Single CD Best Of
 

Slightly different from the usual name your favourite SY tracks type question, If you were asked to compile a single CD (70-80min) compilation that spanned the band's career so far, which tracks would you put on it? Individual tracks can come from any source, including singles, EPs, albums, previously released live material, as well as anything done under the name Ciccone Youth. No solo stuff though. The most important thing is that it all has to fit on a single CD.

I love this kind of insomniac bullshit!
 

Burning Spear
Halloween
Brave Men Run
Death Valley 69
Tom Violence
Teen Age Riot
Eric's Trip
White Cross (Dirty Boots b-side, live)
Kool Thing
Mote
Brother James (from 1991: The Year Punk Broke)
Personality Crisis (from that Australian 12" the title of which escapes me right now...)
Genetic
Starfield Road
Ineffable Me
Diamond Sea
Sympathy for the Strawberry (live, from sonicyouth.com mixtape #7!)

I Dreamed I Dream
She's in a Bad Mood
Brother James
I Love Her All of the Time
Ghost Bitch
Death Valley '69
Shadow of a Doubt
Expressway to Yr. Skull
Cotton Crown
Silver Rocket
Titanium Expose
Drunken Butterfly
The Diamond Sea

That would probably fill one cd. I would have stuff after that, but that would have to go on disc two.

I originally typed out a list of my favourite songs in chronological order, with one or two tracks from most albums, but I decided to change it, keeping it to around twelve tracks, and structuring it the way a typical SY album could be said to be structured ie. catchy/rocking opener, epic closer, one or two Lee tracks and an equal mix between Thurston and Kim.

1. Kill Yr Idols
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. I'm Insane
4. 'Cross the Breeze
5. Stereo Sanctity
6. Bull in the Heather
7. Eric's Trip
8. Washing Machine
9. Malibu Gas Station
10. Death Valley '69
11. Mote
12. Rain on Tin

1. teen age riot
2. pattern recognition
3. tom violence
4. the empty page
5. malibu gas station
6. 100%
7. kool thing
8. schizophrenia
9. wildflower soul
10. renegade princess
11. bull in the heather
12. the diamond sea

1. 'Cross the Breeze
2. Skip Tracer
3. The Burning Spear
4. Death Valley '69
5. Schizophrenia
6. Anti-Orgasm
7. Radical Aults Lick Godhead Style
8. Shadow of a Doubt
9. Kotton Krown
10. The Ineffable Me
11. Mote
12. Bull in the Heather
13. Tom Violence
14. Brother James (some kind of live version)
15. Pattern Recognition
16. Shaking Hell

1. Brother James
2. Death Valley '69
3. Pipeline/Kill Time
4. Flower
5. I Dreamed I Dream
6. Bull in the Heather
7. Macbeth
8. Teenage Riot
9. Free City Rhymes
10. Antenna
11. Unmade Bed
12. Karen Koltrane
13. Anagrama
14. Expressway.

1. Burning Spear - 3:28
2. World Looks Red - 2:43
3. Brother James - 3:17
4. Brave Men Run - 3:37
5. Tom Violence - 3:05
6. Stereo Sanctity - 3:50
7. Cross the Breeze - 7:00
8. Dirty Boots - 5:28
9. 100% - 2:28
10. Bull in the Heather - 3:04
11. Washing Machine - 9:33

-Roughly 46 minutes in so far!-

12. Hoarfrost - 5:01
13. Free City Rhymes - 7:32
14. Rain on Tin - 7:56
15. Unmade Bed - 3:56
16. Rats - 4:24
17. Malibu Gas Station - 5:39

If I'm doing the math in my head correctly, that should be just a little under 80 minutes and is one track from each album.

2. World Looks Red - 2:43
3. Brother James - 3:17

?

this is in my math two tracks from one album.. *confused*

Brother James was originally on the Kill Yr Idols EP, which was only added onto CIS when it came out on CD.

hmm if i was making one it wud go something like this and btw i onli have around 6 sonic youth albums so dont take offence if a certain song isnt there im going based on what sonic youth songs i have

1.Teen Age Riot
2. Silver Rocket
3. 100%
4. Eric's Trip
5. Drunken Butterfly
6. Bull in the Heather
7. What We Know
8. Dirty Boots
9. Schizophrenia
10. Tom Violence
11. Shadow of a Dount
12. Wish Fullfillment
13. Tom Violence
14. Candle
15. Sugar Kane

1. I Dreamed I Dream
2. Shaking Hell
3. Kill Yr. Idols
4. Intro
5. Shadow Of A Doubt
6. Schizophrenia
7. Silver Rocket
8. Mote
9. JC
10. Bull In The Heather
11. Becuz
12. Hoarfrost
13. Small Flowers Crack Concrete
14. Rain On Tin
15. Dude Ranch Nurse
16. Pink Steam
17. Leaky Lifeboat

Okay... according to itunes this is 79:15.. I just did one from each album

My Sonic Youth compilation would probably contain these:

1. i dreamed i dream (5:12)
2. shadow of a doubt (3:32)
3. stereo sanctity (3:50)
4. cross the breeze (7:0)
5. kissability (3:8)
6. mote (7:37)
7. purr (4:21)
8. washing machine (9:33)
9. tuck 'n' dar (3:40)
10. tremens (3:22)
11. hoarfrost (5:1)
12. radical adults lick godhead style (4:27)
13. pattern recognition (6:33)
14. new hampshire (5:12)
15. pink steam (6:57)