I forgot Trilogy and Hey Joni. That makes it a top 16.

I've been listening to nothing but Sonic Youth the past couple of weeks. Bought some of their albums about a year ago but I've just bought some more. Great band, with some great songs but imo there is a lot of filler on most SY albums. Anyways my favs:

Schizophrenia
Teenage Riot
Trilogy
Tom Violence
Star Power
Mote
Genetic
Incinerate
On the strip
Superstar - I owe the film Juno for this one
Sunday

I still have a lot of SY songs I haven't heard yet so this list could change a lot. In fact this list could change daily or even hourly.

There is a SY song for every mood and state of mind.

P.S. I really don't get why so many SY fans rate Eric's Trip so highly......each to their own but I don't get it's popularity. Peace.

I thought it wasn't very popular, I was the only one to put it in my top 10 (I think), everyone else had Hey Joni or Rain King.

I have to many favorites to list.

I've really been enjoying stuff from Jet Set and Washing Machine lately.

Sunday is my all time favorite I wish they would play it more live.

Yeah, I've still yet to here Sunday live!!!

Ive only really began to take note of sonic youth tunes recently and dont have any albums... but from the ones i have heard online, my favourites are:

Chapel hill
Cinderella's big score
Death valley 69
Schizophrenia
Theresa's sound-world
Drunken butterfly
Mildred Pierce
Mcbeth
Bull in the heather
100%

I also like: disappearer, Kool thing, tunic, purr, sugar kane... ahh there are too many!

(She's In A) Bad Mood
Inhuman
Death Valley '69
Tom Violence
Shadow Of A Doubt
Schizophrenia
Stereo Sanctity
Teen Age Riot
The Sprawl
Eric's Trip
Candle
Titanium Expose
100%

I can only narrow it down to a top 13.

1. The Empty Page
2. Theresa's Sound World
3. Macbeth
4. Teenage Riot
5. The Sprawl
6. Trilogy
7. Sugar Cane
8. Sweet Shine
9. Karen Revisited
10. Cotton Crown

man that was hard, i missed out a few really important songs. Top 30 would be easier to do.

I dreamed I dream
beauty lies in the eye
flower
karen koltrane
starpower
side2side
unmade bed
créme Brûlèe
contre Le Sexisme
marilyn moore

Top 1:

#1: NYC Ghosts & Flowers

1. Teen Age Riot
2. I Love Her All The Time
3. Rain On Tin
4. Brother James
5. Kill Yr Idols
6. She Is Not Alone (live 99-01 version)
7. The Diamond Sea
8. Mary-Christ
9. Silver Rocket
10. Mote

Brother James
Tom Violence
Schizophrenia
(I Got A) Catholic Block
Kotton Krown
Candle
Silver Rocket
Disappearer
The Diamond Sea
Karen Koltrane

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off the top of my head(in no particular order)..........
Teenage Riot
Hey Joni
Drippin' Dream
Diamond Sea
Kill Yr. Idols
Disapearer
Brother James
'Cross the Breeze
Catholic Book
and............
Eric's Trip.



THough honestly...it's super hard. I mean most of their songs are super fucking awesome.

Brother James
Kill Yr. Idols
Expressway to Yr. Skull
Free City Rhymes
The World Looks Red
Tuff Gnarl
Cinderella's Big Score
Shaking Hell
Society Is A Hole
Confusion Is Next

tunic
winners blues
schizophrenia
wish fulfilment
skip tracer
disconnection notice
do you believe in rapture?
candle
sunday
jc


theresas sound world and side 2 side just outside for today.

here is my ten:

eliminator JR
disappearer
purr
tokyo eye
skip tracer
anagramma
sunday
new hampshire
reena
leaky lifeboat

no order in particular.

Sweet Shine
Peace Attack
Becuz (percussive guitars attack the simpleness of the hook/riff)
Karenology
The Empty Page
The Sprawl
Anagrama
Expressway to yr skull
Shadow of a Doubt
Theresa's Sound World

Currently, in no order

Free City Rhymes
Master-Dik
Shadow of a Doubt
Tunic(Song for Karen)
Death Valley '69
My Friend Goo
The Sprawl
Nevermind(What was it anyway)
Pacific Coast Highway
Providence

Teen Age Riot
Sugar Kane
Total Trash
Wish Fulfillment
Stones
Pattern Recognition
The Empty Page
Candle
Catholic Block
Dirty Boots

Pacific Coast Highway
Brother James
Shaking Hell
The Diamond Sea
Death Valley '69
Drunken Butterfly
Dirty Boots
Expressway
Schizophrenia
Brave Men Run

"percussive guitars "

I like that.

