SYR 3: Invito Al Cielo [EP]
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (March 24, 1998)
# Original Release Date: March 10, 1998
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: EP
# Label: Sonic Youth / Syr
# ASIN: B000006H6E
# Also Available in: LP Record
Track Listings
1. Invito Al Cielo
2. Hungara Vivo
3. Radio-Amatoroj
From the Label
For SYR3, the band chose a collaborator, the noted Chicago producer/omnimusician Jim O'Rourke, and made Esparanto (once backed by the UN in a bid to become the "universal language") the featured tongue. Almost 50 minutes of sonic shenanigans make this release a scorcing bargain at a mid-line price. Lucky you.
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SYR 6 [EP]
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (December 6, 2005)
# Original Release Date: April 2002
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: EP
# Label: Sonic Youth / Syr
# ASIN: B000BPK2DY
Track Listings
1. Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Description
The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of the April 12, 2003 benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery.
The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage's films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews). Part of the proceeds of this CD will again benefit the Anthology Film Archives.
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SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (November 16, 1999)
# Original Release Date: November 16, 1999
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: Enhanced
# Label: Sonic Youth / Syr
# ASIN: B00002R0NC
# Also Available in: LP Record
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Edges (Christian Wolf)
2. Six (John Cage)
3. Six for New Time For Sonic Youth (Pauline Oilveros)
4. + - (Takehisa Kosugi)
5. Voice Piece For Soprano (Yoko Ono)
6. Pendulum Music (Steve Reich)
Disc: 2
1. Having Never Written A Note For Percussion (James Tenney)
2. Six (John Cage)
3. Burdocks (Christian Wolff)
4. Four (John Cage)
5. Piano Piece #13 (George Maciunas)
6. Piece Enfantine (Nicolas Enfantine)
7. Treatise (Cornelius Cardew)
Amazon.com
Wildly influential four-piece Sonic Youth have self-released their version of a tribute to the 20th century: two discs of noisy interpretations of modern, experimental classical scores. The group has chosen composers whose works leave a great amount of innovation open to the performer. This chance-embracing approach--typified and in some senses originated by John Cage--is one of the crucial turning points of "new" music. What's great about this CD is that it demonstrates the freewheeling, decidedly unserious spirit behind this music, essentially combining the legacies of punk rock and out-sound. In addition to three late works by the chance-loving Cage, there are pieces by current Merce Cunningham collaborator Takehisa Kosugi, minimalist giant Steve Reich, "deep-listening" drone lover Pauline Oliveros, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas. Longtime collaborator Wharton Tiers, the young everything-ist Jim O'Rourke, and even some of the composers themselves join in on these exercises. The result is messy, fun, and anarchic, with occasional revelations (notably James Tenney's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion"). It's not a disc to play all the time, but it is a challenging, enthused record that ideally will point listeners toward some of the most vital music of the last half of the last decade of the second millennium. --Mike McGonigal
Description
1999 & fourth release on their own SYR label. 13 tracks. The CD format is a double disc set that's enhanced with the CD-ROM video to George Maciunas' 'Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece) For Nam June Paik'. The album contains music composed by abstract artists like Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, John Cage and Christian Wolff. Gatefold slipcase. 1999 release.
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Made In USA: Music From the Original 1986 Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (February 28, 1995)
