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 | Untitled | Washing Machine |
| 2 | Dreamfinger | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
| 3 | Sympathy for the Strawberry | Murray Street |
| 4 | Incinerate | Rather Ripped |
| 5 | Small Flowers Crack Concrete | NYC Ghosts & Flowers |
| 6 | Winner's Blues | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
| 7 | Death Valley '69 | Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground |
| 8 | Panty Lies | Washing Machine |
| 9 | Trilogy: a) The Wonder b) Hyperstation z) Eliminat | Daydream Nation |
| 10 | Side2side | NYC Ghosts & Flowers |
| 11 | Stones | Sonic Nurse |
| 12 | New White Kross | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
| 13 | Marilyn Moore | Evol |
| 14 | Drunken Butterfly | Dirty |
| 15 | Karen Koltrane | A Thousand Leaves |
| 16 | Personality Crisis | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
| 17 | Massage The History | The Eternal |
| 18 | Peace Attack | Sonic Nurse |
| 19 | Poison Arrow | The Eternal |
| 20 | The Sprawl | Daydream Nation |