Sonic Youth is an experimental rock group formed in New York City in 1981. The band consists of Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals, bass), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals, electric drill) and Steve Shelley (drums). Early in their career, Sonic Youth were associated with the no wave art and music scene in New York City, but they have outlasted most associated bands. Initially inspired by the experimentation of Glenn Branca and The Velvet Underground and the heavy garage rock of The Stooges, they are known for using a variety of unorthodox guitar tunings, and for applying screwdrivers, drumsticks or other preparations to guitars to alter the instruments' timbres. Members of the band have released books of poetry and prose (a beatnik influence is evident in both their writing and lyrics), produced, written and performed in films (such as "1991: The Year Punk Broke", "Perfect Partner", "(this is known as) the blues scale" and "last days"). They have staged shows of visual art, and curated the All Tomorrows Parties music festival. They've even appeared in and performed a version of the theme song for "
Álbumes
1 | Lite Damage | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
2 | Renegade Princess | NYC Ghosts & Flowers |
3 | Unmade Bed | Sonic Nurse |
4 | Stalker | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
5 | Bone | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
6 | Skip Tracer | Washing Machine |
7 | Providence | Daydream Nation |
8 | Personality Crisis | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
9 | Pattern Recognition | Sonic Nurse |
10 | Side2side | NYC Ghosts & Flowers |
11 | Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style | Murray Street |
12 | Washing Machine | Washing Machine |
13 | Theoretical Chaos | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
14 | Dreamfinger | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
15 | Trilogy: a) The Wonder b) Hyperstation z) Eliminat | Daydream Nation |
16 | Schizophrenia | Sister |
17 | Little Jammy Thing | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
18 | The Empty Page | Murray Street |
19 | Winner's Blues | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
20 | Do You Believe In Rapture? | Rather Ripped |