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 | Karen revisited | Murray Street |
2 | Lights Out | Rather Ripped |
3 | Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style | Murray Street |
4 | Self-Obsessed And Sexxee | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
5 | Waist | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
6 | Moonface | Dirty [Bonus Tracks] |
7 | Reena | Rather Ripped |
8 | Streamxsonik Subway | NYC Ghosts & Flowers |
9 | Unwind | Washing Machine |
10 | The Sprawl | Daydream Nation |
11 | (I got a) Catholic Block | Sister |
12 | In the Kingdom #19 | Evol |
13 | Washing Machine | Washing Machine |
14 | Shadow of Doubt | Evol |
15 | In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader | Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star |
16 | Rain On Tin | Murray Street |
17 | Schizophrenia | Sister |
18 | Disconnection Notice | Murray Street |
19 | Hoarfrost | A Thousand Leaves |
20 | Untitled | Washing Machine |