Sonic Youth Songs List

Uncut: 5 stars out of 5 - "...Crammed with contagious grunge-pop and deafening plectrum-grinding chaos....A must..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.100%
• 2.Swimsuit Issue
• 3.Theresa's Sound-World
• 4.Drunken Butterfly
• 5.Shoot
• 6.Wish Fulfillment
• 7.Sugar Kane
• 8.Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
• 9.Youth Against Facism
• 10.Nic Fit
• 11.On The Strip
• 12.Chapel Hill
• 13.J.C.
• 14.Purr
• 15.Creme Brulee

The Wire: Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [1998]"

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Contre le Sexisme
• 2.Sunday
• 3.Female Mechanic Now on Duty
• 4.Wild Flower Soul
• 5.Hoarfrost
• 6.French Tickler
• 7.Hits of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg)
• 8.Karen Koltrane
• 9.The Ineffable Me
• 10.Snare, Girl
• 11.Heather Angel

Rolling Stone: 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...a sardonic, wise-ass, indulgent, and totally captivating album..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 7.No Queen Blues
• 8.Panty Lies
• 9.[Untitled]
• 10.Skip Tracer
• 11.The Diamond Sea
• 1.Becuz
• 2.Junkie's Promise
• 3.Saucer-Like
• 4.Washing Machine
• 5.Unwind
• 6.Little Trouble Girl

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Ander Side Af Sonic Youth

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
• 2.Stil
• 3.Herinneringen

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he peak is the early ballad 'I Love Her All the Time' -- noisy, emotionally alive, jittery with excitement for the future."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Hallowe'en
• 2.Death Valley '69
• 3.Intro / Brave Men Run (In My Family)
• 4.I Love Her All the Time
• 5.Ghost Bitch
• 6.I'm Insane
• 7.Kat 'N' Hat
• 8.Brother James
• 9.Kill Yr Idols
• 10.Secret Girl
• 11.Flower
• 12.The Burning Spear
• 13.Expressway To Yr Skull
• 14.Making the Nature Scene

Spin: "There's plenty to admire in a mid-tempo rocker like 'Stones' or an endless groove like 'New Hampshire'..." - Grade: B-

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Pattern Recognition
• 2.Unmade Bed
• 3.Dripping Dream
• 4.Kim Gordon & The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
• 5.Stones
• 6.Dude Ranch Nurse
• 7.New Hampshire
• 8.Paper Cup Exit
• 9.I Love You Golden Blue
• 10.Peace Attack

Uncut (magazine): 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his feels like a Greatest Hits, with the ineffable 'Teenage Riot' and mystical 'Expressway To Yr Skull' taking pride of place."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 13.Mary - Christ
• 14.World Looks Red
• 15.Expressway To Yr Skull
• 16.Slow Revolution
• 1.Bull In the Heather
• 2.100%
• 3.Sugar Kane
• 4.Kool Thing
• 5.Disappearer
• 6.Superstar
• 7.Stones
• 8.Tuff Gnarl
• 9.Teenage Riot
• 10.Shadow of a Doubt
• 11.Rain On Tin
• 12.Tom Violence

Spin: "...a stairway to postmodernist heaven....finding SY and pals rifling through scores by venerable oddball composers..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 4.+ -
• 5.Voice Piece For Soprano
• 6.Pendulum Music
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
• 2.Six - (take 4)
• 3.Burdocks
• 4.Four6
• 5.Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)
• 6.Piece Enfantine
• 7.Treatise Page 183
• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Edges
• 2.Six - (take 3)
• 3.Six For New Time

Rolling Stone: 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The collection] draws largely from the twenty-first century....More ruminative than raw."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Fire Engine Dream - (previously unreleased)
• 2.Fauxhemians
• 3.Razor Blade
• 4.Blink
• 5.Campfire
• 6.Loop Cat
• 7.Kim's Chords
• 8.Beautiful Plateau
• 9.Three Part Sectional Love Seat - (previously unreleased)
• 10.Queen Anne Chair - (previously unreleased)
• 11.Diamond Sea, The - (previously unreleased, LP version with alternate ending)

Rolling Stone: Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000".