Burning Spear
Schizophrenia
Hey Joni
Teenage Riot
Kool thing
Youth against facism
Washing Machine
Karen revisited
My Friend Goo
The Diamond Sea

oh! another top ten...so hey! ho! let's go
1 total trash
2 the good and the bad
3 no queen blues
4 brother james
5 helen lundeberg
6 flower
7 kool thing
8 rain king
9 trilogy( the wonder-hyperstation-eliminator jr)
10 green light

why i made this? i don't believe in top 10 of nothing!!!
...for the moment are those...

euhm.. it will be true only for today i guess:

1. 'Cross The Breeze
2. Reena
3. Panty Lies
4. Teenage Riot
5. Schizophrenia
6. Starpower
7. She's In A Bad Mood
8. Drunken Butterfly
9. Nevermind What Was It Anyway
10. Ghost Bitch


Oh God that was hard and very good ones still missing!

this is still accurate for me, almost seven months later

-Karenology
-Schizophrenia
-sympathy for the strawberry
-NYC G&F
-theresas sound world
-wildflower soul
-karen koltrane
-expressway
-brother james
-heather angel

for now. could change a little bit every minute i think

woah shit thw whole DDN of course...damn brain

someone should do some clever spreadsheet shit with this

of course the winner would probably be the diamond sea (or maybe NYCG+F?) but itd be interesting

1 - The Diamond Sea
2 - Mote
3 - Tunic (song for Karen)
4 - Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
5 - Streamxsonic subway
6 - Karen Revisited
7 - Teenage Riot
8 - Winner's Blues
9 - Never Having Written a Note for Percussion
10 - Orange Rolls,Angel's Spit

Now that's an interesting pick.

Probably like everyone else, I have the first 3 or 4 pretty firm in my mind, and the rest could vary depending on how I've felt about what I've been listening to in any particular week.....but StreamXsonik has always been vastly underrated in my view.

I don't think it's a particularly great song, but I actually really like it anyway. I also think it holds the honor of being the least-played-live SY song of all time because Thurston had too much trouble singing it.

Silver Rocket
Free City Rhymes
Catholic Block
Stones
Hey Joni
Hits Of Sunshine
Purr
Sympathy For The Strawberry
World looks Red
Justice Is Might

As it stands

This is hard for me to do so I'll just sat that "Diamond Sea" is number one and everything else is a close second. Oh, and "Sugar Kane" is my ringtone.

Inhuman
Death Valley '69
Tom Violence
Stereo Sanctity
Teen Age Riot
'Cross the Breeze
Eric's Trip
Candle
Titanium Expose
Washing Machine

Can't pick the right order so here it is randomized...

schizophrenia
hoarfrost
JC
trilogy
shadow of a doubt
in the kingdom #19
the diamond sea
death valley '69
NYC ghost & flowers
bull in the heather

beautiful music...

it's good to see a 14 year old that just doesn't like "rather ripped".

Cosmopolitan Girl
Inhuman
I'm Insane
Death Valley '69
Shadow of a Doubt
Stereo Sanctity
'Cross the Breeze
Eric's Trip
Candle
Titanium Expose
Washing Machine

I Can't edit it down to 10. If I was forced to pick a favourite, I'd probably say Eric's Trip.

As of now, the songs from SY that I've listened and found the most enjoyment out of:

1. Stones
2. Wish Fulfillment
3. In the Kingdom #19 (SY at its coolest+artistic)
4. Sunday
5. Diamond Sea
6. Mote
7. Sympathy for the Strawberry
8. Starfield Road
9. Star Power
10. Plastic Sun

I'm also digging Confusion is Next, Small Flowers Crack Concrete and Washing Machine right now...anyway, the list constantly changes, except for maybe the first five. And when the Eternal comes out, maybe it'll change once again.