SONIC YOUTH // 1989 Tour Statistics

Main Statistics

Number of shows played: 34

Number of television appearances: 1

Number of Appearances in 27 Partial or Complete Set Lists:

Brother James		       17
Burning Spear			1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Candle			       23
Catholic Block			1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Cotton Crown			5
Cross the Breeze	       25	
Eliminator Jr		       18
Eric's Trip		       24
Expressway To Yr Skull		6
Flower				1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Hey Joni		       23
Hyperstation		       26
I Love Her All The Time		4
I Wanna Be Yr Dog		5
Inhuman				1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Kissability		       24
Making the Nature Scene		1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Silver Rocket		       23
The Sprawl		       26
Stereo Sanctity			1	07/14/89 NYC, NY
Teenage Riot		       23
The Wonder		       26
World Looks Red			6
White Kross		       17

TV APPEARANCES:

Silver Rocket			1 (Night Music)
I Wanna Be Yr Dog		1 (Night Music)

Current Release: Daydream Nation
Songs from albums:

Daydream Nation	       11
Sister			4
Evol			1
Flower/Halloween 12"	1
Bad Moon Rising		1
Kill Yr Idols EP	1
Confusion is Sex	4
Sonic Youth EP		1

Other Statistics

Unreleased at time: 0

Number of different songs played: 24

Non-LP songs performed: 0

Noteworthy jams:

Personality Crisis - 03/17/89 Newcastle - brief jam w/ Lee and Thurston on vocals

Joy To The World - 03/20/89 Manchester - Thurston sings a bit of the verse and chorus over feedback and somebody sorta trying to play the riff

Total Trash - 04/01/89 Frankfurt - brief jam in encore but abandoned for "Brother James"

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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