i've made my list and am sticking with it

1) She is not alone
2) Inhuman
3) Death Valley 69 Sonic Death version
4) I Love Her All the Time
5) expressway to yr skull
6) Kotton Krown [would have been schizo but i loathe the album version]
7) trilogy
8) Mildred Pierce
9) Nic Fit
10) the diamond sea
11) Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
12) dripping dream [hey ethiopia we're free]
13) Jams Run Free [though I must admit indulging in chanting JAH RASTAFARI on several occassions during stageshow versions of Believe in Rapture, and if you heard it at an LA a show, yeah, that was me.]

the rules clearly state one track from each album, surely you can select one.

I Dreamed I Dream
Inhuman
Intro/Brave Men Run (In My Family)
Starpower
Pipeline/Kill Time
'Cross the Breeze
Mote
Wish Fulfillment
Starfield Road
The Diamond Sea (single edit)
Hoarfrost
Free City Rhymes
The Empty Page
Dripping Dream
Pink Steam

I Dreamed I Dream
Brother James
Intro/Brave Men Run (In My Family)
Schizophrenia
'Cross the Breeze
Mote
Wish Fulfillment
Starfield Road
The Diamond Sea
Wildflower Soul
Free City Rhymes
Rain on Tin
Dripping Dream
Incinerate

I dreamed I dream
Protect me you
ghost bitch
tom violence
pipeline / kill time
rain king
tunic
theresa's sound-world
bone
becuz
hoarfrost
free city rhymes
radical adults
golden blue
jams run free

i can't do this i keep changing my mind, i'm so indecisive.

She Is Not Alone
Shaking Hell
Brave Men Run
Expressway to Yr. Skull
Schizophrenia
'Cross the Breeze
Disappear
Screaming Skull
Skip Tracer
Hits of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Sympathy for the Strawberry
Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Jams Run Free

I Dreamed I Dream
The World Looks Red
Society Is A Hole
Shadow Of A Doubt
Pipeline / Kill Time
Hyperstation
Macbeth
Mote
Theresa's Sound-World
Bull In The Heather
Skip Tracer
Hoarfroast
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Sympathy For The Strawberry
Dude Ranch Nurse
Rats

you are lee fellow ?

Haha, kind of, yeah
His tracks are often my favorite ones

Jams Run Free 3:52
Unmade Bed 3:53
Rain on Tin 7:56
Free City Rhymes 7:32
Hoarfrost 5:01
Skip Tracer 3:38
Winner's Blues 2:07
JC 4:03
Mote 7:37
Platoon II 4:18
Rain King 4:39
Beauty Lies in the Eye 2:19
Shadow of a Doubt 3:32
Ghost Bitch 5:40
She's in a Bad Mood 5:36
The Good and the Bad 7:55

I didn't choose my favorite songs, just songs that seem like they would work.

you know, if we all didn't pick nearly the same lists, there would be a bunch of bad ass sonic mix tapes here, but alas, instead there is really just ONE!

I would personally recommend going to painstaking lengths to procure every Sonic Youth release on vinyl and frisbee the CD-R's into the garbage

from Sonic Youth EP, I'm counting as a studio album becuz it's too fucking great:
I Dreamed I Dream. The atmosphere turns me on, the lyrics express my overall mood, I go through a trance. This is my favorite Sonic record.

from Confusion is Sex:
Kill Yr. Idols. Fucked up and Sonic manifesto.

from Bad Moon Rising:
Death Valley 69'. This is the best Lydia Lunch collabo, the video is excelent, the lyrics is all there is to say about the massacre.

from Evol:
I can't pick just one, but it is Shadow of a Doubt. Kim's sighs .

from Sister:
Schizophrenia. All about.

from Daydream Nation.
Teenage Riot. It's the first Sonic song I ever heard.

from Goo:
Mote. Did you know "Mote" is a synonym for Coke where I live? It's also a kind of sticky oat grain. I like the video.

from Dirty:
100%. Party starts.

from Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star:
Bull in The Heather. Kim.

from Washing Machine:
The Diamond Sea. It never ends.

from A Thousand Leaves:
Sunday. I listen to it every sunday.

from NYC Ghosts & Flowers:
NYC Ghost & Flowers. Selftitled.

from Murray Street:
Karen Revisited. I know many Karens, I am one too.

from Sonic Nurse:
Stones.

from Rather Ripped:
Lights Out. I like Thurston's lower key in this one. The noise to melody transition is evident, Sonic Youth has softened.

I always forget about Lights Out. I think it's a great song, one of the bests on Rather Ripped.

I dream I dream
Kill Yr Idols(All time fave and off the COnfusion+kill Yr Idols)
I Love Her All the Time
Expressway to Yr. Skull (or closely Shadow of a doubt)
Catholic Book
'Cross the Breeze
Disappearer
JC
Starfield Road
Diamond Sea
Hits of sunshine
Renegade Princess
Rain on Tin
Drippin' Dream
Pink Steam
(song on new album)

1. The Burning Spear
2. Protect Me/You
3. Death Valley '69
4. Shadow of a Doubt (goddammit, or Tom Violence!!)
5. Cotton Crown
6. Macbeth
7. The Sprawl
8. Mote
9. Shoot
10. Bull in the Heather
11. Skip Tracer
12. Hit of Sunshine
13. NYC Ghosts and Flowers
14. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
15. Pattern Recognition
16. Jams Run Free

okay, so I just noticed I already did this... Whatever, this is a bit different...

get out!

