Songs you've seen Sonic Youth perform live.
 

I'll go first.
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Shaking Hell
Making the Nature Scene
Tom Violence
Expressway to Yr Skull
Schizophrenia
Catholic Block
White Kross
Teenage Riot
Eric's Trip
Kool Thing
Mote
100%
Drunken Butterfly
Skip Tracer
The Empty Page
Disconnection Notice
Rain on Tin
Karenology
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Plastic Sun
Sympathy For the Strawberry
Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Peace Attack
Reena
Incinerate
Do You Believe in Rapture?
Sleepin' Around
What a Waste
Jams Run Free
Rats
Turquoise Boy
Lights Out
The Neutral
Pink Steam
Or
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[Edited to include songs from 1 July 2006]

And you?

EDIT: Just checked the Mustang site

06/17/03 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant

Peace Attack
Schizophrenia
The Empty Page
Rain on Tin
Eric's Trip
Plastic Sun
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Kool Thing
Karenology
Mariah Carey & the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Catholic Block
Sympathy For the Strawberry
--
Disconnection Notice
Teenage Riot
--
Drunken Butterfly


07/31/04 -- Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note

I Love You Golden Blue
Rain on Tin
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Paper Cup Exit
Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Stones
Schizophrenia
Mote
New Hampshire
Dude Ranch Nurse
Kool Thing
--
Plastic Sun
Sugar Kane
--
Teen Age Riot


I have very little recollection of either event.

here are the songs of the gigs i saw according to chris lawrence's bible (edited out the doubles):

Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 1 - Against the Wind)
Six
Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 2 - Against the Wall)
Burdocks
Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 3 - Against the Sky)
Treatise
Clapping Music
Four6
She Is Not Alone
Side2Side
NYC Ghosts & Flowers (best thing i've ever heard in my life)
Candle
Kissability
The Empty Page
Plastic Sun
Rain on Tin
Eric's Trip
Shadow of a Doubt
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Karenology
Bull in the Heather
Sympathy for the Strawberry
Kool Thing
Disconnection Notice
Silver Rocket

I Love You Golden Blue
100%
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Teenage Riot
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
Mariah Carey
Stones
Drunken Butterfly

i think that's all...i want to hear schizo...

hmm! ;)
the first ones in brown are off the top of my head.\
the blue are the two i forgot so had to check the archive. :)

Schizophrenia, the Burning Spear, Stones,
New Hampshire, rain on Tin, PCH,
Dude Ranch Nurse, Eric's Trip,
Drunken Butterfly, Pattern Recognition, Paper Cup Exit,
XPRESSWAYto yr skull+Jam, I Love You Golden Blue
Unmade Bed, arthur doyle handkreame

That's a very impressive list Johnny!

I've seen them do:

Washing Machine
Saucer-Like
Mote
Skink
Schizophrenia
Burning Spear
Free City Rhymes
Bull in the Heather
Nevermind
Side2Side
Teenage Riot
Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Kool Thing
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Lightnin'
Cotton Crown
I Love You Golden Blue
Stones
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Eric's Trip
Mariah Carey
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
Peace Attack
Dude Ranch Nurse
Brother James
PCH
Expressway

toxic johnny, just out of curiosity since we dont hear alot about their early shows, what was that show in 1985 like?

I Love You Golden Blue
100%
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Stones
New Hampshire
Dude Ranch Nurse
Paper Cup Exit
Mariah Carey + Arther Doyle
Drunken Butterfly
SILVER ROCKET
Disconnection Notice
Sugar Kane
Expresswayyy

peace attack live?
i'd like to see that.

i love you golden blue
schizophrenia
pattern recognition
unmade bed
skip tracer
stones
mariah carey and the arthur doyle hand cream
paper cup exit
white kross
new hampshire
dude ranch nurse
kool thing
rain on tin
teen age riot

...in that order. see if you can figure out which show that was.

johnny...wow...shit...

my name is jonny btw!

Well, quiet a few, I`d say.. I´ve seen them trice on the murray street tour in Germland, and again last time they played in Amsterdam, in the Paradiso.. but I`m too lazy to look for the setlists! :)

Anagrama
French Tickler (2 times)
Sunday (2 times)
Karen Koltrane (2 times)
Female Mechanic Now on Duty (2 times)
Wildflower Soul (2 times)
Ineffable Me (2 times)
Death Valley '69 (2 times)
Cotton Crown
Eric's Trip
Bull in the Heather (2 times)
Schizophrenia (3 times)
Tom Violence
Sugar Kane
Shadow of a Doubt
Lightnin
Brother James
Free City Rhymes
Renegade Princess
Burning Spear
Hoarfrost
Small Flowers Crack concrete
Kool Thing
Nevermind
Side2Side
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
100% (2 times)
I Love You Golden Blue
Stones
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Skip Tracer
Teenage Riot
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
Mariah Carey
Dude Ranch Nurse
PCH
Rain on Tin

Ha, that was my first show too. I was supposed to see them in 1997, and that didn't happen...and again in 2002, and that didn't happen either. Glad I finally made this one.

