Bad Moon Rising/Flower
Released: 1987
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Released: 1987
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An album quite unlike any other in the colorful Sonic Youth canon, Bad Moon Rising captures the New York band in 1985 during its most morose phase, one that is quite forbidding yet fascinating all...
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Sonic Youth
Released: 1982
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Released: 1982
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Though Sonic Youth's first EP is the least of their major works and was the only one to not receive reissue in 1995 by DGC, it's not a complete blunder. Awkward and rather formative, the record...
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Live in Holland 12/27/83
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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A wonderfully preserved document of Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols era, Live in Holland 12/27/83 will surely fascinate anyone curious about the band's early years. Good luck finding...
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Hold That Tiger
Released: 1997
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Released: 1997
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Hold That Tiger is an official bootleg documenting a Sonic Youth live show in Chicago on October 14, 1987. It has the same lo-fi sound as Television's The Blow Up, but lacks the spirit of those...
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Washing Machine
Released: October 1995
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Released: October 1995
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After the regressive, low-key Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star, Sonic Youth appeared to be floundering somewhat, but Washing Machine erased any notion that the band had run out of things to...
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Death Valley '69
Released: 1985
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Released: 1985
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The Death Valley '69 EP compiles a few previously released songs -- "I Dreamed I Dream" (from Sonic Youth [1982]), "Inhuman" (from Confusion Is Sex [1983]), and "Brother James" (from Kill Yr. Idols...
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Made in USA
Released: 1986
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Released: 1986
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A soundtrack to an obscure 1986 movie, Made in USA captures Sonic Youth trying to fit their expansive ideas into the brief space allotted to incidental film music. Keeping the atmospherics but...
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Dirty Boots
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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While there is little denying the title track's status as one of Sonic Youth's strongest songs from their early-'90s period, the bonus live recordings are the real reason to own the Dirty Boots CD...
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Texas, 1986: Live at the Continental Club
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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Released by Sonic Youth through their fan club, this official bootleg functions as a wonderful document of the band's mid-'80s era just as they were beginning their slow rise to prominence in the...
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