Well that's a lotta brackets LOOK the point is I wanted to take stock of which artists Sonic Youth and then the now former members have covered, and which ones you would have liked SY to cover and would now want Kim, Lee, T & Steve to. Let's start by listing what's been done (this is most likely gonna be incomplete and some Sonic Smartasses are gonna come up with obscure shit, for which they're already welcome):
The Stooges
Crime
Ramones
Black Flag (if
this is true)
Kim Fowley
The Neon Boys
The Beach Boys
The Untouchables
Alice Cooper
New York Dolls
Neil Young
The Beatles
The Fall
Captain Beefheart
Madonna
Robert Palmer
Nirvana
Mudhoney
Jay Reatard
Beck
Bob Dylan
Minutemen
Saccharine Trust
Shonen Knife
Plastic Bertrand
Blue Öyster Cult
The Carpenters
The Rolling Stones
Martin Mull
Danny Elfman (The Simpsons theme)
John Lennon
David Bowie (with David)
Wolff, Cage, Cardew, Ono, Reich, Oliveros et al
The Byrds
The Monkees
Sandy Denny
Joni Mitchell
Tim Rogers
The Modern Lovers
The Gun Club
Wire
The Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
The B-52's (almost!)
The Germs
Patty Waters
Nina Simone