Ha ha...way to lazy to do this:D

...well I became completely obsessed with them after seeing the ICA show (Where Kim famously fell offstage during Shaking Hell) and was lucky enough to go and see them a further 6 times that year... Including the amazing Blood on Brighton Beach event. (Check out some shots that I took in London in 1986... the mustang site credits it as 1985... but I'm pretty sure it was in 1986, although my memory is now a little hazy...http://sonicyouth.com/history/con-set.html...11/09/85 Ladbroke Grove, England, Bay 63.)
What can I say... they just completely blew my mind. It was the unique combination of savage invention and lyrical intensity that really got me, plus the fact that they were all such great and powerful individuals... each equally charismatic in their own way.... hell bent on pushing the music as far as it would go... breaking on through and rising triumphant on the other side. I returned again and again each time totally captivated by the onslaught. Also It's important to remember that at this time in the UK there was nothing on the musical stratosphere that remotely resembled this particular firestorm... it was like I was witnessing the invention of something so radical and so new it hurt. This is something that I carry around with me to this day and is, rightly or wrongly, a template that I hold up against any new band that I have seen ever since.

Anyway enough of the hyperbole.... when you sit down and seriously try to describe a major and important period in your life it inevitably ends up sounding crass and overstated... lets just say I was hooked.

The Empty Page
Disconnection Notice
Rain on Tin
Karenology
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Plastic Sun
Sympathy for the Strawberry
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Side2Side
Nevermind
Schizophrenia
Tom Violence
White Kross
Kotton Krown
Catholic Block
Shadow of a Doubt
Expressway to Your Skulll
Brother James
Making the Nature Scene
Inhuman
Burning Spear
She is Not Alone
Candle
Silver Rocket
Eric's Trip
Teenage Riot
Kissability
100%
Drunken Butterfly
Sugar Kane
Mote
Kool Thing
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Handcream
Stones
Dude Ranch Nurse
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
I Love You Golden Blue

most of 1000 leaves, anagramma, shadow of a doubt death valley 69 on the 98 tour

(4)100%
Anagrama
Becuz
(3)Bull in the Heather
Candle
(4)Catholic Block
Cinderella's Big Score
Death Valley 69
Diamond Sea
(2)Dirty Boots
(3) Disconnection Notice
Disappearer
(3)Drunken Butterfly
(4)Eric's Trip
(5)Expressway To Yr Skull
Female Mechanic
Flower
Free City Rhymes
French Tickler
Genetic
Heather Angel
Hits of Sunshine
Hoarfrost
I Wanna Be Yr Dog
Ineffable Me
(2)JC
Karen Koltrane
(3)Karenology
Kill Yr Idols
(2)Kissability
(5)Kool Thing
(2)Making the Nature Scene
(2)Mariah Carey & the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Mary Christ
(3)Mote
My Friend Goo
Nevermind
Nic Fit
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Pacific Coast Highway
(2)Peace Attack
(3)Plastic Sun
Purr
(3)Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
(3)Rain on Tin
Schizophrenia
(2)Shadow of a Doubt
(2)Shoot
Side2Side
(3)Silver Rocket
Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Starfield Road
Stereo Sanctity
Stil
(3)Sugar Kane
Sunday
(2)Swimsuit Issue
(3)Sympathy For the Strawberry
(2)Teenage Riot
The Bedroom
(3)The Empty Page
(2)Titanium Expose
Theresa's Sound World
(2)Tom Violence
Total Trash
Tunic
Unwind
Washing Machine
White Kross
Wildflower Soul
(2)Youth Against Fascism

This is a total of about 8 shows (Tijuana, MX, Chicago (3), Cincinnati (2), Columbus, Santa Monica, CA) Thanks to Chris Lawrence for his undying devotion to making this list possible. I may have missed a few from a 1990 show in Tijuana. But the good time memories make it worthwhile.

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awesome opportunities you've had.. I'm hooked and I would love to see a show in the UK. I've seen them 8 times so far, this past Saturday in Texas and I'm going to see them in Reno on 4th of July, and Las Vegas on the 9th. I hope to hit a few more west coast this summer and go to PA for the August show in Allentown with the Flaming Lips. I'd didn't do all the songs I've seen, I'll have to work on it.. I've seen shows in Texas x4, Virginia x1, PA x1, NJ x2 I've got two set lists, too many pictures to count, and I videotaped the Hoboken show in 2005 while it's great it does chop up and down alot it was very crowded and I was lit..hehe.. I recorded Austin 2004 and Dallas 2004 the recordings are too weak to trade em' but I've shared a few with people and having Thurston and Lee talking to me when I met them is pricelist :) I got to talk to Thurston on Saturday and watch them sound check it was a great show one of the best I've seen...

What song do you want to see them do that you haven't?

For me it is NYC&F and I would love to also see Sunday!!

Brother James
The Wonder
Hyperstation
Cross the Breeze
Kissability
Silver Rocket
Teenage Riot
Hey Joni
Eric's Trip
The Sprawl
Eliminator Jr.
I Love Her All the Time
Catholic Block
Mary Christ
Kool Thing
Eric's Trip
Dirty Boots
Tunic (Song For Karen)
Tom Violence
Mote
Flower
Cinderella's Big Score
Schizophrenia
White Cross
Titanium Expose
My Friend Goo
Mildred Pierce
100%
Shoot
Sugar Kane
Mote
Theresa's Sound-World
Youth Against Fascism
Swimsuit Issue
Drunken Butterfly
JC
Expressway
Nic Fit
Free City Rhymes
Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Nevermind
Side2Side
Hoarfrost
Bull in the Heather
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Lightnin'

I Love You Golden Blue
Stones
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Karenology
New Hampshire
Mariah Carey
White Kross
Rain on Tin
Dude Ranch Nurse
Paper Cup Exit
Kool Thing
--
PCH



Glasgow, Scotland, 2004. I only recall the songs that came after 'Mariah Carey'. I was there, but I just don't remember at all. What a short set. I traveled hundreds of miles to see that gig as well.

there are of course some more...but there is one I hevent seen mentioned:

"kool thing (merzbow)"

suck this