A Disparu
(SYR) Used LP $15.00
Music for the film directed by Fabrice Gobert, re-organized and montaged and extending into new sonic realms. With DL card that gets you bonus tracks. Sealed
Sister
(Goofin’) Cassette $10.00
Another notch in the band’s move away from no wave, yet not entirely abandoning their experimental approach. The contexts Gordon, Moore, Ranaldo and Shelley create for their noisier elements are more assured, the incorporating of dissonance into traditional song structures more masterful.
Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
(SYR) LP $35.00
(SYR) Used LP $35.00
Three tracks of pure improv that, even at their noisiest, reveal Sonic Youth’s remarkable interplay and ability to sense where each other will go. No clear-cut themes, structures, or leaders, it’s simply the band without a harness.
Color of sealed LP vinyl is unknown.
Used LP is on teal vinyl
TV Shit
(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
A symphony mix of Youth Brigade’s legendary “No Song II” in four takes, with backing vocals from Mark Arm and J. Mascis. Sealed
Washing Machine
(DGC) Used 2xLP $100.00
“Easily their most adventurous, challenging, and best record since Daydream Nation,” according to All Music Guide, in which Sonic Youth “returns to the fearless exploration of their SST era, but not only are the songs more immediate than most of the material on their earlier records, the sound is warm and open. It’s not a commercial record, nor is it a pop record, but Washing Machine does encompass everything that made Sonic Youth innovators.” U.S. edition