Yr Top Five Sonic Youth Songs
 

1 dripping dream
2 hoarfrost
3 JC
4 the diamond sea
5 incinerate

Honorable mentions..

Schizophrenia punk broke version
The Sprawl
Free City Rhymes

1. Mote
2. Teenage Riot
3. Genetic
4. Pipeline/Kill Time
5. Disappearer


(BTW, these change on the reg)

right now:

1. Moonface
2. (She's In A) Bad Mood
3. Becuz
4. Female Mechanic Now On Duty
5. Beautiful Plateau

I love becuz and mote.. i posted this on the metro cuz jc came on shuffle and i was like, "fuck this is actually one of my all time fave songs" which got me thinking if i had to split the baby what are some others

Man I was just thinking aboht this the other day. I used to have a fairly comprehensive list of my 10-20 Most essential Sonic Youth songs, but it's been a while since I updated it.

As many as I'm sure if forget it I tried to throw a list together off the top of my head, there are certainly a handful that absolutely MUST make the cut.

Brave Men Run
Free City Rhymes
Schizophrenia
Tuff Gnarl
Sympathy For the Strawberry
I'm Insane
Anagrama
Shadow of a Doubt
Hoarfrost
JC

Wow - that's already a heavily (almost sinfully) edited list that is still 2x the requested length. I omitted "Teen Age Riot" and "Diamond Sea" because they seem like such obvious choices, like listing "Day in the Life" in a Beatles song list. But I want to put them BACK!

Also, fuck me, but I'm probably going to be suffering over a 50 song list as a result of this, SFAD. So take my forced, chopped and screwed, totally flawed list and just hope I forget this ever happened.

What a shit list.

Cinderella's Big Score
Theresa's Sound-World
The Diamond Sea
Hoarfrost
I Love You Golden Blue

Washing Machine
Sunday
Shaking Hell
JC
Massage the History

Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your Dog is a cover but also a favourite.

Brother James
Shaking Hell
Halloween
Beauty Lies in the Eye
Ghost Bitch

Hon. Mention

Flower
Intro (BMR)

I adore hoarfrost.

Im glad JC also made so many lists.. i thought real hard about Sunday as it was the first sonic youth song i truly fell in love with

Its called splitting the baby for a reason yo



What i like about this thread is not only reflects the differing tastes of SYG but how versatile Sonic Youth is as a band

As do I. It is my favorite Lee song besides Wish Fulfillment. JC almost made my list also.

cotton crown
genetic
on the strip
cross the breeze
the diamond sea

not in any real order but cotton crown is first

Cross the Breeze almost made my honorable mention list

Shaking Hell (Live)
Early American
Intro/Brave Men Run
Cross the Breeze
Candle

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Contre de la Sexisme
Stereo Sanctity
Doctor's Orders/Skink/Bone/Quest for the Cup
Mildred Pierce
The Sprawl
Theresa's Soundworld
Hoarfrost

Hoarfrost
White Kross
Brother James
Burning Spear
I Love You Golden Blue

...somethin' like that. "Hyperstation" should probably be in there somewhere.

Ha ha, jokes.

Intro from BMR is another favourite and Brother James is possibly my favourite live SY song. I've heard so many incredible versions of it.

I think Brother James is SY's signature tune

Top 5 KIM songs
CROSS THE BREEZE (this song is best TURNT UP TO 11)
I Dreamed I Dreamed
Shadow of a Doubt
Beauty Lies In The Eye
Drunken Butterfly

Top 5 LEE songs
Mote
Genetic
Hoarfrost
Hey Joni
Pipeline/Kill Time

Top 5 Thurston songs
Teenage Riot
Inhuman
Catholic Block
Disappearer
Silver Rocket

Great post rob.. toilet &bowels.. im glad you at least made it out of the 80s to 1998 but you did realize that sonic youth put out some records in the 2000s and no joke, some of us like them? Or what, did you think after ATL the band was just trolling us?