SONIC YOUTH // 2002 Tour Statistics

NOTE: In-Store performances are included in total count of set lists + song tallies, except for the "songs" played in Austin and Thurston's solo versions. The radio show performances are listed at the bottom but do not count towards the song tallies, as they are in-studio performances with no audience. The TV performances, though listed separately, do count towards the song tallies on the 'song stats' chart, as they had a live audience. Thurston/Lee/Jim acoustic sets not included at all.

Main Statistics

  • Number of shows played: 62 (including 2 improv)
  • Number of television appearances: 1
  • Number of radio appearances: 2

    Number of Appearances in 60 Partial or Complete Set Lists:

    100%					 9
Brother James				 3
Bull in the Heather			40
Burning Spear				 1	06/15/02 Hultsfred, Sweden
Calling All Girls			 1	11/24/02 Baltimore, MD
Candle					36
Cotton Crown				24
Disconnection Notice			60
Drunken Butterfly			41
Empty Page				60
Eric's Trip				34
Inhuman					 4
Karen Revisited/Karenology		57
Kissability				44
Kool Thing				31
Kool Thing (Merzbow)			 1	07/10/02 Hamburg, Germany
Making the Nature Scene			35
Mote					 4
Nevermind				 2
Plastic Sun				60
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style	57
Rain on Tin				60
Schizophrenia				 8
Shadow of a Doubt			40
She Is Not Alone			 4
Side2Side				 1	07/09/02 Berlin, Germany
Silver Rocket				17
Skip Tracer				21
Sympathy for the Strawberry		54
Tom Violence				14
White Kross				12

TV APPEARANCES:

100%			1	Last Call w/ Carson Daly
The Empty Page		1	Last Call w/ Carson Daly

RADIO APPEARANCES:

The Empty Page		2	08/26/02 KCRW, 09/27/02 The World Cafe
Rain on Tin		2	08/26/02 KCRW, 09/27/02 The World Cafe
Plastic Sun		2	08/26/02 KCRW, 09/27/02 The World Cafe
Disconnection Notice	2	08/26/02 KCRW, 09/27/02 The World Cafe
Karenology		2	08/26/02 KCRW, 09/27/02 The World Cafe
	
NON-ROCK APPEARANCES:

07/28/02 Tokyo, Japan

Having performed a "rock" set the previous day, the band did a (presumably) blistering set of improvised noise with Yoshimi from the Boredoms.

07/31/02 Austin, TX

A few days later, the band started their Murray Street North American tour with an in-store appearance at Waterloo Records in Austin.
Rather than playing songs from their new album or a lengthy improvised piece, they chose to draft up some rough concepts that would
each be "performed" for 5 minutes, with entertaining results. For example, "Electric Moonpie" featured the band throwing moon pies at Steve,
who was perched on Thurston's shoulders, defending himself with a wailing electric guitar. See the show page for more details!


    Current Release: Murray Street
    
Songs from albums:

Murray Street		7
NYC Ghosts & Flowers	2
Washing Machine		1
Experimental Jet Set	1
Dirty			2
Goo			2
Daydream Nation		4
Sister			3
Evol			2
Kill Yr Idols EP	1
Confusion is Sex	2
Sonic Youth		2

    Other Statistics

    Unreleased at time: 0

    Number of different songs played: 29

    Non-LP songs performed: 1

    Calling All Girls (Half Japanese) -- 11/24/02 Baltimore - was this just a 'jam' or the full song?

    Note: The statistics above only reflect the information available on this site in the form of gig dates, set lists, and tour schedules. Since many set lists are either missing or incomplete, and not all concert dates are available, it's impossible to offer 100% accuracy, but this is as close as the site can come w/ the information available. Your help to make the site more complete would be greatly appreciated. Contact Chris Lawrence with any info you have.

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