Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

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Sonic YouthExperimental Jet Set, Trash And No Staron LP

Following an unprecedented run of influential albums likeDaydream Nation(1988),Goo(1990) andDirty(1992) which markedSonic Youth’sascent to becoming America’s pre-eminent alternative band, the group issuedExperimental Jet Set, Trash And No Starin 1994, an uncompromising record impacted as much by touring with acts like Royal Trux, Sebadoh and Pavement as contemporaries like Nirvana and Mudhoney had swayed the sound of its predecessors.

Produced by Butch Vig yet as stripped down as ever,Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Starsaw the band simultaneously evolving and yearning for their pre-grunge art band days and less expectations, still just as interested in making remarkable underground sounds as songs with commercial appeal. Thurston Moore explained its synthesis, “The idea this time was to cut as much of it live as we could, and not labor over polishing and overdubbing in the usual big-rock manner, and that’s basically what went down.”

1. Winner’s Blues
2. Bull In The Heather
3. Starfield Road
4. Skink
5. Screaming Skull
6. Self-Obsessed And Sexxee
7. Bone
8. Androgynous Mind
9. Quest For The Cup
10. Waist
11. Doctor’s Orders
12. Tokyo Eye
13. In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader
14. Sweet Shine