
This section details a handful of releases that don't quite fall into any other category. Listed first are various albums by other artists on which SY as a whole make a guest appearance. Following this is a sampling of various pertinent side projects, typically involving more than one member (this is not a complete list of such items, however). For all other side project info, I refer you to a few higher sources below. I stuck the "Sensational Fix" book here too, since it does contain a musical contribution from each member. 
 
 
The second is Sonic Youth's own discography, given away at the June 13th, 1999 show in NYC: 
 
For a great Jim O'Rourke discography, go here. 
  
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artist 
title 
year 
primary label 
 
 
SONIC YOUTH GUEST APPEARANCES 
  
MIKE KELLEY 
Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile 
1987 
High Performance Records 
  
MOE TUCKER 
Life In Exile After Abdication 
1989 
50 Skidillion Watts 
  
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 
Dead City Radio 
1990 
Island 
  
CAN 
Sacrilege 
1997 
Mute 
 
ROSWELL RUDD 
Broad Strokes 
2000 
Knitting Factory 
  
BRIGITTE FONTAINE 
Kekeland 
2001 
Virgin 
   
MATS GUSTAFSSON + SONIC YOUTH 
Hidros 3 (to Patti Smith) 
2004 
Smalltown Supersound 
  
SONIC YOUTH 
Sensational Fix 
2008 
LiFE and Museion 
 
HEAVILY BAND-RELATED SOLO/SIDE PROJECTS 
  
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Just Another Asshole 
1981 
Atavistic 
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Guitarrorists 
1991 
No. 6 
   
LUCKY SPERMS 
Walking the Cow/Tomorrow Never Knows 
1991 
Ecstatic Peace! 
  
MIRROR/DASH 
Electric Pen/Gum 
1992 
Ecstatic Peace! 
  
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Outlaw Blues 
1992 
Imaginary 
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Fortune Cookie Prize 
1992 
Simple Machines 
  
THURSTON MOORE 
Psychic Hearts 
1995 
DGC 
  
THURSTON MOORE 
Cindy (ROTTEN TANX) 
1995 
DGC 
  
THURSTON MOORE 
Ono Soul 
1995 
DGC 
  
MALE SLUT 
The Church Should Be For The Outcast, Not A Church That Casts People Out 
1995 
Stomach Ache 
  
MIKE WATT 
Ball Hog Or Tug Boat? 
1995 
Columbia 
  
LEE RANALDO 
Amarillo Ramp 
1998 
Starlight Furniture Co. 
  
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/THURSTON MOORE/LEE RANALDO 
Fuck Shit Up 
2000 
Victo 
   
KIM GORDON/IKUE MORI/DJ OLIVE 
SYR 5 
2000 
SYR 
  
THURSTON MOORE, LEE RANALDO, STEVE SHELLEY with MATS GUSTAFSSON 
Without Kim 
2000 
Olof Bright 
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Black Box 
2000 
Olof Bright? 
 
THURSTON MOORE/LEE RANALDO/STEVE SHELLEY/JIM O'ROURKE 
Melbourne Direct 
2006 
Saucerlike Recordings 
  
THURSTON MOORE 
Trees Outside the Academy 
2007 
Ecstatic Peace! 
 
I opted not to travel too far down the side project road for purposes of this site, however I can provide you with a few fairly detailed documents that do cover this territory. The first is Henry Weld's original side project / pre-SY discography, which you can view here.
For more solo project information, I recommend checking out Wolfgang's discography here.