Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star cover
Studio album by Sonic Youth
Released May 3, 1994
Recorded 1993
Genre Alternative rock
Length 47:37
Label DGC
Producer(s) Sonic Youth,
Butch Vig, Sonic Youth
Professional reviews
Sonic Youth chronology

TV Shit
(1993)

Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
(1994)

Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
(1995)


Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, first released in May 1994. Included is possibly the group's biggest hit, "Bull in the Heather", the music video for which contains Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame.

The band stated that the album was recorded over the master tape of Sister to save on tape costs. At the time, the statement was widely believed to be a joke, but many fans claim that when the record is turned up to a loud volume, you can hear Sister playing in its entirety underneath the album. It's hard to hear, but very noticeable during the in-between track silence.

Lee Ranaldo did not write or sing any songs on this album.

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[edit] The Peak

Sonic Youth peaked at number 34 on the Billboard 200 chart. Their previous works barely cracked the top 100 chart. To date this is the band's highest peak on the US charts.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Winner's Blues" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:07
  2. "Bull in the Heather" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:04
  3. "Starfield Road" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:15
  4. "Skink" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 4:12
  5. "Screaming Skull" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:38
  6. "Self-Obsessed and Sexxee" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:30
  7. "Bone" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:57
  8. "Androgynous Mind" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:21
  9. "Quest for the Cup" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:30
  10. "Waist" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:49
  11. "Doctor's Orders" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 4:20
  12. "Tokyo Eye" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:55
  13. "In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:33
  14. "Sweet Shine" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 5:26

[edit] Album charts

Year Album Chart Position
1994 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Official UK Albums Chart No. 10
1994 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Official Sweden Albums Chart No. 27
1994 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Billboard Top 200 No. 34
1994 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Official German Albums Chart No. 87

[edit] Charting singles

Year Song Chart Position
1994 Bull in the Heather Modern Rock Tracks (US) No. 13
1994 Bull in the Heather UK Singles Chart No. 24
Sonic Youth
Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley
Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
Discography
Albums Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex| Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped | The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
Extended plays Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | Silver Session for Jason Knuth | In the Fishtank
SYR series SYR1: Anagrama | SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom | SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo | SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | SYR5 | SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Singles Death Valley '69 | Flower/Halloween | Flower/Satan Is Boring | Starpower | Into the Groove(y) | Teen Age Riot | Kool Thing | Disappearer | Dirty Boots | 100% | Youth Against Fascism | Sugar Kane | Drunken Butterfly | Bull in the Heather | Superstar | The Diamond Sea | Little Trouble Girl | Sunday
Video releases 1991: The Year Punk Broke | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990-2002
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