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Best Sonic Youth Album Covers,
Sonic Youth (Visit to Official Website) is a band from New York City, formed in 1981. The group’s music combines the raw simplicity of punk rock with the experimental and avant-garde influences of noise and art rock.
The band was among the earliest to embrace alternative rock. And they were highly influential on popularizing its sound as it spread throughout America. To date, Sonic Youth has released six studio albums. And it has sold 9 million records worldwide. Read on to find out who are some of the best cover illustrators for Sonic youth!
These stunning album (See the search results for album) covers have been designed by artists who have captured the mood and tone of this influential American art rock band. The album covers contain a blend of photography, collage and watercolor rendering. They are as much an art form as they are an integral part of each release.
The album cover for Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising (Listen on Spotify) (1992) may look like an ordinary rock album cover at first glance, but together with its title, it tells us exactly what type of music you can expect from this band.
Sonic Youth made their mark in music history with albums like Dirty, Daydream Nation and Sister a decade before grunge took over the mainstream music scene.
The following are some of the best album covers of all time by Sonic Youth.
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#1 Dirty
Album's Content : 15 Songs;
1-100%, 2-Swimsuit Issue, 3-Theresa's Sound-World, 4-Drunken Butterfly, 5-Shoot, 6-Wish Fulfillment, 7-Sugar Kane, 8-Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit, 9-Youth Against Fascism, 10-Nic Fit, 11-On The Strip, 12-Chapel Hill, 13-JC, 14-Purr, 15-Creme Brulee
Release Date : 21 July 1992
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
#2 Sister
Album's Content : 11 Songs;
1-Schizophrenia, 2-Catholic Block, 3-Beauty Lies in the Eye, 4-Stereo Sanctity, 5-Pipeline/Kill Time, 6-Tuff Gnarl, 7-Pacific Coast Highway, 8-Hot Wire My Heart, 9-Cotton Crown, 10-White Cross, 11-Master-Dik
Release Date : 1 June 1987
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
#3 Bad Moon Rising
Album's Content : 12 Songs;
1-Intro, 2-Brave Men Run (In My Family), 3-Society Is a Hole, 4-I Love Her All the Time, 5-Ghost Bitch, 6-I'm Insane, 7-Justice Is Might, 8-Death Valley '69 (feat. Lydia Lunch), 9-Satan Is Boring, 10-Halloween, 11-Flower, 12-Echo Canyon
Release Date : 29 March 1985
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Noise rock
#4 A Thousand Leaves
Album's Content : 11 Songs;
1-Contre Le Sexism, 2-Sunday, 3-Female Mechanic Now On Duty, 4-Wildflower Soul, 5-Hoarfrost, 6-French Tickler, 7-Hits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg), 8-Karen Koltrane, 9-The Ineffable Me, 10-Snare, Girl, 11-Heather Angel
Release Date : 12 May 1998
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
#5 Evol
Album's Content : 10 Songs;
1-Tom Violence, 2-Shadow of a Doubt, 3-Starpower, 4-In the Kingdom #19, 5-Green Light, 6-Death to Our Friends, 7-Secret Girl, 8-Marilyn Moore, 9-Expressway to Yr. Skull (Madonna, Sean, and Me), 10-Bubblegum
Release Date : May 1986
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
#6 Goo
Album's Content : 11 Songs;
1-Dirty Boots, 2-Tunic (Song For Karen), 3-Mary-Christ, 4-Kool Thing, 5-Mote, 6-My Friend Goo, 7-Disappearer, 8-Cinderella's Big Score, 9-Scooter And Jinx, 10-Titanium Expose, 11-Mildred Pierce
Release Date : 26 June 1990
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
#7 Confusion Is Sex
Album's Content : 13 Songs;
1-(She's in A) Bad Mood, 2-Protect Me You, 3-Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Yr. Dog, 4-Shaking Hell, 5-Inhuman, 6-The World Looks Red, 7-Confusion Is Next, 8-Making the Nature Scene, 9-Lee Is Free, 10-Kill Yr. Idols, 11-Brother James, 12-Early American, 13-Shaking Hell (Live)
Release Date : February 1983
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Noise rock
#8 Murray Street
#9 Rather Ripped
Album's Content : 13 Songs;
1-Reena, 2-Incinerate, 3-Do You Believe In Rapture?, 4-Sleepin' Around, 5-What A Waste, 6-Jams Runs Free, 7-Rats, 8-Turquoise Boy, 9-Lights Out, 10-The Neutral, 11-Pink Steam, 12-Or, 13-Helen Lundeberg
Release Date : 13 June 2006
Producer : Sonic Youth
Genre : Alternative rock