# Original Release Date: 1986
# Number of Discs: 1
# Label: Rhino / Wea
# ASIN: B00000337P
# Also Available in: Audio Cassette | LP Record
Track Listings
1. Mackin' for Doober
2. Full Chrome Logic
3. Secret Girls
4. Cork Mountain Incident
5. Moustache Riders
6. Tuck N Dar
7. Moon in the Bathroom
8. Thought Bubbles
9. Rim Thrusters
10. Lincoln's Gout
11. Coughing up Tweed
12. Pre-Poured Wood
13. Hairpiece Lullaby 1 & 2
14. Pocketful of Sen-Sen
15. Smoke Blisters 1 & 2
16. Velvet Plug
17. Giggles
18. Tulip Fire 2
19. Dynamics of Bulbing
20. Smoke Blisters 3 & 4
21. O.J.'s Glove or What?
22. Webb of Mud 1, 2 & 3
23. Bachelors in Fur!
Amazon.com
This previously unreleased soundtrack was commissioned from Sonic Youth back in 1986. A couple of hipsters editing a movie used songs from Sonic Youth's Evol on their temporary soundtrack, and the director agreed to let the band score the whole film. A good portion of Sonic Youth's music didn't make the final cut, but thanks to Rhino, it's all available here for the first time ever. There is little singing on this record; most of the "songs" are the kind of mood/noise pieces that this band executes so easily. Several have nice catchy chord progressions and indicate that even in the group's earlier and more experimental and noisy days, it knew the value of a good hook. The music doesn't reveal itself as completely and easily as in Sister, making it far more gratifying. There is mystery here, and to fully appreciate it, imagination is required. --Adem Tepedelen
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SYR 1: Anagrama [EP]
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
# Original Release Date: July 2, 1997
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: EP
# Label: Sonic Youth / Syr
# ASIN: B000005R7T
# Also Available in: LP Record
Track Listings
1. Anagrama
2. Improvisation Ajoutee
3. Tremens
4. Mieux: De Corrosion
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Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (April 25, 1995)
# Original Release Date: April 25, 1995
# Number of Discs: 1
# Label: Geffen Records
# ASIN: B000003TBJ
# In-Print Editions: Music Download
Track Listings
1. Teen Age Riot Sonic Youth 6:57
2. Eric's Trip Sonic Youth 3:49
3. Candle Sonic Youth 4:59
4. Into The Groove(y) Ciccone Youth 4:35
5. G-Force Ciccone Youth 3:39
6. Beauty Lies In The Eye Sonic Youth 2:17
7. Kotton Krown Sonic Youth 5:08
8. Shadow Of A Doubt Sonic Youth 3:34
9. Expressway To Yr Skull Sonic Youth 7:08
10. Starpower Sonic Youth 4:49
11. Death Valley '69 Sonic Youth 5:10
12. Halloween Sonic Youth 5:09
13. Flower Sonic Youth 3:36
14. Inhuman Sonic Youth 4:01
15. Making The Nature Scene Sonic Youth 3:00
16. Brother James Sonic Youth 3:12
17. I Dreamed I Dream Sonic Youth 5:18
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NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Sonic Youth# Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
# Original Release Date: May 16, 2000
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: Explicit Lyrics
# Label: Interscope Records
# ASIN: B00004T3XL
# Also Available in: Audio Cassette | LP Record | Music Download
Track Listings
1. Free City Rhymes 7:32
2. Renegade Princess 5:49
3. Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) 5:37
4. Small Flowers Crack Concrete 5:12
5. Side2Side 3:34
6. StreamXSonik Subway 2:51
7. NYC Ghosts & Flowers 7:52
8. Lightnin' 3:51
Amazon.com
It's either a blessing or a shame that the risks Sonic Youth take don't really matter any more. No longer the groundbreakers, or the train spotters they've played in the past, they are now a band like any other. They play for the sheer joy of sound, the kinetics of experience. There's no other reason left to do it--which must be incredibly liberating, and more than a little sad. NYC Ghosts & Flowers is marked by the same yearning calm that defined its predecessor, A Thousand Leaves. The hooks are conspicuous in their absence, as if to say the battle may be over, and we're better off having lost. The notable exception to this brilliant game of implication is "Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?)," an obvious indictment of the decade-defining "alt-rock" phenomenon SY partially inspired. It's only fitting that this track sounds lost amid an album far too wrapped in its own interior explorations to bother stating the obvious. Sure, you could say that NYC Ghosts & Flowers is the group's best record since Daydream Nation--what's a new Sonic Youth album without such an assessment?--but to do so would deprive them of their greatest achievement. No longer fashionable or influential, Sonic Youth persist in the strength of their own passions. They matter to themselves. To hell with everyone else. --Matt Hanks
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