Sonic Youth Discography & Lyrics

Album

1983: Confusion Is Sex

• 1 (She's in a) Bad Mood
• 2 Protect Me You
• 3 Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog
• 4 Shaking Hell
• 5 Inhuman
• 6 The World Looks Red
• 7 Confusion Is Next
• 8 Making the Nature Scene
• 9 Lee Is Free

1985: Bad Moon Rising

• 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

1986: EVOL

• 1 Tom Violence
• 2 Shadow of a Doubt
• 3 Star Power
• 4 In the Kingdom #19
• 5 Green Light
• 6 Death to Our Friends
• 7 Secret Girl
• 8 Marilyn Moore
• 9 Expressway to Yr. Skull

1987: Sister

• 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 Kotton Krown
• 10 White Kross
• 11 Master-Dik

1988: Daydream Nation

• 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.

1990: Goo

• 1 Dirty Boots
• 2 Tunic (Song for Karen)
• 3 Mary-Christ
• 4 Kool Thing
• 5 Mote
• 6 My Friend Goo
• 7 Disappearer
• 8 Mildred Pierce
• 9 Cinderella’s Big Score
• 10 Scooter + Jinx
• 11 Titanium Exposé

1992: Dirty

• 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
• 1 Youth Against Fascism
• 2 Nic Fit
• 3 On the Strip
• 4 Chapel Hill
• 5 Stalker
• 6 JC
• 7 Purr
• 8 Créme Brûlèe

1994: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

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

1995: Washing Machine

• 1 Becuz
• 2 Junkie’s Promise
• 3 Saucer‐Like
• 4 Washing Machine
• 5 Unwind
• 6 Little Trouble Girl
• 7 No Queen Blues
• 8 Panty Lies
• 9 Becuz Coda
• 10 Skip Tracer
• 11 The Diamond Sea

1998: SYR 3: Invito al Ĉielo

• 1 Invito al Ĉielo
• 2 Hungara Vivo
• 3 Radio-Amatoroj

1998: A Thousand Leaves

• 1 Contre le sexisme
• 2 Sunday
• 3 Female Mechanic Now on Duty
• 4 Wildflower 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

1999: SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century

• 1 Edges
• 2 Six (3rd take)
• 3 Six for New Time
• 4 +-
• 5 Voice Piece for Soprano
• 6 Pendulum Music
• 1 Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
• 2 Six (4th take)
• 3 Burdocks
• 4 Four⁶
• 5 Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter’s Piece)
• 6 Pièce enfantine
• 7 Treatise

2000: NYC Ghosts & Flowers

• 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’

2002: Murray Street

• 1 The Empty Page
• 2 Disconnection Notice
• 3 Rain on Tin
• 4 Karen Revisited
• 5 Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
• 6 Plastic Sun
• 7 Sympathy for the Strawberry
• 8 Street Sauce

2002: Terrastock 5

• 1 Feel the Breath of the Woods Upon Your Heart, Part One
• 2 Feel the Breath of the Woods Upon Your Heart, Part Two
• 1 Ephrata (Let Water Pass Above Me)
• 2 The Passing of the River Waltz
• 3 Bitter Was the Night
• 1 Spring Leaves Fall
• 2 Sun or Wind
• 1 Button
• 2 Water Sinks Into Fire
• 1 Sweet Emotion
• 2 Lord of Your Thighs

2004: Sonic Nurse

• 1 Pattern Recognition
• 2 Unmade Bed
• 3 Dripping Dream
• 4 Kim Gordon and 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
• 11 Kim Chords

2004: Hidros 3

• 1 Part 1 intro
• 2 Part 2 voice
• 3 Part 3 contrabass sax
• 4 Part 4 voice
• 5 Part 5 processed voice
• 6 Part 6 voice
• 7 Part 7 contrabass sax
• 8 Part 8 processed voice
• 9 Part 9 voice

2006: Rather Ripped

• 1 Reena
• 2 Incinerate
• 3 Do You Believe in Rapture?
• 4 Sleepinʼ Around
• 5 What a Waste
• 6 Jams Run Free
• 7 Rats
• 8 Turquoise Boy
• 9 Lights Out
• 10 The Neutral
• 11 Pink Steam
• 12 Or
• 13 Helen Lundeberg
• 14 Eyeliner

2008: SYR 7: J’accuse Ted Hughes

• 1 J’accuse Ted Hughes
• 2 Agnès B Musique

2009: The Eternal

• 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
• 13 Pay No Mind
• 14 No Garage

Single

1984: Death Valley ’69

• 1 Death Valley ’69
• 2 Brave Men Run (in My Family)

1985: (Over) Kill Yr Idols

• 1 Making the Nature Scene
• 2 I Killed Christgau With My Big Fuckin' Dick

1986: Flower / Halloween

• 1 Flower
• 2 Halloween

1986: Halloween II

• 1 Halloween II (The First Studio mix)

1986: Starpower

• 1 Starpower (edit)
• 2 Bubblegum
• 3 Expressway (edit)