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Free City Rhymes
• 2.Renegade Princess
• 3.Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)
• 4.Small Flowers Crack Concrete
• 5.Side2Side
• 6.StreamXsonik Subway
• 7.NYC Ghosts & Flowers
• 8.Lightnin'

Rolling Stone: "...rough-cut gems of melodically thoughtful guitar futurism..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Anagrama
• 2.Improvisation Ajoutee
• 3.Tremens
• 4.Mieux: De Corrosion

Uncut: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] finds the group basking in beautiful abstraction....The group are at the top of their game here, improvising to experimental films by Stan Brakhage."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 3.Heady Jam #3
• 1.Heady Jam #1
• 2.Heady Jam #2

Uncut: 5 stars out of 5 - "...Crammed with contagious grunge-pop and deafening plectrum-grinding chaos....A must..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 19.The Destroyed Room
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Is It My Body?
• 2.Personality Crisis
• 3.The End of the End of the Ugly
• 4.Tamra
• 5.Little Jammy Thing - (7" version)
• 6.Lite Damage - (previously unreleased)
• 7.Dreamfinger - (previously unreleased)
• 8.Barracuda - (previously unreleased)
• 9.New White Kross - (previously unreleased)
• 10.Guido - (previously unreleased)
• 11.Stalker - (previously unreleased)
• 12.Moon Face - (previously unreleased)
• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.100%
• 2.Swimsuit Issue
• 3.Theresa's Sound World
• 4.Drunken Butterfly
• 5.Shoot
• 6.Wish Fulfillment
• 7.Sugar Kane
• 8.Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
• 9.Youth Against Fascism
• 10.Nic Fit
• 11.On the Strip
• 12.Chapel Hill
• 13.JC
• 14.Purr
• 15.Cr,me Br-lŠe
• 16.Stalker
• 17.Genetic
• 18.Hendrix Necro
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 13.Poet in the Pit - (previously unreleased)
• 14.Theoretical Chaos - (previously unreleased)
• 15.Youth Against Fascism - (previously unreleased)
• 16.Wish Fulfillment - (previously unreleased)

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Silver Panties
• 2.Silver Breeze
• 3.Silver Flower
• 4.Silver Wax Lips
• 5.Silver Loop
• 6.Silver Shirt
• 7.Silver Son
• 8.Silver Mirror

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Basement Contender
• 2.In & Out
• 3.Machine
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Social Static
• 2.Out & In

Sonic Youth also appears in this compilation

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.The Evil Cameraman
• 2.Photo Gallery

Rolling Stone: 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The collection] draws largely from the twenty-first century....More ruminative than raw."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Fire Engine Dream
• 2.Fauxhemians
• 3.Razor Blade
• 4.Blink
• 5.Campfire
• 6.Loop Cat
• 7.Kim's Chords
• 8.Beautiful Plateau
• 9.Three - Part Sectional Love Seat
• 10.Queen Anne Chair
• 11.Diamond Sea

Uncut: 5 stars out of 5 - "...Crammed with contagious grunge-pop and deafening plectrum-grinding chaos....A must..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.100%
• 2.Swimsuit Issue
• 3.Theresa's Sound - World
• 4.Drunken Butterfly
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Shoot
• 2.Wish Fulfillment
• 3.Sugar Kane
• 4.Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.Youth Against Fascism
• 2.Nic Fit
• 3.On The Strip
• 4.Chapel Hill
• Tracks of Disc 4
• 1.Stalker
• 2.Jc
• 3.Purr
• 4.Creme Brulee

Spin: "THE ETERNAL is the Youth's best album since 2002's MURRAY STREET -- the riots aren't teenage anymore, of course, but they're wisely messy and darker, newly rooted in a heavy hookiness akin to Mudhoney and the Wipers."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Sacred Trickster
• 2.Anti-Orgasm
• 3.Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)
• 4.Antenna
• 5.What We Know
• 6.Calming the Snake
• 7.Poison Arrow
• 8.Malibu Gas Station
• 9.Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn
• 10.No Way
• 11.Walkin Blue
• 12.Massage the History

Rolling Stone: 3.5 Stars - Very Good - Ranked #45 in Rolling Stone's '100 Greatest Albums Of The 80s' survey.