I Dreamed I Dream
Ghost Bitch
Marilyn Moore
Beauty Lies In The Eye
Providence
MacBeth
Tunic (Song For Karen)
JC
Bull In The Heather
Skip Tracer
Contre Le Sexisme
Side2side
Plastic Sun
Unmade bed
Turquoise Boy

hm...

she's not alone
inhuman
society is a hole
shadow of a doubt
tuff gnarl
hyperstation
g-force
cinderella's big score
genetic
sweet shine
unwind
hoarfrost
free city rhymes
disconnection notice
unmade bed
or

burning spear
brother james
i love her all the time
tom violence
white cross
total trash
mc beth
kool thing
on the strip
androgenous mind
the diamond sea
hoarfroast
free city rhymes
radical adults lick godhead style
pattern recognition
pink steam
fire engine dream

:D NO, you're crazy, how you can mention silence

crikey, last time i posted in here was pre-meltdown. Time for a recalibration

lets go

1) I dreamed a dream
2) Shes in a bad mood
3) Im insane
4) Tom Violence
5) I got a catholic block
6) Candle
7) Dirty Boots
8) On the strip
9) Bull in the heather
10) Diamond C
11) Hits of sunshine
12) Free City Rhymes
13) Karen Revisited
14) I love you golden blue
15) Do you believe in rapture

I Don't Want to Push It
Lee is Free
Society Is A Hole
Shadow of a Doubt
Catholic Block
'Cross the Breeze
Tunic
Theresa's Sound World
Sweet Shine
Untitled Track
Hoarfrost
NYC Ghosts and Flowers
Sympathy for the Strawberry
Unmade Bed
The Neutral

1. burning spear
2. lee is free
3. intro + brave men (i know its 2 tunes but they just belong together)
4. any tune
5. catholic block
6. Children Of Satan/Third Fig
7.the sprawl
8. titanium expose
9. on the strip
10. sweet shine/winners blues (cant decide)
11. washing machine
12. hits of sunshine
13. free city rhymes
14. simpathy for the strawberry
15. stones
16. or

goooooooooood list! :D

First SY-related post in a while:

1. The Burning Spear
2. Inhuman
3. Death Valley '69
4. Starpower
5. Kotton Krown
6. Rain King
7. Mote
8. Shoot
9. Self-Obsessed and Sexxee
10. Panty Lies
11. Sunday
12. Pendulum Music
13. NYC Ghosts and Flowers
14. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
15. Pattern Recognition
16. Turquoise Boy
17. Blink

Heeeey, it´s one of the best tracks on the whitey album ;)

besides I thought it´d serve as nice little pause between indie and majorlabel period SY.

I actually LOVE the Whitey Album. I think there's tons of great jams on there. A lot of ppl don't seem to get it musically. I mean, yeah it's like parody or whatever. But it's still good, to me.

BUT I must say yr "pause between indie and major label period" concept is clever as hell.

Silence is a cover from Jhon Cage.

So? My tracklisting has "Pendulum Music" and that's a cover of Steve Reich.

It's also the only thing I've heard off Goodbye 20th Century...

THE DEFINITIVE SY ALBUM

01 The Good And The Bad
02 Protect Me You
03 Kill Yr Idols
04 Brave Men Run
05 Expressway
06 Kotton Krown
07 The Wonder
08 Mote
09 Chapel Hill
10 Doctor's Orders
11 The Diamond Sea (edit)
12 Innefable Me
13 NYC Ghosts & Flowers
14 Rain On Tin
15 Dude Ranch Nurse
16 Do You Believe In Rapture?

check how it fits ;)
it has my fav songs from each album and alternate well between singers
and has great opener and closer :p

THE DEFINITIVE DARK KIM SY ALBUM

01 I Dreamed I Dreamed
02 Shakin Hell
03 Early American
04 Ghost Bitch
05 Shadow Of A Doubt
06 Pacific Coast Hiway
07 Providence (ok not kim but let it be an instrumental)
08 Tunic
09 Orange Rolls
10 Skink
11 Washing Machine
12 Contre Le Sexisme
13 Side2Side
14 Sympathy For The Strawberry (no real choice here)
15 Dude Ranch Nurse
16 Turquoise Boy (let's end on hope)

THE DEFINITIVE BAD SY ALBUM

01 I don't Want tO Push It
02 The World Looks Red
03 Justic Is Might
04 Marilyn Moore
05 Hot Wire My Heart
06 Eliminator Jr
07 Mary Christ
08 Nic Fit
09 Winner's Blues
10 Panty Lies
11 Snare Girl
12 StreamX
13 Plastic Sun
14 Mariah Carey
15 What A Waste


... and even if i chose the songs i dislike the most from each album i'm still sure i'll love it

Wow they are a lot of my favourites...

1. I Dreamed I Dream
2. (She's In A) Bad Mood
3. Society is a Hole
4. Expressway to yr. Skull
5. Stereo Sanctity
6. Platoon li
7. The Sprawl
8. Mote
9. Theresa's Sound World
10. SWEET SHINE
11. Washing Machine
12. Wildflower Soul
13. Free City Rhymes
14 KARENOLOGY
15. Peace Attack
16. Reena

1. I Dreamed I Dream
2. The World Looks Red
3. I Love Her All the Time
4. Tom Violence
5. Stereo Sanctity
6. Silver Rocket
7. G-Force
8. Disappearer
9. Theresa's Sound-World
10. Skink
11. Unwind
12. Snare, Girl
13. Renegade Princess
14. Rain on Tin
15. Unmade Bed
16. Do You Believe in Rapture?

total 78:59