1988: Stick Me Donna Magick Momma

• 1 Stick Me Donna Magick Momma
• 2 Making the Nature Scene

1988: Teen Age Riot

• 1 Teen Age Riot

1988: Touch Me I'm Sick / Halloween

• 1 Touch Me I’m Sick
• 2 Halloween

1988: Silver Rocket

• 1 Silver Rocket
• 2 You Pose You Lose
• 3 Non-Metal Dude Wearing Metal Tee

1990: Kool Thing

• 1 Kool Thing
• 2 That’s All I Know (Right Now)
• 3 Dirty Boots (Rock & Roll Heaven version)
• 4 Kool Thing (8-track demo version)

1990: Disappearer

• 1 Disappearer (edit)
• 2 Disappearer (8 track demo version)
• 3 That's All I Know (Right Now)
• 4 Dirty Boots (8 track demo version - long version)

1992: 100%

• 1 100% (LP version)
• 2 Crème brûlée (LP version)
• 3 Genetic
• 4 Hendrix Necro

1992: Youth Against Fascism

• 1 Youth Against Fascism (clean-Ex mix)
• 2 The Destroyed Room (Previously Unreleased)
• 3 Youth Against Fascism (LP version)

1993: Sugar Kane

• 1 Sugar Kane (The Short and Sweet version)
• 2 Is It My Body
• 3 Personality Crisis
• 4 The End of the End of the Ugly

1993: Drunken Butterfly

• 1 Drunken Butterfly
• 2 Stalker
• 3 Tamra

1993: Cotton Crown

• 1 Cotton Crown
• 2 Pacific Coast Highway

1994: Bull in the Heather

• 1 Bull in the Heather (LP version)
• 2 Razor Blade
• 3 Doctor's Orders (T.-Vox version)

1994: Yesterday Once More / Superstar

• 1 Yesterday Once More
• 2 Superstar

1994: Superstar / Let Me Be the One

• 1 Superstar
• 3 Let Me Be the One

1995: The Diamond Sea

• 1 The Diamond Sea (edit)
• 2 My Arena
• 3 The Diamond Sea

1996: Little Trouble Girl

• 1 Little Trouble Girl
• 2 Little Trouble Girl (instrumental)
• 3 Terry's Carrot

1998: Sunday

• 1 Sunday
• 2 Moist Vagina
• 3 Silver Panties
• 4 Sunday (edit)

2003: Buddy Series, Volume 1

• 1 Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Handcream
• 2 Glitter

2006: Helen Lundeberg / Eyeliner

• 1 Helen Lundeberg
• 2 Eyeliner

2009: Hang Them All / No Garage

• 1 Hang Them All
• 2 No Garage

2009: Pay No Mind / Green Light

• 1 Pay No Mind
• 2 Green Light

2016: Massage the History

• 1 Massage the History

EP

1982: Sonic Youth

• 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

1983: Kill Yr. Idols

• 1 Protect Me You
• 2 Shaking Hell (1+2)
• 3 Kill Yr. Idols
• 4 Brother James
• 5 Early American

1985: Death Valley ’69

• 1 Death Valley ’69
• 2 I Dreamed I Dream
• 3 Inhuman
• 4 Brother James
• 5 Satan Is Boring

1988: Master=Dik

• 1 Master=Dik
• 2 Beat on the Brat
• 3 Under the Influence of the Jesus and Mary Chain: Ticket to Ride / Master=Dik (version) / Introducing the Stars (live on Suisse radio, July 87)
• 4 Ringo / He’s On Fire / Florida Oil Drums / Westminster Chimes
• 5 Chinese Jam
• 6 Vibrato / Guitar Lick / Funky Fresh
• 7 Our Backyard
• 8 Traffik

1990: 4 Tunna Brix

• 1 My New House
• 2 Rowche Rumble
• 3 Psycho Mafia
• 4 Victoria

1991: Dirty Boots

• 1 Dirty Boots (edit)
• 2 White Kross (live)
• 3 Eric's Trip (live)
• 4 Cinderella's Big Score (live)
• 5 Dirty Boots (live)
• 6 The Bedroom (live)

1993: Whores Moaning: Oz '93 Tour Edition

• 1 Sugar Kane (edit)
• 2 Personality Crisis
• 3 The End of the End of the Ugly
• 4 Is It My Body
• 5 Tamra

1994: TV Shit

• 1 No II, Part 1
• 2 No II, Part 2
• 3 No II, Part 3
• 4 No II, Part 4

1997: SYR 1: Anagrama

• 1 Anagrama
• 2 Improvisation Ajoutée
• 3 Tremens
• 4 Mieux: De Corrosion

1997: Sonic Life

• 1 Su Nioj
• 2 Shaking Hell
• 3 Little Jammy Thing

1997: SYR 2

• 1 Slaapkamers met slagroom
• 2 Stil
• 3 Herinneringen

1998: Silver Session: For Jason Knuth

• 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

2002: In the Fishtank

• 1 III
• 2 IV
• 3 V
• 4 VI
• 5 II
• 6 VIII
• 7 IX
• 8 X