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Teen Age Riot
• 2.Silver Rocket
• 3.The Sprawl
• 4.Cross the Breeze
• 5.Eric s Trip
• 6.Total Trash
• 7.Hey Joni
• 8.Providence
• 9.Candle
• 10.Rain King
• 11.Kissability
• 12.Trilogy (The Wonder / Hyperstation / Eliminator Jr.)

Record Collector (magazine): 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t moves with stealth between loud anarchy, funky bits and subtle sound sculptures, with treated guitar, effects and general madness cropping up all over the place."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Th me De J r mie
• 2.Alice Et Simon
• 3.Les Anges Au Piano
• 4.Chez Yves (Alice Et Clara)
• 5.Jean - Baptiste La Fen tre
• 6.Th me De Laetitia
• 7.Escapades
• 8.La Cabane Au Zodiac
• 9.Dans Les Bois / M. Rabier
• 10.Jean - Baptiste Et Laetitia
• 11.Th me De Simon
• 12.Au Caf
• 13.Th me D Alice

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Winner's Blues (Side A)
• 2.Bull In The Heather (Side A)
• 3.Starfield Road (Side A)
• 4.Skink (Side A)
• 5.Screaming Skull (Side A)
• 6.Self-Obsessed And Sexxee (Side A)
• 7.Bone (Side A)
• 8.Androgynous Mind (Side B)
• 9.Quest For The Cup (Side B)
• 10.Waist (Side B)
• 11.Doctor's Orders (Side B)
• 12.Tokyo Eye (Side B)
• 13.In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader (Side B)
• 14.Sweet Shine (Side B)

Rolling Stone: Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000".

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Free City Rhymes (Side A)
• 2.Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?) (Side A)
• 3.Small Flowers Crack Concrete (Side A)
• 4.StreamXsonik Subway (Side A)
• 5.Side2Side (Side B)
• 6.Renegade Princess (Side B)
• 7.NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Side B)
• 8.Lightnin' (Side B)

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
• 2.Stil
• 3.Herinneringen

Rolling Stone: Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "[A] light, simple, terse, almost-pop album."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Reena
• 2.Incinerate
• 3.Do You Believe In Rapture?
• 4.Sleepin' Around
• 5.What A Waste
• 6.Jams Runs Free
• 7.Rats
• 8.Turquoise Boy
• 9.Lights Out
• 10.The Neutral
• 11.Pink Steam
• 12.Or

NME (Magazine): Ranked #80 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Schizophrenia
• 2.(I Got A) Catholic Block
• 3.Beauty Lies in the Eye
• 4.Stereo Sanctity
• 5.Pipeline / Kill Time
• 6.Tuff Gnarl
• 7.Pacific Coast Highway
• 8.Hot Wire My Heart
• 9.Cotton Crown
• 10.White Kross
• 11.Master-Dik (Non-Beatbox Version)

Spin: "New York's most sensationalist loud-rock quartet since Kiss ride yr skull-strewn expressway across wide-open vistas to the opposite coast..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Tom Violence
• 2.Shadow of a Doubt
• 3.Starpower
• 4.In the Kingdom #19
• 5.Green Light
• 6.Death To Our Friends
• 7.Secret Girl
• 8.Marilyn Moore
• 9.Expressway To Yr. Skull
• 10.Bubblegum

Entertainment Weekly: "...BAD MOON RISING surrounds a catchy ditty about mass murder with mood music and dirge poetry..." - Rating: B

