Piano Piece #13 on loop for as long as the CD allows.

yeah... this is the 'Basics' tracklist for the UK iTunes:

1 Teen Age Riot
2 Kool Thing
3 Sugar Kane
4 Sunday
5 Touch Me I'm Sick
6 Superstar
7 100%
8 What We Know
9 Bull In the Heather
10 Schizophrenia
11 Youth Against Facism
12 Wildflower Soul
13 Sacred Trickster
14 Incinerate
15 Death Valley '69

woah, I thought I was the only one who liked that song

sonic youth best of in time 1988-2009

when i put this together i thought of the best of r.e.m collection from r.e.m


1. Teenage Riot
2. Kissability
3.Dirty Boots
4.Kool Thing
5 100 %
6. Sugar Cane
7.Diamond See
8. Sunday
9. The Empty Page
10. Stones
11.Incinerate
12.Reena
13. Antenna
14 What we know

Bonus Tracks:

Moist Vagina (Nirvana Cover)
Lee 2 (Goo Demo )
Genetic (Dirty Demo )

A 5 CD SET!


Becuz
Brother James
Burning Spear
Cotton Crown
Death Valley '69
The Diamond Sea
Disappearer
Dripping Dream
Flower
Free City Rhymes
Helen Lundeberg
Hits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg)
I Love Her All The Time
In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader
Macbeth
Making The Nature Scene
Moon In The Bathroom
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Pink Steam
Purr
Rain On Tin
Safe In Hell
Schizophrenia
Self-Obsessed And Sexxee
Shaking Hell
Side2side
Silver Rocket
Skink
Sleepin' Around
Stalker
Star Power
Stereo Sanctity
Stones
Sunday
Sympathy For The Strawberry
Theresa's Sound-World
Titanium Expose
Tom Violence
Total Trash
Waist
Washing Machine
White Cross
Wild Flower Soul
Youth Against Fascism

Sonic Youth are probably the least single-oriented band that I can think of. Needless to say, a greatest hits really wouldn't work.

Also, I don't see the point. SY have a really solid fan base with knowledgeable fans who like more than jsut 10 or so songs. There's no real point for a greatest hits in my mind.

And they didn't really have any hits. I suppose "Kool Thing" and "100%" could be considered "hits" to some though...

Sonic Youth is just about the least appropriate band for a greatest hits. They've barely ever had any hits, for one.

That would be fantastic. Especially if it was all seamless.

what?? Really? I never go on iTunes, so I have no idea. If this is real, does it have it's own specific artworK?

No, it's more or less just like a playlist of what iTunes considers "basic" tracks for the artist. There is also "next steps" and "deep cuts" lists.

There is no credibility in iTunes, considering that "Kotton Krown" and "Candle" are considered "deep cuts."

No iTunes, them are basics.

I actually hate iTunes. But I'd buy from them if there was like an SY Originals... or actually there's going to be that live EP next month, isnt' there?

Yeah there's going to be a Sonic Youth edition of "Live from SoHo," where the band plays at the apple store.

Some of the videos from that performance are already up on youtube though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5k2-v7tAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYX8j...eature=channel

I think a 'Best Of' compilation would be a great idea. Personally I'd like to see an 80s, 90s and 00s 'Best Of'. From recent threads it is quite clear that HEAPS of people on the board got into SY from Sonic Nurse onwards. The Best Ofs would be a great intro into the back catalogue for new fans.

Also, imagine them all collected in a 'Best Of vinyl box set'. 6xLPs with bonus Sonic Death on clear vinyl. Mmmm great.

Isn't clear vinyl just the coolest?? *sighs*

personally, i hate big box LP sets and deluxe LPs.

i really don't like deluxe editions (besides pavement) with bonus tracks and stuff. albums are, to some extent, sacred entities and shouldn't be tampered with even if the extra tracks are good.