Drunken Butterfly

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"Drunken Butterfly"
"Drunken Butterfly" cover
Single by Sonic Youth
from the album Dirty
B-side(s) "Stalker", "Tamra"
Released August 1993
Format CD single
Genre Alternative rock
Label DGC
Writer(s) Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth singles chronology

"Sugar Kane"
(1993)

"Drunken Butterfly"
(1993)

"Bull in the Heather"
(1994)

Drunken Butterfly was the forth and final single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1993 on DGC.

  1. "Drunken Butterfly" (LP Version) - 3:03
  2. "Stalker - 2:59
  3. "Tamra" - 8:53

The video for Drunken Butterfly was directed by Steven Helweg, the winner of a 120 Minutes contest for fans to send in videos for any song on Dirty. The video is puppets and dolls made up to look like Sonic Youth performing the song onstage. They also showed clips from fan vids of Swimsuit Issue (a bunch of shirtless men) and Nic Fit (someone running around in a field, then holding up a flaming stuffed animal).

Sonic Youth
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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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