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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Recorded on 16-track tape with Vig again, and the band's best US chart showing until The Eternal.
Sonic Youth, 1994

Released
10 May 1994
Recorded
late 1993
Studio
Sear Sound, New York City
Label
DGC
Producer
Butch Vig and Sonic Youth
Length
50:10

Butch Vig produced again, with John Siket engineering, and the album was recorded in late 1993 at Sear Sound on 2-inch 16-track tape. The band claimed that they taped over the masters of Sister to make it. Sweet Shine ends with a hidden track at 6:25. The record reached number 34 in the US, their best until The Eternal reached number 18, and number 10 in the UK. The single Bull in the Heather reached number 24 in the UK and number 13 on the US Modern Rock chart. About 246,000 copies had sold in the US by 2005. Rolling Stone gave it four stars out of five and Pitchfork 6.8. Many of its songs were never played live, because Gordon's pregnancy meant there was no full tour behind it.

Track listing

  1. Winner's Blues2:07
  2. Bull in the Heather3:04
  3. Starfield Road2:15
  4. Skink4:12
  5. Screaming Skull2:38
  6. Self-Obsessed and Sexxee4:30
  7. Bone3:57
  8. Androgynous Mind3:21
  9. Quest for the Cup2:30
  10. Waist2:49
  11. Doctor's Orders4:20
  12. Tokyo Eye3:55
  13. In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader2:33
  14. Sweet Shine5:22

Personnel

More from Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth (1982), Confusion Is Sex (1983), Bad Moon Rising (1985), EVOL (1986), Sister (1987), Daydream Nation (1988), The Whitey Album (as Ciccone Youth) (1988), Goo (1990), Dirty (1992), Washing Machine (1995), A Thousand Leaves (1998), NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000), Murray Street (2002), Sonic Nurse (2004), Rather Ripped (2006), The Eternal (2009)

Sources

  1. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, Wikipedia
  2. Sonic Youth, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (master release), Discogs
  3. Sonic Youth, Wikipedia