Lets Talk More About Sonic Youth Songs!
 

In honor of Rob's excellent thread here are a few more questions that hopefully lead to more songs!

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Genetic. that song kicks anyone's ass

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
I'm Not There.

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
None .

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Yeah Yeah Yeah's Diamond Sea. not that bad.

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Kim's Chords. absolutly perfect.

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Free City Rhymes.

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
I could live without Panty Lies.

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
In The Kingdom #19

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Shoot

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
Superstar

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
not really sure what this is asking

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Haven't heard many (if any, honestly)

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Kim's Chords

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Sweet Shine (no pun)

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
I dunno... all of the album tracks (even the weaker ones) seem to fit in with the overall album sound

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Death Valley 69

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive? The Ineffable Me

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song? Superstar

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with? Blonde Redhead (DNA)

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else? N/A

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental? Silver Sessions (all, as a concept) or Radio-Amatoroj from SYR3

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on? Pink Steam (Rather Ripped)

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)? Kim Gordon And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream (Sonic Nurse)

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star? Mats Gustafsson on Lightnin' 7'' Single

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Kill Yr Idols
2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
I'm Not There
3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
I don't know.
4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Haven't heard any
5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Intro
6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Washing Machine
7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Death Valley '69. Only because it doesn't flow and overlap like the other tracks do.
8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Death Valley '69

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Youth Against Fascism

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
I'm Not There

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
Probably Bubblegum

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Cat Power - Schizophrenia Is Weighing Me Down

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Anagrama

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
The Diamond Sea

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Kim Gordon + Arthur Doyle Handcream

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive? ORANGE ROLLS

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song? I'M NOT THERE/SUPERSTAR/WITHIN YOU

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with? HOTWIRE MY HEART (CUZ IT FUCKIN RUINS SISTER)

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else? WINNER's BLUES by CHRIS LAWRENCE cuz i just heard it...

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental? ANAGRAMA immediately popped into mind but obviously my mind meant RIM THRUSTERS (..or maybe DEATH TO OUR FRIENDS)

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on? NYC GHOSTS & FLOWERS

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)? oops i already said HOTWIRE MY HEART... hmm possibly CONTRE LE SEXISME, i see what they were trying to do but making it the opener probably turned people off what was already a challenging (but rewarding) album...

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star? i think DEATH VALLEY '69 is pretty fucking cool. any song that makes me want to sing both parts when i hear it deserves some recognition.

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
White Cross, 'Cross the Breeze, Inhuman
2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
I Wanna Be Yr Dog
3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
Victoria
4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Kim Gordon's Panties by Rapeman is sort of a Sonic Youth cover. My cover of Star Power is a recording I made that I actually listen to for entertainment. Weird. I usually prefer not to listen to myself.
5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Providence
6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Bull in the Heather
7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Chapel Hill- should have been a B-side
8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Either Kool Thing or Death Valley '69 kind of a toss-up. I like both songs for different reasons.

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
I Wanna Be Your Dog (Yes, it's a cover blah blah)

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
Superstar I guess
3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
Some of the stuff of Whitey Album
4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
When my band did Schizophrenia :D
5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Lee is Free
6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Diamond Sea, due to it's length and awesomeness and mediocrity of some of the other tracks on Washing Machine
7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Winner's Blues doesn't fit EJSTNS, it's a shame as it is such a great song.
8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Providence :D:D:D

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Incinerate

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
Into the Groovey ("Get into the Groove")

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope by Martin Mull (Even though I've never heard it the thought of it is kind of painful)

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
n/a--never heard one

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
SYR 8 (Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth)

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
n/a--can't think of one

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
n/a--can't think of one

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Panty Lies

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
mote. kill your idols. death valley69.

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
moist vagina.

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
the Simpsons theme.

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Vitamin String Quartet's Shadow of a Doubt.

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
The Good and the Bad. It's great.

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
MH! hard question. I guess my favorite from each album (I don't want to bore you with my favorite song from every album)

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
sympathy for the strawberry, maybe.

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
mote. death valley.

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
No II pt 1-4

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
Personality Crisis

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
can´t think of any

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Mudhoney: Halloween

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Anagrama

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
Pink Steam

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Kim Gordon and the Arthur...

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Death Valley ´69

ihateyouth - can you change your sig please? You're scaring the kids.

Who's the guest-star here?

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Stereo Sancity + Brother James (live circa Nurse tour, shit this is the most powerful stuff i've ever been exposed to in a live gig by any band - 2005)

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
probably Superstar, but i also really like the bunch of Fall covers.

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
didn't like the Dylan one, but i'm not into covers really. so i don't care.

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
dunno, don't care.

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
anagrama by far

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
don't have a clue, all their albums including RR sound well balanced to me.

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
i don't really dig Rats or Sleepin' around.
and never liked Goo, the song.

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
little trouble girl

Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich.

abso-bloody-lutely. I always thought i was the only one to think this was totally out of place on Sister. Well said.

Yeah it really bothers me, that song.

O.k., my answers

1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive? "Brother James" (one of my top 5 songs too!)

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song? "Ca Plane Pour Moi"! ("Today Yr. Love, Tomorrow the World" is really close though)

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with? "Within You Without You" is really pretty mediocre and not up to the standards of SY or the original song.

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else? I was going to say "Schizophrenia" by Wixel, but then I remembered "Becuz" by William Hooker which just totally rules!

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental? "Invito Al Cielo"

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on? "Or"

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)? "Sunday" though it's one of my favorite songs just doesn't fit on A Thousand Leaves.

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star? "Death Valley '69"

]1. What Sonic Youth song makes you feel the most aggressive?
Orange Rolls, Angels Spit

2. What's your favorite Sonic Youth cover of another artist's song?
Superstar

3. What, if any, Sonic Youth cover do you wish they hadn't messed with?
Moist Vagina, but honestly, SY are real iffy with cover versions. Most of them aren't that great.

4. What's you favorite cover of a Sonic Youth song by somebody else?
Halloween, by Mudhoney

5. What's your favorite Sonic Youth instrumental?
Anagrama

6. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think shines above the rest of the album it's on?
NYC Ghosts and Flowers

7. What's a Sonic Youth song that you think doesn't belong on the album it's on (no bonus tracks, real albums!)?
Hotwire My Heart (sounds like fun to record, but compared to the rest of Sister?)

8. What's your favorite Sonic Youth song with a guest star?
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style