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Intro
• 2.Brave Men Run (In My Family)
• 3.Society is a Hole
• 4.I Love Her All the Time
• 5.Ghost Bitch
• 6.I'm Insane
• 7.Justice is Might
• 8.Death Valley '69 - (featuring Lydia Lunch)
• 9.Satan is Boring
• 10.Flower
• 11.Halloween
• 12.Echo Canyon

Sonic Youth also appears in this compilation

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.A Dance
• 2.Schizophrenia
• 3.Negative
• 4.Brother James
• 5.School
• 6.Teenage Riot
• 7.Freak Scene
• 8.Dustcake Boy
• 9.Dirty Boots
• 10.Endless, Nameless
• 11.I Love Her All the Time
• 12.Expressway Coda
• 13.Pre
• 14.The Wagon
• 15.Mote
• 16.Smells Like Teen Spirit
• 17.Commando
• 18.Kool Thing
• 19.Polly
• 20.Expressway to Yr Skull

Uncut: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's accomplished stuff, the band declaring their avant-rock intent from the start."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Burning Spear
• 2.I Dreamed I Dream
• 3.She Is Not Alone
• 4.I Don't Want to Push It
• 5.The Good and the Bad
• 6.Hard Work (I Don't Want to Push It)
• 7.Where the Red Fern Grows (I Dreamed I Dream)
• 8.Burning Spear
• 9.Cosmopolitan Girl
• 10.Loud and Soft
• 11.Destroyer
• 12.She Is Not Alone
• 13.Where the Red Fern Grows

Rolling Stone: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n excellent record, one of the strongest to emerge from Sonic Youth's amazing late period. Thurston Moore dominates....The guitars ring out with a sense of emotional urgency..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Reena
• 2.Incinerate
• 3.Do You Believe In Rapture?
• 4.Sleepin' Around
• 5.What A Waste
• 6.Jams Runs Free
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Rats
• 2.Turquoise Boy
• 3.Lights Out
• 4.The Neutral
• 5.Pink Steam
• 6.Or

Entertainment Weekly: "...A near perfect, guitar-shaped phoenix...a balance--between formlessness and structure, melody and cacophony..." - Rating: A-

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.The Empty Page
• 2.Disconnection Notice
• 3.Karen Revisited
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Rain On Tin
• 2.Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
• 3.Plastic Sun
• 4.Sympathy For The Strawberry

Rolling Stone: 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a brilliant, extended essay in refined primitivism..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Dirty Boots (Side A)
• 2.Tunic (Song For Karen) (Side A)
• 3.Mary-Christ (Side A)
• 4.Kool Thing (Side A)
• 5.Mote (Side A)
• 6.My Friend Goo (Side B)
• 7.Disappearer (Side B)
• 8.Mildred Pierce (Side B)
• 9.Cinderella's Big Score (Side B)
• 10.Scooter And Jinx (Side B)
• 11.Titanium Exposé (Side B)

NME (Magazine): Ranked #80 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Schizophrenia
• 2.Catholic Block
• 3.Beauty Lies in the Eye
• 4.Stereo Sanctity
• 5.Pipeline / Kill Time
• 6.Tuff Gnarl
• 7.Pacific Coast Highway
• 8.Hot Wire My Heart
• 9.Cotton Crown
• 10.White Cross
• 11.Master-Dik (download - only)

Uncut: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's accomplished stuff, the band declaring their avant-rock intent from the start."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.The Burning Spear
• 2.I Dreamed I Dream
• 3.She Is Not Alone
• 4.I Don't Want to Push It
• 5.The Good and the Bad
• 6.Hard Work (I Don't Want to Push It)
• 7.Where the Red Fern Grows (I Dreamed I Dream)
• 8.Burning Spear
• 9.Cosmopolitan Girl
• 10.Loud and Soft
• 11.Destroyer
• 12.She Is Not Alone
• 13.Where the Red Fern Grows - (alternate studio recording)

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Intro
• 2.Brave Men Run (In My Family)
• 3.Society Is A Hole
• 4.I Love Her All The Time
• 5.Ghost Bitch
• 6.I m Insane
• 7.Justice Is Might
• 8.Death Valley 69